Summer vacations are in full swing, which means a lot of you may have Disney World trips that are just around the corner!

If you’re heading to the parks during the week of June 27th, you’re probably well aware that we’re heading into one of the biggest holiday weekends of the year. You’ll definitely want to brush up on the latest park hours and Park Pass Reservation availability!

Disney World Park Hours for the Week of June 27th

Magic Kingdom’s park hours change a bit this week! Here are the hours for the week of June 27th:

• Sunday, June 27th through Wednesday, June 30th: 8AM-9PM
• Thursday, July 1st through Saturday, July 3rd: 9AM-11PM

EPCOT will be open daily from 11AM-10PM for the week of June 27th. Remember that this is the final full week of the 2021 Taste of EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival! The festival will conclude on Monday, July 5th.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be open daily from 9AM-8PM for the week of June 27th.

Finally, Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s hours will also look a little different next week. The park will be open for the following hours:

• Sunday, June 27th: 8AM-5PM
• Monday, June 28th through Saturday, July 3rd: 8AM-7PM

With the anticipation of summer crowds, we’re starting to see parks like Magic Kingdom extend their evening hours. But that’s not all — fireworks are coming back to Disney World soon, so the park hours will need to accommodate the return of those nighttime spectaculars!

Click here to read about when fireworks will return to Disney World!

Current Disney Park Pass Reservation Availability the Week of June 27th

Select Resort Hotels

Guests staying at Select Resort Hotels can book a Park Pass Reservation on June 27th and 30th at EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

On June 28th and 29th, guests staying at Select Resort Hotels can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT.

EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom are available for Park Pass Reservations from July 1st through 3rd.

Theme Park Tickets

Guests with Theme Park Tickets have identical Park Pass Reservation availability for the week of June 27th. On Sunday, June 27th and June 30th, guests with Theme Park Tickets can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

On June 28th and 29th, guests with Theme Park Tickets can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT.

From July 1st through July 3rd, guests with Theme Park Tickets can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Annual Passholders

Annual Passholders can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom on Sunday, June 27th.

From Monday, June 28th through Wednesday, June 30th, Annual Passholders can book a Park Pass Reservation at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

On July 1st and 2nd, Annual Passholders can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Finally, on July 3rd, Annual Passholders can book a Park Pass Reservation at EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

The July 4th weekend is always a busy time of year at Disney World, and with the holiday falling on a Sunday this year, expect big weekend crowds! If your Disney World vacation starts next week and heads through the holiday, be sure to pack your patience!

If you’re visiting Disney World for Halloween, we found another way you can celebrate the spooky season!

Just in case the pumpkin snacks, haunted decor, and Boo Bash weren’t enough to get you in the Halloween mood, there’s a new Halloween celebration basket available in Disney World!

Disney’s Celebration baskets are big baskets full of Disney goodies that you can have delivered to your resort room to celebrate a special event! There are birthday baskets, engagement baskets, and some just-for-fun Frozen, Pirate, and Star Wars-themed baskets! They come with various park snacks, merchandise, and souvenirs!

With the Halloween season coming on, now there’s a spooky Mickey’s Halloween Celebration basket available!

Inside the Halloween basket, you’ll find:

• Black Bat Felt Tag (Personalizable for an additional fee)
• Halloween Pumpkin Door Banner (Personalizable for an additional fee)
• Two Traditional Black Mickey Ear Hats (Personalizable for an additional fee)
• Orange Halloween Blanket (Personalizable for an additional fee)
• Mickey Mouse 15″ Plush
• Disney–Themed Villains Clue Board Game
• Halloween Mickey LED Flashlight
• Two Bags of Gourmet Popcorn
• Candy-Coated Cereal Treat Bundle
• Two 1.5 oz Unicorn Pops
• Tostitos Chips & Salsa
• Five Assorted Single Serving Candy Bars
• Large Mickey Cookie
• Large Minnie Cookie

So it’s stuffed full of a ton of Halloween Disney goodies! The celebration baskets aren’t cheap, though, and this one costs $350. If you love the idea but don’t wanna dish out hundreds of dollars, it might be cheaper to DIY a similar basket. But…if you’ll be at Disney World for Halloween and you have room in your budget, we think it’s a fun way to celebrate the season and add a little more magic to your trip!

The basket will become available on August 1, 2021, and you can order it and other Disney world baskets here. Keep following DFB for more Disney news!

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Lots of things have changed in Disney World recently.

Fully vaccinated Cast Members are no longer required to wear masks when working indoors or outdoors, fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear masks in most locations in Disney World, pre-shows are back in many spots, and even single rider lines are becoming available again. Today we spotted ANOTHER change that has been made, specifically with regards to Cast Members taking guest photos!

Throughout Disney World’s reopening, PhotoPass photographers have been taking guests’ photos but Cast Members have not been able to hold a guest’s phone or other device to take a photo using the guest’s own device. That, however, seems to have now changed.

This morning, we spotted Cast Members taking photos of guests with those guests’ own devices. So it seems Cast Members are once again able to hold a guest’s phone or camera to take photos of that guest when asked.

We expect more changes will continue to be made regarding Disney World’s distancing policies and more over the coming weeks and months as more distancing measures are reduced. We’ll continue to keep an eye out for more updates and let you know what we find.

Click here to see another thing that has started to return to Disney World!

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