Category — p. News and Changes

Touringplans.com and others are reporting that Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be opening, in effect, at 8.30a rather than the usual 9a the rest of this week–til Friday.

See this for the details.

WALT DISNEY WORLD DEAL NEEDS TO BE BOOKED SOON

One of Walt Disney World’s current deals is expiring soon.

The deal offers discounted rooms for many arrival dates from February 21 through March 31 2012, but needs to be booked by January 22 2012.

For more on this deal, see this.

Dear readers, thanks to all of you for an awesome year!

Almost 800,000 of you stopped by this year–more than three times as many as in 2010, and more than 12 times as many as in 2009.  You are currently stopping by at a rate of 150,000 visits a month–thank you, thank you, thank you.

The site had its millionth visitor in November 2011, and its 5 millionth page view and 3000th comment in December.

Almost 50,000 of you are frequent visitors–up from 12,000 last year.

In 2011, you came from more than 14,000 communities in more than 180 countries and territories

I am humbled by your visits, and will keep trying to make the site better, and to add useful, new, interesting, and different material.

TOP 10 PLACES YOU COME FROM

More than 75% of you come to this site by a search engine.

Of the rest, about 1/3 of you come directly, by typing the site’s url or clicking on a bookmark, and about 2/3 come via a link.

Those who came from a link came from one of more than 50,000 links from more than two thousand different domains.

Excluding search engines, Facebook, Yahoo Answers and such, the following are the top ten domains you came from in 2011: [Read more →]

For a bit of shameless self-promotion about this, see this press release.

For a comic bit from Carl (of the great site Dad’s Guide to WDW), making fun of my shameless self-promotion, see this.

ONE ANGLE ON DISNEY WORLD DEAL BLACKOUT DATES IN 2012

Those who stay at Disney World resort hotels a lot know that sometimes there’s material in your room offering you a discount on future dates if you book before you complete your current reservation.

One of these offers was in my BoardWalk Inn room on a recent visit, and I thought the offer blackout dates were worth noting.

The 2012 dates excluded from the offer were the following: [Read more →]

THE COMPLETE WALT DISNEY WORLD 2012

The Complete Walt Disney World 2012 published last week, and my copy showed up on Friday.

(You can find a complete review here.)

For now, I have to note that while it’s probably a typo, I am really liking page 375.

Actually, I know it’s not a typo, as Julie Neal had emailed that this was coming.

When I look at the other sites included in The Complete Walt Disney World 2012‘s Internet Directory, I’m astonished and humbled.

Thanks, Julie!

For those new to this site, here’s where to start on The Complete Walt Disney World 2012‘s specific points:

• “…instructions and advice…”
• “…unique week picker…”
• “…accommodations advice…”