3D Disney’s Dessert Discovery

This was the best part of my vacation. I can’t even begin to describe the amazing food, desserts or snacks. If you’re a drinker, this is the place to be. Wine, champagne, scotch.. unlimited. Yes, you heard right, unlimited. Think of the perfect night club for the over 40 set. Live pop music by a great cover band, not too loud. .a private table in a gorgeous setting, tons of food.. tons of drink. tons of romantic fun. I dont remember seeing a lot of children, so I wonder if it was an adult only thing? n Im not a drinker but I am a dessert lover. Wow. I was not disappointed. Then, when the event is over, the very kind and helpful staff hand you some 3D glasses and guide you outside to a private and reserved viewing area for the evening fireworks. WOW! 6 months after my week long Disney vacation and this is still my favorite memory. Dont miss it. WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.

This was going to be a night of drinking, desserts, and partying, Disney style.
Unfortunately, I’m not into drinking or partying, but I AM into desserts, so I was really looking forward to at least that with my friends.
First things first, all the tables are first come first serve.
And at around $ 80 per person, I was expecting a better facility, better organization, and better food.
So once we grabbed our table, we had to leave one of our friends there to reserve it since there were barely enough tables for everyone, and then switch off in order to get our food.
Next they give you a flyer that shows what station has what dessert.
The thing is there are only about a dozen stations and about 1,000 people, so the lines were super long!
So let’s say you wanted ice cream, you would have to wait at Booth 1 for ice cream which could be about 35 minutes, in which time your ice cream will be a puddle of milk.
So then if you wanted doughnuts, that’s another 35 minute wait in another line, and so on and so forth for about 20 different food items.
ALL of your time is spent in line and not with your friends who you wanted to hang out with and chat and party with.
The VIP area was a joke since they crowded us into this small area near the entrance of EPCOT, no chairs, just standing room only.
The only thing I liked was the ice cream shaped hot dog and the cool 3D glasses (which all of us kept) that turned every firework into Micky Mouse shapes.
That’s the only reason this event wasn’t 2 stars.

I was really looking forward to going to the 3D dessert party. It seemed like it would be amazing. I love Disney and I love dessert. When we arrived to the party we had to wait in a line to check in. It went by pretty fast. We had arrived about 20 minutes early so we had to wait a little bit to get in. Once we got in we were able to quickly start eating desserts.
We had a donut sundae first and it was good. It seemed like they did not really have a lot of variety. They had about 6 different station varieties. Each station was repeated 2 or 3 times so you never had a very long wait for food. The pretzel station was by far the worst. It was different popcorn varieties that were kind of stale and soft pretzels with dipping sauces. The pretzels were supposed to be soft pretzels but they were rather hard.
The best dessert was the donut sundae. They also had a cake station, meat and cheese station, fruit station, and a ice cream hot dog station (all the ingredients were dessert items.)
For the over $ 60 price tag I feel like they should have had more variety or better quality food. The cake station was very mediocre and had very little variety. The same goes for the meat and cheese station.
There was also lots of booze. I am not a big drinker so that was not that appealing to me. They had liquor with no mixers and wine.
All in all I am glad I got to experience the dessert party once. I would not go again.

Wow, what a disappointment! I’m an annual passholder and come every year for Food and Wine at Epcot. This year, we decided to try something different and pony up some extra cash for one of the special events. We reserved the sparkling dessert party, which is a special viewing area for Illuminations plus a massive amounts of desserts and drinks. About a week before our arrival, I received a call from Disney that they were canceling the Sparkling Dessert party because they didn’t have enough reservations (strange for a Friday night) but they assured me that the 3D Disney Dessert Discovery was even better, with even more food. Rather than cancel my reservation, I accepted. (I believe it was $ 49 per person for the sparkling dessert party, and $ 59 for 3D, though they didn’t make me pay the difference for the change.)
First of all, they tell you to check in a half hour early, which was very unnecessary. Everyone basically had to sit on the floor and wait. Once they opened the curtains at 8pm to the event space (a large event hall set back between England and Canada) people literally ran for the tables. Very unnecessary, but okay, fine. The disappointment really started when I got a taste of the food! All of the desserts I tried (with the exception of the doughnuts they fried in front of you) tasted like pre-​packaged pastries, and not even good ones! They did have a cheese and meat buffet table, which was okay, and soft pretzels with different dipping sauces were passable as well. Drink-​wise, there was hard liquor samples (but nothing to mix with, so you were just sipping it straight) two wine tables, and then just water and lemonade. There was also a band playing pop song covers, which was fine but nothing special. After the event ended at 9:30 (at which point we were so bored) they gave you 3D glasses and ushered you to a special area to watch Illuminations (we didn’t even bother to stick around for that, we’ve seen illuminations plenty of times.)
Bottom line — the food was incredibly bad for any standards, nevermind Disney standards. I’m annoyed I paid $ 49 per person to eat the equivalent of grocery store cupcakes and brownies and have very small glasses of wine. The normal $ 59 price is unbelievable. If they dropped the price to $ 20, I still wouldn’t bother. If you want to splurge on a special meal, reserve an event at one of the restaurants in World’s Showcase instead!

Every year I want to do more than just the basic kiosks around world showcase but never seem to have the time or the money but this year, I had the opportunity to go to this Dessert Party. I originally thought that it was a smaller party located down by the VIP viewing location by England but I was mistaken… it is located in the world showplace events pavilion which is huge! There must have been close to 200 people at the event.
When you make the reservations, they offer you two prices… $ 55 for standard admission or $ 90 for the Sweet Seats option which is reserved seats, early entry, a special dessert and cocktail. We just did the basic admission and is was just great for us.
We got there about 30 min before the event started and checked in and given a wrist band, a menu, and special viewing glasses for illuminations. Once the event opened, there was many different tables of food… not just all dessert. There were tables dedicated to Desserts, meats, ice cream, donuts, pretzels, cheeses, and many different booze vendors. Whiskey, bourbon, vodka, wines, margaritas, etc. It was way more food than i imagined would be there. But then again, its basically a very large all you can eat/​drink buffet. The lines for each table were never that long. There were many tables for standing and sitting at and never seemed to want to sit. We snagged a standing table and took turns going for food.
Menu was a follows…
FOOD
Red Stag Flambeed cinnamon doughnuts
Chocolate Bacon Brittle Cake bars
Butter Pecan cupcakes
Apple Crumb cakes
Mickey Brownie Bites
Peanut Butter and jelly Whoopie pies
No gluten No Sugar Lemon bars
Watermelon Cupcakes
Assorted Cheeses and fruits
Gourmet popcorn
Warm pretzel sticks with assorted dips
Ice Cream ‘Hot Dog’
Assorted meats, Seafood, breads, dips and chutneys
Watermelon salad
Mini Doughnuts
BEVERAGES
Pinnacle vodka
cordials
Middleton wines
Assorted Whiskeys
Assorted ports
Martini drinks
Moscato wines
Assorted cocktails
Skinnygirl wines
coffee
tea
water
Everything we had was great. My number one favorite was the Red Stag doughnuts! I could have just sat and eaten those all night long. I also enjoyed trying many of the whiskeys and having conversations about the proper way to drink it… Pretzel sticks with cheese dip was also a favorite.
Plus, they had a live band there entertaining us. They played all «sugar/​candy’ related songs!
So we stuffed our faces from 8 pm to 9:30 and then we all were lead out to the area between the two world showcase shops for watching Illuminations with our special glasses. I won’t tell you what the glasses do but it was a great addition to the show!
We had a great time, met some fun people, and left totally stuffed and happy. I will want to do this event again next year! Enjoy!