Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast

Shopping, Dining and Fun: The Allure of Disney Springs

October 17, 2023 Bryan Lewis & Mykhailo Nahirniak
Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast
Shopping, Dining and Fun: The Allure of Disney Springs
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Ready for a magical adventure without even stepping into the parks? Then join us as we uncover the wonders of Disney Springs, where the fun never ends, and your wallet might just feel a bit lighter! With everything from delectable eateries like Gideon's Bakehouse and Chef Art Smith's Homecoming to the bustling nightlife brimming with performances and activities that won't cost you a park ticket, Disney Springs is a treasure trove of excitement waiting to be explored.

But the magic doesn't stop there! Beyond the attractions, Disney Springs is a shopper's paradise filled with high-end stores like Under Armour, Columbia, Uniqlo and the surf-themed Ron Jon's. Got a craving for barbeque? We'll take you on a gastronomic journey to the Polite Pig, a Michelin-honored delight. And let's not forget the one-of-a-kind experience of soaring above it all in the Characters in Flight hot air balloon. Pro tip: keep an eye on the wind conditions!

Of course, we know that all that fun can be exhausting. That's why we'll also introduce you to some of our favorite spots to relax and take a breather. Dive into the mouthwatering menu at Chicken Guy or embark on a serene boat tour around the lake. You might even find yourself entranced by the captivating performance of Cirque du Soleil's Drawn to Life. And since we're always looking for the next Disney Springs adventure, we'd love for you to join us in the Miles from Main Street Community to share your experiences and suggestions. Step into the magic with us as we discover the wonders of Disney Springs together!

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Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So today, on Miles for Main Street, we are talking Disney Springs. But first a message from Bryan Lewis. Take it away, Bryan.

Bryan Lewis:

I never understand why you have to set me up like that but it's kind of fun and I probably should just stop commenting on it, right, but anyway, yeah, we need you to go out and review the show. We need reviews. It would really help us out. So, if you can go out to Apple Podcasts or any of the other platforms that you're on, whether it's Spotify or Google Podcasts or whatever we need you to leave us a review so that others can find the show. It would really help us out. Mykhailo, Disney Springs we never talk about Disney Springs and, as you were alluding to before we got started recording, it sounds like you just don't give it the time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, it's tough because there's a lot at Disney Springs that I want to do, but I feel like when I go on these trips we just never dedicate enough time really to Disney Springs. Most of the time we will actually say, okay, this is a Disney Springs day, but usually that just means that maybe we'll start at Disney Springs and then just kind of venture out. It's like a rest day, which we don't really do rest days, we just do like non-park days. But yeah, I just feel like there are so many things to do in Disney Springs. It can literally be an all-day type thing and we've never really done that where we've just hung out in Disney Springs all day. Typically, it's either you start the day there and then venture out, or sometimes we'll just kind of like hit up Disney Springs late in the evening and just like hang out there. But yeah, there are just so many things that we've wanted to do and I thought it would be a good idea to kind of talk through some of those things. Yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

I totally agree. We have taken the time and usually that time I know a lot of people will plan to be in a park on their travel day. But that's our day that we kind of will hit Disney Springs when we travel. We're down there for a week typically. So we will travel. We'll get in around noon, check into our hotel and then head over to Disney Springs and check things out over there. That's kind of how we've always done it, or we might have a dinner reservation over there or something like that. We don't usually have a park day planned for the day that we travel, because you just don't know how your travel day could end up sometimes. So that's how we've always done it and that has given us some time to enjoy some of Disney Springs, see some of the things down there.

