Walt Disney World celebrates Easter with meals & desserts, leisure, and decorations within the parks & resorts. In this information to Easter 2023, we’ll share suggestions for having fun with the particular festivities plus the massive return of one thing eggs-travagant! (Updated March 25, 2023.)
First, we don’t wish to oversell Easter as a vacation or particular occasion at Walt Disney World. It’s not even remotely on par with Christmas or Halloween. While there are some decorations in just a few of the resort resorts and particular choices at Magic Kingdom and Epcot, different resorts and parks ignore the vacation utterly. Aside from a random cupcake or dessert, you would possibly by no means understand it’s Easter at Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom. Well, except for the spring break crowds.
The crowds are reason-enough to keep away from Easter at Walt Disney World. They greater than outweigh the vacation choices, so in case you’re debating whether or not an Easter journey to Walt Disney World can be ‘fun’, that’s your reply. In actuality, most individuals studying this are most likely visiting at Easter for lack of higher choices, because it coincides with faculty spring break and climate makes it a extra fascinating time to go to Florida than summer season…
First, crowds. Contrary to some misconceptions, Easter itself shouldn’t be a ghost city at Walt Disney World as a result of everyone seems to be at house spending time with their households. (This is a persistent fable about each vacation and the Super Bowl, and we’re unsure why.)
To the opposite, as we focus on in our April 2023 at Walt Disney World and Spring Break 2023 Crowd Calendars for Walt Disney World, the weeks round Easter are fairly busy. However, it’s even worse in years when Easter is in March, as Spring Break and Easter faculty break schedules usually tend to align. In any case, don’t anticipate crowds to let up actually in April 2023. Things would possibly get a bit higher beginning round Tax Day, however we’re nonetheless anticipating that week to stay elevated.
Next, the Easter Egg Displays within the lobbies of choose Deluxe Resorts at Walt Disney World. Like the Gingerbread Houses at Christmas, these are unimaginable and ornate shows showcasing dozens of hand-crafted eggs created by the proficient pastry groups that includes favourite Disney characters, tales, and places.
Here’s the place you will discover the Easter Egg Displays, together with 2023 dates:
- Disney’s Beach Club Resort Lobby (Available now by April 9, 2023)
- Disney’s Contemporary Resort 4th Floor Atrium (Available now by April 9, 2023)
- Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Lobby (Available now by April 9, 2023)
These Easter egg shows are a pleasant “little touch” and the cumulative impact of such little touches is the essence of Walt Disney World. We completely love these edible shows, and have already spent plenty of time checking them out within the weeks main as much as Easter 2023.
To that time, listed here are pictures of a few of our favorites on the Grand Floridian (all the time the very best resort for the show, we predict) for Easter 2023:
The 2023 Edible Easter Egg shows are epic. Sincerely. The Walt Disney World pastry groups have really outdone themselves, each with the ambitiousness of the designs (pictures don’t do them justice, however a number of are very elaborate and ornate) and likewise the characters represented.
It’ll be no shock to common readers, however our favorites are Figment and Orange Bird–two characters seeing resurgences of their recognition–however these are extra apparent ones. The consideration to element within the Country Bear Jamboree egg exceeds each of these, as do the eggs for Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Winnie the Pooh, and some others. We additionally love the Main Street Electrical Parade, and the My Neighbor Totoro egg is a sleeper decide that’s unbelievably cute. (I do surprise how that one obtained made; Disney used to have the distribution rights to Studio Ghibli, however doesn’t anymore…)
Anyway, enormous kudos to the culinary cooks and artists behind these eggs. These appear to get higher and extra bold with every passing 12 months, as if the groups at every resort are “competing” with each other or attempting to outdo what they did the earlier 12 months. It’s attending to the purpose the place these are virtually on par with the Gingerbread Houses at Christmas, which generate far more fanfare and draw greater crowds. Suffice to say, don’t miss these egg shows in case you’re visiting round Easter!
