Month: August 2011
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Walt Disney World’s Champion Sugar Artist, Chef Laurent Branlard
Frequent Walt Disney World travellers may be familiar with the good deals found at the Swan and Dolphin Resort, the “Heavenly Beds”, and signature restaurants by Todd English and Don Shula. However, they may not realize the hotel complex is also home to one of the Top Pastry Chefs in America (named Top 10 Pastry Chefs…
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Disney Parks Up for Third Quarter of 2011
On August 8, 2011, The Disney Company released its third quarter earnings statement to the public. I have done other posts about Disney earnings statements (2011 Second Quarter and fiscal year 2010 earnings), and again, I won’t try to cover all of Disney’s divisions but will focus on how Disney’s earnings might affect theme park…
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Whale Watching in New England
by Jack Burgin Next summer, the Disney Magic will offer round-trip sailings from New York to Canada, with ports in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick. While excursions, or “port adventures” as Disney Cruise Lines refers to them, have not yet been announced for these cruises (and thus nothing is certain), a whale…
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Reality Television Stars Raise $10,000 for Give Kids The World
Recently, more than 75 stars of reality television shows such as “Survivor”, “Amazing Race”, “The Bachelor”, “Big Brother”, and more, turned out at Give Kids The World Village to participate in the Hearts of Reality event. This was a 3-day “Survivor Weekend” that raised over $10,000 for GKTW Village. Russell Hantz of CBS’ “Survivor” is a…
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DIS Unplugged Podcast – August 10th, 2011
In this week’s show, Kathy gives us an update on the construction at the Magic Kingdom, Kevin reviews Catal, a restaurant at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney District, and Corey and Julie talk about their recent Adventures by Disney Backstage Magic Trip. All that plus news and roundtable rapidfire. The DIS Unplugged podcast is a weekly roundtable…
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Star Wars Icon Billy Dee Williams Discusses Art, Mickey & Disney
“Hello, what have we here?” Actor Billy Dee Williams is best known for the iconic role of Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars trilogy. Friday, August 19, he’s appearing at the Disney’s D23 Expo in conjunction with the debut of the newly re-imagined Star Tours – The Adventures Continue. However, before Williams portrayed the gambling scoundrel Lando…
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Our Glimpse of Alaska from the Disney Wonder
I just wanted to share a few pictures from our recent 7-day Disney Cruise to Alaska. For additional information, check out Dreams Unlimited Travel agent Tracey Heinrichs’ recent blog. The Disney Wonder is visiting Alaska through the end of September and will return again next summer. Enjoy this quick glimpse from our cruise.