To keep with Walt's vision, Magic Kingdom opened in 1971 with no alcohol offerings. This all changed, however, in 2012 when Magic Kingdom's new Fantasyland portion of the Park opened.
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Magic Kingdom was a dry park from when it opened in 1971 until 2012 when guests were finally able to purchase alcohol at a single restaurant, Be Our Guest. It wasn't until 2016 when some additional restaurants finally started serving beer and wine – Tony's Town Square Restaurant, Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd.
It's only in the past few years that alcohol has been served at Magic Kingdom, so many people don't know the ins and outs of where to find it. Unlike the other three parks at Walt Disney World, you won't find alcohol openly served or carried in the park.
Why the dry Park? Walt's vision for the Disney Parks was not to include alcohol. In 1956, Walt was quoted talking about Disneyland Park, saying, “No liquor, no beer, nothing. Because that brings in a rowdy element. That brings people that we don't want and I feel they don't need it.
While you might want to explore this park with a cold beverage in hand, unlike the other Disney parks in Florida, you can't walk around outside with alcohol at Magic Kingdom.
Alcoholic beverages can be purchased at Walt Disney World Resort by all Guests 21 years of age or older. Any Guest who wishes to purchase an alcoholic beverage at Walt Disney World Resort must present one of the following valid forms of identification: U.S. state driver's license (includes U.S. territories*)
It was a big deal 10 years ago when the Be Our Guest Restaurant opened and offered alcohol to the general public. While the other parks at Walt Disney World had always offered adult beverages, Magic Kingdom was kept dry, seemingly as a tribute to Walt Disney himself and the way he wanted his parks to be.
Yep, you can purchase and wander with alcohol in Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and Disney's Hollywood Studios, but you can't leave the park with it. Many guests are intimately familiar with that “chug at the gate” policy.
Originally, Walt Disney did not want alcohol sold in the parks, but many embraced this change. Magic Kingdom does have more strict regulations in place for the sale of alcohol in the park. For example, some of the rules regarding alcohol in Magic Kingdom are: Only table service restaurants can serve alcohol.
Magic Kingdom has fireworks every night of the year. Most of the time they are free with your park admission. However, there are a few nights in the fall and winter where you'll need a special ticket.
A beer at Walt Disney World can cost anywhere from $8 to $13. Draft and canned domestic beer is in the $8 – $9 range, while specialty, import, and craft beers range from $11 – $13.
Guests are allowed to bring outside food and nonalcoholic beverage items into the park for self-consumption, provided they are not in glass containers and do not require heating, reheating, processing, refrigeration or temperature control and do not have pungent odors.
A: Walt Disney World theme parks, water parks, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and Disney resort hotels are smoke-free environments except for designated smoking areas. At Disney Resort hotels, smoking is permitted in designated outdoor smoking areas.
Yes, as long as you follow your resort's pool rules as they are posted, you can take your own adult beverages from your room to the pool area. As you correctly identified, glass containers, for obvious reasons, are not allowed. It is also important to note that you cannot take any beverage into the pool itself.