Disney & Universal Announce Rate Hikes
August 7, 2010 Comments Off on Disney & Universal Announce Rate HikesDisney & Universal Orlando have both announced their theme park ticket prices are rising a few dollars. Disney announced their price increase first and two days later Universal followed suit. A one day, one park ticket has now gone from $79 to $82, a 3.8 percent raise. Annual ticket price increases have been a normal […]
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The Summer continues at full pace throughout August and Orlando is the home to some great events. Here’s our look at some of the things you can do away from the theme parks in Central Florida in the next 31 days. August 02, 2010 Storytelling at Leu Gardens Stories at 3 times for different aged […]
Continue reading …Good news for fans of The Main Street Electrical Parade at Magic Kingdom. In early June, as part of Disney’s Summer Nightastic, The Main Street Electric Parade resumed. It was supposed to end on Aug. 14 with the Spectromagic nighttime parade’s returning but the Electrical Parade has been so popular with guests, that it’s now […]
Continue reading …The Walt Disney Company has announced the sale of its Miramax film division for about $660m to a group of private equity investors. Disney has owned Miramax since 1993 when it bought the firm from Hollywood heavyweights Harvey and Bob Weinstein. The Weinstein brothers named the film company after their parents Miriam and Max and […]
Continue reading …Friends Don’t Let Friends … Stay in Hotels! It’s time to enter our Summer Sweepstakes and win a 4 Night Orlando Vacation in a Florida Leisure Vacation Home. It’s dead easy to enter and all you have to do to enter is go to www.Facebook.com/FloridaLeisure and hit the “Like” button and then the “Sweepstakes” tab […]
Continue reading …I popped down to Clearwater Beach last week to check out how the Gulf oil crisis was affecting the area. I’d received several calls from reporters at various news outlets all wanting to know if it was affecting our business in any way so I decided it was worth the trip to find out what […]
Continue reading …I sent my eldest daughter, Rebecca, out to take a look at some of the going’s on at the theme parks just recently and she reported back to say that most parks still seem to have a lot of people in them. So much for the economic downturn. It’s interesting that years ago in economic […]
Continue reading …I was just reading an article about foreign buyers literally invading the US to buy homes and I thought you’d like to see it if you haven’t already. It’s written by Steve Cook of Real Estate Economy Watch: The number of American homes bought by foreign nationals has nearly doubled in the past year as […]
Continue reading …7 Step Guide to a Walt Disney World Vacation By Nigel G. Worrall If you’re planning a Walt Disney World vacation this Summer or Fall you’ll need to start planning and preparing like no other vacation before. Walt Disney World covers 47 square miles (think twice as large as Manhattan and you’ll get the idea!) […]
Continue reading …Perhaps it was expecting too much with so much at stake but the World Cup Final was a disappointment. Niggling foul after niggling foul left us all disappointed and referee Howard Webb a very busy man. It seemed right from the outset that neither team was going to allow the other to play and it […]
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