Gingerbread Galore: Disney Hotels Deck the Halls at 6 Resorts in 2023. Santa may have elves, but our cast members are working their merry magic preparing for the Walt Disney World Resort holiday season, which officially begins Nov. 11, 2023!
One of our favorite parts of the Holidays here at Walt Disney World is resort hopping to see all the decorations and gingerbread houses. The Contemporary with its large display and small store on the 4th floor, and the Grand Floridian with its huge display and bakery that is actually built inside the gingerbread. Furthermore, at Beach Club, you can see a life-sized carousel made of gingerbread, to Disney’s Animal Kingdom that has an 8′ Ginger-affe, that’s a gingerbread giraffe.
If you’ve ever gazed in fascination at the larger-than-life gingerbread displays that appear each holiday season at Disney Resort Hotels, you’ve probably asked yourself how long it takes to create such wonders. Planning and preparation begin a full seven months ahead!
The culinary team at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa starts mixing the fragrant dough for its life-size gingerbread house in May ahead of a two-month curing process. Individual shapes, from shingles to Mickey cookies, are baked and decorated throughout the summer and then stored for “construction” in November. The house itself takes three days to build.
This year, guests can once more enjoy these stunning works of art in six Disney Resort Hotels, including a new display at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort. I can’t wait to see the incredible creations that our cast members have in store for us! Look for displays – no doubt, with a few new surprises – at these locations.
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Disney’s Beach Club Resort
- Disney’s BoardWalk Resort
- Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
- Disney’s Yacht Club Resort
From a 17-foot-tall EARidescent gingerbread Cinderella Castle at Disney’s Contemporary Resort to a life-sized spinning gingerbread carousel at Disney’s Beach Club Resort, each gingerbread display is a masterpiece that welcomes guests into timeless Disney stories through the tiniest, most delicious details.
They’re even more spectacular in person, so be sure to stop by and see these whimsical confectionery creations for yourselves – and while you’re at it, see if you can spot all the carefully placed Easter eggs and hidden Mickeys!
