Orlando tourism in 2025 showed a general increase according to reports from Visit Orlando, the city’s official tourism marketing organization. With 76.7 million visitors in 2025, Orlando celebrated its highest number of visitors, as well as being the United States's...
Walt Disney World has announced that Mickey’s PhilharMagic at Magic Kingdom will close temporarily beginning November 1, 2025, for a refurbishment. The downtime is expected to last approximately three weeks. The calendar already lists showtimes again on November 23rd, indicating the plan is to have the attraction back online ahead of Thanksgiving.
The animatronics of Frozen Ever After are getting an update, going from their current projection-face style to sculpted faces, like those on the Frozen animatronics at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Recently, The Muppets have appeared in a series of online videos discussing the new overlay for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Disney has announced new prices for its Walt Disney World Annual Passes, marking another round of price hikes as the company begins its new fiscal year. While annual increases are nothing new for the Florida resort, this year’s changes come at an especially challenging time. Attendance has dropped noticeably compared to previous years, and large sections of the parks remain closed or obstructed due to ongoing construction.
On October 8, 2025, Walt Disney World announced a record-setting price increase for its “skip-the-line” service, Lightning Lane.
While price hikes are nothing new at Disney—especially at the start of the company’s fiscal year—this round of increases comes at a time when attendance across the Florida parks has dropped to some of the lowest levels in years.
The new pricing takes effect on October 29, 2025, raising costs by up to $6 per person per park for Lightning Lane Multi Passes, and between $1 and $3 per person for Single Pass selections. Notably, last year the New Lightning Lane system replaced “Genie+”, which in 2021 replaced the pre-lockdown FastPass+, a complimentary perk included with every ticket and annual pass.
Reservations for the “Behind the Seeds” tour at EPCOT are opening October 9th. The one-hour walking tour will run from November 28th through December 30, 2025 as a part of EPCOT’s 2025 International Festival of the Holidays. There will be three nightly sessions at 6 PM, 7 PM, and a new addition for this year, 8 PM.
For most visitors, staying inside Disney’s Cinderella Castle is more fantasy than reality. Yet under certain conditions the exclusive Cinderella Castle Suite — located within the walls of Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World — can become accessible. In recent years, sweepstakes and charitable campaigns have offered a small number of people the chance to stay there.
Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom just got even smaller. With Kali River Rapids officially closing for refurbishment today, October 6, 2025, guests visiting the park are finding themselves with only five operating rides in the entire park — and shockingly short wait times across the board.
Walt Disney World President Jeff Vahle has stirred fresh outrage among Disney loyalists after referring to recently closed beloved attractions as “underutilized areas” in a recent interview.
Beginning in late September 2025, EPCOT has been observed testing new crowd management methods in the pre-show areas of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. The adjustments aim to improve guest flow between Lightning Lane (paid queue) and standby (regular queue) groups by reducing congestion and clarifying movement patterns.
The former Rivers of America in the Magic Kingdom is now completely behind construction walls, along with a large section of the park.
Step into the Magic Kingdom right now, and one thing is impossible to miss: walls. From the Haunted Mansion in Fantasyland, through the entirety of Liberty Square, stretching deep into Frontierland, past Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (formerly Splash Mountain), and finally stopping at Big Thunder Mountain — one long, ugly construction wall cuts through the park like a scar.
Bakso, a rare Sumatran tiger, turned one at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. To observe Bakso’s first birthday on September 26, 2025, cast members provided enrichment items including ice treats and goat’s milk.