Thursday, November 20, 2014

Starbucks at Disney

If you're anything like us, next to your Disney trip planning stuff right now is a cup of coffee.  Coffee makes the world go 'round.  From Ethiopia to France to Orlando, coffee is everywhere.

And until just recently, drinking coffee in the Disney Parks wasn't as enjoyable as it should be.  Because, let's face it: Disney doesn't have great coffee.

So let us together thank heaven that Starbucks are opening inside the parks.

But where exactly?  Below are the answers you seek.

The Downtown Disney District on the Florida side has been experiencing quite the bit of remodeling as Imagineers turn it into Disney Springs.  Among the many new additions are not one, but two new Starbucks!  One is near the largest Disney store in the world: The World of Disney.  The other Starbucks is in the West Side part of Downtown Disney.  And it has two floors!

In Magic Kingdom, you will find the Starbucks cleverly designed to blend into the rest of turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA.  It's on the right in the Main Street Bakery.

Epcot's Starbucks is located in Future World across from the Fountain of Nations, next to Club Cool in Fountain View.  So you can sip your latte and send the kids next door to sample (for free) Coca Cola products from around the world.  We were pleasantly surprised to find how much we liked Zimbabwe's version of a cherry soda!

More Starbucks are planned to open in Disney's Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom.


Above is one of us taking a five-second break from running the Disney Princess Half Marathon to take a selfie with the Fountain View Starbucks cast members.