Why go to only one Disney Park, when you can visit them all?
This is now a possibility thanks to Disney's new announcement of a luxury travel package that will allow for an international tour of all 12 of its parks in a private jet for $110,000.
The entertainment conglomerate has 75 spots available for fans to fly on a jet-set tour of its theme parks in California, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and Florida.
Dubbed "Disney Parks Around the World — A Private Jet Adventure", the itinerary will last 24 days in total and, alongside the theme parks, ticket holders will also be taken to the Taj Mahal in India, the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower.
The trip will begin in Anaheim, California at Disneyland Resort and ends in Orlando’s Walt Disney World Resort, visiting all the international Disney Parks in between. It also includes 68 different meals which are broken into 23 breakfasts, 22 lunches and 23 dinners.
The trip is currently set for July 9 to August 1, 2023.
"You will travel in luxury aboard a Boeing 757 configured for VIPs, operated by Icelandair, whose long-range allows direct flights to optimise the time spent in each destination," said Disney.
On board the plane, travellers will enjoy personal access to "experts" who will be able to inform them about various aspects of their journey. Meanwhile, "leaders" and other Disney creatives will also meet them at certain points of the route.
They will "provide fun and fact-filled stories enabling you to be immersed in every location you visit," said Disney.
Airfare to and from Los Angeles and back from Orlando are not included.
Booking begins with several tiers. Tickets will first be offered to "previous adventures" who have travelled to more than three Disneyland parks on Monday, then Golden Oak Club members on Friday and finally to the general public on Tuesday, June 28.
The 12 parks that will be visited, at six different locations:
- Disneyland, Anaheim, California
- Disney California Adventure Park, Anaheim, California
- Magic Kingdom Park, Bay Lake, Florida
- Epcot, Bay Lake, Florida
- Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- Disneyland Paris
- Walt Disney Studios Park, Chessy, France
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Shanghai Disneyland
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Tokyo DisneySea
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Will the pound fall to parity with the dollar?
The idea of pound parity now seems less far-fetched as the risk grows that Britain may split away from the European Union without a deal.
Rupert Harrison, a fund manager at BlackRock, sees the risk of it falling to trade level with the dollar on a no-deal Brexit. The view echoes Morgan Stanley’s recent forecast that the currency can plunge toward $1 (Dh3.67) on such an outcome. That isn’t the majority view yet – a Bloomberg survey this month estimated the pound will slide to $1.10 should the UK exit the bloc without an agreement.
New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that Britain will leave the EU on the October 31 deadline with or without an agreement, fuelling concern the nation is headed for a disorderly departure and fanning pessimism toward the pound. Sterling has fallen more than 7 per cent in the past three months, the worst performance among major developed-market currencies.
“The pound is at a much lower level now but I still think a no-deal exit would lead to significant volatility and we could be testing parity on a really bad outcome,” said Mr Harrison, who manages more than $10 billion in assets at BlackRock. “We will see this game of chicken continue through August and that’s likely negative for sterling,” he said about the deadlocked Brexit talks.
The pound fell 0.8 per cent to $1.2033 on Friday, its weakest closing level since the 1980s, after a report on the second quarter showed the UK economy shrank for the first time in six years. The data means it is likely the Bank of England will cut interest rates, according to Mizuho Bank.
The BOE said in November that the currency could fall even below $1 in an analysis on possible worst-case Brexit scenarios. Options-based calculations showed around a 6.4 per cent chance of pound-dollar parity in the next one year, markedly higher than 0.2 per cent in early March when prospects of a no-deal outcome were seemingly off the table.
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