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Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is a Victorian themed hotel and spa located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The property opened on June 28, 1988, as the Grand Floridian Beach Resort. The name changed to Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa during the fall of 1997.
In 2017, HFE sold Ride the Ducks to Ripley Entertainment who shut the operations down in 2018 after the deadly sinking in Branson. Celebration City in Branson was acquired by them in 2002 and closed on October 25, 2008. Herschend also briefly operated Six Flags Darien Lake from 2012 to 2014, installing the famous Moose on the Loose Pony Tack ride.
One of Santini's dolphins, Mitzi, starred in the film Flipper. [2] The property was sold and renamed as Flipper's Sea School in 1972 and operated under this name until 1977. At this point, it was purchased by Jean Paul Fortom-Gouin. Fortom-Gouin closed the property to the public, running it as the Institute for Delphinid Research until 1983. [3]
The property was managed by the Mandarin Oriental Hotel group after Mandarin acquired the Rafael Group. [3] Soffer's Turnberry Associates reacquired the property in 2005. In August 2011, Turnberry ousted hotel manager Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. [4] In May 2012, the property became part of the Autograph Collection Hotels. [5]
The Buena Vista Palace Resort & Spa was rebranded and renamed as the Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa in November 1998 (the hotel's owners, who had acquired the hotel a year earlier, had purchased Wyndham earlier in the year). In 2005, the Blackstone Group acquired Wyndham International and announced plans to launch a new brand LXR Luxury Resorts.
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