Bryan Lewis:

But, as you were talking about as well, non-park days, we have found ourselves at Disney Springs a lot on those non-park days, so it almost helps if you find time to go down there and dedicate some time to do it. I think there's a lot to see. There's a really cool story happening that you can pick out, just like any of the other parks. You know there's a theme and a story to this and I think it's fun to walk around there and just see things and, as you were talking about, you'll spend some time there at night. There's a lot of nightlife going on, there's performances going on and things that you can just kind of go down and do and it doesn't cost you for the cost of a park ticket. There's no, it's free to get in there, right? You don't have to pay to get in or anything. So it's nice to have one of those days to have things to do and not have to pay for a park ticket.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and we. So it's funny I make this sound like we never go to Disney Springs, but we actually we go to Disney Springs often. It's just so hard to do all of the things that you would want to do, like we haven't even gone to Gideons yet at Disney Springs and we've been to Disney Springs several times, but a lot of the times we just don't have the amount of time to either wait to get into Gideons or we're doing other things and it's just not a priority.

Bryan Lewis:

As Lin-Manuel has wrote, you know, "the greatest cookies in the world. Oh, that's how that goes. Yeah yeah, I don't know what you were thinking, that's how I yeah, that's how we wrote it, right yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, it must be, yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's interesting, there's just so much to do there, and I feel like every time we leave Disney Springs, it's always kind of like, oh, we didn't get to do this, or like, even if we plan out a Disney Springs day, things may turn into something else, like we don't necessarily want to have a sit down meal or something like that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

But that's probably the first thing that I want to talk about is, we have been threatening to go to homecoming For so long now and it's definitely it's very high on our list of things that we just need to do at Disney Springs. I think at one point we had a reservation for homecoming and it was like part of our plan. And then, I think, like a reservation at Ohana opened up or something and we were like, well, we're going to Ohana, it was something like that, but we ended up canceling our reservation at homecoming. But that's still something really exciting that we want to do, because it's like, well, homecoming is you may know more about this than me, but it's the, it's what's her name?

Bryan Lewis:

Art Smith.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, chef Art Smith, but he was what's her name? She was the first time she was a chef at Disney Springs. She gave everybody cars, the TV show.

Bryan Lewis:

Oprah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That one Oprah's chef.

Bryan Lewis:

Wow, you just really couldn't remember Oprah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I could not remember Oprah. Wow, I remember that she gave people cars. But yeah, he was Oprah's chef and it's all just kind of like home cooking, Like it's supposed to be, kind of like soul food and the things that that Brian has told me about is there. It's almost like bottomless moonshine. That sounds wonderful.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, it's not bottomless. They. They have a like refill system. So you go and you buy one and then you come back and it's like half priced, refill it or something.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, like, like that sounds wonderful and I would love to do that and, yeah, it's, for some reason, we just like haven't been able to get around to doing that and I think a lot of times to like actually have a sit-down meal at Disney Springs. You need a good amount of time just because of all of the other things that are going on and all of the other options that you have. Mm-hmm, another thing that I haven't done yet, and, brian, I think we're planning on trying to do this when we go for our Christmas trip. But is the hanger bar like Jock, Jock Lindsay's, lin Lin, lin Lee's, lin's, lee's, lin Z's, jack Lindsay's hanger bar?

Bryan Lewis:

Jock Lindsey's Hanger Bar and Jock Lindsey is the Pilot from the very first Indiana Jones movie, so it has a lot of nods to Indiana Jones inside there and what he's what Jock Lindsey's kind of been up to.

Bryan Lewis:

We had a really good time when we got to go there.

Bryan Lewis:

So, you know, that's something that I was gonna talk about a little bit and we we had a rainy day and we were having a non-park day, and this was 2017, the last time that Tayme and I were able to go by ourselves and and we walked into Disney Springs and ended up walking right into, like, House of Blues, like right away, and it wasn't busy there's nobody in there.

Bryan Lewis:

We went up to the bar and sat at the bar for a while, had a couple of drinks, talked to the bartender, had a, an appetizer, maybe a couple, but it was really fun because House of Blues has this amazing art it's all folk art collection that they have and we got to sit there and talk to them about some of that art. The bartender knew a lot of what was going on and that was really cool. They actually have like a sand painting where, if you take a picture of it With your phone, I believe with the flash on, it looks different than it does If you're just looking at it like it looks like it's smiling at you or something.

