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Disney World Brings Back Free Meals in 2025, but Is Disney’s Dining Plan Really Worth It?

Deal alert! Walt Disney World in Florida is bringing back its Disney Dining Plan for a limited period in mid-2025. Historically, the Orlando-area resort has whipped out its food plan to help shore up bookings in softer periods. This year, the plan's dates of availability coincide with the first weeks of operation of Disney's…

January 2, 2025105Views

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Denver’s Casa Bonita: Inside the ‘South Park’–Approved “Greatest Restaurant in the World”

“The first thing out of my mouth was ‘triumph,’” raved Scott Gairdner, host of Podcast: The Ride, following his first visit to Casa Bonita, the famed Denver-area Mexican restaurant/family-entertainment paradise best known as the subject of a classic South Park episode. “This is a triumph,” Gairdner continued, “and how great does it feel to see…

December 30, 2024113Views

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What to know about touring world famous wine regions

Gone are the days when wine tasting was confined to local wineries or national borders. Today's consumers crave authentic wine experiences in the land where it's cultivated. In Europe, where the wine economy is predominantly export-driven, tasting rooms tend to be family-operated. That means there may be just one person serving visitors, and appointments are…

May 17, 2024168Views

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The 7 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make on a Walt Disney World Vacation

Underplanning In Disney's drive to increase profit centers, the company has changed its basic theme park experience. Now every visitor must plan somewhat or pay a price. To eat at the best sit-down restaurants or enjoy a character meal, you must make reservations 60 days in advance or else face a lack of availability.…

May 9, 2024153Views

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9 World Wonders You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

When it comes to many of the world's wonders that weren't on maps for a while—the citadel of Machu Picchu, the tombs of Luxor, the Delta Sky Club lounge at DFW—the secret is definitely out, and those landmarks have the crowds to prove it. If travelers are going for that eureka moment that comes with…

May 5, 2024151Views

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Universal’s Super Nintendo World Changes the Game—In Both Delightful and Tricky Ways

The Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, for those who are unfamiliar, shares its campus with its namesake Universal Studios, where movies and TV are made, and the grounds are scattered up the side of the mountain behind the Hollywood sign in the middle of the Los Angeles area. Everything you've just seen is packed into a cramped…

May 4, 2024166Views

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London’s Hunterian Museum: Bits of People in Jars That Changed the World

If you lived in 18th-century London and something went wrong with your body, after you died a famous scientist named John Hunter might show up to rummage through your corpse, snip out the afflicted organ, and sink it in a jar of preservative so that budding physicians could learn from the specimen. Back in…

May 3, 2024194Views

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Dave Karger, Movie Awards Mainstay, on His Favorite Hotels Around the World

If you've lived in America in the last 25 years and care at all about the entertainment world, then Dave Karger has likely spent a lot of time on your TV screen. One of the country's most reliable, level-headed, and accurate experts on the Hollywood awards season horse race, Karger is also an entertainment journalist and…

April 29, 2024190Views

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Disney World Has Quietly Removed an Entire Park from Its Daily Lineup

Ask any theme park aficionado to list all the things you can do during a day at Walt Disney World near Orlando, and you'll hear the resort's inventory rattled off as easily as the alphabet: four theme parks, two water-slide parks, a huge shopping district, a sports center, and more than 20 resort hotels. Not…

April 28, 2024160Views

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In Disney-fication of Venice, world hits its overtourism tipping point

Demonstrators try to break through the blockade created by police officers to enter the city at Piazzale Roma, opposing the charge for tourists to enter the city on April 25, 2024 in Venice, Italy. Today Venice authorities launched a pilot program charging visitors a 5-euro entry fee in the hope that it will discourage at…

April 28, 2024209Views