Category — p. News and Changes

DISNEY WORLD MILITARY SALUTE TICKETS AND ROOM RATE DEAL FOR 10/1/2012-9/28/2013

Update July 2013: This deal has been offered for FY 14–October 2013 into September 2014–as well! See this.

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com broke the news earlier today that there’s a new Disney World offer for US active and retired forces for FY 13–specifically, October 1 2012 through September 28 2013.

There’s two separate deals: on tickets, and on hotels.  I’m seeing some inconsistencies, and am missing a fact or two which I’ll fix later, but based on Steve’s scoop and the draft press release which Disney sent him, and he forwarded to me, here’s the details:

NEW 2012/2013 DISNEY WORLD TICKET DEAL FOR THE ARMED FORCES [Read more →]

OPENING DATE SET FOR DISNEY WORLD’S FANTASYLAND EXPANSION

The Disney Parks Blog announced here that the Grand Opening of the next stage of New Fantasyland will be on Thursday December 6, 2012. (I’d thought it would open by 12/8–see this.)

Previews will begin on November 19.

The Grand Opening on December 6 will include Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid, Be Our Guest Restaurant, Enchanted Tales with Belle, Ariel’s Grotto, Gaston’s Tavern and Bonjour! Village Gifts.

During “previews” Under the Sea may not be operating all the time, and may start after the park opens or close suddenly.  But since it’s a dupe of a fairly simply ride system that’s been in operation for a while in California, previews should be pretty clean.

I’ve recently published the final revision of the weeks of 2013 ranked in order of how good they are for a family on their first visit to Walt Disney World who may never return.

This page explains how they are built.

HOW THE WEEK RANKINGS ARE BUILT

Basically, I chunk up the weeks of the year based on certain criteria, and then sort within each chunk based first on crowds, and then, within the same crowd level, prices.

“WEEKS TO AVOID” AT WALT DISNEY WORLD [Read more →]

V2 OF 2013 WEEKS TO VISIT WALT DISNEY WORLD RANKED IN ORDER IS OUT

The updated Disney World 2013 week ranking is now out, and (barring typos and logical lacunae) should now be stable through 2013.

The update incorporates final Disney World 2013 price seasons and crowd forecasts.

Only 3 weeks changed their ranking by more than a couple of places from the draft version, and only two more than 5 places. [Read more →]

See this.

DISNEY WORLD FREE DINING DATES  EXTENDED

Disney World has added another week to the eligible December arrival dates for its free dining offer.

December arrival dates on offer for the free dining deal  now include December 10 through December 20. See this for more.