Bryan Lewis:

I can't remember exactly how it worked right now, but I'll go back and dig those pictures out again. But it was really neat being able to do that, and you know that's the thing with Disney Springs is that you don't have to have a plan, you don't have to be worried about where you're going next unless you have a reservation, so you can take the time to sit down and talk to the bartender, or or, like we did at Jock Lindsey's, we sat out on the water and had a drink at a table and just had an awesome time and we were able to just sit back and relax. And these are things that I think you need to do when you're on a vacation, so you don't go home and need a vacation from your vacation.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and it's. It's tough for us to do that too, because we we are constantly go, go, go, and so I think that's kind of why we've we've skipped over things like that, because we're constantly trying to like get to the next thing and you can easily just kind of like skim through Disney Springs. I mean, we, we kind of have our typical like what we do at Disney Springs and we do it every single time. We we kind of start out over by like the marketplace area and we end up going to the co-op that's out there, because the co-op is our favorite place to go. That place just, it has all the coolest stuff, like a lot of stuff like you just don't see In the parks all that often.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

One of my favorite things is that they have there's a specific shop in there that has Candles that smell like different scents around the park or around the property. I just think that's. That's really cool. So we always end up in in there and we always end up in the world of Disney. So we kind of have like Like these typical Places that we that we end up going almost every time we go to Disney Springs and then most of the time, like after we've hit those things we leave, and so like we we don't really give it like the proper amount of time I think that it needs. There. There have been times where, like we knew what we wanted to get. So like there was one time, I think, when last year, when we were in Disney for Halloween, that we got they have the like the don't whip flights.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh yeah we went to go get like those flights, and now that was a pretty fun night because that was actually a night where, like, we were able to just kind of like chill in Disney Springs, and so we were able to. I mean, we still kind of like did our, our typical things. We knew that there was something special that we wanted to go get and we made it a point to go get that. But yeah, things, things like that, that just kind of like really stick out in Disney Springs because there's just again, there's just so much to do and I mean places. It's it's hard Because I know of so many amazing places to go in Disney Springs. Like Raglan Road is Amazing, like if you ever can have dinner there and watch the dancers and and that whole Irish atmosphere is amazing.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's like if you could do like I could do that every time I go to Disney Springs and still be happy. But we want to be able to experience all kinds of stuff. I haven't been in T Rex yet and that the inside of T Rex looks awesome.

Bryan Lewis:

Although.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I hear it's. I mean it's. It's basically a rainforest cafe, but with dinosaurs, right?

Bryan Lewis:

That's how I've heard of it too.

Bryan Lewis:

I don't I haven't been in there, but like the gift shop we've kind of looked at a little bit and it's kind of the same feel as rainforest cafe.

Bryan Lewis:

So you'd be perfectly at home there. Exactly I would love it, yes, but yeah, like I think, like going back to the co-op, I think that's a really cool place to go because it is a spot where they kind of test market some of their ideas. They have a rotating. They rotate some of the shops in and out. You know, for the longest time the dress shop was in the back of there and I think it became popular enough that they've moved that out to another space and they put some art back there. Right now I can't remember exactly, but they have, you know, a lot of different things that they put in there that they can rotate in and out so that they can see what's popular and what they might need, where they can go next with some stuff. So it's a really neat place to go and check out. You're going to find different items and merchandise there than you might find in all the other shops spread out along Disney Springs. So it's definitely worth checking out that spot.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and just kind of talking about shopping. If you have a shopping bug or somebody in your family or party enjoys shopping Disney Springs actually has. It's kind of like a strip mall, I think, if they're more like premium outlets although they're not even really outlets, they're straight up stores but they have some really high end name brand stores that you can go and shop at Things like Under Armour I used to work for Under Armour, so that was really exciting for me that I could go and shop Under Armour at Disney. But like yeah, like things like Columbia Ugg is out there, so you can do some legitimate shopping out there, not just Disney shopping. And that's something that we enjoy too, because Kristen and I are avid shoppers.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We do enjoy shopping at stores like that, so that's always an area that we tend to hit up and shop at, so that's always fun. We don't typically buy anything there. I think we've bought Under Armour stuff before, maybe, or we've walked through Under Armour with the intention of buying something. But yeah, we don't typically buy anything there, unless something's really like calling our name because we're trying to buy Disney things more. But it's definitely an option if you're not, if your heart is not set on only buying Disney things.

