Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - Disney Springs Marketplace Tour With Host Jeremy

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

Hello Travelers! This week join host Jeremy for a stroll through the Marketplace section of Disney Springs. We do a thorough tour, including the busy dining room of Rainforest Cafe.    If you like what we do, consider joining our crew on Patreon. These wonderful people help us keep the microphones crisp and the servers warm at night.   Visit us a walkabouttheworld.com - find links to all the things - attraction episodes, Insta accounts of all the hosts, and even how to buy your own Walkabout shirt!   Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi.   You can now also drop us at line at [e-mail]. Say hi, tell us how you found us, and give us some suggestions on things you'd love to hear. Please consider giving us a rating and review wherever you listen - it really helps.   Walkabout The World is a weekly Disney podcast, always recorded on property at Walt Disney World or Disneyland Resort with the simple goal of making you feel like you are in the middle of the magic.

Welcome back to Walk About the World and also hello, my dear theme park travelers. Thanks for joining us here in our weekly little in-park family reunion that we do and today we're quasi in-park. We are once again at Disney Springs. Recently Jay did a fantastic episode leading us through the west side of Disney Springs. And today, you and I are going to take a meandering stroll through the marketplace. Talk a little bit, walk a little bit, let your poor heart break a little bit. Yeah, we're just going to talk about what we see, what we experience.

If you haven't been here in a while, hopefully this will give you a little taste of it. If your week was anything like mine, and I hope it wasn't, this last week was a lot. And I personally could use a little stroll through the springs. Currently we are standing next to Uniqlo, or Uniclo. I've never really known which it is. Lego store is in sight across the way. World of Disney is in sight in the far distance. Levi's store to your right and the Daily Poutine straight ahead. Lots of seating. It is beautiful, partly cloudy skies here in the city,

beautiful, blooming trees all around us. And we're gonna take a little walk, so come with me. So come with me. Come on. Come on. Come on. The make-it-says-of. Checkbox. You know we have to pause for the water feature, right? Standing right next to the Daily Poutine.

One of the just most beautiful little water features they've ever made. Just gorgeous. Beautiful overflowing planters on each of the four corners of the water feature. It is summer here at Disney Springs. All of the little planter beds are just bursting with flowers. It just looks beautiful. What do we have over here? I'm looking at the Daily Poutine. We have a bourbon orange punch, Makers Mark, Kentucky straight bourbon, Minute Maid orange juice, red passion fruit, edible glitter. I don't know about the edible glitter thing, but they also have a Canadian apple slushie. They have poutine too, but anyway, let's go. Alright, rounding the corner at World of Disney. Lego stores on your left.

Giant Lego dragon with a knight fighting him to your left. Let's walk over to the water with the Lego store behind us, Rainforest Cafe across the way, the Lego dinosaur sitting here staring awkwardly with his tongue hanging out of his mouth as always and he has a name and I can't remember it. Legosaurus? I don't know. In the far distance, the green and blue and pink pastels of Saratoga Springs. And here we have the battle of the coffee purveyors, Joffrey's coffee and tea to your right. This is some of the oldest Springs ambience you will find many, many years ago. I love it. Wetzel's pretzels to your left. You can get your pretzels, your lemonade, your hot dogs, your hot dogs wrapped in pretzels. We've arrived at the other side of World of Disney, where you can be spat upon by a stitch.

Did you hear that? Just barely missed us. I'm going to turn right here because we're doing a proper tour. So to our left, we're going into this little alley here. To our left is Ghirardelli. Rick, Michelle, did I do it right? Ghirardelli. And then back here you will also find the Basin Store.

