food IS a theme park
EPCOT is one of the best places to spend your money on a souvenir at Disney World, and here is one of our favorites!
EPCOT
When it comes to souvenir shopping at Disney World, EPCOT’s World Showcase is full of unique gifts and items. In the World Showcase, you can find 11 different countries featuring items like authentic Japanese snacks to hand-painted Italian ceramics — and just about everything in between. Out of all the unique finds here, one souvenir stood out above the rest.
Summer has hit Disney World, and we’ve been trying to beat the heat with some cool treats and cool drinks. Cool KIDS’ SUMMER is well underway, and before you know it, it will be Halloween.
Red Velvet Riveter
Disney also recently dropped a full list of treats coming to the resort for America’s 250th birthday party, but while we’re waiting to try all those, we’ll also be checking out Disney World restaurant menus to see what’s changed. So let’s take a look at Disney World restaurant menus for this week.
When we’re in EPCOT craving a drink, the Japan Pavilion is our go-to spot. Where else in Disney World can you get sake paired with sushi or kakigōri all in one place?
Kabuki Energy Mocktail
So when we saw this new Kabuki Energy drink, we had to try it! Because what’s better than popping boba, right?
There are a few pieces of EPCOT advice that get repeated so often they start to sound like park law.
Welcome to EPCOT — Spaceship Earth
Rope drop Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. Race to Frozen Ever After. Figure out your Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind strategy before you’ve even had coffee. Map out the festival booths with the grim determination of someone planning a bank heist. And listen, none of that advice is wrong. Those rides are popular because they’re genuinely fun. EPCOT festivals are famous for a reason. We have personally made whole afternoons out of tiny plates and drinks that arrive in cups so small they look eerily similar to the rinse cup at your dentist’s office. But sometimes the obvious advice is not the best advice.
While many guests will intricately plan the start of their Disney World day – – rope dropping, Early Entry, breakfast, etc. – – true experts also know what they’ll be doing as the day comes to a close.
Magic Kingdom fireworks.
These expert Disney fans know exactly what to do post-9:00 PM to make sure they end their day exactly how they want.
Every week, we report the average Disney World wait times in every park so that you can be prepared for your next trip to Orlando!
EPCOT
Disney World wait times have a reputation for being, well, unpredictable. Sure, we can look at past data to get an estimate of the crowd levels in Disney World, but you never know what may happen from year to year.
There’s been so much happening in Disney World recently that sometimes it’s felt a little hard to catch our breath.
A trash can change happened this week!
We love hearing about all the new projects and exciting attractions coming to Disney World, don’t get us wrong, but for the past few weeks, it felt like everything hit at once. Now, though, some of the biggest attractions have opened — The Walt Disney Studios and Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Jessie’s Roundup in Magic Kingdom, Bluey’s Wild World in Disney’s Animal Kingdom — the list goes on. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t still smaller changes happening around the parks each day, and there are ABSOLUTELY still closures you need to know about if you’re heading into the parks this week.
Something new recently popped up in EPCOT, and we’ve been feeling pretty curious about it.
Time for some new snacks!
Today was the day we finally got to check out the new Light Lounge in EPCOT, inside the Odyssey Pavilion. This is usually the home of a booth during EPCOT festivals, but now that we’re currently in between Flower & Garden and the Food & Wine Festivals, it’s now become a space that you can go to relax in the AC and grab a snack or two while you enjoy a show. Is it really worth a stop, though? We found out, so you don’t have to!
If you’re heading to EPCOT this July, there are some major changes to be excited about!
©Jeff Krause
From a massive celebration of America’s birthday and some after-hours fun to Annual Passholders’ LAST CHANCE to access some special perks, plenty is coming to Disney World’s second park next month.
Well, here we are again, writing the type of post that pains us to do so basically every time it happens, because we’re talking about something that we all groan at — price increases.
Pain au Chocolat from Les Halles
One of our favorite spots to stop for a snack in EPCOT is Les Halles, but we’re far from the only people who have the same idea, because you’ll normally find the line here to be TOTALLY out the door. It moves fast, most of the time, but in our experience, the line is worth it to try some of the delicious offerings they have in the case. If it’s one of your favorite spots as well, we’ve got some bad news — 16 new price increases just hit the menu, and we’re not happy about it.
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