Walt Disney World has introduced an elevated meals & beverage low cost at choose eating places in Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and the resort accommodations for Annual Passholders this summer time. This shares a listing of the collaborating eating places, together with fast suggestions for anybody questioning the place to eat with the superior financial savings!
For starters, V.I.PASSHOLDER Days (or VIP Passholder Days, if you wish to sound it out and take away the yelling) are a limited-time providing only for Annual Passholders at Walt Disney World Resort. It’s the corporate’s manner of claiming ‘thanks’ for being a Walt Disney World Annual Passholder!
V.I.Passholder Days are operating now by way of June 26, 2024 at Walt Disney World. Throughout this occasion, APs are capable of reap the benefits of unique perks and reductions all through the parks and resorts throughout the month-long appreciation occasion (most of that are at EPCOT). As coated in our Information to V.I.PASSHOLDER Days, there’s a free magnet and lounge, and different freebies and perks for Annual Passholders throughout the subsequent month-plus.
Till now, one of many conspicuous omissions for VIP Passholder Days as in comparison with final yr was reductions. Positive, there’s 20% off DisneyStore.com or no matter, however doesn’t that website appear to have perpetual gross sales and coupon codes? Not solely that, however the web site solely carries a small fraction of the theme park merchandise out there at Walt Disney World.
Final yr, there have been further in-park reductions for merchandise and meals & beverage, together with each desk service eating places and the Outside Kitchens for the EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. Truthfully, I kinda anticipated the identical factor yr. Within the post-pent-up demand interval, it definitely doesn’t really feel like merchandise is shifting as effectively or there’s as a lot free spending on meals & beverage.
My private idea is that, for most individuals, trip budgets are restricted. In consequence, the added value of Genie+ will not be purely a brand new income stream for Walt Disney World–at the very least, not fully. Slightly, it’s a reallocation of spending, away from souvenirs or eating and in direction of line-skipping. Since that’s extra “important” to the park expertise, these with finite budgets (most individuals!) are shifting funds from one factor to a different, versus merely spending extra.
After all, this isn’t every little thing–and there’s in all probability some extent of each taking place (spending extra and finances reallocation), however that’s nonetheless my idea. I believe that fairly effectively explains why stuff is not flying off of cabinets and ADRs have gotten a lot, a lot simpler over the course of the final yr–even for standard eating places. However I digress–that’s not the purpose of this put up!
In the event you’re hungry for much more V.I.PASSHOLDER Days exclusives, get able to fulfill your urge for food, as a result of beginning Might 28 by way of June 26, 2024, Annual Passholders can reap the benefits of elevated eating reductions at choose desk service eating places throughout Walt Disney World. Whether or not you’re making an attempt to finish the ‘Passholder Foodie Problem’ or in search of an excuse to eat at your favourite spot on property, now’s your likelihood to have your cake and eat it too…actually.
Throughout VIP Passholder Days, meals & beverage reductions have elevated to twenty% completely for Annual Passholders. Take a look at the listing beneath for all collaborating places:
Magic Kingdom
• Be Our Visitor Restaurant
• Cinderella’s Royal Desk
• The Crystal Palace
• The Diamond Horseshoe
• Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen
• Liberty Tree Tavern
• The Plaza Restaurant
• Tony’s City Sq. Restaurant
EPCOT
• Akershus Royal Banquet Corridor
• Biergarten Restaurant
• Coral Reef Restaurant
• Backyard Grill Restaurant
• Le Cellier Steakhouse
• Rose & Crown Eating Room
• Spice Street Desk
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
• 50’s Prime Time Cafe
• The Hollywood Brown Derby
• Hollywood & Vine
• Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano
• Roundup Rodeo BBQ
• Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
• Tiffins Restaurant
• Tusker Home Restaurant
WDW Disney Resort Lodges
• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge – Boma—Flavors of Africa, Jiko—The Cooking Place and Sanaa
• Disney’s BoardWalk Inn – Flying Fish and Trattoria al Forno
• Disney’s Caribbean Resort – Sebastian’s Bistro
• Disney’s Modern Resort – California Grill, Chef Mickey’s and Steakhouse 71
• Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort – Toledo—Tapas, Steak & Seafood and Three Bridges Bar & Grill at Villa del Lago
• Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa – Cítricos, Grand Floridian Cafe and Narcoossee’s
• Disney’s Outdated Key West Resort – Olivia’s Cafe
• Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort – Kona Cafe and ‘Ohana
• Disney’s Port Orleans—Riverside – Boatwright’s Eating Corridor
• Disney’s Riviera Resort – Topolino’s Terrace—Flavors of the Riviera
• Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa – The Turf Membership Bar and Grill
• Disney’s Vero Seashore Resort – Wind & Waves Grill
• Disney’s Wilderness Lodge – Storybook Eating at Artist Level with Snow White and Whispering Canyon Cafe
• Disney’s Yacht & Seashore Membership Resorts – Ale & Compass Restaurant, Seashores & Cream Soda Store, Cape Might Cafe and Yachtsman Steakhouse
As all the time, phrases and situations apply. This low cost is probably not mixed with every other provides or reductions, is topic to availability and alter or cancellation with out discover. And clearly, you want to have the ability to enter a theme park in an effort to dine inside one, so ensure your park reservations and/or blockouts are squared away. In case your AP is expired, you’ll be able to’t use it. You understand the drill by now, hopefully. Yada yada yada.
With regards to suggestions, I’ll begin with a plug for our Listing of the 24 Finest Eating places at Walt Disney World for 2024. These are our favorites, and what we suggest to household and mates. It’s lacking a number of the fanciest spots, however that’s on function–it goals to be a sensible listing for households and regular of us with probably the most iconic, must-do meals round Walt Disney World.
In the event you don’t wish to learn that for no matter motive, you actually can’t go unsuitable with any of the eating places on the resort listing. Effectively, I assume you can in the event you’re wanting a romantic and complex date night time and also you ebook Chef Mickey’s. However that’s sort of on you at that time. Actually all the eating places on the listing have strengths and compelling promoting factors–be it delicacies, characters, views, ambiance, and so forth. We like all of them for various causes.
With regards to the parks, each of the Animal Kingdom choices are nice. Over at DHS, it may be the same story relying upon what you order (and, once more, your expectations since a few of these excel at theme or enjoyable, reasonably than delicacies)–I’m notably curious in regards to the new menu at Mama Melrose. At EPCOT, we’ll in all probability use the elevated low cost to revisit Backyard Grill or Akershus, or maybe save on what might be an enormous invoice at Le Cellier.
Magic Kingdom is, as all the time, probably the most blended bag. We like each Be Our Visitor and Skipper Canteen, however they’re polarizing–you in all probability gained’t discover many followers who get pleasure from each of these. It’s often, at most, one or the opposite. Protecting on our character kick, we’ll in all probability attempt to knock out breakfast at Crystal Palace. No matter which eating places you ebook, savor these financial savings and take full benefit between now and June 2024! Right here’s hoping we get higher reductions once more throughout the fall low season, too!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Are you an Annual Passholder? Ideas on the VIP Passholder Days, or the most recent meals & beverage reductions? Will you be benefiting from any of this? The place will you be eating throughout VIP Passholder Days? Do you agree or disagree with our commentary? Any questions we might help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
