food IS a theme park
Something sneaky is happening over at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Here at DFB, we keep in the loop with all the scheduled happenings in the Disney World parks, and we’ve already got quite a bit of information about what’s going on this holiday season. But a surprising schedule change has us wondering if Disney is keeping something under wraps!
Something new has popped up at Animal Kingdom, and it’s the cutest thing in the world!
©Disney
Ever since Bluey’s Wild World opened, all of our visits to Animal Kingdom have included us going to Jumping Junction to check out the wallabies and kangaroos. Well, it looks like we’re going to be visiting it twice as much because a new baby wallaby joey has just appeared, and we can’t stop looking at her!
Disney World just dropped some MAJOR churro news, and everyone and their mother are freaking out… Literally.
Nomad Lounge Churros
Here at DFB, we’re here to fill you in on all of the news and announcements Disney makes, and this includes the beloved warm dough stick rolled in cinnamon sugar. Our parents? They’re part of those people we fill in, and boy, were they excited to hear about this churro news!
Wait! You can get 40% off select Halloween merch right NOW in Animal Kingdom? This sounds too good to be true, but sure enough, on our last visit we found HUGE spooky season discounts.
40% Off Disney Halloween Merch
So, now might be the best time to pop over to Animal Kingdom and grab some amazing Halloween deals, even though Halloween is still over a week away! [Read more…]
Well, somehow we blinked, and it’s already the middle of October. Before too long, we’ll be saying goodbye to the fall and Halloween season in Disney World and hello to the holidays! Honestly? WE ARE READY.
Pumpkin spice cinnamon roll cake
Before we start eating a bunch of treats shaped like Christmas trees and Santa, though, we’ve still got a few months of Disney World restaurant menu changes to go through. Now, last week was a DOOZY with price increases, but this week has quite a few price increases, too, as well as other changes. So let’s take a look!
Fall break is alive and well in Disney World, which is a time of year many people forget about, then wonder why in the world there’s a random 3-4 weeks in between the end of summer and Thanksgiving week that are absolutely bonkers. Yep, that’s why.
Crowds in Magic Kingdom
It’s also hard to track when exactly fall breaks will cause high crowds, since they land in different weeks for various schools. This does mean the crowds are a bit more spread out, rather than arriving all at once, but it still means Disney World becomes more intense than many people expect it to be for early October. But other than being shoulder to shoulder with thousands of your closest strangers, what else can you expect from Disney World this week? The answer? A LOT.
When we think of lounges in Disney World, there’s one that almost always lands at the very top of our list, and just the thought of it has us craving the menu for days on end.
Nomad Lounge in Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Nomad Lounge in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is one of the lounges we recommend time and time again, and each time we visit, we find ourselves drawn towards the idea of delicious churros (yes, in Disney World, what a shocker) and the unique drinks you’ll discover at this spot. However, Disney recently announced a pretty big change coming to this lounge, and we know some of you have some questions about it. Don’t worry, we’re here to go over everything you need to know!
We have some restaurants that we will always sing the praises of, and one of them sits in the heart of Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Nomad Lounge
We’re talking about Nomad Lounge, which is one of our favorite places to grab a drink and food, and well, big changes are coming to Nomad Lounge soon. That includes being able to make a reservation for the lounge, something we’ve never been able to do before…but there’s a catch.
Every time we go to renew our Walt Disney World Annual Pass, we wince and hope our wallet isn’t about to grow arms and smack us across the face…but then when we visit for the first time since renewing, we’re reminded of how much we love being able to pop in the parks without paying each time!
Disney World Annual Pass
There are tons of additional perks that come with being an Annual Passholder, but it’s important to keep a close eye out, because sometimes those perks change super quick. We feel pretty accomplished when we get to experience something unique to Passholders, or save a bit of money that we otherwise wouldn’t have, just because we knew about Passholder deals, so we make sure you’re up-to-date too! Disney just dropped some new perks you won’t want to miss, including extra special reservations at one of our favorite lounges.
When Disney World announced it was building a Tropical Americas-themed land that included Encanto, I may or may not have shed a tear. Was that tear for the idea of stepping into Casita and meeting the Madrigal family, or for knowing I had to say goodbye to DinoLand U.S.A.? We’ll never know, but Pueblo Esperanza is coming to Animal Kingdom, and we’ll share every update.
The Casita ©Disney
The new land is planning to open in 2027, and behind the construction walls, Disney has been hard at work making sure everything gets done. Thanks to our friend Bioreconstruct on X, we get a sense of what’s happening behind those walls, and Disneyis progress is fantastical and magical.
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