Walt Disney World celebrates Easter with meals & desserts, leisure, and decorations within the parks & resorts. On this information to Easter 2024, we’ll share ideas for having fun with the particular festivities plus the large return of one thing eggs-travagant! (Up to date February 21, 2024.)
First, we don’t wish to oversell Easter as a vacation or particular occasion at Walt Disney World. It’s not even remotely on par with Christmas or Halloween. Whereas there are some decorations in a couple of of the resort lodges and particular choices at Magic Kingdom and Epcot, different lodges and parks ignore the vacation utterly. Except for a random cupcake or dessert, you would possibly by no means realize it’s Easter at Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom. Properly, apart from the spring break crowds.
The crowds are reason-enough to keep away from Easter at Walt Disney World. They greater than outweigh the vacation choices, so when you’re debating whether or not an Easter journey to Walt Disney World could be ‘enjoyable’, that’s your reply. In actuality, most individuals studying this are most likely visiting at Easter for lack of higher choices, because it coincides with college spring break and climate makes it a extra fascinating time to go to Florida than summer time…
First, crowds. Opposite to some misconceptions, Easter itself just isn’t a ghost city at Walt Disney World as a result of everyone seems to be at house spending time with their households. (It is a persistent fantasy about each vacation and the Tremendous Bowl, and we’re unsure why.)
On the contrary, as we focus on in our March 2024 at Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar and April 2024 at Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar, the weeks round Easter are fairly busy. It’s even worse in years when Easter is in March, as Spring Break and Easter college break schedules usually tend to align.
That’s as soon as once more the case in 2024, with college districts in Central Florida and elsewhere in america having Spring Break mid-March, after which much more recesses the next week or so as a consequence of Easter on March 31, 2024. Suffice to say, the second half of the month can be insanely busy.
Don’t anticipate crowds to let up utterly within the first half of April 2024. Issues would possibly get a bit higher beginning round Tax Day, however we’re nonetheless anticipating that week to stay elevated.
Subsequent, the Easter Egg Shows within the lobbies of choose Deluxe Resorts at Walt Disney World. Just like the Gingerbread Homes at Christmas, these are unbelievable and ornate shows showcasing dozens of hand-crafted eggs created by the gifted pastry groups that includes favourite Disney characters, tales, and areas.
Right here’s the place you’ll find the Easter Egg Shows:
- Disney’s Seaside Membership Resort Foyer (Beginning March 3, 2024)
- Disney’s Yacht Membership Resort Foyer (Beginning March 3, 2024)
- Disney’s Up to date Resort 4th Ground Atrium (Beginning March 3, 2024)
- Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Foyer (Beginning March 3, 2024)
These Easter egg shows are a pleasant “little contact” and the cumulative impact of such little touches is the essence of Walt Disney World. We completely love these edible shows. From the sounds of it, those at Up to date and Grand Floridian will comply with the identical components as regular, however with new designs.
For Easter 2024, Disney’s Yacht Membership Resort will take a journey on the water with a brand-new Moana-inspired show. Characters and scenes from the Walt Disney Animation Studios movie can be dropped at life in egg type. This follows up on an identical Discovering Nemo-inspired show final yr.
Subsequent door, Disney’s Seaside Membership Resort does a show impressed by the 2024 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, which will be discovered simply across the nook from the resort. The crew has meticulously crafted miniature variations of a few of the iconic topiaries accessible on the pageant, bringing a floral contact to the foyer of Disney’s Seaside Membership Resort.
Returning to the Grand Floridian is the Grand Cottage, which is again for the third yr with festive (and lovely) treats from March 3 via April 1, 2024. Right here’s what’ll be on supply on the Grand Cottage this yr:
- Bunny Pop Flower Pot: Chocolate flower pot crammed with jelly beans and three chocolate bunny pops (New)
- Fruity Cereal Mickey Pop: Mickey-shaped fruity cereal crisped deal with
- The Easter Deal with Field: Darkish chocolate stuffed bunny, carrot blondie pop, marshmallow pop, carrot cake chocolate bark, confetti pop, and meringue nests
- Easter Marshmallow Pop: Three giant marshmallows dipped in a yellow chocolate coating topped with Easter quins
- Bunny Burrow Dust Cup: Layers of chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream, and cookies ‘n cream items with springtime décor (Plant-based)
- The Grand Egg: White chocolate egg crammed with jelly beans sprayed in spring colours
Listed below are photographs of a few of our favourite Easter Eggs on the Grand Floridian:
The Edible Easter Egg shows are epic. Sincerely. The Walt Disney World pastry groups have really outdone themselves, each with the ambitiousness of the designs (photographs don’t do them justice, however a number of are very elaborate and ornate) and likewise the characters represented.
