Any resort hotels on property at WDW that still sell newspapers??

[musikdude2022]

Any resort hotels on property at WDW that still sell newspapers?? Or have free ones for guests?? Thank you

 

[3kidsdad]

Sadly, not since the return from COVID. No newspapers, magazines or new books. Any store that had books in stock when they shut down can sell what they had but cannot restock them with new product.

 

[kanerf]

Virtually every newspaper in the world has an on-line edition. I used to buy a Sunday paper for the coupons, but even those come out electronically now.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

Is that where they take all those internet articles and print them out on paper?!

 

[focusondisney]

The resorts stopped selling local papers even before the close down. My DH used to get one every day.

 

[focusondisney]

Virtually every newspaper in the world has an on-line edition. I used to buy a Sunday paper for the coupons, but even those come out electronically now.

Not everyone likes online papers. We don’t.

 

[Tess]

Not everyone likes online papers. We don’t.

I'm with you! Miss the days of finding the paper at your door in Disney--at least at the deluxe resorts. Then they stopped doing that and you had to go to the end of the hallways on the hall tables, then they moved them to the lobby (where they often ran out quickly) and finally offered them for sale in the gift shops. Now, zip! I hate reading the paper online and newspaper comes in really handy with wet shoes!

 

[3kidsdad]

Holding a tablet or phone to read the news has nothing on holding some really thin, cheap paper and reading news that happened two to three days ago. I grew up in Cincinnati and was lucky enough that my father subscribed to both the Morning (Cincinnati Enquirer) paper and the evening paper (The Cincinnati Post). I’m only 52 and would take a real paper any day over having to read news on my tablet.

I remember running out to the end of the driveway every morning before school to grab the paper to see what the Reds had done the night before when they were at home and waiting for the afternoon paper when they were out on the west coast because there was no way you were allowed to stay up that late to watch them. You didn’t have cable television back then so if your team was at home you didn’t get to watch that game unless it was sold out, which rarely happened.

Man I miss the paper

 

[The Foolish Mortal]

They send you to Spaceship Earth to look for the paper boy (Extra! Extra!)

 

[disny_luvr]

Unfortunately, no. We tried to find a newspaper to buy at POP a few weeks ago after getting stuck in a downpour at the MK. We always stuff our shoes with newspaper when they get wet - they are dry by the next morning - and we forgot to pack our newspaper on our last trip. I was so disappointed when I realized it and when I inquired about purchasing a newspaper at POP, the CM told me they no longer sell them (I assumed she meant all of Disney, but maybe it was just POP).

 

[artinlife]

Sadly, not since the return from COVID. No newspapers, magazines or new books. Any store that had books in stock when they shut down can sell what they had but cannot restock them with new product.

That is too bad. I love reading actual newspapers. I always bring my own books. I know that at other (non-Disney) hotels you can ask at the front desk and they have a cart of books former guests left behind but I am assuming that they don't do this here at Disney. There is a beautiful small library room off the lobby at Riveria but the gal in the lobby said that the books there were for display only and some of them were from the personal collection of books from Walt Disney. They are from the 20s on up and there are many that were in my grandparent's library and that I read growing up. There is also a neat library off the lobby at Old Key West Resort. I love just sitting in these rooms as there is something calming about libraries.

 

[Lisa75]

They had the WSJ and something else in the Riviera store in August of 2020 after the reopening. I have a photo of DS at the kitchen table in the villa reading the papers.

 

[artinlife]

They had the WSJ and something else in the Riviera store in August of 2020 after the reopening. I have a photo of DS at the kitchen table in the villa reading the papers.

they had WSJ and the New York Times in the lobby of the Dolphin but am not sure if they still do that. I also bought the NYT at the gift shop at Coronado Springs in Feb of 2020. I think that the hotels with more corporate business probably are more likely to carry newspapers. I am glad that fewer trees are being cut down for papers and magazines but I do love reading newspapers, especially with my morning coffee.