Bryan Lewis:

And I think it's worth pointing out as well. In that same area you've got Uniclo, which is next to the world of Disney, and they sell t-shirts that are different Disney designs than you're going to get from World of Disney or those shops, and they are cheap. They like you can get cheap t-shirts there. So you know, if you're looking for something for your kids or for yourself, like you can get some really nice t-shirts and things there that won't break the bank.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I also bought a belt there once because I needed a belt. So it's like it's a legit store, like it's the whole front area is kind of those Disney t-shirts, but like the rest of the store is like the actual store.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, and you know they've got Ranjan Surf Shop now, which we use always. You know, in my younger days we'd always want to drive out to Coco to visit Ranjan, so now I don't have to quite do that, but you know that area has a lot of shops, a lot of high end shops that you can do some, like you said, shopping. But the last place over there that I think needs to be mentioned and I haven't even eaten there yet, but the Michelin just gave them a mention like it's their highest honor, without giving them a Michelin star, but they were just recently given that and that's polite pig and it smells amazing every time I go by.

Bryan Lewis:

And so I do have to get in there and try it, because I am a big fan of barbecue, so it's definitely worth checking out for me. So I have to give them the once over.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh yeah, and that's the funny thing about places like that, where I feel like and the idea here is that eventually we will move out to Florida, like that's the plan but I feel like places like that it's hard to do on your Unless you have literally the entire day at Disney Springs because it's hard to just like, okay, we're gonna go to polite pig and like that's our day. Where it's like I Mean, I don't know, I not that polite pig, that that wouldn't be wasting your day. But polite pig feels more like a hey, you guys want to go play pig? Oh yeah, that sounds great.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Like one of those like pop-in type places rather than like a oh my god, I got a reservation for polite pig, like we got to go to polite pig it and so it's difficult, cuz every time I walk past there I think we need to go here. Like this food all smells so great, but it's. It is kind of like one of those more kind of like let's pop in for some smoked meat at polite pig. So it just feels like something that like we would never really do on that type of vacation unless we, like had an entire day at Disney Springs.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, you know it's, it is a quick service so you can just pop in there. There might be a line, but don't let that discourage you, it's worth getting. So you know, before the before we start recording Micaela we talked about, we didn't want this to be a tour, but I feel like we're touring around it right now a little bit. Yeah, but you know, like when we had talked about this, it was kind of we wanted to highlight some of the things that we wanted to, that we like doing, that we would like to do and, and you know, as we're in this area by polite pig, if you head down by the water, characters in flight is there and unfortunately I have not been able to do this yet because every time I've gone to do it it's been too windy.

Bryan Lewis:

But characters in flight is the giant hot air balloon that's tethered so that it doesn't go too far away, but it goes about 400 feet in the air and you get a really good view of the entire property. You can see animal kingdom and magic kingdom from up there and it's it's a larger platform. You can walk around in a circle and look around. So there's, they can fit multiple people up there. Now I have. I was watching a stream where they're out on the water doing an amphicar tour or, you know, doing that ride, and they looked back and the poor balloon was like blowing, like they had taken it up and then and the wind picked up and they were having trouble bringing it in, so it was.

Bryan Lewis:

It was looking a little worrisome for that, but you know that that's kind of one of those things that worries me about getting on it, and I hope I'm not scaring anybody off, because it does look like it would be a really good time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So you're currently scaring me, Bryan.

