I thought I’d post some follow-ups to a couple of previous blog entries.
Last week I wrote about the new House of the Future, coming to Disneyland in May. (That blog entry can be found
HERE.) One thing the article didn’t mention is that it was going in on the ground floor of Innoventions. We asked a Cast Member when we were there last week who confirmed that. There have been quite a few changes to the upper floor of Innoventions since we were last there – the Disney Interactive gaming area has received several different kinds of “virtual gaming kiosks”, and the Virtual Resort area has been replaced (at least temporarily) by a Segway demonstration. The ASIMO demonstration and Stitch’s Picture Phone areas are still there, though.
My second follow-up has to do with DCA’s upcoming Food and Wine Festival (original blog entry is
HERE).
The Signature events for the Food and Wine Festival went on sale Friday morning. Though the web site with pricing information was supposed to be up earlier in the week, it didn’t go on-line until they opened it for reservations, so no one knew how much the events were going to be until it was time to sign up for them. That made it a little bit difficult to know what the budget would stand, though fortunately DCA’s events don’t sell out immediately…at least not yet.
As I expected, there were price increases almost across the board – the most notable being that Taste went from $100 last year to $125 this year – though it’s still $10 cheaper than Party for the Senses at Epcot. (Though it still requires separate admission to DCA, and since May 3 is a blockout day for all but Premium Passholders, a lot of people attending will have to pay an additional $40 for a blockout day ticket, or otherwise pay for park admission to DCA.) The Festival Wine Receptions also went up $10, to $55 (though this year they include a premium viewing location for Disney’s Electrical Parade, which wasn’t running during the Food and Wine Festival last year), and the Taste Wine Like an Expert class is up $25, to $45, though its format will be different this year. The Napa Rose Cooking School went up a whopping $75, to $400/person, and the Celebrity Chef dinner went from $145 to $185. Interestingly enough, the price of the Winemaker dinners stayed the same – $125.
As of this writing, nothing has sold out yet, and there still seems to be plenty of availability for all of the events. Check out http://www.disneyland.com/foodandwine to make reservations.
