Disney World Planning Guide

Tropical Americas is an eleven-acre land replacing DinoLand at Animal Kingdom. It got its fullest reveal yet at D23 2026, and it is the most detailed of Disney World’s announced

Disney World is getting a Cars land, and it is not a copy of the one in California. It is called Piston Peak National Park, it sits in Frontierland, and

Disney has wanted a villains land for decades. At D23 2026 it finally got an official name, a premise and new detail on the 2 rides Disney first announced in

D23, Disney’s fan convention, ran from 14 to 16 August 2026 in Anaheim. It is where Disney announces what it is building, and this year Walt Disney World got the

EPCOT International Festival of the Arts runs from mid-January into early March in 2027, across the quietest weeks of the Disney World year. That timing is the real reason to

Disney After Hours is the opposite of a party. No parade, no fireworks, no theming. You pay to be one of a limited number of guests in a park that

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is Magic Kingdom’s separately ticketed Christmas evening. The park closes to day guests, the castle gets its snow and lights, and there is a parade,

Jollywood Nights is Hollywood Studios’ Christmas party, and it is the grown-up one. Art deco styling, a jazz-age Hollywood theme, cocktails, and entertainment aimed squarely at adults rather than at

runDisney puts four race weekends a year through the Walt Disney World parks. You run down Main Street before dawn, through the castle, and past characters posted along the course

Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is a separately ticketed evening at Magic Kingdom. The park closes to day guests, a few thousand fewer people stay behind, and you get trick-or-treating, a