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Disney, Abu Dhabi and theme park economy at ‘crossroads’ of world

Travel NewsMay 11, 202567Views

Ferrari World building in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on December 2nd, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Disney's announcement last week that its newest theme park will be in Abu Dhabi offers further confirmation of the status of the United Arab Emirates as a global consumer crossroads located in the Middle East. At the…

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Disney Slashes Prices for Kids and Brings Back Free Meals…

Publicly, executives at the Walt Disney Company insist that the May opening of Universal's Epic Universe doesn't have them spooked at all. Sure, it's the first full theme park to open in Orlando in 26 years, and Comcast is reportedly sinking about $6 billion into constructing the most cutting-edge family attraction in the United States.…

April 5, 202549Views

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Walt Disney World to Open All 6 Parks in Summer for the…

Walt Disney World is billed as offering four theme parks and two waterslide parks, but for the past half decade, customers were not allowed to access all of that on a single vacation. That's because when Covid-19 hit and all of Disney's Florida attractions were shuttered for a few months, the company decided to keep…

April 4, 202569Views

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Disney Is Poised to Solve its Lightning Lane Disaster—But…

We don't have to tell you that just about everything in the life of an American consumer seems to be degrading in quality, from useless AI chatbots replacing the assistance of live humans to commercials being added to streaming services that were sold to customers as ad-free. At Disney parks, the latest degradation has come…

March 12, 202549Views

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Frommers | Disney Wonder

The only ships on the planet that successfully re-create the grandeur of the classic transatlantic liners, albeit in a modern, Disney-fied way. …

February 15, 202567Views

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Frommers | Disney Cruise Line

Address P.O. Box 10210, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 Phone 800/951-3532 Phone 888/325-2500 Fax 407/566-3541 Online www.disneycruise.com Enjoyment Factor 4 Dining 3 Activities 3 Children's Program 5 Entertainment 5 Service 3 Overall Value…

February 5, 202575Views

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Frommers | Disney Magic

The only ships on the planet that successfully re-create the grandeur of the classic transatlantic liners, albeit in a modern, Disney-fied way. …

February 5, 202577Views

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Disney World’s Purge Begins: Last Chance to See These…

When the Walt Disney Company proudly announced that it planned to spend an estimated $60 billion over the coming decade to "accelerate and expand investment" in the company's theme parks, the announcement glossed over one little detail. …

February 1, 202587Views

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Disney World Rebrands Genie+/ FastPass, but It’s Still a Miserable, Complex, and Costly Chore

How did we get here? The casual and relaxing days of Walt Disney World began to die in the 1990s, when Disney purchased the ABC networks and forced its channels to plug the company theme parks in daily programming. That corporate-mandated "synergy" resulted in increasingly overcrowded parks. How prices spiraled at Disney Parks Enter FastPass,…

January 7, 202594Views

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Which Disney Cruise Private Island Is the Best? Fans Warn One of Them Isn’t Very Relaxing

By the end of 2024, Disney Cruise Line (DCL) will have six ships in operation, with two more in the pipeline. That's double the fleet the company had 12 years ago, when a single private island, Castaway Cay, could handle all the ships that needed to call there on Caribbean sailings. All the major cruise…

January 5, 202578Views