Sweet Tea Available?

[PracticallyPerfectPoppins]

Hi All! We are planning our first trip to WDW in November, and I'm doing a lot of Pros/Cons to see if the DDP would be suitable for us. Although it seems silly, I was wondering if anyone knew how readily available Sweet Tea was (I'm obviously going into great detail in my Pros and Cons, lol). My family isn't really big on soda, however my husband and boys LOVE Sweet Tea and would definitely make use of the Reusable Drink Mugs if it's available. TIA!

 

[atisikitabasket]

That is all I drink also. I know POR and CBR have the fountain Gold Peak service with 4 options and just plain sweet is one of them. Also Columbia Harbour house and Wolfgang Puck Express have sweet tea can't remember off hand the other places I had it sorry.

 

[PracticallyPerfectPoppins]

That is all I drink also. I know POR and CBR have the fountain Gold Peak service with 4 options and just plain sweet is one of them. Also Columbia Harbour house and Wolfgang Puck Express have sweet tea can't remember off hand the other places I had it sorry.

Awesome, thank you for the reply. We are staying at POR, so I guess it was written in the stars lol. Looks like the Georgia boys will survive the rip after all!

 

[thornton0511]

We are southern and I will tell you if that is what you are used to you will probably be a bit disappointed in WDW sweet tea lol. It's not horrible but it's not southern

 

[JZCubed]

Hi All! We are planning our first trip to WDW in November, and I'm doing a lot of Pros/Cons to see if the DDP would be suitable for us. Although it seems silly, I was wondering if anyone knew how readily available Sweet Tea was (I'm obviously going into great detail in my Pros and Cons, lol). My family isn't really big on soda, however my husband and boys LOVE Sweet Tea and would definitely make use of the Reusable Drink Mugs if it's available. TIA!

Personally, I drink unsweetened tea, but I've also been on DisBoards long enough to express what was mentioned on this Thread:

-- If you are a southerner looking for traditional sweet tea, Disney is not the place.

Starbucks likely has a better taste than any of the mass market stuff you can locate. And adding sugar product that is available to unsweetened tea is simply not making sweet tea that any southerner would call adequate.

I imagine of you do a 'Search' here you'll find countless discussions about methods to make your own sweet tea. Likely the method I'd shake my head in approval for includes asking for some hot water to dissolve sugar and make your own syrup to then be added to unsweetened tea.

Or, maybe try an 'Arnold Palmer' while visiting Disney??

 

[Lothlórien]

We are southern and I will tell you if that is what you are used to you will probably be a bit disappointed in WDW sweet tea lol. It's not horrible but it's not southern

is right.

 

[ggdvc]

Boardwalk Bakery (which accepts the RFID mugs) and Contempo Cafe also have the Gold Peak iced tea. It's actually one dispenser that has 4 varieties (green, white, black, and sweet if memory serves). So you just need to make sure you have the right one selected.

 

[wilkeliza]

The Gold Peak iced tea dispenser doesn't have the RFID chip reader so here is a tip for those who like sweet tea. When you select sweet tea do a short blast not into your cup. Yes I know this is wasteful but I have noticed with these machines there is always a little of the previous drink left in the system. By getting the blast you won't get whatever flavor may have been in it before. It only is a big deal for me because the ones I frequent (not a WDW but at lunch spots by my office) have lemon and raspberry flavored tea and even a little of those two is enough to mess up my sweet tea as I don't like lemon or raspberry in my black tea at all.

 

[RachaelA]

My husband has asked at all our sit down ADRs and its always just unsweetened tea. So he now gets this raspberry tea instead.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

My husband has asked at all our sit down ADRs and its always just unsweetened

All TS eateries have sweet and unsweet teas.

 

[SunnieRN]

Our first trip to WDW we were waiting to order at The Plaza restaurant. At the table next to us the lady asked for sweet tea. The waitress responded that they had iced tea. The lady again said she wanted sweet tea.

The waitress looked at her and said "lady, you're not in the south anymore, you're in Orlando". Lol. The lady said "I'll take a coke".

My grandmunchkins live on sweet tea the way my grandma from OK taught me to make it. I like plain tea. This trip will be interesting.

 

[Huff]

Opposite here! We're from the southwest where sweet tea is rare and not well liked!

 

[MSLRAC]

We are southern and I will tell you if that is what you are used to you will probably be a bit disappointed in WDW sweet tea lol. It's not horrible but it's not southern

Agreed! I don't like tea but my husband and girls do and they hate the tea at WDW. They usually only make the mistake of ordering it once during our trips and then they drink soda until we head home and get into Georgia.

 

[Octoberbaby]

This thread is bringing back memories of my aunt and grandma. They were sweet tea and Disney lovers, who had me in the Magic Kingdom in diapers. If you love tea like they did, you won't be happy with the stuff that Disney thinks is sweet tea. Just get unsweetened tea, and use equal. It will taste better.

 

[isabellea]

Last summer CSR had a Goldpeak 'Southern Sweet tea' that wasn't bad at all. Went to Pop and the Poly last February and the choices were awful. Also Goldpeak but green sweet or white peachy tea if I remember well. I'm Canadian where all our iced teas are sweet although not as sweet as southern sweet tea.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

The waitress looked at her and said "lady, you're not in the south anymore, you're in Orlando". Lol.

What a genius.

 

[WooPigScientist]

All TS eateries have sweet and unsweet teas.

Have they changed recently? This wasn't our experience in January. I asked at all our TS meals - no luck. They always had unsweet tea and sweetener/sugar. All of our TS meals were character meals though - not sure if that matters. I had heard prior to our trip that we could get for-real brewed sweet tea at TS, but when I was there got shot down.

We were back a few weeks later on a business trip, and had at least one TS in Disney Springs with unsweet only. I did, however, find a restaurant with Dr. Pepper and was pretty darn excited about that!

As for Gold Peak - they should have to put hyphens around the word "tea" on their label Blech!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

Have they changed recently? This wasn't our experience in January. I asked at all our TS meals - no luck.

1) MrsRustyScupper always drinks iced tea without lemon.
2) When she orders, the Server always asks, "Sweet or unsweet tea?"

 

[Huff]

What a genius.

lol, Most of FL is not considered the 'South' culture wise. Some of the north and panhandle are. The 'South' isn't really a geographical area! I live in AZ, which is south but we don't sweeten our tea! Sun tea is the best but FDA outlawed such at restaurants.

 

[PracticallyPerfectPoppins]

Lol thank you all for the insight. I now have 6 months to figure out how to break the news to my husband and Georgia boys...

Thankfully I'm from California and am not going to mope much about it, lol.