Disney's bringing another west coast import to the Walt Disney World Resort: Valet parking. Long offered at Disneyland's Downtown Disney, valet parking started today at the West Side at WDW's Downtown Disney. Valet parking is available from 4pm to 2am and costs $15, plus tip. But it allows you to avoid the hassle of finding a space in Downtown Disney's lots, which have lost hundreds of spaces as Disney closes sections of those surface lots to start construction on the shopping center's new parking garages.
The first reviews of Disney's Saving Mr. Banks are in, and it looks like the studio's movie about the making of Mary Poppins might represent its best chance at an elusive Best Picture Oscar. (No movie released under the Disney studio banner ever has won the Academy Award for Best Picture.) At the very least, the movie that was filmed at Disneyland and the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank appears to be a strong contender for multiple nominations, so we'll be hearing a lot about it during the movie awards season. The film is playing the festival circuit now and opens in the United States in mid-December.
Finally, if you like watching construction crews at work, Disney's just released a time-lapse video of the building of the new DVC wing at the Grand Floridian, which should be opening within the next few weeks.
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Another DVC project. Wonderful(sarcastic). I'm happy to say that I reserved a stay at Disney's Old Key West Resort by swapping my HGVC (Hilton) points. Did you know that the Disney resorts are extremely popular? For every Disney timeshare property that shows up to be rented, it is instantly gone. No other property has that reaction. But perhaps there is one thing missing in the comparison, the Marriott properties are never listed and sometimes I want to go there.
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