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• At Magic Kingdom, Fantasyland expansion has its grand opening next week

  
  If, like me, you don’t have children, you might not realize that for many younger kids, character meet-and-greets at Disney parks have become at least as important as the rides. A girlfriend has the meet-and-greet down to a science. “We can meet five princesses in 90 minutes,” she bragged, a scary side [...]

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• Mickey sets the stage for arrival of Disney Wonder in Miami

  
  Mickey Mouse was in Miami Wednesday to promote the arrival of the Disney Wonder for a season of Bahamas and the western Caribbean cruises. The Wonder, which will be the first Disney ship to homeport in Miami, will arrive Dec. 23 from southern California, where it has been [...]
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• Best airport wine bars

  I like to think that I have a special talent for sniffing out wine, but today I learned to my dismay that I've been bypassing some great opportunities: airport wine bars. Fodor's has compiled a list of eight great airport wine bars (some are chains that are in more than [...]
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• People returning to road trips in RVs

  I was on vacation the last two weeks, traveling through Los Angeles and Sedona, Ariz., about which I’ll write more later. But I returned to find a bit of good news for roadtrippers: Sales of RVs are up. People are buying the smaller, towable vehicles rather than the big Winnebagos, but they’re on the [...]

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• 'Beast' brings wine & beer to Magic Kingdom; best places for a drink at Disney World

  I've heard some suggestions that Hell is about to freeze over as Disney prepares to serve alcohol for the first time at Magic Kingdom. The new Be Our Guest restaurant in Beast Castle, part of the Fantasyland expansion, will serve wine and beer as part of its sit-down dinner [...]

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• SeaWorld's new Antarctica ride will mimic penguin's actions

  
  The ride vehicle that will take visitors through the new attraction, Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin when it opens at SeaWorld Orlando next spring will be a mobile simulator that mimics what is happening to the penguin whose adventures the ride follows. SeaWorld executives unveiled the 8-person car this week. The [...]

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• Road trip attraction: Space shuttle in Los Angeles

  
  We stepped into the hangar-like building and there it was, the space shuttle Endeavor, right in front of us. It was bigger than we expected and looked battle-worn, its white tiles scorched by the heat of 25 re-entries. A spontaneous chorus of "wow!" erupted, then everyone raised cell phones and started snapping photos.

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• Road trip attraction: National WWII Museum in New Orleans

  Happy Veterans Day! If you're going to New Orleans -- or even if you're not -- be sure to read this terrific piece on the National WWII Museum there.  [...]
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• Road trip attraction: A train ride through Jimmy Carter's past

  I was planning a road trip to the Carolinas, looking for interesting diversions along the way, when I came across an excursion train that runs out of Cordele in southwest Georgia. The train, which usually runs on weekends, is operated by the state Department of Natural Resources -- "a rolling [...]
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• Now at Legoland: Star Wars

  
  Legoland Florida unveiled seven scenes from Star Wars in Miniland on Friday, completing an installation that took more than a year to design and build, and consists of more than 1.5 million Lego bricks. Miniland is a series of scenes built in miniature of Lego bricks and some [...]

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