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/ September 17, 2026
Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort is a 17-story, 443-room luxury hotel that opened in August 2014 on 26.5 lakeside acres inside the gated Golden Oak community, on Walt Disney World property just a few minutes’ drive from Magic Kingdom. It is
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/ September 17, 2026
Shades of Green is a 586-room resort tucked between the Magnolia and Palm golf courses in the Magic Kingdom Resort Area at Walt Disney World, right on Disney property but run by the U.S. Department of Defense rather than Disney itself. It began life in
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground is Walt Disney World’s rustic campground property, tucked into roughly 750 acres of pine and cypress forest on the shore of Bay Lake in the Magic Kingdom Resort Area. Open since November 19, 1971, it mixes roughly 800 tent
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort opened on April 29, 1994 as the first of Walt Disney World’s Value Resort hotels, and it’s still one of the cheapest ways to sleep on Disney property. The 1,920-room resort sits in the Animal Kingdom Resort Area at 1701 West
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s All-Star Music Resort is one of Walt Disney World’s original Value Resorts, opened November 22, 1994, on the southern end of the property near Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Its 1,412 rooms and 192 family suites are split across five music-themed sections — Broadway, Calypso, Country,
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort is one of Walt Disney World’s five value-category hotels, sitting in the Animal Kingdom Resort Area on the southern end of property. It opened January 15, 1999, and packs 1,920 rooms into five movie-themed sections — 101 Dalmatians, The Mighty Ducks,
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Pop Century Resort is a value-priced Walt Disney World hotel in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened December 14, 2003. Its 2,880 rooms sit across ten buildings grouped into five decade-themed areas of the 1950s through 1990s, each fronted by oversized pop-culture icons like a
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside is a moderate-tier hotel in the Disney Springs Resort Area of Walt Disney World, spread along the winding Sassagoula River in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It opened on February 2, 1992 as Disney’s Dixie Landings Resort and was renamed
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter is a moderate-tier Walt Disney World hotel themed to New Orleans’ French Quarter, with wrought-iron balconies, jazz-tinged landscaping, and a Mardi Gras-themed pool. It opened in 1991 as the original Port Orleans Resort and today sits along the
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Old Key West Resort is Walt Disney World’s original Disney Vacation Club property, opened in December 1991 and set along Village Lake near Disney Springs. Themed as a laid-back Florida Keys community called Conch Flats, it spreads 761 studios and one-, two-, and three-bedroom
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa is a sprawling, 65-acre Disney Vacation Club property in the Disney Springs Resort Area of Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Themed to a turn-of-the-century horse-racing spa town in upstate New York, it opened on May 17,
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/ September 17, 2026
Disney’s Yacht Club Resort is a 630-room deluxe hotel on Crescent Lake in the EPCOT Resort Area of Walt Disney World, designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern to evoke a New England shingle-style seaside hotel of the 1880s, the kind you’d find on Martha’s Vineyard
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/ September 12, 2026
Theme park news today is led by Six Flags Magic Mountain’s announcement of Thrill Glider, a new Vekoma-built coaster set to open in 2027 as a world-first ride category combining flying, motorbike, and suspended-coaster technology. Beyond today’s theme park news, the roundup also covers stadiums
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/ July 30, 2026
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the most popular ride at Magic Kingdom, and also one of the most misunderstood: it looks like a kiddie ride from the queue, then surprises first-timers with real drops, banked turns, and a cart that sways side to side like
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/ June 25, 2026
Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened on Earth Day, April 22, 1998, at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Spanning 580 acres, it was the largest theme park in the world at its debut, and it remains the only Disney park built around
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/ June 24, 2026
EPCOT opened on October 1, 1982, as the second theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Derived from Walt Disney’s original vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, the park was reimagined after his death as a permanent world’s fair
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/ June 24, 2026
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the movie- and Star Wars-themed quarter of Walt Disney World, built on 135 acres in Bay Lake, Florida, and split into seven distinct lands anchored by the roughly $1-billion Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. It opened on May 1, 1989, as Disney-MGM
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/ June 23, 2026
Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971, as the anchor park of Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Modeled closely after Disneyland in Anaheim, the 107-acre park debuted with 23 attractions spread across six themed lands, welcoming guests with admission priced at $3.50
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/ June 21, 2026
Theme park news this week was dominated by a world-record-shattering giga dive coaster inching toward its June 26 debut, a legendary wooden coaster rising from an extended closure, and Universal’s newest resort unveiling its first permanent nighttime spectacular. From Disney policy shifts to Halloween event
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/ June 20, 2026
Magic Kingdom is the most kid-friendly of Walt Disney World’s four theme parks, but seven of its rides still have a minimum height a rider must clear before boarding — and one of those minimums just changed. When Big Thunder Mountain Railroad reopened on May
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