Wishes Fireworks Spectacular Glowing Away and More News You Need!
Welcome to the News You Need! February brought us a bunch of exciting openings and some announcements about closings that made us a little nostalgic. Let’s take a look at some of the news that will affect how you vacation at the Disney parks. Pandora Gets an Opening Date For more than five years, James Cameron […]
Keep Reading >DVC Right of First Refusal (ROFR): February ’17 Report
In the month of February, Disney exercised their right of first refusal (ROFR) on 37 of 250 contracts sold through the DVC Resale Market, representing 14.8% of the contracts sold. This raises the year-to-date buy back rate to 12.2%. Thus far, the 2017 buy back rate is more than 2.5x that of the 4.4% buy back rate […]
Keep Reading >Disney 2017
2017 offers the promise of amazing changes at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. No, they aren’t quite as exciting as the ones expected to arrive in 2018, but don’t let your excitement over Star Wars Land cause you to sell Disney short this year. They’ve got some rare and exciting stuff planned. Here are all […]
Keep Reading >Disney Year in Review for 2016
Now is almost the time when you must pretend like you know the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. 2016 is coming to a close, and another historic year at Disney theme parks is almost over. Plenty of changes occurred across the parks, and lots happened with the Disney Vacation Club as well. Let’s take this […]
Keep Reading >Proposed 2017 Disney Vacation Club Annual Dues
Below is a table showing the proposed 2017 annual dues per point for all the Disney Vacation Club Resorts. Please note, these are only proposed 2017 annual dues, and these proposed dues will have the opportunity for approval at the 2016 Disney Vacation Club Annual Condominium Association Meeting on December 8, 2016. The meeting will […]
Keep Reading >Disney World’s Holiday Festivities for 2016
I’m sure you’ve seen the time-lapse video by now. If you haven’t, watch this clip to learn the obvious. Halloween has said Boo to You for the last time. Disney theme parks are now all-in on the holiday season. In the course of one busy night, cast members converted the decorations from (not so) scary […]
Keep Reading >New Christmas Offerings at Disney and More Parks News You Need
Welcome to the News You Need! We made it through a hurricane and came out on the other side very lucky! We’ve got tons of information about what’s coming for the holidays at the Disney parks and we hope it makes your Disney trips better and your points more valuable to you. Let’s get started! […]
Keep Reading >Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Tips
Have you never attended Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party? Then I say, “Boo to you!” And then Disney sings it like a million times. Seriously, I went to the event three weeks ago. I STILL have an earworm. It haunts me to the point that I dispute the notion of “not so scary”. Whoops, […]
Keep Reading >History of Epcot International Food and Wine Festival at Walt Disney World
Did you know that movie studios used to ignore the summer movie season? It’s true. Prior to Jaws, the conventional wisdom was that movie-goers had too much going on during the summer to waste their time in a theater. As such, the summer movie campaign up until 1975 was the equivalent of television reruns. Why […]
Keep Reading >Six Astonishing FastPass+ Facts
FastPass+ has been discontinued. On October 19th, 2021, Disney Genie Service was launched which includes Disney Genie+. You can read more about Disney Genie here. Just when you think you’ve mastered FastPass+, Disney goes and changes the system again. For years, the status quo of FastPass guaranteed that your paper ticket would get you […]
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