food IS a theme park
Easter has arrived at Disney World, and there are so many new sweet treats to celebrate!
Painted Egg Whoopie Pie
We stopped by Disney’s Yacht Club resort to try their new Easter egg whoopie pie. It’s Easter in a dessert!
It’s almost that time of the year where everyone sports their favorite green shirt and clothes and celebrates St. Patrick’s Day…and well, you can find a lot of ways to celebrate in Disney World.
Luck of the Irish Donut
Disney Springs is especially a great place to celebrate the holiday, especially with Raglan Road throwing its annual Mighty Festival, but there’s another place you’ll want to stop by if you’ll be visiting Disney World on or right before March 17th. That’s Everglazed Donuts & Cold Brew, who have a special donut available for the big day.
We’re on the new Disney Adventure cruise ship this week, and we were blown away by the new Spellbound Lounge. It’s a mysterious lounge inspired by the Evil Queen from Snow White with some wickedly tempting treats!
Spellbound
Of course, we had to stop and check it out and try one of these poisonous drinks for ourselves.
St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and Disney Springs is the place you need to be!
St. Paddy’s at Raglan Road
Raglan Road is hosting The Mighty Festival once again this year, an annual tradition to celebrate the holiday, from March 13th-17th! The restaurant is going to be decked out in St. Patrick’s Day decor for the weekend and will be offering exclusive special dining options you can only get during the event. This is an event you MUST experience!
Not too long ago, Disney revealed exclusive early access to a brand-new Disney Dining Plan offer that allowed guests to get a FREE Dining Plan when they book their next Disney World vacation for the summer.
Time to eat at Tony’s Town Square!
The early access to the Dining Plan was only available for Disney Visa Cardmembers. However, we’re excited to say that Disney World’s free dining plan offer is now available for ALL guests who are headed to Disney World this summer. Looking to save some extra money on food for your next Disney trip? Let’s take a look at the details!
Disney World is in a period of transition, including construction on new lands, refurbishments of old favorites, and some new dining hotspots!
Fruity Pebbles Classic Shake
Over the past year, Disney has opened some majorly popular spots, including GEO-82 (the Spaceship Earth-themed lounge at EPCOT), The Beak and Barrel (the Pirates of the Caribbean-themed bar at the Magic Kingdom), and The Perch (the gilded Victorian-themed lobby bar at the Grand Floridian).
Each of these new lounges opened to positive reviews and heavy demand, and still draw big crowds (though reservations for GEO-82 and Beak and Barrel are slightly easier to come by). Now, a new crop of spots have opened at Disney World, with several more on the way.
We’re not going to lie…we are SO ready for springtime treats in Disney World. We’re ready to eat everything shaped like bunny butts (no, really, it’s such a THING), eggs, popular rabbit characters, and more.
New popcorn mix alert!
Now, we’ve already tried some spring-worthy snacks at the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival, but Magic Kingdom isn’t sleeping on the springtime snacks either. If you head on over to Main Street Confectionery, you might just find one of your new FAVORITE springtime treats.
Okay, this one is for you, Costco people. You know who you are…you’re running to Costco to score deals on Disney merchandise, Disney tickets, airfare gift cards, and much, much more.
New Costco Sundae
Well, all that shopping at Costco sure makes you hungry, right? Fortunately, Costco has a food court, and almost everything in that food court is viral in some way or another because, let’s face it, Costco offers some delicious CHEAP food. Well, we just found out about a new $3 snack available at Costco, so we had to try it out for ourselves.
March 19th is set to see the debut of a new Tea Room Experience — located inside the Grand Floridian’s newly renamed Garden View Lounge — after just about 6 years missing since the previous versions disappeared from Walt Disney World, and this long-awaited experience is bringing a new dress code with it!
Garden View Lounge
Afternoon tea has been a part of the Grand Floridian for decades, with both an adult-oriented afternoon tea party and the “Perfectly Princess Tea Party” for younger children and their parents being hugely popular with guests, often selling out months in advance.
However, the parties shut down due to the COVID pandemic, along with the rest of Disney World, in March of 2020. However, when the Grand Floridian reopened that September, the tea parties were nowhere to be found… until now.
We just went to a VERY special event in Disneyland — it’s a NEW after-hours event that’s only happening TWICE this year!
We’re celebrating 70 years in Disneyland!
We checked out Disneyland After Dark: 70 Years of Favorites, a special new after-hours event that we’ve been looking forward to for weeks. There’s SO much to experience at this event, like meet and greets with ultra rare characters, check out special merchandise, and, of course, snack on some exclusive offerings. Is the food really worth spending time on, though, when the event is already so rare? Don’t worry, we tried out a few of the options, so you know what to expect!
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