food IS a theme park
EPCOT has some of the best food anywhere in Disney World. With the entire World Showcase packed with different restaurants, you get so many cuisines and lots of dishes to choose from.
Let’s go eat some crepes!
This time, we’re heading to La Crêperie de Paris in the France Pavilion in EPCOT to check out a new dish we think will be popular.
Happy Princess Week!
If you didn’t know, each year Disney celebrates what it means to be a princess, including virtues like kindness and courage. This year, the special week runs from August 16th through August 22nd. To celebrate, they release tons of snacks around Disney World for each princess, prince, or other royal family member to enjoy. We tried 3 of them so you can know if they’re right for you!
Change has been a constant at Walt Disney World since the very beginning, as rides, lands, and entire parks have transformed over the resort’s 50+ years of history. That extends to the current day as massive projects dot the landscape, from the transformation of the Carousel of Progress to the additions of Piston Peak, Villains Land, Monstropolis, Tropical Americas, and more. However, not every change involves transforming a classic attraction or creating a new mega-land. Some are much smaller.
U.K Pavilion EPCOT
Case in point, on our most recent visit to EPCOT, we noticed some minor changes around the World Showcase. Not major, world-changing events, but small elements that, while maybe not immediately noticeable, do change the flavor of their respective pavilions.
Lots of people head into EPCOT to complete the popular Drinking Around the World challenge, but during busy times of year, you may notice that some of those lines are WAY longer than you anticipated.
Drinking around the world
This is especially true when there’s not an EPCOT festival going on, because there are fewer spots to grab a drink, as well as in more popular pavilions, such as Mexico. If you’re looking for the lowest crowds and shortest lines, there’s one time you want to go, but we’ll warn you now — it’ll take some courage.
One thing we love about the theme parks is their festivals, whether that be EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts, Disneyland’s California Adventure Food & Wine Festival, Dollywood’s Flower and Food Festival, or countless others!
California Adventure Food & Wine Festival
BUT there is one park that has an advantage over the others, and that is Dollywood! Their exclusive festival perk tops all of the others, and for good reason! It’s easy, and it could save you money, and that’s why we’re hoping EPCOT takes the hint and introduces it to their festivals!
Things are ALWAYS changing in Disney World! Villains Land, Piston Peak, Monsters, Inc. Land, and more are underway right now, which can sometimes make it feel like Wall Disney World.
Magic Kingdom
The parks have been full of snacks, changes, and lots of high temperatures this week, but that’s not all. There were some BIG Disney World updates we would hate for you to miss out on. That’s why we like to do a weekly wrap-up of the biggest news so you don’t miss a single thing. Let’s dive into this week’s latest and greatest Disney news.
Well, we got one slow week in Disney World, and apparently that was the last one we’ll have for (probably) a long while.
Saratoga Springs Resort
While there haven’t been too many changes to the Disney World hotels right now, Disney did give us a heads up that multiple projects are on their way that we need to be on the lookout for in the coming weeks. If you’ve been thinking of booking a Disney World hotel reservation for the coming months, you may want to take a look at these new projects first to help aid in your decision.
One of our favorite weeks of the year is here again! We look forward to World Princess Week all year, and now it’s finally upon us again.
©Disney
World Princess Week will take place this year from August 16th through 22nd, and Disney is celebrating with tons of delicious treats you can grab around the resort. They’ll only be available for a limited time, so you’ll want to make sure you add them high up on your list so you don’t miss out!
Hey friends (and foes, I suppose), it’s time for your favorite part of the week!
Let’s take a visit to the village!
That’s right, I’m taking you along with me to the Tiny Train Town in the Germany Pavilion at EPCOT! This little village is known for its heinous crimes and ridiculous nonsense, and I’m here as Madam Mayor today to unravel this week’s mysteries. Let’s go!
EPCOT’s Mexico Pavilion is one of the most distinctive and popular pavilions in the park’s World Showcase. The pavilion provides a heavily themed environment, an attraction that harkens back to the earliest days of EPCOT, and, of course, a slew of dining options!
Who’s ready for a sweet treat?
Part of what makes Mexico so special is that some — but not all, as we’ll get to — of the pavilion is indoors. This controlled environment gives the whole pavilion a climate advantage over the rest of World Showcase, since it’s the only one unaffected by weather issues, including shifting temperatures and rain. Guests enter through a massive pyramid facade, pass through a gallery of Mexican artwork, and enter into a recreation of a Mexican village marketplace, the Plaza de los Amigos. The air-conditioned indoor setting is set at perpetual twilight, with a looming volcano and pyramid in the distance. So, what are the keys to dining in this environment? Let’s find out.
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