Former Disney Vacation Club President Jim Lewis has been named Chief Operating Officer of Marilyn Monroe Spas where he re-joins some familiar coworkers.  

In July 2012 and April 2014, DVCNews.com published a set of charts showing the distribution of Disney Vacation Club points across the eight Use Years for select DVC properties. Since the last update, all of the points for the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa have been assigned a Use Year and Disney has begun assigning Use Years for points at Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows,; thus, its time to update the Use Year Distribution charts.

Disney Cruise Line may cater to a more family-friendly demographic than competing cruise ship operators, but carry-on alcohol policies have been among the most liberal.  That will change later this year.  

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Recently Disney announced that most of its Disney Vacation Club properties and resort hotels were installing new technologically advanced guest laundry facilities.  Let's take a look at those laundry rooms and the technology which powers them.  

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The Inn laundry room at Disney's Vero Beach Resort

The public laundry facilties at most Disney Vacation Club resorts are scheduled to receive high-tech makeovers.