‘Hey Google, set a Lego alarm!’ Guests at Legoland Hotels can engage with staff and services through Google Nest Hubs
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‘Hey Google, set a Lego alarm!’ Guests at Legoland Hotels can engage with staff and services through Google Nest Hubs

Guests staying at Legoland Hotels in New York and California can interact with Legoland characters and other aspects of the brand, hotel, and theme parks from inside their rooms using a hands-free, voice-first, guest-engagement platform from Volara, the top provider of custom voice-based solutions for the hospitality industry.

Go on a virtual tour of Bran Castle, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’

Go on a virtual tour of Bran Castle, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’

Another unique attraction is offering virtual tours in light of the ongoing global health crisis, giving people the chance to visit one of the creepiest places in the world — Bran Castle, a 14th-century castle in Bran, Romania that allegedly inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”

Movies Anywhere offers free flicks to unite your digital films from Amazon, Google, Apple, and Vudu

Movies Anywhere offers free flicks to unite your digital films from Amazon, Google, Apple, and Vudu

If you are a movie lover tired of having your digital media purchases scattered across multiple platforms, you’ll be interested to know that Sony, Disney, Universal, and other studios have teamed up for the new Movies Anywhere service, which will unite your film collections from Google, Amazon, Vudu, and Appleinto a single app. And if…

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Virtually tour Busch Gardens through Google's Street View

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and its waterpark, Adventure Island, are now featured in Street View on Google Maps. Virtual visits are now available to all 10 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment locations, including the SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego; Discovery Cove, a swim-with-dolphins resort, and Aquatica, SeaWorld’s waterpark, both in Orlando; Busch…

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Google Street View now available for SeaWorld

We previously told you about being able to virtually walk through the streets of the Universal Orlando Resort via Google Maps. Now SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego have also been captured by Google and are navigable via their Street View technology. From worldsofdiscoveryblog.com: Working with Google’s Street View team, nearly every inch of…

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Google Street View now available for Universal Orlando

We previously reported that Legoland in California was the first theme park U.S. theme park to have a Street View on Google maps. But now Universal Orlando has been added. There’s no link for the Street View while looking at the normal top-down view on Google maps, but as you can see above, all of…

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Out of the Loop: Nick theme park, Mapping Legoland, Disneyland upgrades

Nickelodeon theme park to open in New Orleans Last year I reported a story in Orlando Attractions Magazine about how Southern Star Amusement had “given up” on its attempts to reopen a park at the site of the former Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans citing lack of interest and funding. Month after month, however, I’d read…