The after party ran from 10 pm to 1 am but, as with the Halloween and Christmas parties, your ticket gets you in earlier. This year, you could enter at 5 pm with your after party ticket. After the night time show at 9 pm, regular guests leave and only wristband wearing after party guests are allowed to get on attractions and order at the food booths. This would be a great day to chill at the resort or check out Disney Springs if you didn't want to buy a separate park ticket for the day and just use your after party ticket in the evening. If you can make it till 1 am, that's still gives you 8 hours in the parks!
Last year at Wine and Dine, there were two meet ups-on at the usual meet up time on Friday afternoon and one at the after party but this year, it was decided to just stick to the after party meet up. The meet up was held in the overlap period so runners of the 10k and 5k who didn't want to purchase the after party ticket could also join us.
There was a really huge turn out this year! It was great to catch up with people I'd met over the last year of runDisney running. And I got to meet some new people as well. It was quite dark due to the time change which made it difficult to get video footage or cell phone photos. Thanks to photographer hubby Will, we were able to get some shots of the meet up.
After the meet up, it was on to the after party! Will and I had already visited the Food and Wine Festival several times but there were some more things we wanted to try. I got the mimosa flight which was good but very sweet. Last year, I tried one mimosa each visit and I think spreading them out is the way to go. There aren't a lot of allergy friendly options at the festival but there was one Epcot treat I really wanted.
One giant, bigger than my head pretzel from Germany! It was good and definitely a step up from the Mickey pretzels you find in the parks. Unfortunately, mine wasn't super fresh so I'll have to go back and try on earlier in the day when it won't have been sitting around for a while. (My current favorite Disney pretzel is from Baseline Tap House in Hollywood Studios.) Bonus: The Germany pretzel, Mickey pretzel and Baseline pretzel are all dairy free and vegan if you skip the cheese sauce. Or they're a great way to get your post race cheese if you were missing it from the snack box.
It was really fun hanging out at Epcot late into the night! I don't get to do Disney at night very often because we just go for the day and the parks are so magical at night. But I did start to crash and left around 11:30 pm. One nap was not enough! It ended up being a good decision because standing on the bus back to the resort was a challenge! My legs were not up for bus surfing after the day they had!
Wine and Dine 2019:
Part 1: Expo
Part 2: 10k
Part 3: Half Marathon
Part 4: Two Course Challenge
Part 5: Meet Up and After Party-You are here!
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