Bless you. Dang it. Now you made me want to cough. Or you can get all of your soapy delights. And then here, Crystal Arts in the backrebus, Erebus brothers. All right, I want you to breathe deeply here in a moment, because we're going to go in the little store area of Ghirardelli in a count of three. Ah, could you smell it? How many of you remember back in the day when you would always get a free sample, a free square of chocolate when you went in there? All right, on the other side of Ghirardelli we have a face painting corner over here in a Disney PhotoPass area. There's a beautiful, beautiful mural over here. Greetings from Disney Springs,

the source of inspiration. I'm going to take a photo for you. Right here you can get henna, temporary tattoos, and face painting. Right across in the face painting you can get bubble waffles of many sorts over here at Marketplace Snacks. Somebody's crooning over near the water. Let's duck into Marketplace Co-op here real quick. The co-op as the name suggests is a series of small stores inside a store where you get all kinds of Disney related goodies. You have the Disney Vault off to the right which is all Disney themed merchandise cups, shirts, and the like. Here's a stand of orange bird stuff which as you know is one of my favorites. All kinds of stuff, tropical Mickey shirts, you name it. D-Tech on demand to your left. Here on the right side, right back right corner, you can get all the Disney home

decor items for kitchen, living room, plates, you know, all that good stuff. Plates, cups, dinnerware. And then there is a dress shop to the left. And then finally an area where you can get Disney art. Poor little ones. Alright, back out into the heat. Let's stroll over towards the crooner. It's one of those days in central Florida where the sky is just beautiful. It's very, very blue, puffy cotton ball clouds, but no storms today.

Just a pleasant little covering of clouds. Here's Dockside Margaritas. You know what? I'll try it. In the last five seconds, I have no idea. And you know, a little bit of singing going on. Hey, there's a little bit of singing going on. Hey, there's a little bit of singing going on.

Hey, there's a little bit of singing going on. Hey, there's a little bit of singing going on. Wow. Do you want to go sing? Well, I mean, there was singing. Dockside Margaritas looks like an old weathered margarita joint you might find in Key West. Around the back you can set in view of the water and around the side here you can set with an earshot of the visiting musician. All right we're not, let's move on. Off to your right we have Trendy.

Once Upon a Toy. Once Upon a Toy is great. I don't care how old you are. Trendy Disney themed clothing. Right in front of us is such a cool little thing. You guys know that I'm a fan of trains. Any sort of trains. Little tiny trains, big trains, doesn't matter.

There's a little train here at the center of Marketplace that you can ride, or at least your little one can ride. I don't know if you can ride it or not, but the little ones can, and it's cool. Let's take a left. We're heading around the central waterway here. So we've just taken a left. If you're looking at the train, taking a left. We have the Pearl Factory here. You can get pearl jewelry. It says Hawaii's original pearl in the oyster. Japanese jewelry. Eye catchers over here. Which is basically a little area where you can buy wind chimes and what not. Big Disney pen trading store

right in the middle here and coming up on a right. I'm not a pen person. I know that some of our hosts are. No many of you are. But if you want a pen, if you want a lanyard for your pens, if you want to book the store your pens in, this is the place for you. Right behind us used to be the Star Wars store, but that is no longer. You have to go elsewhere for your Galactic goodies. Right here on our left, pun intended, is Lefty's, the left-hand store. If you're a South Pole, get all your left-hand stuff. All right.

Heading towards the center of this little area of Marketplace, we have... Oh, did you hear? Somebody's paying. There is a carousel here. Where you and all your little ones, your special person you can ride little horsies or little seats next to the horsies and go around in circles and hear music. One of my all-time favorite places in all of the Springs is the Earl of Sandwich right over here to your right. The world's greatest hot sandwich and it it may be

still probably one of the best values on all of Disney property anywhere in any of the resorts any of the parks Earl of Sandwich tastes amazing it is surprisingly affordable don't sleep on it. Seats outside and inside. sleep on it. Seats outside and inside. Hey, one of the longtime purveyors here, Disney Springs the Spice and Tea Exchange. Haven't been in forever, it smells wonderful. Let's pop in. Welcome back. We're opening up the scale of jars between the two of you. Thank you. Can I get a small or a large? Large.

Sure. And then any sweet? One. One. We are good to go. The little store is just absolutely jam packed with spice mixes and teas, specialty tea mixes, you name it. Even specialty sugars. others. Something new to me, it's probably not that new, but they have a tea bar in there now. Right around the corner from Spice and Tea, I'm going to put you in the queue. Ready?