Bryan Lewis:

Anyway, you know, it's something that we've tried to do a few times, and every time they've been closed because of weather or so well, I mean, since we're in that area, this isn't too close to two characters in flight, but something.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Just I can't go through Disney Springs and not mentioned this establishment. You were talking about Michelin stars. This establishment has never gotten to Michelin star, or more mentioned in Michelin star. I'm not sure why, because I mean just, we all know how great it is. It's just so I don't understand why people Pass over it so easily. It's been the subject of YouTube videos. It's been. It's been in Disney Springs for a long time, but that is rainforest cafe.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah it's.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Rainforest cafe is awesome. I Just, I just have to say there's something about rainforest cafe and it's, it's. It's just so funny because I Just can't, I just can't let myself go to rainforest cafe with all of the other amazing things you can get at Disney Springs, but I still want to, like I still want to go to rainforest cafe. When I go to Disney Springs that's always something and that and that was actually the Nehernyac family loves rainforest cafe. We just we love it there. If you ask my brother or my sister, rainforest cafe is at the top of their list for Disney Springs.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, it is one of those places that's popular so, but I mean we've talked about it on here before right like it's not a place that I'm gonna go to by choice.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

You are missing out. You were, I'm going to. I'm going to forcibly take you there then.

Bryan Lewis:

I've been there plenty of times. I was actually at the one at the Mall of America in Minneapolis back in June, so I I've done my fair share of rainforest cafe. I'm not going to bother with the one at Disney World, though. What about the one at Alcantam? Same thing. I Do appreciate a good fandom. That's alright. I'm happy that you can bring us all the perspectives on rainforest cafe, but it's not for me, you know.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I would go ahead. You know what should be for you though the boathouse.

Bryan Lewis:

The boathouse we have not.

Bryan Lewis:

We've not eaten there, and I think we talked about this once before. We did go there for a drink because I had messed up our reservation and we did not. We did not end up eating there that day and we went and ate at wine bar George, which is good, but not what we wanted that day, so it's hard to give a good review on it. We so we ended up. My wife and I went in and I'm sensing a theme here. We had a drink at the bar and the bartender kept asking us if we wanted to get a table and we said, no, we've already. We just got done eating, but we wanted to come in here and I've.

Bryan Lewis:

What I've learned is that they do have reservations, but that's only a portion of their dining room. I wouldn't even say it's half. They have a whole nother section that is first come, first serve. So if you want to go there and try to get a table, you can do that. And he kept saying well, we can probably get you in, and I'm sure we can get you in. And when I had so, I had made a reservation for Four. And when I had, so I had made a reservation for four. And when I called them. I said you.

Bryan Lewis:

I called them that morning and said we've got an extra person and they said, well, that would have to be on a walk-up basis. And I didn't understand what that meant. I thought it meant, well, you're going to have to walk up and hope you get a table, which it was spring break. There was no way I was going to do that at that time. But come to find out after sitting at the bar that they have these first come, first serve tables all the time, so you can just join a wait list even and come back. So it was a really neat experience. I had this awesome oyster bar right there at the end of the bar where we were sitting, and it is definitely a place that I need to go eat and my wife loves that duck-duck-ras that they have.

Bryan Lewis:

