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  • Attractions, 2008 Re-Habs & Maintenance Work

    Posted on February 26th, 2009 admin 1 comment

    Written by: Mary Phillips
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    Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    Playhouse Disney Live on Stage is closed January 3 - 27, 2008. An updated show featuring Mickey Mouse and Clubhouse friends will debut on January 28, 2008.

    Journey into Narnia is closed January 2 - May 23, 2008.

    Fantasmic! will be closed January 28 - February 1, 2008.

    Epcot

    The American Adventure is closed January 7 - February 3, 2008. (Earlier reports set the reopening as February 18.) The American Heritage Gallery, shops, and food and beverage areas will remain open.

    Spaceship Earth, presented by Siemens, has been undergoing a number of changes over the last several months. The changes combine the attraction’s time-travel adventure into the past with a new finale that provides guests the opportunity to imagine their futures. Each of the ride scenes is being enhanced, and new show scenes will be added to the attraction’s story, along with new lighting effects, costumes, set decoration, narration and musical score. Spaceship Earth’s makeover is scheduled to be fully completed in early 2008. The official reopening of Spaceship Earth has been changed to February 18. Some folks have ridden as part of the soft opening testing.

    International Dinner and Illuminations Dessert Reception, offered as part of the Grand Gathering Experience, will not be offered from January 28 - February 10. The Odyssey complex will be refurbished during this time.

    Magic Kingdom

    Minnie’s Country House is closed for refurbishment January 1 - February 1, 2008.

    Tony’s Town Square Restaurant is closed for refurbishment January 5 - 27, 2008.

    Snow White’s Scary Adventures will be closed for refurbishment January 28 - February 15, 2008.

    Splash Mountain will be closed from January 1 to February 15, 2008.

    Tinker Bell’s Treasures is closed for refurbishment from January 6 - March 16, 2008.

    Animal Kingdom Lodge

    There is ongoing construction in the Lodge for conversion of deluxe rooms to Disney Vacation Club Villas. Also there is outside construction of a new animal barn and Disney Vacation Club buildings. Construction is scheduled to last through April 2009.

    Boardwalk Resort

    Boardwalk Resort Luna Park (themed pool area) rehab began January 7, 2008. The pool area will be resurfaced and will reopen February 16. While it is closed, guests of the Boardwalk may use the Yacht and Beach Club’s Stormalong Bay pool. In addition, both non-themed pools at the Boardwalk will remain open.

    Caribbean Beach Resort

    The themed pool, Old Port Royale, will be closed for refurbishment between January 7, 2008, and mid-September 2008. Small, child-sized pool slides will be temporarily added to the pools in the villages of Jamaica and Barbados.

    Fort Wilderness

    There will be no 9:30 p.m. show of the Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue on January 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30.

    Grand Floridian

    The Courtyard Pool will be closed from January 14 - mid-February, 2008. The Beach Pool will remain open. Grand Floridian guests may also use the Nanea Volcano Pool at the Polynesian during this time.

    Old Key West

    Turtle Pond Pool and the Turtle Shack Poolside Snacks will be closed for refurbishment January 14 - February 10, 2008

    Port Orleans French Quarter

    The Doubloon Lagoon pool will be closed January 28 - mid-March, 2008. Riverside’s Ol’ Man Island Pool will be open. Guests may also use Riverside’s Alligator Bayou and Magnolia Bend Pools.

    Blizzard Beach

    Is closed for annual refurbishment January 6 - March 8, 2008.

    Downtown Disney

    Wolfgang Puck Express at Downtown Disney Marketplace is closed for refurbishment now through Thursday, March 6, 2008. When it reopens, it will offer a new menu, a faster service and an expanded indoor dining area. The West Side Puck location will remain open during this time.

    Regards,

    Mary

     

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