Right around the corner from Spice and Tea Exchange. Or Plant Your Bed with gorgeous white blooming crepe myrtles and then right past that is EET, E-E-T, Modern Indian Cuisine. Been in there a couple times, it's a favorite of Bill and Aaron's Zeiss. Excellent food. Tucked away. And last we've made it my friends. We are, it's not last, we're not ending here, but one of my favorite places in all of Disney Springs is the Christmas store and we're going in. It's it's nearly mid mid-year. A bunch of travelers just piled out but it's nearly mid-year but I could use a little Christmas now. Oh man and the air

conditioning is crisp. air conditioning is crisp. Breathe in the Christmas wall to wall ornaments decor with what looks like the bottom of giant Christmas trees that we're going to walk past. Come on. Off to your right, there's personalization available. You can get your ornaments personalized. We are now under one of the Christmas trees, just like you and I would have done as a kid, climb under the Christmas tree and have your little Christmas fort. You can do that here, I absolutely love it. One of the things I've noticed is that the resort themed ornaments are, in my opinion, some of the best art being produced, some of the best collectibles. Fantastic! Whoever is in charge of the

ornament department, well done! On this back wall here you can find ornaments related to all the movies, all the classics, animated films, you name it. I just love this store. Now let's pop out. Taking refuge under the shade of a beautiful white blooming crepe myrtle here next to the art of Disney. I haven't been to the art of Disney in a while. Quite certain there's nothing to be heard. Can't really hear art that well. Josh may disagree. This is the far back corner

of Disney Springs at the marketplace. Can't go any further without exiting. I was going to say we're going to waddle up here as for pretty dang accurate actually we're gonna walk up here towards Rainforest Cafe you can you can hear the water already come on Rainforest Cafe, a wild place to shop and eat. We don't go there very often anymore, but so much nostalgia for me. This is like, if you're a child of the 80s, and you're probably not because I'm old, but if you are, this is reminiscent of a mall to me. Just has that, it just has that 90s vibe to it.

Still such a cool place. We're going to pop in. Before we do, I wanted to let you know that right next to Earl of Sand, which is Goofy's Candy Company, which is a great place to go in and get a super cold carbonated beverage and a dessert, a treat of your choice. Come on, let's go in and reinforce real quick. Just looking at the menu doesn't change much. Who hasn't had the awesome appetizer adventure platter? With Cajun chicken, cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, pico de gallo, all kinds of good stuff. Yes.

And I would eat it right, right now. Let's go in. Dense jungle foliage attached to every square inch of the ceiling with tropical birds and monkeys and fruits and then of course all the merch you could ever dream of. And if you did not know the the main little mascot of Rainforest Cafe is a little green tree frog. No I I do not know his name, but he's on everything. And since the time when I wore a younger man's clothes, until now, one of my just, I don't know, I can't help but stare every single time I come is the big old cylindrical aquariums. Sorry, I'm staring at them now.

Just gorgeous with all kinds of tropical plants inside and tropical fish and bubbles. Just love it. Even though we're not eating here and I've got a microphone. Should we just randomly walk through the dining area? Here's the giant apes and the big elephant. That eats rocks and things. And the water feature with what looks like Atlas or somebody. The water boiling up around his nethers. I'm going to try to get a little bit of a better view of the Volcano nearly near to erupt off to your right. Alright, folks, back out into Marketplace. As soon as we exit, boiling cauldron of water and steam and alligators coming down the side of the volcano. Alright, deep breath in and out. Oh, angry alligator. Alright, with the rumbling of the volcano behind us, let's give a shout out as we always do to our patrons. At the beautiful tomorrow level we have Beck Castle, Bill and Erin Zeiss, Brian E. Grant, Derek at Satisfactual Sign Company, John Hamilton, Meredith Izzo,

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Alright thank you for joining me on a little stroll through the marketplace area of Disney Springs today. Currently looking across, back across the waterway towards World of Disney with the rumbly volcano of rainforest behind us now. Really appreciate all of you. Thank you for being there, for listening. If you're just finding us, this is what we do. That's about it. You won't find news or current events here. There are plenty of places you can get that and people who do it very, very well. We walk, we talk, we listen, we soak up some of the ambience and magic of the parks and

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