food IS a theme park
Are you a “rope drop” kind of Disney fan or a “stay late” kind of Disney fan?
Cinderella Castle at night
If you’re a night owl, there are plenty of ways to spend time in the parks after hours. From holiday parties to Extended Evening Hours — but one of our favorite ways to get our late night on is at After Hours events! They’re returning in 2025 and Magic Kingdom is promising something special!
We’ve been to Disney World a lot over the past years!
Magic Kingdom
We’ve also seen a thing or two at each of the four parks and the resort hotels, and we’ve picked up a secret or two along the way. Speaking of secrets, we’ve got one about the Magic Kingdom that we probably shouldn’t be telling you, but we’re throwing caution to the wind for this one. Let’s dive right in!
Disney World’s Lightning Lane system has changed. Genie+ is no more and now we’re left with Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass, which you can purchase all at the same time and days ahead of your trip.
Goodbye Genie+
Like Genie+, though, Multi Pass is still a paid-for service, and it still uses surge pricing where the pricing fluctuates daily. So on days Disney anticipates the parks will be busier, they raise the price of Multi Pass and Single Passes, and on slow days they drop. Based on the pricing for Genie+ in 2023, and looking at current Lightning Lane trends, we have some pretty good ideas about when we’ll see the 2024 prices for Multi Pass and Single Passes SKYROCKET.
When you think of Disney World as a whole, there really aren’t THAT many attractions that are still abandoned.
Tomorrowland
However, it’s more than you would expect, since you’d assume that a company like Disney would want to make use of every single space they can to bring in new attractions, and therefore new guests, right? In some ways, yes, but there are still several abandoned attractions and areas around Disney World that Disney has done absolutely nothing with. And TWO of them are in Tomorrowland, which is pretty wild. Tomorrowland Terrace is just a restaurant that’s been sitting empty for years (save for Fireworks Dessert Parties), but the REAL abandoned attraction in this area has been sitting fully abandoned for the past 6 years — Stitch’s Great Escape.
There are a lot of special events in Disney World.
Hello, Dreamers!
Some of them are more prominent and obvious guests, such as after hours parties like Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. Others though are quieter, like children having their Make-A-Wish trips and getting to take part in exclusive experiences, or one-day-only parades that celebrate select accomplishments. We just found out one of those special parades is on its way to Magic Kingdom THIS WEEK to celebrate something really amazing!
You never know when you might spot a celebrity or two in Disney World!
Hi, Walt!
Stars, they’re just like us — and some of them love the Disney parks just as much as we do. We’ve been seeing more and more celebs make their way to the Most Magical Place on Earth and honestly, we don’t blame them! A popular actor and musician just visited Disney World and his favorite new ride makes a whole lot of sense.
Just when you thought living out your princess dreams around Disney World couldn’t get any better — it just did!
Tiana Cone
Everyone visiting Disney World needs to take time for a snack break every now and then, and what’s better than a sweet treat to reward yourself for all those long days in the parks! We’ve been trying out Disney World’s exclusive princess treats around the parks and hotels and we couldn’t wait to snag the newest to release over at Storybook Treats in Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland.
Private bathrooms, shorter coffee lines, and cursed attractions?? People have been GATEKEEPING the best parts about Magic Kingdom from you! So we’re putting a stop to that RIGHT NOW.
Cinderella Castle in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom
I don’t have to tell you that Magic Kingdom is an amazing place filled with amazing things — because you already KNEW that. What I CAN tell you, though, is that Magic Kingdom is an amazing place filled with amazing things you DON’T know about, too.
This Disney World original is going down for a bit.
Magic Kingdom
Ride closures and refurbishments are a part of life at Disney World. This year alone has seen long — and in some cases ongoing — periods of closure for Test Track, Peter Pan’s Flight, and Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster amongst others. Now, an iconic attraction has joined the list.
“The nickel and diming has definitely changed how often we go…”
Yes, we’ve seen a lot of Disney fans express this type of sentiment.
EPCOT
There’s no denying that Disney fans are loyal, arguably to a fault at times. However, even the most committed have breaking points. We recently asked our readers on Facebook what Disney would have to do to get them to “NEVER go back to Disney World ever again!” and certainly got some interesting… and sometimes heated responses!
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