Word: disneyism
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...kept looking for mouse ears, but they weren't there. I also expected Snow White or Donald Duck to pop up unannounced during our meals. But despite frequent glances over my shoulder, I saw only our happy tour group. "When Adventures by Disney first started, Mickey and other characters would show up out of nowhere on our trips," one of the guides confided to me. "But the guests didn't really appreciate it. It was too out of context to have Mary Poppins greeting you in Italy...
...noticed a related issue when I told friends I was taking my 12-year-old niece to Austria and the Czech Republic on a two-week Adventures by Disney trip. "But isn't Euro Disneyland in France?" was a question I frequently...
Despite the fact that Disney has been running family holiday tours since 2005, Adventures by Disney still flies under the radar compared with the company's higher-profile ventures. Guides take groups of no more than 38 parents and children to one of 19 scenic locales far from any theme park, from the remote beaches of the Galápagos Islands to the glacial lakes of the Canadian Rockies to the Great Wall of China...
Sure, times may be tough for tourism, but Disney has been sweetening the deal lately. A three-night Bahamian cruise is currently being thrown in for free for those who book selected packages...
...second weekend, Disney's animated feature The Princess and the Frog earned a gigantic gross - $744,000 - with four shows per day at just two sites: the Ziegfeld in Manhattan and a theater on the Disney lot in Burbank. Why did it do so well? Because the ticket price is a whopping $50, with the perk of a trip to a nearby venue (Roseland in New York), where the wee ones can have their pictures taken with all nine Disney cartoon princesses and get a lesson in drawing one of the film's characters from a Disney animator. Many...