food IS a theme park
Ride closures and refurbishments are a fact of life at Walt Disney World. Odds are slim that you’ll ever visit the resort and find every single ride and attraction operating on a single day.
Welcome to Magic Kingdom
In fact, if you’re planning on heading to the Magic Kingdom later in 2025, you’re going to find not one, but two of the park’s best-known attractions will be CLOSED for the remainder of the year!
Disney World is always changing… and some of your favorite trip planning strategies might not survive into 2026.
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If you’ve been holding on to certain tried-and-true Disney planning tactics, it’s time for a reality check. A couple of popular planning “rules” are either gone or just don’t apply anymore. We’re breaking down two of the biggest planning traditions that you can leave behind next time you’re mapping out your magical vacation — and trust us, these will surprise some people.
Just because it’s in Disneyland doesn’t mean it’s magical.
Disneyland
There are some spots around the resort that sound good on paper—or at least look decent on the app—but once you’ve actually eaten there, it’s a different story. We’re talking overpriced, underwhelming, or just straight-up “why did I waste a reservation on this?” bad. So today, we’re breaking down three Disneyland restaurants the experts, straight-up refuse to book… and a few we’d book again and again.
Disney World’s Lightning Lane system can help you skip those lines and secure the attractions your family has been talking about riding for months.
Animation Courtyard
Hollywood Studios just added a new attraction to its Lightning Lane Multi Pass system, and this can completely change your park day.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park is in a state of transition, during which some spaces that have gone LONG unused are finally being dragged into the park’s future!
Welcome to Hollywood Studios!
Some of these buildings date back to the park’s original Disney-MGM Studios days, meaning that they are nearly 40 years old at this point.
Celebrities visiting Disney Parks is nothing new. Actors, musicians, politicians, athletes, and every kind of notable figure in between have been making pilgrimages since Disneyland first opened in 1955.
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Learning that celebs have worked at a Disney theme park is nothing new either, as many future notable figures have gotten their start at Disney’s parks over the last 70 years. However, it’s not often we see a well-established celebrity figure working at one of the company’s theme parks… even in a temporary and honorary capacity.
When we say we’re nerds for Disney here at Disney Food Blog, we mean it. In fact, we’re so nerdy for Disney that we keep track of prices of all Disney World food so we can see increases (and decreases, but hey, that isn’t too common).
EPCOT
We are sorry to report that two EPCOT spots have been hit with the “price increase bug,” so your next meal might be a bit more expensive.
Let’s be real — planning a Disney World vacation takes enough strategic thinking without adding weather wildcards into the mix. But with 2024’s record-breaking hurricane season behind us, and forecasters predicting an active 2025 season according to CBS News, those of us planning trips during hurricane season need to approach things differently.
Rainy day at Magic Kingdom
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will take place from June through November. We’ve experienced both sides of the Disney hurricane equation — the perfectly sunny trip where the only water we encountered was at our hotel pool, and the vacation where we watched Cast Members sandbag storefronts before a hurricane. Being prepared is the difference between a great trip and a disaster. [Read more…]
Major changes are hitting Disney’s Hollywood Studios next week! Not one, but TWO new attractions will debut on May 27th.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
One of these attractions is a reimagining of the old Voyage of the Little Mermaid show called “The Little Mermaid — A Musical Adventure.” We’ve seen some of the show elements we’ll see, and Disney also teased that never-before-seen characters are coming to the show. We also know that this new attraction will be available with Lightning Lane Multi Pass — here’s what you need to know.
Disney World’s Disability Access Service (better known as DAS) has gone through some controversial changes recently.
Magic Kingdom
These updates include making the service even more limited, which has upset many fans and caused dissatisfaction with the current accommodations for those with disabilities. Now, yet another change has been announced for Disney’s DAS system that extends its validity period.
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