We’ve got a few ideas that could MAJORLY improve the food courts at Disney World hotels!
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As much as we love splurging on a fancy bucket list meal in Disney World, sometimes we just don’t have the time — or budget — to spend on a table service experience. That’s where the food courts at Disney World hotels come in handy. But as convenient as these spots can be, we still have a few suggestions that would be serious GAME CHANGERS for Disney World food courts!
Lots of Disney World hotels have their own food courts that offer a variety of quick dining options for guests to grab. Some of the food courts you’ll find around the hotels include Everything Pop at Disney’s Pop Century Resort, Landscape of Flavors at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, World Premiere Court at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort, and Centertown Market at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, to name a few.
Landscape of Flavors
Some of these spots are even home to their own unique fan-favorite treats like the Tie-Dye Cheesecake at Everything POP!
Tie-dye Cheesecake
But even though the food courts around Disney World hotels definitely have their benefits, we’ve got two HUGE requests that we think they desperately need!
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Let’s start off with the major elephant in the room — considering the many early mornings and late nights people have in Disney World, it’s common for guests to be in search of a meal outside of normal dining hours. But if you try to head to a food court for an early breakfast or a midnight snack, you’ll be in for an unpleasant surprise.
Centertown Market
The hours at Disney World hotel food courts can vary by location and date, but currently most of these spots are scheduled to open at 7AM and close at 11PM. That means if you were hoping to swing by for breakfast ahead of an early flight, or a late dinner after a long day at the parks, you could be out of luck!
Loaded Totchos Bowl
Even if the food courts just had some small, grab-and-go options like coffee, pastries, and sandwiches outside of their normal business hours, it would be a HUGE improvement for us!
Frozen Coffee
For now, be sure to plan ahead for any early mornings or late nights with your own stash of snacks so you don’t get caught off guard — and hungry!
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Bulk Food & Beverage Options
When we eat at a Disney World hotel food court, it’s often either for breakfast before we head to the parks for the day, or on our way back to our room after the day’s activities. And we would LOVE to be able to do some “stocking up” along with our meal!
Landscape of Flavors
One thing in particular that we would REALLY like to see sold in bulk at food courts is cases of water, instead of just individual bottles.
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Considering how hot and humid it can get in Disney World — plus all of the walking we do on vacation — we like to keep extra water in our room. But since we can’t find full cases in the food courts or hotel shops, we either have to go to a local convenience store or place a grocery delivery order to get a case of water. Selling them in the hotel food courts would be a huge win for us!
Riverside Mill Food Court
It would also be great to be able to grab things like a full-size bag of chips or full boxes of granola bars in the food courts, instead of just single-serve items. That way we could pop the rest in our park bag for the day, or take them back to our room to snack on.
Intermission Food Court
The hotel shops do sell some full-size snacks like this, but it would be convenient (and more cost-effective) to be able to snag it at the food court while we’re already there instead of making a separate stop for another purchase!
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The Disney World hotel food courts can be an easy way to feed the whole family without taking too much time out of the day. But we think these two suggestions would really kick the food courts up a notch, taking them to SUPER convenient game-changer status!
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Check out the merchandise location next to the food court. They have (had?) multi-packs od water and boxes and bags of snacks.
Food courts at Disney luxury Hotels fall short of the food courts at some of the non-Disney hotels…Dolphin as an example. Very annoying when I’m paying $600 per night and have to beg the staff in order to get real whole milk for my coffee. Mariott has the whole milk available at the coffee prep station all day long. Even Dunkin Donuts offers whole milk freely. How cheap. Not a good look.
Totally agree. Especially if you have been to an after hours event. I love the food courts . We usually travel to Disney with 15 people and will not stay at a resort unless there is a food court but do wish they had extended hours.