If you’re searching for some extra tasty Easter or spring-themed desserts, there are a number of truffles and cupcakes round Walt Disney World. Your finest guess for locating meals themed to Easter can be on the aforementioned resorts with the Edible Easter Egg Displays, as these every have kiosks serving seasonal treats. Beyond that, a number of Walt Disney World eating places can be providing Easter brunch.
In addition, the resort meals courts usually have choices, however these are usually solely the week or weekend of Easter itself. Our favourite lately has change into Le Petit Café at Disney’s Riviera Resort, which could have lovely and scrumptious desserts the week of Easter (April 1-9, 2023).
You can see the entire choices in Walt Disney World’s Easter 2023 Foodie Guide. In any case, you should definitely try the Contemporary and Grand Floridian, that are a simple monorail trip from Magic Kingdom. Likewise, Beach Club is a simple stroll from World Showcase in EPCOT. All of those are completely incredible and effectively price your time!
What follows is Easter leisure and actions, you will discover in an regular 12 months. While Walt Disney World hasn’t confirmed by hook or by crook whether or not these things will return for Easter 2023, we assume it should.
Accordingly, right here’s what you’ll be able to most likely anticipate in case you’re visiting within the first week of April 2023. Just understand that none of this occurred final 12 months and has not but been confirmed for this 12 months…
At Magic Kingdom, you’ll be able to meet Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny within the “Bunny Lane Garden” in Town Square Courtyard on Main Street, U.S.A., which is tucked away by City Hall simply contained in the entrance entrance to Magic Kingdom. (It’s the identical spot the place Santa meets.)
This meet and greet is beautifully-decorated with pastel-colored birdhouses and pots stuffed with vibrant spring flowers. It usually runs for a few weeks main as much as Easter, from 9:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. day by day. A PhotoPass photographer and character attendant are current to seize photos.
In our expertise, the wait instances for this meet and greet aren’t too lengthy. That’s most likely as a result of these characters aren’t recognizable to the typical visitor as “Disney” and since the placement shouldn’t be seen as you enter the park. We seen a handful of fogeys with youngsters in spring clothes and outfits, so we assume it’s a preferred spot for that.
We ended up ready about 10 minutes to have our photograph taken with Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny, and this was noon on what was in any other case a busy day in Magic Kingdom. We’d hazard a guess that wait instances for this spike on Easter Sunday, however in any other case it’s one thing of a hidden gem meet & greet!
Also at Magic Kingdom, however just for Easter weekend, there’s often a particular pre-parade for Disney’s Festival of Fantasy Parade. The spotlight of that is the Azalea Trail Maids, a gaggle of fifty highschool seniors chosen yearly to function “Official Ambassadors” for Mobile, Alabama.
The Azalea Trail Maids, put on extravagant clothes meant to seem like flowers, and have been marching in Walt Disney World’s parades on Easter for over 40 years. It’s a enjoyable little custom, and their costumes are attractive.
If you’re searching for a spiritual service on Easter Sunday, that’s provided within the Fantasia Ballroom at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. We don’t have official instances for this 12 months, however Catholic Mass is often held at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., with Protestant Service at 9:15 a.m. Inquire with the resort straight to substantiate instances.
Note that parking restrictions have been in impact for weeks at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, that means you’ll not be allowed to park right here for the non secular companies. Instead, take monorail or boat service to the Contemporary, or take a bus to Magic Kingdom and stroll to the Contemporary.
Again, phrases don’t do these Easter egg shows justice, so listed here are much more pictures of the eggs from previous years:
Overall, in contrast to Christmas or Halloween at Walt Disney World, Easter shouldn’t be a time to go to that we actively suggest. To the opposite, we’d suggest avoiding it in case you can. However, that received’t be an possibility for a lot of of you studying this, and it’s attainable to benefit from the expertise with environment friendly technique and by having fun with the restricted assortment of particular seasonal choices.
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