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Entrance to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Magic Kingdom. Inset photo by HarshLight [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Be Our Guest’s new Dungeon Room opens in May

It's cold, dark, and you'll be locked in there forever. But the food is good! WALT DISNEY WORLD -- Construction is almost complete on additional seating for the Magic Kingdom Park’s Be Our Guest restaurant! As reported here in November, the popular Beauty and the Beast-themed eatery, built to appear as if it were inside Beast’s castle, often must be booked months in advance. The current three dining rooms — the Grand Ballroom, the Castle Gallery, and the mysterious West Wing — will ...
April 14, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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Some suitcases, one of which has a Mickey silhouette on it.

What the “Moms” missed: more packing essentials for Walt Disney World

You need more than you realize for a trip to the Most Magical Place on Earth! A recent article on the Disney Parks blog gave some great advice on what to pack for a trip to Walt Disney World -- great, but incomplete. Not to cast doubt on the collective wisdom of the Disney Parks Moms Panel, but the average family needs to bring more than just some mesh laundry bags, ziplocs and pennies when visiting Walt's Magic Kingdom, Not That One ...
April 13, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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Walt Disney World dome, when not open for maintenance. Photo copyright 2018 Google Maps.

Walt Disney World Dome to be open during maintenance

TRAVEL ADVISORY WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The dome that encloses the Walt Disney World Resort will be left open for upcoming maintenance, a Disney Parks and Resorts representative announced Tuesday. Disney does not typically announce maintenance schedules for the dome, so we at Uncle Walt's Insider are publishing a travel advisory as a courtesy to anyone who plans to visit the popular Florida destination. We advise tourists who may not be familiar with the sun Florida uses to wear sunscreen, keep an ...
April 11, 2018 by Walt in Florida
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More fees for Walt Di$ney World? Photo via Pixabay, modified.

Can you find all the Hidden Mickey Fees?

Forget Hidden Mickeys - the new game is spotting Hidden Fees! With the revelation over the past few weeks that the Walt Disney World Resort will begin charging resort guests for driving their cars out of the parking lot, and last week's exposé on these pages of new hidden fees Disney is charging throughout the World, we thought, "Hey, if we're going to be paying these anyway, why not make a game of it?" It turns out that the clever Disney Accounting Imagineers ...
April 9, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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The Jar Jar attraction 'crushes' the former interactive turtle! Get it?

“Gungan Talk with Jar Jar” is a huge success

Everyone's favorite Star Wars character replaces a boring turtle! WALT DISNEY WORLD -- Some were shocked back in January when Epcot’s The Seas with Nemo and Friends pavilion abruptly canceled "Turtle Talk with Crush" and replaced it with a similar experience involving Star Wars’ Jar Jar Binks. Although said to be a temporary change - a "test run" according to Imagineer Carly Aldenkamp - the show has proved to be incredibly popular with families. Aldenkamp told Uncle Walt's Insider, “This will eventually be ...
April 7, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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