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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

1. Proximity to Parks All of the resorts on Walt Disney World property provide guests with complimentary transportation to the parks.  Although nothing on-property is too far from anything else, it could still take 30-45 minutes (or more!) on a bus to get from one point to another, especially when stops at multiple resorts are taken into

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Walt Disney World Deluxe Resorts:  7 Reasons Why You Must Stay at One

Have you been dreaming of staying at one of Walt Disney World's many beautiful deluxe resorts?  Visiting Walt Disney World is magical no matter where you stay, but staying on-property at a Disney resort only makes the trip more convenient and extraordinary.  Value and moderate resorts are nothing to scoff at; they're all well-kept, beauti

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

7) The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights For many Disney fans, this is the single saddest closure in Walt Disney World history, myself included. This beautiful Christmas lights and decorations display danced its way into the hearts of millions of guests from 1995 until 2016. The display was in the Streets of America section of Di

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

6) SpectroMagic This parade had two wildly popular runs at Magic Kingdom when the Main Street Electrical Parade wasn’t in operation. This dazzling parade featured over 65 performers with more than 45 Disney characters featured in 24 units. There were five different themes, ranging from Sleeping Beauty’s Garden to The Little Mermaid’s Ocea

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

5) River Country Disney’s River Country was the first water park on Disney property, well before Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon came onto the scene. It opened in 1976 as an old-fashioned swimming hole near Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. The park featured two pools, one with clean-water and one with a sandy bottom with wa

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

4) Mickey’s Toontown Fair This area, which made you feel as though you had stepped inside of a cartoon land, had many different names over the years. It was Mickey’s Birthdayland when it opened in 1988, then became Mickey’s Starland in 1990 and was briefly named Mickey’s Toyland in 1995. In 1996, after a massive refurbishment, it reopened

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

3) Pleasure Island This section of Downtown Disney, now Disney Springs, was a hot spot for adults to party into the wee hours of the morning. Similar to Church Street Station in Downtown Orlando, Pleasure Island had night clubs, the Comedy Warehouse, Adventurer’s Club and various shops and restaurants. For quite some time, there was even

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

2) The American Idol Experience Located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, this immersive experience gave guests 14 and older the opportunity to audition to be in one of the live shows at the park, complete with judges and a studio audience. At the end of the day, the winners from each of the preliminary shows would perform one last time and

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

1) ExtraTERRORestial Alien Encounter Before Stitch’s Great Escape! lived in Tomorrowland, this similar, but more terrifying, attraction lived in its space. This was one of the few attractions at Walt Disney World, if not the only one, that had a warning outside of the attraction’s entrance which let guests know that the experience was int

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7 Experiences at Walt Disney World That Have Closed Over the Years

Walt Disney once said that, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Though he didn’t get to see Walt Disney World officially open, the same could be said about it. Because Walt Disney World is constantly enhancing its offerings and trying to bring in new, innovative

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