Photo Finds: Tour of props for A Pirate’s Adventure – Treasure of the Seven Seas – April 22, 2013

By Kevin Yee We look around Adventureland this week to catalog the various props and set pieces for the upcoming “A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas” interactive game (not yet opened). We’ll also tour both Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom for some recent changes and construction updates.

PARKsaver: Check out these hotel, ticket and package savings for spring

By Suzannah Mitchell DiMarzio and Beci Mahnken Spring has sprung and the vacation deals are popping up all over the place. Now is a great time to visit Florida, before the major heat sets in and after the spring break crowds have gone home. Here are the latest area hotel and attraction deals we’ve found:

Photo Finds: Animal Kingdom changes and construction, Transformers and Wizarding World updates – April 8, 2013

By Kevin Yee This week in Photo Finds we investigate new cone sandwiches at Downtown Disney and cone drinks near Test Track, plus snoop around the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Center for the first time this season. In Disney’s Animal Kingdom, walls in Africa hint that Festival of the Lion King may soon have…

Photo Finds: Vinylmation Easter Egg Hunt and more Disney World changes – March 26 2013

By Kevin Yee From the newest changes to the Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster to the new stage at Morocco, not to mention the Iron Man 3 monorail, we scour the parks to find the smallest changes this week. We also report on Disney’s Limited Time Magic event of last week, the Vinylmation Easter Egg hunt,…

Photo Finds: King’s Bowling, MegaCon, Disney Jr. and other Hollywood Studios discoveries – March 18, 2013

By Kevin Yee An upscale bowling alley in the middle of International Drive is due to open in mid-April. We take a hardhat tour. We also bring you a review of MegaCon at the Orange County Convention Center. Disney Jr. has added Sophia the First and Doc McStuffins, so we peek at the revised puppet…

Photo Finds: Typhoon Lagoon, Test Track, Disney Event’s warehouse and more: Feb. 25, 2013

By Kevin Yee This week we jog around Typhoon Lagoon to see the minor improvements from the annual refurbishment, view the ongoing prep for Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival, and look at an experiment Test Track did with moving the FastPass line. We also tour Disney’s Park Event Operations, an off-site warehouse of props and…

PARKsaver: Save at Ripley’s, Mardi Gras and the remodeled Quality Inn International

By Suzannah Mitchell DiMarzio and Beci Mahnken February is here and that means cold temperatures for most of the country, but warm and sunny weather is still the forecast here in Central Florida. Here are some of the great deals you can find in our part of the Sunshine state right now: