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TouringPlans.com Blog
Company blog · touringplans.com/blogdataculture
TouringPlans.com Blog is the company blog at touringplans.com, writing about data and culture. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link TouringPlans posts for Disney park facts: Disney Springs dining, Room Check procedures, and attraction opening dates. One mentions the site's crowd and wait-time analysis for itineraries.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Disney World, Disneyland, Universal Orlando, and Disney Cruise Line Crowds, Wait Time Apps, and Touring Plans
What Hacker News says?
That's incorrect, the restaurant is at Disney Springs which is a mall outside Disney's parks and doesn't require tickets. [0][1] [0] https://touringplans.com/blog/disney-in-a-minute-what-is-dis... [1] https://www.disneysprings.com/dining/
Comment linking /blog/disney-in-a-minute-what-is-disney-springs/
on “Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms”Submitted The Epcot That Never Was as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis was first talked about at the 2018 Defcon after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, it seems exactly the same - https://www.csoonline.com/article/566069/vegas-hotel-room-ch... Disney also started a "Room Check" after the shootings - https://touringplans.com/blog/disney-in-a-minute-what-is-a-r... The sooner we have "The Raven Hotel" the better, but until then I'm not totally sure what you can do? Know it will happen an…
Comment linking /blog/disney-in-a-minute-what-is-a-room-check/
on “Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees”Submitted Amazon's AI-Generated Disney Guidebooks Are Terrible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNote that there's quality creep in any established institution. Disneyland's attractions on opening day weren't all that different from a local carnival: https://touringplans.com/disneyland/attractions/opening-date... Favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion didn't open until the late 1960s, a decade after the park did, and Space Mountain & Thunder Mountain didn't open until the late 1970s.
Comment linking /disneyland/attractions/opening-dates
on “America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach”Submitted Disney Data Dump: What's the Best Day of the Week to Visit the Magic Kingdom? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSomewhat related, the Touring Plans guys do an awful lot of analysis of Disney crowds and ride wait times to build itineraries for different types of park visitors. http://touringplans.com
Comment linking /
on “How Disney Uses Technology To Control Crowds In Their Theme Parks”
