Hello and welcome to the Disneyland Plug Roundtable discussion from March 13th, 2007.

From Orlando, Florida, I'm your host Pete Werner, joined as always by our Orlando team, including

Bob Barley, Julie Martin, Corey Martin, Kevin Close, and John Meijai.

In this week's show, we'll tell you about the top news stories on the days, including

news about SeaWorld's New Water Park, Aquatica, as well as our interviews with two SeaWorld

executives talking about the new park.

I'll also tell you my thoughts after a recent visit to Universal's Hard Rock Hotel, and

Kevin Close will give his review of the Plaza Restaurant at the Magic Kingdom, all that

plus roundtable rapid fire, and listener emails on this edition of the Disneyland Plug Roundtable.

Alright, starting right off with the news since we have a lot to cover today.

And a follow up to last week's news story about Disney's plans for a new resort area in

Orlando.

The Orlando Business Journal is reporting that Disney's latest announcement has struck a

note of fear into hotels along Highway 192, but some suggesting that the new expansion

could force some of these hotels out of business.

Part of Disney's proposed expansion beyond the addition of the four seasons resort is

to add between four and 5,000 moderately priced hotel rooms near the west side of

Disney property.

When Disney opened its all-star resorts in 1994, and the pop-century resorts in 2003,

there were several smaller hotels that were forced to lower their rates to compete, and

some of them ended up going out of business.

Now personally, I think the addition of moderate to lower price value priced resorts in that

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