Category — p. News and Changes

2013 CROWDS AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

The analysis of 2013 school breaks is done, and based on that, I’ve updated my 2013 Disney World crowd calendar.  It should–barring typos or cataclysms–now be stable through 2013. [Read more →]

Sometime today this site’s 2 millionth visitor will drop by.

I can’t tell you all how grateful I am that you come here, ask questions, come back for the recent stuff, tell your friends, pin it, “like” it, link to it from your own sites, and everything else you do to spread the word. [Read more →]

2013 DISNEY WORLD PRICE SEASONS UPDATED

Barring possible typos, I’ve got the Disney World 2013 price seasons updated, and so have removed the “projected” language.  Find them here.

For some commentary on 2013 resort hotel prices, see this. For an overall view of Disney World 2013 price and value, especially in the light of changes to evening Extra Magic Hours starting in January, see this.

AVERAGE DISNEY WORLD NIGHTLY PRICES BY ARRIVAL DATE AND LENGTH OF VISIT [Read more →]

WRITE A CAPTION FOR THE PHOTO BELOW IN THE COMMENTS FIELD!

Welcome to those coming from Capturing Magical Memories as Magical Blogorail Teal gets even sillier than usual this month.

This month, we are each posting an image and inviting our readers to write captions for it in the “comments” section!

My image is from a family visit to Disneyland in the late 60s or early 70s.

I’m on the left; my sister is on the right.  Dumbo, with some astonishment,  is trying to see her glasses more closely.

My sister has since grown up a lot, and changed her glasses; I look pretty much exactly the same as back then….

Insert your own caption for the photo in the comments form below!

MORE FROM MAGICAL BLOGORAIL TEAL

Thank you for joining Magical Blogorail Teal this month. Our next loop will be in August with an all new theme. Keep checking in with our blogs in between loops to keep up to date with our Disney info, photos and stories.

If you are looking for more Disney magic, you can make your way over to The Magical Blogorail website to see all our members and their blogs, as well as all our previous loops.

Here is the map of this month’s Magical Blogorail Loop should you happen to have to make a stop along the way and want to reboard:

1st Stop ~   The Disney FAITHful
2nd Stop ~ The Many Adventures of a Disney Lovin’ Spectrum Mom
3rd Stop ~   Capturing Magical Memories
Final Stop ~ yourfirstvisit.net

ANALYSIS OF 2013 DISNEY WORLD RESORT HOTEL PRICE CHANGES

Walt Disney World’s 2013 prices came out last week, and as usual on average they’ve gone up.

The only big deal for first time visitors is the switch of the third week of December 2013 from Fall Season to the Peak Season, raising hotel prices that week 25-50%.

But there’s some other interesting and unusual features to Disney World’s 2013 prices (actual reductions; effective reductions; new seasons; changes in the traditional dates of old seasons), so what follows analyses 2013 price changes at Walt Disney World resort hotels compared to 2012 by resort price class.

VALUE RESORT 2013 PRICE CHANGES: POP CENTURY EXAMPLE

Across 2013 price seasons, at first blush Pop Century 2013 prices have gone up a lot.

However, when you adjust to this site’s 8 night itineraries, and back out the $10/night charge for refrigerators that’s now gone, for all major seasons prices are either barely up or lower than 2012. But three 2013 weeks have been re-seasoned compared to 2012, and as a result, their prices are peppered. [Read more →]

DECEMBER 2013 NOW INCLUDES PEAK SEASON PRICES

Disney World made most of 2013 available for on-line booking yesterday, and has also set its 2013 prices.

In recent years, December has had two price seasons: “Fall,” which is just a bit more expensive than the lowest prices of the year, and “Holiday,” the most expensive prices of the year, with the break between them around December 20.*

December 2013 is different. [Read more →]