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Walt Disney World Cuts its Hours at the Theme Parks

Walt Disney World Cuts its Theme Park's Hours over Low Attendance amid the COVID-19 Pandemic Its been about a month now since Walt Disney World reopened to the public. COVID-19 is still as reality but the resort has gone above and beyond the local, state, and national health agency recommendations to ensure [...]

By Joshua Powell|2025-06-04T15:53:28-04:00August 10th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

How to Prepare for Disney World During Covid

This pandemic is complicating everyone's Disney World vacation plans. Here's how to prepare for Disney World during COVID-19 Reopening Disney World during a global pandemic is no easy task. The top priority of Disney officials is, first and foremost, to keep Cast Members and Guests safe from the virus. In order to [...]

By Joshua Powell|2022-06-07T20:43:06-04:00August 7th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

Walt Disney World Reopening Plans

Disney World reopening plans continue to evolve on a day-to-day basis. Today, we have new updates to share from Disney! On Thursday evening (5/28), Walt Disney World Resort announced some big changes that will affect all vacations booked through the end of 2020. We will go through Disney's new updates below. How Disney World will [...]

By Joshua Powell|2025-01-24T13:20:12-05:00May 29th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

Disney World Reopens on July 11

Walt Disney World has just announced its plan for a phased reopening of its theme parks. On May 27, Jim MacPhee (Senior VP of Operations at Walt Disney World Resort) made the virtual presentation laying out the initiatives to reopen in a safe manner. The plan targets July 11 as the opening date for Magic [...]

By Joshua Powell|2025-01-24T13:21:54-05:00May 27th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

LEGO Mickey Fundraiser Auction

Disney Travel Agency Launches LEGO Mickey Fundraiser The Disney Travel Agents at The Vacationeer Launch a COVID-19 LEGO Mickey eBay Auction to Help First Responders Are you looking for a way to show your support for first responders during this pandemic? If so, look no further than The Vacationeer's LEGO MICKEY charity, [...]

By Joshua Powell|2023-04-13T13:48:20-04:00May 11th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

When is Disney World Going to Reopen?

You are viewing an archived article from Summer 2020. Since shutting down on March 15th, we are currently seeing signs that Walt Disney World Resort is already underway on their reopening plans. While there hasn't been any formal announcement yet, recent statements made by Disney management - and the fact that a [...]

By Joshua Powell|2023-12-22T18:07:32-05:00May 7th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

Coronavirus Closes Disney World

For only the seventh time in its history, Walt Disney World Resort will temporarily close to the public due to the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. Disneyland - as well as Universal Orlando Resort - will also close at the same time. As of now, the closure will go into effect on Sunday, March [...]

By Joshua Powell|2023-04-10T12:26:45-04:00March 13th, 2020|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

Disney World 4 Park Magic Tickets

Hello Disney Friends! Today we have some exciting news to share about the Disney World 4-Park Magic Tickets promotion. What is the 4-Park Magic Ticket? As you probably know, there's very little downside to Disney World vacations...other than the cost, of course. That's why any time Disney offers a significant discount we perk-up and [...]

By Joshua Powell|2023-04-10T12:49:17-04:00November 22nd, 2019|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

2020 Disney After Hours Dates

Disney After Hours is a fun way to experience Disney World's rides and Character Greetings after normal operating hours. The event is held at Disney's Magic Kingdom and Disney's Animal Kingdom on select dates throughout 2020. Our page on Disney After Hours explains why this special ticketed event is so magical...but here's a quick [...]

By Joshua Powell|2023-04-07T07:17:11-04:00November 20th, 2019|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|

When Does Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Open?

NOTE: This article, originally published on March 26, 2019, reflects information available at that time regarding the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney World and Disneyland. Since then, both locations have successfully opened to the public—Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge on May 31, 2019, and Disney World’s on August 29, 2019. The second major [...]

By Joshua Powell|2025-04-09T10:23:54-04:00March 26th, 2019|MagicGuides Blog - Disney World Updates|