Don’t Miss Out on Walt Disney World Free Dining Offer – Ends July 26
Get FREE the Disney Dining Plan with the purchase of a specific 5-night/6-day Magic Your Way hotel and theme park ticket package. Travel dates are between August 20 and October 3, 2009 and must be booked by July 26.
Hurry! Because rooms fill up and availability is limited!
Go to disneyworld.com/freedine for more details.
Don’t forget to book your Advance Dining Reservations! You can do so at Disneyworld.com/dining
Pirates of the Caribbean Beach Resort
According to Scott Powers at the Orlando Sentinel:
Walt Disney World has unveiled a rendering and a few details of some retheming and renovations in the works for Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort — theming it after the hugely-popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride/movies/games franchise.
Beds that look like ships. Dressers that look like old crates. Curtains that look like tattered sails. The attached artist’s rendering shows a few of the details.
Disney is planning the look for 384 rooms in the Trinidad South Village Area, set to be ready sometime next year. The resort has a total of 2,112 rooms.
Disney also announced a revised Magic Your Way plan. For fixed price per day, guests can add a Quick Service Dining starting Jan. 11, 2009. The package offers two quick service meals and two snacks for each night of stay, as well as a refillable drink mug for unlimited refills of non-alcoholic beverages at Disney resort hotels.
Clients who book through Walt Disney Travel Co. also will receive a new benefit — 30 minute play-cards for Disney’s resort hotel video arcades.
Some interesting changes coming! Shannon and I aren’t huge fans of the WDW quick service (QS) establishments. There are some fine QS places. But we chose the Dining Plan to “afford” better food at the table service (TS) restaurants. And the Dining Plan gives us QS credits. So not sure if we’d only want to eat at QS while at WDW.
But I do see a benefit to this plan. It takes people away from the sit-down establishments and shuttles them towards the quicker moving counter service. It’s a big boom in potential revenue for Disney. Disney gets the guaranteed money from the QS Dining Plan without negatively affecting any potential walk-up customers as the previous Dining Plan did to the sit-down restaurants. QS places might experience a higher volume though but so much that people can still eat at their favorite QS spot.
Additionally those that wanted to participate in the savings from a Dining Plan can now do so. Or tempt those that were on the fence before about purchasing a Disney Dining Plan. While no price is quoted, it is QS after all and probably be around $30/person for each night of their stay.
The re-theming of Caribbean Beach Resort will probably generate some groans from the general public. More, pirates?! I like pirates! I am unsure why Disney didn’t think of this sooner. I’m more interested in staying at CBR with the pirate theme.
Plus, again, we look at the money angle. Most boys love pirates. They want to be pirates. Now the little Disney boys will want to stay at CBR, an under-performing and often criticized resort. This also might tempt families to upgrade from a value to a moderate resort.
Disney has tempted me again. Although not a fan of QS places so much, I want to test out this new dining plan. And I love pirates so I want to stay at CBR. Guess that means more “research” trips!
MNE Ep. 39 “Duel of the Tweens”
On Episode 39 of The Magic Never Ends Podcast, we FINALLY get to The Attack of the Tweens (June 2008 WDW) trip report! Also be ready for the long-awaited California Grill restaurant review as we have two dining experiences from which to pull our review.
Sorry for the lateness of this episode! We apologize and appreciate your patience. Hopefully this EXTRA MAGIC-sized episode is worth the wait!
Join us for Episode 40, where we’ll review Camp Rock and Wall-E as well as new videos from Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. And we’ll have YOUR voicemails and e-mails.
Worried about too much Tween-ness on Episode 40? Have no fear because Will and Shannon will still provide their trademark silliness and humor to entertain you!
Magic Never Ends is the podcast where you follow the weekly shenanigans of two Disney fans as they Embrace the Magic, Imagination, and Dreams of Disney.
Don’t forget to visit The Slim Down for Westfest 2009 on-going initiative at The DPN Forums! See it in action at http://tinyurl.com/4r9bmr
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Episode Length: 1 hour 55 minutes 38 seconds
MNE Ep. 27 “Get In My Belly!”
Are Will and Shannon at The Magic Never Ends Podcast trying to overwhelm you with more MNE episodes? Well, hopefully more MNE episodes is a good thing for you! We’re trying to get back on schedule. As well as show our commitment to you in providing weekly Disney entertainment from Will and Shannon! We want you to start off your week with The Magic Never Ends so expect new MNE episodes every Monday morning. And sometimes you’ll have new MNE episodes on Fridays! Nevertheless, you will have crazy, silly and entertaining new MNE episodes in time to start your new work week.
On This Episode of The Magic Never Ends Podcast:
* Updates to our WestFest 2008 plans – In-N-Out Burger meet?
* WOO HOO In Your Face Astro Blasters Competition Meet
* Restaurant Review: Liberty Tree Tavern
* Disney Channel Night of Premieres Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 7/6c
* August WDW Trip aka GET IN MY BELLY! Trip discussion as we give our thoughts on purchasing the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan
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You must come to the DPN’s Westfest on May 3rd and 4th at Disneyland to EMBRACE THE MAGIC live with Will and Shannon! Don’t forget about our FIRST EVER Westfest meet…The WOO HOO! IN YOUR FACE ASTRO BLASTERS COMPETITION on Saturday, May 3rd from 4 – 5pm.
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Episode length: 1 hour 5 minutes 57 seconds
