Category — p. News and Changes

DISNEY WORLD DEALS EXPIRING

Walt Disney World is currently running three promotions for the general public, and a deal for military families as well.

While travel dates for these deals extend from now until October and even December, three of these four need to be booked within the next few weeks.

KEY DATES FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD PROMOTIONS

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UPDATE October 2010:

Disney has created new military ticket and room deals, already available and extending into October 2011.

See this for more.

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com is reporting here that Walt Disney World won’t be extending its Disney Military Salute beyond the current 9/30 “use by” date. 

See this for more on this discount, which must be purchased by August 31.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com

CHANGES TO 2011 WEEKS TO VISIT, MOSTLY MINOR

I’ve just published a revised version of this site’s 2011 Weeks to Visit Walt Disney World, Ranked in Order.

Nineteen of 2011’s 52 weeks had changes to their week ranking–but for 16 of these 19, the changes were minor–up or down 5 positions or fewer, and no change in how the week was categorized.

(I categorize the weeks as Recommended Weeks, Worse Weeks, and Weeks to Avoid.)

…BUT NOT ALL CHANGES ARE MINOR…

Three weeks, however, had major changes in their rankings, and two of these three also had changes in their category.

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FREE DINING AT WALT DISNEY WORLD INTO DECEMBER

UPDATE AUGUST 2010: This deal has now been extended well into 2011! See this for more.

MousePlanet.com is reporting  here that Disney has extended its free dining plan, already announced through October 2,  to certain dates further into October, and certain dates in November and December.

The new offer is not available for arrivals October 8-21, October 29-November 11, November 19-November 26,  December 3-December 9, and after December 21.

OVERVIEW: DISNEY WORLD PARK CALENDARS

I’ve noted elsewhere–for example, here, here, and here–that the best way to find out Disney World operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, fireworks and Fantasmic times, and such, is to work from the individual official Walt Disney World park calendars.

These calendars can be found by clicking the following links:

• Magic Kingdom Calendar
• Hollywood Studios Calendar
• Animal Kingdom Calendar
• Epcot Calendar

However, these calendars aren’t too user friendly, so I thought I’d give some advice on how to use them and about some of their odder aspects.

HOW TO USE WALT DISNEY WORLD’S THEME PARK CALENDARS

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DISNEY WORLD’S SUMMER NIGHTASTIC

“Summer Nightastic” is Disney’s name for five new or recycled things happening this summer (through mid-August) at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Epcot, and the Magic Kingdom:

• The return of the old Magic Kingdom evening parade, the Main Street Electrical Parade, replacing Spectromagic
• A new fireworks display at the Magic Kingdom, the Summer Nightastic Fireworks Show, replacing Wishes
• Enhancements to the Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
• The Sounds Like Summer Concert Series, a concert series at Epcot, and
• The Rock ‘n’ Glow Dance Party at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Since the first three represent changes some of Walt Disney World’s best loved attractions, I saw then last weekend, and comment on them below.

The upshot?  All three remain linchpins of a Walt Disney World trip, whether in their current form, or the ones they will go back to in August.

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