When something reopens at Disney World, the natural response is to be ecstatic…so why don’t we feel that way?
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Disney World recently announced a reopening date for 1900 Park Fare at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa after a nearly four-year closure — but the announcement came with a catch. When the restaurant reopens on April 10th, 2024, it will feature a new menu and different characters. The change came with quite a bit of backlash from our readers and it has us worried about the potential reopening of a different character dining experience.
Trattoria al Forno, an Italian eatery at Disney’s BoardWalk, is currently open but its Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast has yet to return. With the news that 1900 Park Fare is about to change (whether or not the change is for the better remains to be seen), we can’t help but worry that Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast will look different when it returns.
Trattoria al Forno
Before the pandemic in 2020, Trattoria al Forno offered a character dining breakfast experience with Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast. The character roster included couples from Tangled (2010) and The Little Mermaid (1989): Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Ariel, and Prince Eric.
Rapunzel at Trattoria al Forno Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast
Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast was very popular and offered an upscale character dining experience that would be greatly welcomed upon return. At this time, no return has been officially announced, but the Disney page does continue to reiterate that the experience is temporarily unavailable so we have to assume it will return. As most of the Disney World restaurants and character dining experiences slowly return, our anticipation for the reopening of Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast only heightens.
We miss you Ariel!
If and when Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast returns to Trattoria al Forno, we have to wonder if it will look the same as it did when it closed. Disney may replace the characters with more contemporary ones, more convenient ones, or characters totally out of left field. Â It’s also possible Trattoria al Forno will make changes to the menu, but that’s inherently a risk at any time for all the Disney World restaurants.
Rapunzel and FLYYN RIDER. ALL CAPS!
It’s also possible Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast will reopen just as it was, with the same couples it had before! Disney has made no official announcements and no indications so what happens next is a total guess!
Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast
We’ll keep you posted as any updates roll in, so be sure to stay tuned right here at the Disney Food Blog for all the latest!
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Personally, it’s one of my favorite breakfast locations at Disney World! I wouldn’t be upset if it stayed as is. I’m not one who’s going to pay double the cost to meet a few characters.
Thank you so much for all your updates on this. Now I’m worried too 🙂 The unique characters at Bon Voyage were the whole draw for us. Maybe we were there on off days, but the food when we went was underwhelming, but the royal couples were everything! And as far as 1900 goes… if they want Aladdin at a character meal, why not reopen Marrakesh and do one there with Jasmine, Genie, and Jafar too? That would be perfection! How about a character meal or meals with Encanto and Coco characters at the Mexico pavillion or Coronado Springs? They could draw a whole new crowd to the table service restaurants at CS. It would draw us out there for the first time. How about a Princess and the Frog character meal at Port Orleans? Put in a nice new full service restaurant in the French Quarter even. I think that sometimes these companies get so caught up in their own belief that they have to do new new new that they break what works. There is plenty of room to do new things without ending the tried and true and cherished.
Sometimes I think the Public knows better than the executives at Disney. Good suggestions from
naturaldisastergirl.