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This special is no longer applicable.  Please click here to see current Walt Disney World® Resort specials.

Get away at select Walt Disney World® Resort hotels and save up to 35%* on rooms for stays most nights April 28 – June 14, 2011. Or you can save up to 40%* on rooms at select Walt Disney World® Resort hotels for stays most nights Aug. 14 – Oct. 1, 2011.

Offer Details:

For stays most nights April 28 – June 14, 2011:

• Save 15% on rooms at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort
• Save 20% on rooms at select Disney Value Resorts (excluding Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort) & Disney’s Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter
• Save 25% on rooms at select Disney Moderate Resorts (excludingDisney’s Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter), Disney’s Fort WildernessCabins, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge & Disney’s Polynesian Resort
• Save 30% on rooms at select Disney Deluxe Resorts (excluding Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge & Disney’s Polynesian Resort)
• Save 35% on rooms at select Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts

For stays most nights Aug. 14 – Oct. 1, 2011:

• Save 20% on rooms at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort
• Save 25% on rooms at select Disney Value Resorts (excluding Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort) & Disney’s Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter
• Save 30% on rooms at select Disney Moderate Resorts (excludingDisney’s Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter), Disney’s Fort WildernessCabins, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge & Disney’s Polynesian Resort
• Save 35% on rooms at select Disney Deluxe Resorts (excluding Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge & Disney’s Polynesian Resort)
• Save 40% on rooms at select Disney Deluxe Villa Resorts

Booking Window:

• Jan. 3 – March 27, 2011

Talk to your Magic Maker® about adding tickets and the Disney Dining Plan to your room reservation.
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Celebrate the new year this year at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Florida with these exciting celebrations.  From dining at some of the resort’s top restaurants to fantastic fireworks viewing locations, this is one of the best places to ring in the new year.

At Epcot®
La Hacienda de San Angel in the Mexico Pavilion is offering a delicious six-course menu and live music at 9 p.m. on December 31 – as well as a primo view of IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.

Start with a classic margarita and ceviche (marinated lobster, crab, shrimp, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, avocado and lime juice). Chiles toreados y chorizitos (roasted sweet peppers with lime and sea salt and mini chorizos) is next, then sope de chilorio (marinated pork) and a cheese empanada with green sauce. Salad is spinach with queso fresco, pine nuts and avocado, followed by generous meat and seafood platters. Finish with a sweet tamal filled with guava. You can ring in the New Year with a glass of champagne and grapes (a dozen grapes at midnight is a Spanish tradition said to be a predictor of the year ahead – each sweet grape represents a good month; each sour grape a less-than-lucky one).

Seating starts at 9 p.m. Cost is $199, or $225 with wine and spirits (plus tax and gratuity), $49.95 ages 3 to 9. For reservations, contact your Magic Maker®. Epcot admission required.

At Bistro de Paris in the France Pavilion, the special New Year’s Eve menu starts with smoked salmon with stuffed with crab and served with horseradish and caviar cream, then a lobster and vegetable salad or truffle soup. The fish course is scallops or sea bass, the meat course grilled filet of beef or roasted venison. All, of course, with a fab French flair. End with assiette de dessert de réveillon (that’s “New Year’s Eve dessert.”)

Cost is $150, $225 with wine pairings with each course. For reservations, contact your Magic Maker®.

Celebrate at California Grill
Head to the top of Disney’s Contemporary Resort for culinary fireworks and bird’s eye view of the Magic Kingdom® pyrotechnics. The event features over-the-top food stations, an open bar, a casino-style game room, DJ, dancing, Disney characters and more live entertainment. Magic Kingdom® fireworks are at 8:30 p.m. and 11:50 p.m.

Food, glorious food, and here’s a taste: the cold appetizer stations offers “boutique caviars,” salt-cured Kobe beef tenderloin carpaccio, Maine lobster with vanilla vinaigrette and other wonderful small tastes. Hot appetizers include seared bison loin, seared loin of local rabbit and squash bisque with lump crab hushpuppies. Sushi, seafood, meats and poultry, wood-burning-oven flatbreads, porcini mushroom risotto, beautiful cheeses and delectable desserts…the list goes on. And on.

