As we started our family road trip this summer we made our way to Dallas Texas. Since we had time, we spent a checking a few rollercoasters off of my oldest sons to do list at Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags over Texas is the first park in the Six Flags family. Opened in 1961, Six themed sections,
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Big Changes coming to Sea World Parks
I woke up this morning to this news. It was the very first thing our local TV news station was reporting on as I woke up at 5:30 today. Sea World announced that as of today they would stop their Orca breading program and the killer whales currently living at the Sea World Parks would
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Six Flags Fiesta Texas – San Antonio, Texas
Six Flags Fiesta Texas has been open since 1992. It is a traditional Six Flags park with an attached water park. The park has 15 attractions listed as “Thrill Rides” excluding the water park. All of the thrill rides are well done. Some like Pandemonium are showing their age, not that they are not fun
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The California Grill —
A full-service dining restaurant located at the top (15th floor) of the Contemporary Resort’s tower, formerly the Top of the World restaurant. The California Grill offers views of the Magic Kingdom, the Seven Seas Lagoon, Bay Lake, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort, and Disney’s Polynesian Resort. In addition, it offers a view of the Magic Kingdom’s
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Epcot® International Food & Wine Festival Presented by Chase®
I know many people that say EPCOT can be boring and very little every changes in the World Showcase. I think this could not be further from the truth. The landscape and gardens change with the seasons and World Showcase host one of the best events of the Disney year, the Epcot® International Food &
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Be Our Guest A Dinning Fantasy of Beauty and the Beast
We all remember the song from the movie sung by dancing dishes and candle sticks…… Be our guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test Tie your napkin ’round your neck, cherie And we’ll provide the rest Soup du jour Hot hors d’oeuvres Why, we only live to serve Try the grey stuff
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Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (E.P.C.O.T) was a concept developed by Walt Disney near the end of his lifetime that went as far as elaborate visions and plans and the purchase of property near Orlando, Florida that eventually became the Walt Disney World resort, including Epcot (formerly known as EPCOT Center), a related concept
Read MoreImpressions of Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2014
Walt Disney’s vision of for the studio theme park was for it to be a working studio that the public could tour have the opportunity to peak behind the curtain at how movies are made. That as what the park was like 18 years ago when my wife and I made our first visit
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Lowes Royal Pacific Resort
In a previous post I talked about my families high expectations of theme parks, which extends to the hotels on park property. The Royal Pacific puts on a good show in the lobby, we were greeted by several very enthusiastic valets and bellmen all wanting to help with our bags and put a lei
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Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, Orlando Florida
This was our first trip to Universal Studios for our family of five. After several trip to Walt Disney world, we have very high expectations for theme parks. The entertainment at both Universal Studios and islands of Adventure is outstanding. The attractions for people tween age to adult are fabulous and the technology used in
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