Favorite Quick Serve Restaurants in Disney World

 

As I've said before, food is a major part of your Walt Disney World vacation.  Food tastes run the gamut, and Disney has something for everyone.  We spend a lot of time thinking about the table service restaurants on our trip - in general, we do one table service and one quick service meal a day (the third meal usually being something from the groceries we order into our resort or something quick and easy to eat on the go for breakfast - gotta hit the parks early!)

The quick service restaurants on property aren't as interesting thematically or often as adventurous as the table service ones.  But there are more of them, and they serve an important function - getting some food into you before you continue your tiring day of walking and riding attractions.  So I thought I'd show some love today to five of my favorite quick serve restaurants on property.  I can't say these are the "best", as I haven't dined everywhere.  But in my opinion, there's something about each of these that's worthwhile.

Easter Week Crowds - the Worst of the Season?

 

We're back with another look at recent Easter week crowds at Disney World.  As promised last week, we said that once the data was in, we would take a look back at just how bad it was (or wasn't? Stay tuned).  We're going to see if this was truly the peak of Spring Break season, and compare that to how crowded the parks were for Easter week last year.  We'll also take a look at whether a certain recent trend continues in terms of crowd distribution for a given week.

If you were traveling to Disney World for Easter week, you probably knew what you were getting into, as this is a week that schools often have for vacation.  Interestingly, in recent years in New York (where I live), the school break has been the week AFTER Easter.  While still crowded, that week generally sees lower crowds across the board.  

Busiest Spring Break Week? Genie+ Sells Out, Tron Opens, Return of a Favorite

 

We recently wrote a report about the real start of Spring Break season at Disney World, typically one of the busiest stretches of the year.  The week in question in that report was expected to be the busiest of the season, with many colleges as well as local K-12 schools in Florida having that week off.  Based on early reports from this current week, however, we might have a new contender for busiest week yet.

The week leading up to Easter is always one of the busiest of the season, but doesn't always reach the heights of the local, earlier break.  It's too early to draw any conclusions in full yet, but I plan to circle back to this next week when all the data is available.  But a few things have happened recently that lead me to believe this is the peak of the peak season.  We'll discuss a few of these here.