Just Slap a Band-Aid on it and Everything Will be Fine! 2025 Food and Wine Trip Report! (Updated 11/8!)

[Wood Nymph]

We stayed for three of the shows, and I’m happy one of them was the F&W Be Our Guest one since I haven’t seen that one before. We also got the one from Wish, which I also hadn’t seen. I really liked that one!

We've never seen the shows. As you know, you can't see Spaceship Earth from the area near the International Gateway. You have a "long" walk over to the front of the park. And I don't know when the shows begin and how long they last.

As expected, our view was great!

Your view is better than I expected.

 

[VAtink]

We've never seen the shows. As you know, you can't see Spaceship Earth from the area near the International Gateway. You have a "long" walk over to the front of the park. And I don't know when the shows begin and how long they last.

Yeah, it is a bit of a pain how far away it is from the IG. We made a point to be up there after dark to see the shows, it helped that one of our favorite drinks from the festival is up there (the swine brine), so we had extra motivation to be in that area! I think the shows start right around when it gets dark, and they're every 10 minutes starting on the hour. I'm not sure how late they go, but I'd imagine until park close.

Your view is better than I expected.

I was very impressed, will definitely be requesting this room in the future!

 

[VAtink]

Quick RL update! So you all probably know by now all about my wonderful luck with my flights. Well, it looks like that luck is continuing into our next trip since it looks like my flight is one of those that is cancelled due to the shutdown! Yay! Seriously, I'm surprised they picked this flight, Delta only has two flights a day to MCO while other airlines have 5+ and none of theirs are cancelled. I would have expected routes that are more common would be the one cancelled, but I guess that would make too much sense!

So now I'm trying to decided if I should preemptively change flights (hasn't been cancelled yet), or just wait and hope for the best. Knowing my luck, I'm leaning towards changing my flight. I'd probably fly in on Friday instead too, just to give myself some extra wiggle room, thankfully I took Friday off already! But now I need to decide do I want to just stay at the airport hotel and meet my mom there when she flies in the following morning, or do I want to book a night in Disney? The airport would be a LOT cheaper, but it also would be nice to be in Disney earlier. Hmmm....so many decisions!

I feel like after the delays the past few trips I'm due for a flight that gets me there on time, but it's looking like it won't be this trip! Oh well, first world problems I know, just frustrating.

 

[Wood Nymph]

There is no crystal ball and no one knows what will happen. But I do believe that the shortage of air traffic controllers will be a problem even after the shutdown ends.

 

[VAtink]

There is no crystal ball and no one knows what will happen. But I do believe that the shortage of air traffic controllers will be a problem even after the shutdown ends.

I'd believe that, and even when the shutdown ends I fully expect there to be residual effects on top of that. Worst case, the auto train is near me, so I could take that if needed, but I'd rather not take an 18 hour train ride if I can avoid it!