France Pavilion

But for some people it's like, I like coffee ice cream, if I was gonna have...

I know at the, um, France Pavilion, in the, the ice cream place that does the, um, brioche things, they sometimes have-

Yeah

... coffee ice cream, and certainly Salt and Straw have had coffee ice cream before, which is really good.

... yeah, is if you're gonna save it for the party, plan to use it only at the food booths, because I think a majority of the other, you know, Disney-owned and operated restaurants shut down during the party.

Because I remember, I think it was two years ago when I went, everyone, uh, in the, the group that I was with was craving one of those brioche, uh, ice cream sandwiches from, from the Fren- or the France Pavilion, and I remember after, uh, IllumiNations, we, you know, we headed over there, and it was closed for the night.

So I think y- pretty much your food options for the party are going to strictly be those, you know, food booths that are spread all throughout, uh, Epcot.

Greg, you were the one who I think talked about this on a couple episodes ago.

Yeah, and it was really great.

They had everybody who wanted to come to dessert party meet at the entrance of Epcot, and they actually ended up escorting them to the France Pavilion.

So it was actually a really easy transition.

And I wasn't sure if they'd let us do it, but they said as long as People were okay with knowing that they couldn't come to the reception and just knowing that they were coming just for dessert, which everyone I think was just happy to be included at some part to a Disney wedding.

Well, hell, it's literally former backstage.

Like, you're going behind the France Pavilion.

Right.

Exactly.

This fireworks, fountain, and laser show explores universal human connection and unity.

We like to watch from the bridge near France in the World Showcase, which works especially well if you have a Skyliner resort because it puts you close to the Skyliner to get back home to your resort after.

I have also enjoyed watching Luminous not far from Showcase Plaza near Disney Traders and Port of Entry gift shops.

And I do this when I don't want to be too far from the park entrance if taking the bus or the monorail back to the resort afterward.

walk because

at the end of the evening in Epcot if you're over at the French Pavilion we've actually had a fireworks party there for my birthday a few years ago so if you're doing that or something like that and then you've got to get back to your resort you've got to trek all the way through Epcot with Epcot the whole of humanity and even when you leave Epcot at the back you think have I made the right choice here this is mad but everybody just disappears onto the skyline yeah and you walk into Yacht Club and you can always get on the first bus back

Yeah, it's a nice way of doing it.

But I know the thing is, if we were there in July, yes, initially we've done February, we've done July and then October.

I think at that meetup, there was, I think in the picture, there's 30 of us.

Wow.

A couple of years later, we went back for my 55th birthday and we hired out the French pavilion for the fireworks party.

Oh, very cool.

And after we finished watching the game and then we met at Epcot and at seven o'clock and then walked over to Germany.

And we were incredibly lucky where our event guides at Epcot, let us go over to the France pavilion to take photos together with like just our photographer and content creator.

So we went over to do that at eight o'clock, um, from eight to eight 30.

And that was so special.