And it is a very popular drink. So if you are the type that likes to have a alcoholic beverage, then it's definitely a place you're going to want to stop.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's definitely one of the nicer places to go at Disney Springs is Boathouse. But one place again on the theme of places we haven't been I have not been to Morimoto yet and that's definitely some place that I want to end up at some point, mainly because I don't know if my pocketbook can take this. But I want to try the Wagyu beef. I've never had Wagyu. Well, I've had Wagyu burgers because I think Arby's technically had Wagyu burgers. I don't think that counts, but I've never had a Wagyu steak before and that sounds insane.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, I've never had it either, and it would be interesting for me to kind of taste test Wagyu versus other types of beef. Let me know if you've had Wagyu and if it's worth the price difference, Because a steak to me, I mean, yes, there are good cuts of steak versus bad cuts of steak, but I can't imagine and I'm going between choice and prime I've never noticed a difference between choice and prime, I guess, except in toughness maybe. So I'd be interested to hear from any of you listeners if you've had it and if it's worth it. But yeah, the boat house is very good. Morimoto, I've heard, is very good, and I believe they have a walk-up window too, don't they?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yes, they do.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, so you can get something to go from them. Yeah, since we're talking food and we just keep going on about food, I'm getting hungry, are you?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I'm very. I'm Brian. I haven't told you this. I'm going to tell you this on the podcast Tonight I am smoking pork loin.

Bryan Lewis:

Ooh, that's always a good one. I've done that. That's a really good meal, but as we're talking about food, at Disney Springs we watched, so Jose Andres opened up his Haleo recently. I have not been there yet, but I don't know that I'm interested in sitting down for tapas yet, or empayella.

Bryan Lewis:

But he has a quick service that Molly recently I'm talking well that Molly on the Mammoth Club. She recently was there and highlighted pepe and it's definitely a place that I need to go try. They have these awesome looking sandwiches and other items that she was raving about. So I want to go in there and try that and I think, hopefully, maybe in December, that's one of the things we can do, but it looks really, really good and I want to try it out, so that's a good place to try as well.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I haven't really looked into that all that much, mainly because I'm not a big tapas person. Yeah, I've just I've never even eaten tapas, I don't think.

Bryan Lewis:

It literally means small plates, exactly, yeah. So I don't mind. I love trying new foods and I don't mind going to eat that. I just have not had paella and I don't know a lot about it, so I don't know if I'm going to like it. And I don't, I'm going to find other places at Disney Springs right now before I go and get a reservation at Haleo. But all that said, these sandwiches look amazing at Pepe, so I'm going to try to just even to stop in there and buy one and we can share it, you know.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I will also mention. I'm sure if Tatyana Lubov is listening to this podcast. I'm sure she's been screaming for 30 minutes at the top of her lungs chicken guy, chicken guy, chicken guy. Because she loves chicken guy. And if you're looking for something that's affordable and will make your sister cry because it's so affordable, chicken guy is where it's at.

Bryan Lewis:

Chicken guy is very good. We've had it. The kids all loved it. We enjoyed it. They've got what? 26 different sauces or something. Yeah, it was really good. No-transcript.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's almost a tradition. We haven't gone every time we go to Disney World, but we've gone a couple of times now, so it hasn't quite caught on as a tradition of as soon as we get to Orlando we go to Chicken Guy, but it is kind of like our go to like. If we need something quick and we're in Disney Springs, that's where we go.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, and hopefully you don't hit it when we hit it when there was quite the line, but it was still. You know there was quite a line, but it was still pretty quick.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We've been in there before when there's been a little bit of a line, but not like anything, like out the door or anything.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, so I do recommend, like it is a lot of shopping and is a lot of food, but it is more than that and, as I was going to say, like I would recommend going in the middle of the day, when people are out doing parks and doing other things. You know, sitting by the pool maybe, because it's not going to be busy, you can easily go and sit and have a snack somewhere, sit by the water, sit by the bar or whatever you want to do, and it won't be that busy. It's easy to get those spots and you don't have to fight crowds to go shopping into certain spots. So you know that's a great time to do it and it also affords you to do one of my favorite things that I've gone on and on about. But at Disney Springs you can take a boat tour and not a tour but a boat ride from Disney Springs out to like Porter Leans and it's just relaxing and it's such a good time.

Bryan Lewis:

Grab yourself a soda. I don't know if you can take a drink on there with you, I suppose if you had it correctly. I don't know, but you know, like we just sat back. They have some good music. It's a nice little boat ride and I really enjoyed it, so that's a great thing you can do. I mentioned the amphicar earlier. That's something that you can also do and you get a discount on it if you dine at Boathouse. You can take that around the lake and that's a neat little thing that you can do. That you can't do in many places.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and one of the biggest things that we haven't talked about yet is Cirque du Soleil. They have their show drawn to life out there and that's another thing. That my parents have been to a couple of Cirque du Soleil shows now, but I have never been. And again, it's one of those things where it's like you kind of have to make it an event. At least that's what I've always thought is you get tickets to Cirque du Soleil and that's what you're doing that night. So you just kind of make Cirque du Soleil your event that night. And so it's difficult to say I am so interested in Cirque du Soleil that I'm going to dedicate pretty much an entire day to revolve my day around going to Cirque du Soleil. So that's kind of always been the reason. I've never been too terribly interested in going to see that show. Just because it just seems like that would be your event for the day is like going to Cirque du Soleil.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, I agree, I've had trouble with that as well. You've already spent so much money to get into parks and to do all these things that for me it's always been difficult to say, okay, I'm going to drop another $100 on the show. But I know like my wife has been begging to do it, and I know that it is popular, this show. Now that it's been done with Disney and it has that Disney flair to it, now it's kind of like, okay, I think this is something that should probably be checked out. I have heard advertisements for John DeLive on podcasts and in other spaces that you don't normally hear things about, so I'm wondering if they're having trouble getting the sales that they're looking for there. But that also says that it shouldn't be too difficult to get a ticket.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

And yeah, that whole West Side area over there always kind of seems like I feel like that's. When I go down there sometimes it feels like a ghost town a little bit, but they're bringing new stuff in there, like the food trucks and everything. Those are really cool.

Bryan Lewis:

They're working on filling that space that used to be Disney Quest and then NBA Experience. They're working on something new there and there are some construction walls in that area. But as soon as they kind of fill that out and I think this has kind of been the forgotten area of the whole Disney Springs district is this side, because they've just had so many problems over there. But I think once they get that complete it's going to be a little better. So yeah, I talked about the nightlife earlier. I mentioned that they have that.

Bryan Lewis:

So you'll have some people just kind of parked in certain areas of Disney Springs doing some music at night Live music so you can go and watch that dance to it if you want. They do outside of World of Disney, have a larger stage and during the day they might have high school orchestras or choirs or bands that have traveled to Disney and they'll perform there during the day. They'll have a DJ there a lot of times at night doing a dance party. They also have a strolling piano player that somebody is controlling the piano and somebody else is playing the piano and going around singing tunes and up and down the area and I think that's a really neat little thing that they do there. You can definitely find enough to do at Disney Springs. And if all of that that we mentioned, they've still got bowling and movies to keep busy.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Just the way you said that Bowling and movies. When they were putting this together they were like what else do people like? Bowling and movies? Yeah, we'll put those in there.

Bryan Lewis:

So what do you think, Mykhailo? Have we hit enough on Disney Springs?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I think. So I think we've kind of talked through some of the things that we like, some of the things that we want to do and some of the reasons to get out to Disney Springs and check things out.

Bryan Lewis:

I really think it's worth the time. They really have a lot to do, a lot for everyone to do, of all ages, including rides and different things, so it's worth the time to get down there.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, I would completely agree, Brian so we want to hear what you like about Disney Springs. What places do you enjoy visiting? I'm sure we did not mention something that is very popular for you, so please come on out to our Facebook community, miles from Main Street Community, or our Facebook page is Miles from Main Street, and we're also on Instagram at Miles from Main Street, so come on out there and let us know what you think of Disney Springs and where you think we should be going next. We talked about some places that we'd like to go, places we've been, but we want to know where you think we need to go. So please let us know that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

But, like we always say, some live close, but others don't, so let's talk about it. We'll see you guys next time on Miles from Main Street.

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