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Last updated: September 28, 2026 This page is updated weekly with the most recent Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando park news, ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ September 2026 Disney World News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This weekly roundup covers the most significant Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando updates from the past week. Walt Disney World News Roundup | September 28, 2026 Disney Releases Its 2026 Halloween Food Guide Disney released its 2026 Halloween food guide on September

The real question isn't simply whether Universal Nights is “worth it.” It's whether this particular version of Epic Universe fits the way your family wants to spend its time and vacation budget. Let's dive in.

Last updated: September 2026 If you know Walt Disney World well, a Disneyland trip can scramble your usual ride list. Some names are familiar, some familiar rides feel completely different, and some attractions are only in California. With two and a half park days, we wanted to spend our time on the experiences we couldn't simply repeat on our next Disney World trip. California was doing its best impression of Walt Disney World in July during our September trip. Temperatures

This page is updated weekly with the most recent Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando park news, including attraction updates, event announcements, closures, construction permits, and planning changes. Each section below is labeled by week, so you can quickly scan the latest updates or scroll back to earlier news from this month. Let's dive in.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ August 2026 Disney World News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This weekly roundup covers the most significant Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando updates from the past week. Walt Disney World News Roundup | August 30, 2026 Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge Opens July 1, 2027—and Yes, It Has a Lazy River Image Credit: Disney Parks Blog Disney has given us our biggest look yet at Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge, the new Bay Lake resort opening July 1, 2027. It will have 967 accom

Our 2026 Oogie Boogie Bash Map & Printable Cheat Sheet adds the planning details we wanted at our fingertips: villain-hosted treat trails, the characters meeting at each traditional character location, rotating character areas, Villains Grove, PhotoPass locations, Halloween ride overlays and Madame Leota’s route—including the full-performance show stops.

Oogie Boogie Bash is not Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party West. Let's dive in.

The Practically Perfect Pixie Dust fam only started dipping our toes into the Halloween Horror Nights world a few years ago. Kim and College Boy are the horror fans in our family, so they have been the brave ones heading into the fog while Bren and Lyn, our resident scaredy-cats, stay somewhere safely out of chainsaw range. Kim and College Boy love the spooky atmosphere, the elaborate houses and the general mayhem of HHN. They are also, affectionately, the travel princesses o

Well, Disney has done it. They have announced a resort that I am already mentally checking into almost a year before it opens. Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge, being built in the former River Country. Let's dive in.

Disneyland uses the familiar Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass names, but the way they work in California is very different from the system we know at Disney World. So we did what we love to do: researched until everyone else’s eyes started to glaze over. Let's dive in.

They’ve been dropping hints for the last couple of weeks, but it is finally here; Disney Cruise Line has released its Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 itineraries. We’ve got new ports to sail from, new itineraries, and the return of a few favorites. Let's dive in.

Last night Disney held their D23 Parks Panel, the highlight of the D23: The Disney Ultimate Fan Event for Disney Park fans, giving us a glimpse behind the curtain at all the exciting things planned for Disney Parks around the world. Let's dive in.

We're following the Imagineering reveals coming out of D23 and looking specifically at what they may tell us about future Walt Disney World park layouts and vacation planning. Let's dive in.

July 2026's Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando park news, ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ July 2026 Disney World News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This weekly roundup covers the most significant Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando updates from the past week. Walt Disney World News Roundup | July 27, 2026 Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Food Guide Is Here for 2026 Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party kicks off soon, and Disney has revealed this year’s full lineup of spooky snacks

On our most recent Walt Disney World trip, we finally experienced Disney’s Keys to the Kingdom Tour at Magic Kingdom. This five-hour, behind-the-scenes tour is one of the only opportunities for regular guests to visit the famous utilidors beneath the park We had wanted to do this tour for a long time, but just could never squeeze the expereince in. However our 4th of July trip was slightly longer than our typical ones, and we decided it was finally time to dive in.

This roundup covers the most significant Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando updates from June of 2026.

Whether you're wondering if the crowds are really as bad as you've heard, which park is the best choice for July 4th, or how to survive the Florida heat without melting into the pavement, here's everything you need to know before celebrating Independence Day at Walt Disney World. Let's dive in.

Disney has just released several new offers that can help make those magical vacations a little more affordable. Let's dive in.

If you're thinking about a Universal Orlando vacation in 2027, you can officially start planning! Universal has opened 2027 vacation packages, hotel reservations, and ticket packages, giving families their first chance to price out next year's trips. Along with those new packages comes a change to the discount structure that many Universal fans have been watching closely. Let's dive in.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨May 2026 Disney World News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This weekly roundup covers the most significant Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando updates from the past week. 🏰 Walt Disney World News Roundup | May 31, 2026 🎬 Disney Reveals First Official Map + New Details for The Magic of Disney Animation Image Credit: Disney Parks Blog Disney has shared the first official map and a whole batch of new details for The Magic of Disney Animation, the new experience