food IS a theme park
It’s certainly no secret that it gets pretty darn hot around Disney World.
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And we don’t just mean your regular ol’ hot. We mean, you’ll be sweating through your tank top, you’ll want cooling towels and neck fans, and you absolutely MUST stay hydrated for the sake of your health level of heat. While an ordinary summer day can be quite hot at Disney World, the temperatures are already heating up.
It’s no secret that Florida temperatures can creep into the triple digits at any given time, and sometimes it’s hard to scramble and find the most effective ways to beat the heat.
Can you beat the heat at Disney World?
While you can certainly duck into the nearest character meet and greet, grab a cool snack, and stop for breaks throughout the day, we’re sharing a few essentials we’ve run across to help you keep going and not slow you down on your next Disney vacation.
Have you ever been to Disney World in August?
Gotta be prepared for those really sunny days!
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s 98°. You’re standing in an outdoor queue for a ride with a 2-hour wait time, desperately trying to inch closer to the fan that’s fifteen feet ahead of you. The Dole Whip you got earlier in the day to cool off melted into a sticky mess as you ate it, and the evidence is on your shirt. Listen, we love Disney World, but in the summer it can be ROUGH. So, sometimes we do some questionable things to survive the heat — but don’t knock ’em til you try ’em!
Disney World vacations can be a LOT of fun, but they’re not all magic and pixie dust.
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There’s definitely a few changes Disney can make to improve the theme park experience — but that’s not all. Between long lines, the heat, and crowds, sometimes you’ve just had ENOUGH. So we asked our DFB readers: when have they almost given up in Disney World? Here’s what they said.
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