First Canadian family selected to stay overnight in Disney's Cinderella Castle

Canadian Family Wins Big at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
First Canadian family selected to stay overnight in Disney's Cinderella Castle

A Prince Albert, Saskatchewan family made history Tuesday night as the first Canadian guests to win a night's stay inside Cinderella Castle in Magic Kingdom Park as part of the unique Disney Dreams Giveaway. The Day family gained the key to the new Cinderella Castle Suite during "The Year of a Million Dreams," a Disney spectacular celebrating the dreams of guests at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California.

Danielle Day and her family spent Tuesday night in the regal dwelling place -- the world's most exclusive resort, with only one room available and no reservations accepted -- through the Disney Dreams Giveaway, which awards extra-special dreams through a totally random process. Now, nearly every night for the remainder of 2007, other eligible lucky guests will win a similar stay.

The Day family was honoured in a special ceremony, dined at Cinderella's Royal Table restaurant, and bed down for the night amid the splendour of Cinderella Castle Suite some four stories above the surrounding Magic Kingdom -- a salon, bedchamber and bathroom off of a private marble-floored foyer, all replete with rich details. The Suite was created from unused space within the Magic Kingdom landmark once envisioned as in-park living quarters for members of the Disney family.

Danielle and her family were on their first ever trip to WDW when they were approached by the Disney Dream Squad and awarded their prize that was randomly determined by the Disney Dreams Giveaway computer to award the Cinderella Castle Suite.

"It was the first day of our first family trip to Disney. We were on the first attraction and it was within the first hour that we were selected to stay the night in the Cinderella Castle Suite! We were treated like royalty," explained Danielle Day. "We called our friends and family from the suite that night and said, 'We are the only guests inside the Magic Kingdom! When we wake up tomorrow we will already be inside the Magic Kingdom: nobody else can say that except for us!'"