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After a year filled with closures and capacity restrictions, large crowds returned to the Orlando attractions for the 2020 holiday season, and Universal Orlando was ready to welcome them with a brand-new hotel. Dockside Inn and Suites, the second phase of Universal’s value-priced Endless Summer Resort, finally opened on December 15, following months of delays, and we paid the new

Universal Studios did not set out to challenge The Walt Disney Company in the theme park business. The men who ran the Music Corporation of America (MCA) were quite happy with the industrial tour they created in 1964 at Universal City. The Universal Studio Tour took visitors behind the scenes of the largest and busiest back lot in Hollywood to

For 15 years, millions of visitors have relied on Disney’s Magical Express bus service for free transportation between Orlando International Airport and the Walt Disney World Resort, but they’ll soon need to find a new ride because the popular service is going extinct.

Walt Disney World experienced large herds of guests flocking to all of the theme parks during the recent winter holidays, but one very special group of new arrivals was welcomed at Disney’s Animal Kingdom just ahead of the New Year. Kilimanjaro Safaris is now home to an adorable assembly of Nigerian Dwarf Goats, and we were delighted to close out

Bob Sehlinger, coauthor of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World, in a series of two articles, takes us on a tour of the different theme park rides. In today’s installment he focuses on roller coasters.  If you ever go to a party where guests are discussing Immelmanns, batwings, heartline rolls, dive-loops, rollovers, lift hills, and LIM launchers, don’t mistake the