Cost is $525, all inclusive. And this one sells out fast. Call your Magic Maker® for reservations.

Dance, Dance, Dance
Dance your way into the New Year at Atlantic Dance Hall at Disney’s BoardWalk Resort from 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. on December 31. For $35, you get access to the main floor of the Dance Hall (with a video DJ), party favors and a champagne toast at midnight.

Uprade with a VIP ticket for $75 that adds a private upstairs area with seating; limited viewing for Epcot fireworks with guaranteed seating coffee, tea or hot chocolate with dessert bar, and a premium bar.

Tickets are limited. Dress is business casual or formal. Guests must be 21 or older with an ID. Parking passes for the self-parking lot will be issued with advance purchases.

Contact your Magic Maker® for more information.

Magic Kingdom Park
Though the New Year’s Eve party is sold out, you still can get an up-close view of the dazzling Magic Kingdom fireworks at Tomorrowland Terrace on December 30 for the Dessert Party at either 7:30 p.m. or 10:50 p.m.

The Dessert Party features a fabulous buffet of sweets and beverages – including a non-alcoholic bubbly to toast the New Year. Cost is $39.99, $21.99 ages 3 to 9.

Reservations are highly encouraged. Contact your Magic Maker®. Park admission required. Disney Dining Plannot accepted, and you must pay when you make a reservation.

No New Year’s parties planned this year?  You might consider celebrating at the Disneyland® Resort on New Year’s Eve. This year, there will be special entertainment added to the traditional holiday fireworks in Disneyland® park and the spectacular new “World of Color” show in Disney California Adventure® park.

In Disneyland® park, hours are extended to 2 a.m., and stages will be set up around the park for countdown festivities. DJs will encourage guests to dance into the new year at Sleeping Beauty Castle and “it’s small world” Promenade while live bands will liven up Tomorrowland Terrace, Carnation Plaza Gardens and New Orleans Square, which will also be the site of three performances of “Fantasmic!” at 9 and 10:15 p.m. and immediately following the midnight “Fantasy in the Sky” New Year’s fireworks show.

At Disney California Adventure®, where park hours are extended to 1 a.m., there will be special entertainment along the Paradise Pier boardwalk and a “fountains and fireworks” countdown to midnight in Paradise Park, immediately followed by the first “World of Color” show of 2011. (Earlier New Year’s Eve performances of “World of Color” will take place at 8 and 9:15 p.m.) In Hollywood Pictures Backlot, revelers on the grid in “ElecTRONica”will heat up throughout the night and into the new year.

Beginning at 6 p.m. New Year’s Eve, party hats and noisemakers will be available while supplies last in both Disneyland® park, at the Festival Arena near Big Thunder Ranch, and Disney California Adventure® park, in Condor Flats near the vintage airplane just west of the entrance to Soarin’ Over California.

The Downtown Disney® District and the Disneyland® Resort hotels will join in the merriment with twinkling lights and ornaments, special entertainment and holiday dining.

This offer is no longer available.  Please click here for current Disney Cruise Line® offers.

Disney Cruise Line® wants to say “thank you” for your support during this exciting time as they welcome the new Disney Dream™ ship to the fleet.

Offer Details:

• $200* onboard credit for new bookings on 3-night Bahamian cruises departing Feb. 3 or Feb. 10, 2011, and 4-night Bahamian cruises departing Jan. 30 or Feb. 6, 2011, on the new Disney Dream.

Booking and Travel Window:

• Booking Window: Dec. 21, 2010 – Feb. 9, 2011
• Travel Window:
  • 3-night cruise departing Feb. 3 or Feb. 10, 2011
  • 4-night cruise departing Jan. 30 or Feb. 6, 2011

Additional Details:

• Applies to new bookings only
• Must be booked through Off to Neverland Travel®

*One shipboard credit per stateroom. Other offers, discounts or onboard credits do not apply. Shipboard credit is non-refundable and non-transferable. Changes to the vacation date or category may result in a loss of any offer. Offer is subject to availability. Talk to your Magic Maker® for details and applicable terms and conditions.