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Do you offer free WiFi inside your park? Dan Soto, Walt Disney World Resort, Florida: In 2011 we expanded complimentary WiFi throughout the four Walt Disney World parks, resorts and Downtown Disney. With the increasing number of guests bringing their own smartphones and tablets to our parks, we found WiFi to be an important amenity for accessing our MyDisneyExperience mobile app. On the app, guests can access park information, make FastPass+ selections and dining reservations, or receive way-finding assistance. International guests also enjoy the ability to use WiFi to avoid roaming fees.
Laurence Smith, Drusillas Park, UK: We provide WiFi in our food and drink outlets and play areas, and I think it’s important because I know if I go somewhere I always look for free WiFI myself. Drusillas is situated in the middle of the countryside and does not have great mobile phone coverage, so for many parents this might be one of their only opportunities to get online all day. Of course it’s also useful for social media so that people can upload and share photos with their friends while they are at the park.
Jaime Scott Peña, Parque Warner Madrid, Spain: Not at the moment, but we hope to introduce WiFi next year as a lot of our visitors ask for it. At the moment it is an issue of security and coverage in what is quite a remote location outside of the city.
Tom Canfield, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, USA: We prefer for our guests to relax and unplug for awhile and truly engage with family and friends when they visit our park, so we don’t have WiFi everywhere and we don’t advertise it. We do offer free WiFi access in a small area of our park for those who can’t live without it.
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Figures of Fun
20
age of Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney MGM Studios in Florida. Versions of the attraction have since been built at Disney California Adventure and Walt Disney Studios in Paris
72
number of different routes available on new Ratatouille dark ride at Walt Disney Studios Park, Paris (see page 36)
138
metres (450ft) – height when completed of i360 observation tower in Brighton, England. Ground was broken last month for the attraction, which has been designed by London Eye architects Marks Barfield and is set to open in 2016
1,500,000
projected annual attendance at new Cincecittá World studios park in Rome (see page 28)
2,500,000
annual attendance in the first half of 2014 at Europa-Park, Germany – a new record
AUGUST 2014
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