It’ll be no shock to common readers, however our favorites are Figment and Orange Hen–two characters seeing resurgences of their recognition–however these are extra apparent ones. The eye to element within the Nation Bear Jamboree egg exceeds each of these, as do the eggs for Encanto, Raya and the Final Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, and some others. We additionally love the Important Avenue Electrical Parade, and the My Neighbor Totoro egg is a sleeper choose that’s unbelievably lovely. (I do surprise how that one acquired made; Disney used to have the distribution rights to Studio Ghibli, however doesn’t anymore…)
Anyway, large kudos to the culinary cooks and artists behind these eggs. These appear to get higher and extra bold with every passing yr, as if the groups at every resort are “competing” with each other or attempting to outdo what they did the earlier yr. It’s attending to the purpose the place these are nearly on par with the Gingerbread Homes at Christmas, which generate far more fanfare and draw larger crowds. Suffice to say, don’t miss these egg shows when you’re visiting round Easter!
If you happen to’re searching for some extra tasty Easter or spring-themed desserts, there are a number of truffles and cupcakes round Walt Disney World. Your finest wager for locating meals themed to Easter can be on the aforementioned resorts with the Edible Easter Egg Shows, as these every have kiosks serving seasonal treats. Past that, a number of Walt Disney World eating places can be providing Easter brunch.
As well as, the resort meals courts typically have choices, however these are sometimes solely the week or weekend of Easter itself. Our favourite in recent times has grow to be Le Petit Café at Disney’s Riviera Resort, which could have stunning and scrumptious desserts the week of Easter.
The 2024 Easter Meals Information (apart from the Backyard Cottage) has not but been launched, however we’d anticipate desserts and dishes across the parks and resorts. In any case, remember to try the Up to date and Grand Floridian, that are a straightforward monorail trip from Magic Kingdom. Likewise, Yacht and Seaside Membership are a straightforward stroll from World Showcase in EPCOT. All of those are completely implausible and nicely value your time!
What follows is Easter leisure and actions, you’ll find in an regular yr. Whereas Walt Disney World hasn’t confirmed in some way whether or not these items will return for Easter 2024, we assume it’ll. Accordingly, right here’s what you possibly can most likely anticipate when you’re visiting within the final week of March 2024…
At Magic Kingdom, you possibly can meet Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny within the “Bunny Lane Backyard” in City Sq. Courtyard on Important Avenue, U.S.A., which is tucked away by Metropolis Corridor simply contained in the entrance entrance to Magic Kingdom. (It’s the identical spot the place Santa meets.)
This meet and greet is beautifully-decorated with pastel-colored birdhouses and pots stuffed with vibrant spring flowers. It sometimes runs for a few weeks main as much as Easter, from 9:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. each day. A PhotoPass photographer and character attendant are current to seize photos.
In our expertise, the wait occasions for this meet and greet aren’t too lengthy. That’s most likely as a result of these characters aren’t recognizable to the common visitor as “Disney” and since the placement just isn’t seen as you enter the park. We observed a handful of oldsters with kids in spring attire and outfits, so we assume it’s a preferred spot for that.
We ended up ready about 10 minutes to have our photograph taken with Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny, and this was noon on what was in any other case a busy day in Magic Kingdom. We’d hazard a guess that wait occasions for this spike on Easter Sunday, however in any other case it’s one thing of a hidden gem meet & greet!
Additionally at Magic Kingdom, however just for Easter weekend, there’s normally a particular pre-parade for Disney’s Pageant of Fantasy Parade. The spotlight of that is the Azalea Path Maids, a bunch of fifty highschool seniors chosen yearly to function “Official Ambassadors” for Cellular, Alabama.
The Azalea Path Maids, put on extravagant attire meant to seem like flowers, and have been marching in Walt Disney World’s parades on Easter for over 40 years. It’s a enjoyable little custom, and their costumes are beautiful.
If you happen to’re searching for a non secular service on Easter Sunday, that’s provided within the Fantasia Ballroom at Disney’s Up to date Resort. We don’t have official occasions for this yr, however Catholic Mass is often held at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., with Protestant Service at 9:15 a.m. Inquire with the resort straight to verify occasions.
Observe that parking restrictions have been in impact for weeks at Disney’s Up to date Resort, which means you’ll not be allowed to park right here for the spiritual companies. As an alternative, take monorail or boat service to the Up to date, or take a bus to Magic Kingdom and stroll to the Up to date.
General, not like Christmas or Halloween at Walt Disney World, Easter just isn’t a time to go to that we actively suggest. On the contrary, we’d suggest avoiding it when you can. Nevertheless, that gained’t be an choice for a lot of of you studying this, and it’s potential to take advantage of the expertise with environment friendly technique and by having fun with the restricted assortment of particular seasonal choices.
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