Blizzard Beach Snacks
On Blizzard Beach day, we decided to indulge and skipped lunch and had treats instead.
We had a later breakfast that day as we had slept in that day anyways.
So we decided to get the sand pail ice cream sundae and a dozen mini donuts!
So good! The sand pail comes literally in a plastic sand pail with a shovel! It is chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream, waffle pieces, sprinkles, cookie pieces, hot fudge, caramel sauce, strawberry sauce, whipped cream, nuts and a cherry. We asked for extra cherries as I knew the kids would fight over them. It fed all 5 of us and although we did finish it... it was almost "too much"... we were fighting to finish those last few bites.
The donuts were fresh fried mini donuts tossed in cinnamon and sugar. And we got a raspberry and chocolate dipping sauce.
Excellent! I love donuts tho.... if you cant tell.
We paid out of pocket for both snacks. Worth It!
A+
Via Napoli
Whenever we travel with Grandma, she is kind enough to take all the grandkids for the night and let us have a date night!
They usually just stick around the resort, eat pizza and hang out in the room.
So for this trip we decided to have a double date night with my sister and BIL and do snacks/drinks around the world!
We started the night off with dinner in Italy at Via Napoli.
The more I read reviews about this place the more I wanted to try it! I was like LEGIT pumped to try this restaurant!
We started off with drinks. I had the white sangria, which was not as good as Ohana, but still really good.
My sister had a mimosa which she enjoyed and the boys split a pitcher of beer.
For appetizer we got the Arancini the fried risotto balls. These were very awesome!
They only come with 3 balls per serving tho, which I think is a little on the small size... but they were delicious!
For the entree we decided to split a mega mezzo pizza. We got half Carciofi (girls choice) which is white pizza with artichoke, fontina, mozzarella, truffle oil. And half Piccante (boys choice) which is tomato sauce, mozzarella, Italian spicy sausage.
Both were very good... but I thing the Carciofi was the clear winner.
The all around verdict of Via Napoli was good.
For me personally it was AMAZING... that pizza... seriously, I am going to crave that until our next trip.
For my husband... it was just good. He could take it or leave it. I think his mind set was why are we eating pizza when we could get it at home? Except it was like 100 times better quality then any pizza we could get at home.
A
Tangerine Cafe
So my sister is not the planner type. She didn't really care to plan anything for most of the trip and I essentially did it all for her. The one thing she actually did really want to do was try the Chicken Shawarma at Tangerine Cafe... it was like literally the only place she REALLY wanted to eat.
So at the end of date night.... even tho we were stuffed with pizza and various other snacks and drinks which I will review in the next section. We stopped in Morocco for what she referred to as "second dinner" to try the Shawarma. We both got 1 meal and split it with our husbands. I enjoyed it... I really like the Hummus and I LOVED the Couscous Salad it came with.
For dessert they served Blaklava, which I didnt really care for.
A-
Epcot Snacks
Other snacks we tried on date night included...
Norway- Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe - school bread and Bailey's and coffee -
A
That school bread is soooo good!
Germany - Karamell-Küche - Caramel popcorn & salted caramel milk chocolate square
B
I was a bit disappointing here. I wanted to try the grapes but they didn't have them
I settled for the chocolate square which was way chewier then I expected.
Germany - not sure where it came from - Beer -Schofferhofer Grapefruit
A+
A-Mazing!
France - Les Vins de Chefs de France -Orange: Grand Marnier Slush
C
I should have gotten the grey goose as originally planned.
I made a last minute switch based on what everyone in line was ordering. Way to strong for me.
Ohana - Breakfast
We had breakfast at Ohana for 9:15 for a party of 13.... we were actually a party of 14.
Back story here: Originally Jessica, Cody and Cormack weren't coming at all. It was my BIL's mom and other sister that were booked for the trip. So when we booked Ohana it was booked for 13 people. Then BIL's sister dropped out of the trip and that's when Jessica, Cody and Cormack joined. So I had been trying unsuccessfully to get a reservation for 15 and then BIL's mom dropped about 3 weeks before the trip which was a whole nightmare in itself since she was the primary on the account and I couldn't just transfer her reservation to Jessica. It all had to be re-booked and all the
free dining rooms at our resort were gone... it was a nightmare.... but we got it successfully re-booked.
ANYWAY once that was set, I searched and searched and searched for a party of 14 at ANY character breakfast and nothing at all came up. I checked like 100 times a day and had multiple search combinations set on my dining scout. NOTHING.
We ended up showing up with 14 and saying we "forgot" the baby needed a reservation. I know its an unpopular thing to do and we were prepared for them to say no.... but they didn't. It was no problem and we got 2 tables side by side with no additional wait. Really... they just added a highchair... but it was no issue at all.
Breakfast was great! The characters were quick, we saw all of the characters within the first 10 minutes of breakfast... which was honestly kind of nice because then we could just eat with no interruptions. Pluto kept licking/eating my 2 year old's head which he thought was the funniest thing in the world.
The Juice was Amazing! and honestly so was everything else. I have no complaints at all about Ohana breakfast. Family style was great... they brought us out a second tray which we barely touched... but the service was really good. The kids enjoyed being part of the parade and everyone had a great time! I had reservations about Ohana breakfast, but I would do it again in a second!
A++
