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Mark My Words

Breaking news and opinions from MousePlanet writer, editor and podcaster Mark Goldhaber.

  1. Reservations open for Be Our Guest Restaurant today!

    Warm up your dialing fingers (but not your mouse, quite yet)! Phone reservations for dinner at the soon-to-open Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland open at 7 a.m. Eastern Time today. You can make reservations for dates from November 19 (opening day) through February 16 (180 days from now) by calling the Walt Disney World Dining Line at 407-WDW-DINE (407-939-3463).

    If you'd like to use the nice interface at the Walt Disney World website, you'll need to wait until this Wednesday, ...
  2. New Fantasyland to open December 6 at Magic Kingdom; previews start November 19

    At long last, the waiting is almost over. We finally have a date. The bulk of the New Fantasyland expansion at the Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World will officially open on December 6. There will be passholder and DVC previews and likely some previews for all guests starting November 19.

    Included in the new section of the land opening later this year are:

    • Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid;
    • Be Our Guest Restaurant;
    • Enchanted Tales with Belle;
    • Ariel’s
    ...
  3. Magic Kingdom Rolls Out Free WiFi, Other Parks Coming Soon

    Free guest WiFi was rolled out with no formal announcement at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom park yesterday. Guests who connected to the "Disney-Guest" network and accepted Disney's terms of service were able to freely utilize the Internet using the service. While Disney has not responded to an inquiry regarding the details of the service, MousePlanet was provided with a statement that "WiFi is on scheduled [sic] to be rolled out for all of our theme parks and DTD by early 2013." Free WiFi was ...