mickey916
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12/1 - Resorts/Disney Springs Day Part 1
We woke up this day with only one thing on our mind - beignets! Usually we get them on our arrival day but arrived way too late and the next two days were park days. We were excited to see that the new hot cocoa beignets were making their debut on December 1st and made our way to POFQ to be some of the first to try them.
Our plan was to get one order of the Hot Cocoa Beignets and one order of the regular beignets.
Here is what the poster of the Hot Cocoa Beignets looked like (Photo Courtesy of Disney Food Blog)
Here is what we received:
Not really the same thing. These were disappointing, not just in appearance but also in taste. There wasn’t enough hot cocoa powder to taste it, the amount of fudge drizzle was way too little, and the pipette of chocolate milk just made the insides really soggy. You really couldn’t taste chocolate milk. They even skimped on the little sprinkles. Definitely wasn’t executed well.
Luckily we had also ordered the regular beignets with chocolate sauce.
These were warm and delicious as always! So far we’ve tried two different specialty beignets, last year’s peppermint beignet and this year’s hot cocoa, both disappointing. From now on, we’ll stick to the OG beignets.
After our beignet breakfast, I took a picture of one of the French Quarter’s Christmas trees:
We then walked down to Port Orleans Riverside to see their tree as well:
We just love the POFQ/POR resorts. We walked off breakfast by walking along the Sassagoula and then drove to Disney Springs to begin the Christmas Tree Stroll and, of course, visit Gideon’s. We stopped by Gideon’s to see if there was a virtual queue and found a very long line. The CM said there was no VQ and that she estimated it to be a 1.5 hour wait. We decided to start the Christmas Tree Stroll and hope for a shorter line or VQ later.
We did the Stroll last year and I wasn’t sure if the trees would be the same this year. I was surprised that even though the trees had similar themes to last year, their decorations were a little different.
Annual Passholder Tree:
Haunted Mansion Tree:
Disney Vacation Club Tree (We really liked this one):
It looks like the newly resigned DVC Fort Wilderness Cabins are on there as an “ornament”.
The Encanto Tree:
Lion King Tree. We love the Simba topper to this tree.
Up next...we continue the Christmas Tree Stroll.