Where is Dino Land? Early Spring Trip 2/27-3/9/25! Updated 4/5*

[disneyAndi14]

Is this cake worth $23 dollars?

We had a nice little rest before walking over to the Cake Bake restaurant.

I checked us in and noticed the bakery did not have a line, so we went in and looked around. It is beautiful in there and all the treats looked delicious. It is hard to justify paying $16 dollars for a brownie bar. We didn’t buy anything since we were heading into the restaurant soon.

I got the text that our table was ready within 10-15 minutes.

We went into the restaurant and were seated in the room to the left of the hostess stand. It is not the carousel room.

We had a table looking out onto the Boardwalk.

We decided to share an entree and a piece of Birthday cake.

I ordered an iced tea and it was delicious! I’m not sure why but it was one of the best iced teas I have ever had. D had a Diet Coke.

I got up, walked around, and took some pictures of the restaurant. It really is beautiful inside.





We ordered The Chicken Picatta.

This was Parmesan crusted chicken breasts served with lemon caper pasta and arugula. This was very good and a big portion so it was really shareable. It was light for a pasta dish. Next we ordered the dessert.

Pixie Fetti® Birthday Cake

Three layers of vanilla confetti cake with a hint of almond. Filled and frosted with Princess Pink vanilla almond buttercream and topped with Pixie Fetti® confetti.
$22.99

The buttercream was silky smooth and very flavorful. It was the best part in my opinion. The cake was good but definitely not the best cake I have ever had. It was a tad dry on the edges. Overall we enjoyed it. Was it worth $23 dollars? No I don’t think so! Was I mad about the cost of the meal here? No not really, I bought to treat my sister and overall everything was delicious. I am never mad about paying for a meal I am happy about. Tell me what you all think, especially if anyone reading has experienced this restaurant.

I will say, the restaurant didn’t do anything special for D’s Birthday. We did note it and talked about it to the waitress. She did put a little extra confetti and edible glitter on the piece of cake.

We finished up and headed out to walk over to Epcot.

I had made 3 FP$$ for Epcot. Signs of F&G in Epcot were popping up, yay!



I sure missed Gran Fiesta in Mexico it was closed for refurbishment.

We headed to our FP rides. We did SE, Soarin, LWtL, Nemo, and Mission Space (green), D really likes this. I think it is fine nothing great. We did Figment last. It was getting close to park closing. We walked through Journey of Water. This really is beautiful at night.


Next, we walked slowly through WS listening and watching Luminous again. 3rd time this trip!

We made it to Frozen and decided to skip it, D didn’t want to get wet, haha She got wet the last time she rode, oh my, she was now like Andi and boycotting Frozen!

We had already knew we didn’t want to try for GotG during the extra hours, the wait is usually long and we had plans to ride it on Wednesday.

Instead we walked to France and rode Remy twice! D does love this one! The wait was around 15 minutes the first time and less than that the second time.

After our rides we headed out and walked back to our resort.

Magic=pilots on the falcon, Ronto roaster, seeing a glimpse of Mando, Beauty and the Beast show, Cake Bake dinner, boat transportation, walking to Epcot, and the best iced tea ever!

Tragic=I don’t like how everything but attractions basically closes down during the extra evening hours. Unfortunately we met a few very cranky CMs this day, not sure why? At the entrance to both parks, no smiles or greeting and asking questions a few times, I felt like I was bothering them. I think that is it for today, more Magic than Tragic!

Stay tuned for another look at Dino Land or what is left of it!

 

[pkondz]

A day without ToT but we had an expensive slice of cake!

Now there's a title!

I had to wait until we tapped in to TSM to open up the tiers. Basically I could not do the switch before hand because MMRR is tier 1 and ToT is tier 2.

<sigh>
I have so much to learn.
Not going to bother, since by the time I get back there again, it will have all changed again.

We, unfortunately, arrived right at cluster o clock!

We wore our patience pants

You've got quite the way with words!

We had a fun ride, forever beavers

This is your lot in life. Don't try to fight it.

D did beat me by a few thousand points! I’m losing my touch, lol

Oh, no! The ignominy!

Haven't seen this one before.

We each had a Ronto wrap. This was D’s first time trying this and she really liked it.

Those things are ridiculously good.

That's a cool one.

Secretly, I was hoping it would convince Jack to make a trip with me, so far no go

If that doesn't do it, I don't know what would!

There was a mom and son in front of us. The boy was a teen with special needs. They were assigned pilots and his mom asked us if we would be the pilots. It would be too much for her son.

I told D let’s do it! She was nervous about it, but I did convince her to give it a try.

Glad it worked out for everyone.

Verdict? It was so much fun! Were we great? Heck no but quite a bit better than some pilots I have rode with.

Yay!
And I'm sorry... for those people who get annoyed at less than perfect pilots... Go jump in a lake.

The mom and her son had a good time being the gunners! He was very excited

guess who we got a glimpse of? Mando and Grogu!

Cool!

She did seem to like it a little better in some spots, overall she did cry more than laugh

Oh dear.

We decided to do the Beauty and Beast show next. I haven’t seen this show in many years.

Nor have I.

It is hard to justify paying $16 dollars for a brownie bar.

Nope! Maybe $6... and even that is pushing it!

We went into the restaurant and were seated in the room to the left of the hostess stand. It is not the carousel room.

No idea about this. Never been.

I ordered an iced tea and it was delicious! I’m not sure why but it was one of the best iced teas I have ever had.

Oh??? Was it sweet?

I got up, walked around, and took some pictures of the restaurant. It really is beautiful inside.

Thanks for those.

We ordered The Chicken Picatta.

Looks and sounds pretty good.

Three layers of vanilla confetti cake with a hint of almond. Filled and frosted with Princess Pink vanilla almond buttercream and topped with Pixie Fetti® confetti.

$22.99

It was a tad dry on the edges.

For $23, it better be perfect. I think I would have been very tempted to send it back.

I will say, the restaurant didn’t do anything special for D’s Birthday. We did note it and talked about it to the waitress. She did put a little extra confetti and edible glitter on the piece of cake.

Wow. So thrilling. Yippee.

Mission Space (green), D really likes this. I think it is fine nothing great.

I was very disappointed with it. I wish they'd left the ride (sans spinning) the same as orange. It doesn't make sense now.

We walked through Journey of Water. This really is beautiful at night.

Noted.

Next, we walked slowly through WS listening and watching Luminous again. 3rd time this trip!

You're an expert now!

We made it to Frozen and decided to skip it, D didn’t want to get wet, haha She got wet the last time she rode, oh my, she was now like Andi and boycotting Frozen!

Oh, no!

Unfortunately we met a few very cranky CMs this day, not sure why? At the entrance to both parks, no smiles or greeting and asking questions a few times, I felt like I was bothering them.

That's unfortunate. Everyone can have a bad day, but... you just don't expect that from "Cast members who are on stage"

 

[disneyAndi14]

@pkondz I wanted to show you are April fools snow fall, it actually came on 4/2 ugh It was a blizzard warning here, these pictures are from 4/3. The calm after the storm! Thank goodness it is almost all gone now!




Got to love a spring blizzard said no one!

 

[pkondz]

@pkondz I wanted to show you are April fools snow fall, it actually came on 4/2 ugh It was a blizzard warning here, these pictures are from 4/3. The calm after the storm! Thank goodness it is almost all gone now!

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Got to love a spring blizzard said no one!

Looks very similar to what we got, although I don't know how many inches it was. 5"? 6"?

Spring can get off its butt and get over here any time now!
(Thanks for sharing the pics! )