2020 has been a year, and we are all VERY ready to celebrate the end of it and welcome in 2021!

And even if you can’t get to Disney World for New Year’s Eve (which is going to be a LOT different this year anyway), you can bring Disney World to your home to celebrate in your own special way. And we’ve got some tips on how you can do that!

Watch Happily Ever After At Home

One of the most fun ways to celebrate the end of the year is with fireworks! So why not celebrate 2020 with the Happily Ever After fireworks spectacular, which you can watch FROM YOUR COUCH on YouTube.

Even better? Sync up the video to start playing right at midnight, and you just rang up the New Year the Disney way! How’s that for bringing some Disney magic into your New Year?

Disney World Shares Info on New Year’s Eve Hours and Fireworks

Drink Champagne From Your Favorite Disney Mug

You don’t have to drink champagne out of a boring old glass — instead, drink it out of your favorite Disney mug or glass! We’re sure you have a stash of Disney mugs to choose from because we certainly do!

Pick a mug, any Disney mug, whether it be one celebrating your love for Disney villains, Disney Princesses, your favorite attraction, or Mickey and Minnie, it’s bound to make you smile as you raise it to toast the New Year.

Stock Up On Disney Clothes, Mugs, and More With this BIG Online Sale!

Recreate Your Favorite Park Recipes

No New Year’s Eve is complete without snacks! So find your inner Remy and get to cooking! We’ve posted plenty of recipes for you to choose from here at DFB, so you should be able to find all your favorites!

If you need a few suggestions, some of our favorite recipes are those for Dole Whip, Churros, Baby Yoda’s Blue Milk Macarons, Totchos, and Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup. These are all perfect for a stay-at-home New Year’s Eve party!

Cook like Remy with These 10 RECIPES from Disney and Dole!

Zoom New Year’s Eve Party

If you can’t spend New Year’s Eve with your family and friends, host a virtual party, but with one requirement — everyone has to wear Mickey hats and Minnie ears! Or maybe even take it a step further and make everyone wear their favorite Disney clothes, too!

And don’t forget the music — make a Disney playlist that makes you feel like you’re bringing the parks into your house and your virtual party! Hakuna Matata!

Here’s How You Can Celebrate New Year’s Eve From Your Disney World Hotel!

GroupWatch Your Favorite Disney Movies

Here’s the easiest way to bring Disney to your home on New Year’s Eve — set up a GroupWatch party on Disney+ to watch all your favorite movies with your family and friends, no matter where they are!

To use the service, select the movie you want to watch on Disney+ and go to its details page. Click on the Group Watch icon — you can then send an invite to up to six other Disney+ subscribers so that the movie plays simultaneously for everyone!

While watching, you can react with emojis or pause the title. So now everyone can cry during Soul at the same time!

Learn more about how GroupWatch works here!

Play Virtual Disney Trivia

We don’t know about you, but we LOVE Disney trivia. It’s so much fun! So why not host a virtual Disney trivia session on New Year’s Eve? You can get ideas for questions online (just Google “Disney Trivia” for some ideas) or make up your own!

To make it extra fun, have everyone put in a certain amount of money for a Disney gift card that will go to the winner or winning team!

This New Edition of Disney Parks Trivia Celebrates Make-A-Wish!

Virtual Disney Karaoke

We’re total Disney fans here, therefore we know ALL the Disney songs. So why not sing them via karaoke? It’s so easy to find instrumental tracks for Disney songs, and it could be a lot of fun to sing your favorites with your friends and family via Zoom.

You don’t even need a karaoke machine — just play the track and sing! So who’s ready to duet on “A Whole New World?”

Rock Around the Christmas Tree With This Disney Holiday Playlist!

Make Disney-Themed Cocktails

What’s NYE without a few drinks? We’re talking cocktails and mocktails. And we’ve got some recipes for those, too! From Villains-inspired mocktails to an Orange Bird-inspired drink to an Elderflower cocktail, pick one that sounds good and become a Mixologist!

Or if you have your own recipes you want to whip up, add a Disney glow cube (we know you’ve got a collection of them — we ALL do) to make each cocktail a Disney party in each glass (or mug).

These 3 EXCLUSIVE Star Wars Drinks in Disney World Have The Best Glow Cubes EVER!

So there are some ideas to ring in the New Year in true Disney style. And from everyone here at DFB, we hope you have a very Happy New Year! 2021 is FINALLY here!!

Ring In The New Year With Even MORE 2021 Disney World Merchandise!

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At TouringPlans we eat — a lot. Snacks, quick service, and table service meals are all part of our theme park experience to make sure we have the most up-to-date information on our Lines 2.0 app and so we can make the best recommendations. Sometimes we have amazing meals, and other times. . . well, we don’t sugar coat it when a meal isn’t one we’d recommend.

It’s hard to narrow down the best meals that we have in any given year, but these are meals that really surprised us by being quite good during 2020. Although they may not be the highest-rated restaurants on property, they stood out in our minds and made our personal top 3 list for 2020.

Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Grand Floridian Cafe, Grand Floridian Resort

This dish was so good that Len actually went back a second time within the week just to order it again! A hearty portion size and delicious flavor made this a winner winner chicken dinner.

Your first thought is probably “Oh, they brought Len half a fried turkey. Interesting.”  It was not, dear reader, a turkey, despite almost reaching both sides of a 12″ dinner plate.  It was the largest chicken breast I’ve ever seen.  The photo above doesn’t even do it justice, because it stood at least 3″ high off the plate.  My first two questions to the server were “Is that a chicken?” and “How did you catch it?”

Saganaki on Fire (and more) at Wine Bar George, Disney Springs

Even if you’re not really interested in wine, the food at Wine Bar George makes it worth a visit. And how can you go wrong with deliciously gooey cheese ON FIRE.

Clearly if you want to make a statement during your meal this is the way to do it. A squeeze of lemon at the end of this flaming cheese being delivered to your table is part of the dramatic presentation, but it also brightens the dish. Although it is a must to enjoy while it is still hot, our team actually found it to be more delicious once it had cooled.

Everything that we tried there was simply delicious and we’re already lining up to see who can do the next review!

Lobster and Grits, Le Cellier Festival of the Arts Brunch, Canada Pavilion, EPCOT

 

No word yet on whether the special brunch at Le Cellier will return for this year’s Taste of EPCOT Festival of the Arts, but we’d be so happy if it did–or if this dish happened to appear on the menu at any time at all!

I was making some pretty embarrassing (for Chef, not me) sounds and faces while enjoying this dish and was surprised when Chef Tony Marotta stopped by our table. Maybe it was because we were at the first seating of his new brunch or maybe it was to ask me to stop yelling about the lobster. Either way, he was kind enough to explain that the lobster was one of his favorites and is an entrée he took great care in thinking through.

I can only picture some sort of When Harry Met Sally moment going on regarding this lobster. I have no doubt that it was that good. Could it return in the future? Here’s hoping!

 

If you’ve been to Disney in 2020, have you had any meals that you found outstanding? Let us know what your favorites were in the comments.

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