http://themeparks.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2012-02-22T00:01:48Z Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-christmas-holidays-event-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a>Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Users can vote once per day in each of the seven categories. 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Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-roller-coaster-of-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-roller-coaster-of-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:48 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:48Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-park-food-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a>Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Users can vote once per day in each of the seven categories. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-park-food-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-park-food-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:37 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:37Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-theme-park-show-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a>Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. 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Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-theme-park-show-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-theme-park-show-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:35 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:35Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-attraction-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a> Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Users can vote once per day in each of the seven categories. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-attraction-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-attraction-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:28 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:28Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-water-park-ride-of-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a>Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Users can vote once per day in each of the seven categories. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-water-park-ride-of-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-new-water-park-ride-of-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:27 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:27Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-halloween-event-2011.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/themeparkbests/tp/2012-Readers-Choice-Awards-For-Theme-Parks-And-Water-Parks.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/h/B/1/RCA2012LogoLR.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="right" /></a>Voting for About.com's 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring the best new acheivements for theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks in 2011, begins Wednesday, February 22 and ends Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Users can vote once per day in each of the seven categories. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 30, 2012.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-halloween-event-2011.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/22/readers-choice-awards-best-theme-park-halloween-event-2011.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:19 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:19Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/21/galveston-island-historic-pleasure-pier.htm <p>Starting with Coney Island, seaside (and lakeside) amusement areas evolved into cherished and celebrated pieces of Americana. But the advent of gated theme parks and other factors conspired against the venerable coasters, carousels, dark rides, and other concessions that once dotted the nation's boardwalks and piers. Many of them faded to mere shadows of their once glorious heydays, and most of them closed altogether.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/21/galveston-island-historic-pleasure-pier.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/21/galveston-island-historic-pleasure-pier.htm Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:07:36 +0000 2012-02-21T13:07:36Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/17/simpsons-500-episodes-universal-rides.htm <p><a href="http://themeparks.about.com/od/universalridereviews/fr/Simpsons.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/G/O/t/SimpsonsA.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" align="right" /></a> Bart Simpson first uttered, "Ay caramba," soon after George Bush became president -- as in George Herbert Walker Bush. As in pre-Facebook, pre-Google, and heck, pre-Internet. But not pre-donuts. Mmm, donuts.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/17/simpsons-500-episodes-universal-rides.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/17/simpsons-500-episodes-universal-rides.htm Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:17:06 +0000 2012-02-17T17:17:06Z http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/15/eating-healthy-at-disney-world-video.htm <p><a href="http://video.about.com/themeparks/Tips-for-Eating-Healthy-at-Disney.htm"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/8/C/1/Eating-Healthy-Video.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" width="210" align="right" /></a>You're on vacation at <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/cs/disneyparks/a/wdwmain.htm">Disney World</a>, and you're in the zone: riding the rides, meeting the characters, seeing the shows. Who has time to eat? When you get hungry, the intoxicating smell of fresh-baked cookies or the promise of fast and (sorta) cheap hamburgers lure you in to the concessions. With a little forethought, however, it <em>is</em> possible to eat (sorta) sensibly at the parks. The doyenne of Disney dining, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/author/pbrandon/">Pam Brandon</a>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/15/eating-healthy-at-disney-world-video.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://themeparks.about.com/b/2012/02/15/eating-healthy-at-disney-world-video.htm Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:28:31 +0000 2012-02-15T05:28:31Z