What Is the World s Best Theme Park Hotel?
December 14, 2020, 5:46 PM ·
What is the world s best theme park hotel? We asked Theme Park Insider s readers that question, and today we are announcing the 10 finalists that topped the vote in our recent survey of newsletter subscribers.
These 10 finalists will face off in a reader vote, starting today, for the 2021 Theme Park Insider Award for Best Restaurant. Your nominees are:
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge,
Walt Disney World Resort
Universal Orlando Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Disneyland Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort
Universal Orlando Resort
Universal Orlando Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Efteling Closes Again, Due to Covid
December 15, 2020, 12:08 PM ·
Dutch theme park Efteling is closing once again as of today, due to the continued spread of Covid-19 in The Netherlands. The two-time winner of our Theme Park Insider Award as the world s best theme park had been open since November 19, following a two-week closure that month. The park originally closed due to the pandemic on March 14, reopening in May 20.
Now the park says that it will remain closed to guests until January 20, 2021, as The Netherlands orders another round of business and entertainment closures in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus, which now has killed more than 10,000 people in the country. (For comparison, The Netherlands has suffered about 58 deaths per 100,000 population, while the United States has had about 91 deaths per 100,000 residents. Over the last seven days, the US s death rate has been 4.3 people per 100,000, while The Netherlands has been 1.8 people per 100,000.)