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There are many reasons to attend SeaWorld Orlando’s Christmas Celebration. It has some of the beautiful Christmas decorations at any theme park I have visited. They have wonderful seasonal shows. They play great Christmas music throughout the theme park. We go over the full list of festivities in our SeaWorld Orlando Christmas Guide.
But today I want to talk about food. And we talk about the food and dining options in the guide, particularly the special dining experiences such as the Sesame Street Christmas Breakfast and Dinner with Santa.
But today I want to talk about the food and drink stations set up throughout the park. These food and drink markets are similar to what is up at the park during other events at SeaWorld such as their Seven Seas Food Festival or their Craft Beer Festival.
And their Christmas Celebration is no different. They have a lot of great food and drink options that are perfect for the holiday season. And I want to tell you about the different markets and what you can get at each one! We’ll even spotlight a few menu items as a Green Vacation Deals favorite!
But before we begin, I want to highlight one important factor: these markets open at 4:00 PM each day of the event. So if you are looking to have some of this food for lunch or a late morning snack, you are out of luck.
But now that you know that, let’s go over what foods you can have once they are available!
#1: Claus Cookie Co
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Carrol’s Wreath
I really loved this soft pretzel. First of all, I love the appearance. Perfect for the holiday season. But additionally, it was soft, salty, and delicious.
Food
- Fresh Baked Deep-Dish Cookies
- A selection of homemade cookies
- Carrol’s Wreath
- Soft & Buttery Holiday Wreath Pretzel
Drinks
- Frozen Smores Hot Chocolate
- Topped with Whipped Cream & Chocolate Sauce
- Frozen Eggnog Delight
- Topped with Whipped Cream & Caramel
- Hot Cocoa
- Served in a Souvenir Cup with your choice of Gingerbread, Peppermint or Toasted Marshmallow & Whipped Cream
- Make Any Drink Jolly
- Add Peppermint Schnapps, Baileys Irish Cream or Kahlua to make any drink Jolly!
- For 21+ only
#2: Twinkle Tree Café
Drinks
- Kentucky Sleigh Ride
- Smooth bourbon combined with spiced brown sugar syrup
- Balanced with Seagram’s Ginger Ale
- Finished with a splash of Minute Maid Lemonade.
- Holiday Spirit
- A festive sparkler featuring vodka mixed with Minute Maid Lemonade, Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry & cranberry juice
- Finished with a touch of edible glitter
- Tropical Tidings
- Minute Maid Lemonade blended with pineapple juice, thyme & fresh ginger
- Topped with a shimmer of gold glitter
- Vanilla Orchard
- Crisp Minute Maid Apple Juice meets Seagram’s Club Soda
- Has a hint of vanilla & lime juice and vanilla
- Garnished with a dried apple chip
- Non-alcoholic
#3: ‘Tis The Season Beignets
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Strawberries and Cream Beignet
We absolutely loved this beignet! It has everything you love normally with a beignet, but then you add in strawberry and Bavarian cream? Yes, please!
Food
- Oreo Beignet
- Oreo Crumble, Caramel & White Chocolate
- Blueberries & Cream Beignets
- Blueberries & Chantilly Cream
- Strawberries and Cream Beignet
- Strawberries, Bavarian Cream & Powdered Sugar
Drinks
- Christmas Cheers
- Hendrix Gin, Orange, Cranberry, Lime & Garnished with Orange Wheel
- Gingerbread Martini + Cinnamon Rim
- Rumchata, Calypso Spiced Rum & Monin Gingerbread Syrup
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
For more information about this food & drink station, see our ‘Tis The Season Beignets Review.
#4: Christmas Comforts
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Bison Burger
We loved the bison burger! We’ve always liked it, but the bison burger was a bit different this year. Gone were the Pickles and the Bacon Onion Jam. The Swiss Cheese was replaced with Pimento Cheese. We loved the result, and for me personally, I liked it better since I don’t care for onions and pickles (though I am the only one in my family that feels that way). And while it was a bit undercooked for my taste, I still found it to be delicious.
So we recommend getting this – it works well as a meal, too (especially with one of this festival’s delicious desserts, such as Santa’s mini apple pie!).
Or the Sweet Potato Waffles Fries. It comes in a hot honey sauce, but we asked and were able to get the fries without the sauce.
Food
- Bison Burger
- Bison Burger, Pimento Cheese, Tomato & Lettuce
- Frank’s Joyful Clam Chowder
- Clam chowder soup
- Santa’s Mini Apple Pie
- Made with Apples, Cinnamon, Nutmeg & Cloves
- Golden Holiday Sweet Potato Waffle Fries
- Drizzled with Hot Honey Sauce
Drinks
- Not Santa’s Milk and Cookies
- Vanilla Vodka, Rumchata, Cinnamon & Topped with Ginger Snap Crumbs
#5 & #7: Holly Jolly Cookies & Cocoa
Food
- Fresh Baked Deep-Dish Cookies
- Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, S’mores & Double Chocolate
Drinks
- Premium Specialty Hot Cocoa
- Served in a Souvenir Cup
- Make Any Drink Jolly
- Add Baileys Irish Cream, Peppermint Schnapps or Kahlua to make any drink Jolly!
- For 21+ only
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#6: Festin’ Feliz
Food
- Arroz con Lechon
- Rice with Pigeon Peas, Roasted Pork & Sweet Plantain
- Beef & Cheese Empanadas
- Served with a Sharp Cheese Drizzle
- Tostones
- Comes with Garlic Cilantro Dipping Sauce
- Tres Leches Cake
- Three Milk-Sponge Cake
Drinks
- Coquito
- Rum, Coconut Milk, Vanilla, Coconut Cream & Spices
- Red Sangria
- With Notes of Orange & Vanilla
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#8: Waffle Wonderland
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Sweet Potato Pie
The sweet potato pie was so delicious! I have always preferred pumpkin pie to sweet potato pie, but this sweet potato pie made me a sweet potao pie believer! It was delicious, and the cream was great with the pie.
Honorable mention to both the chicken waffle and the Montecristo waffle. The waffle in particular was great this year. After being a bit hard last year, it was very soft and tasty this year.
The negative? The Montecristo came with Hot Honey Syrup this year and no berry compote. So that was a bit confusing. I am not sure if that was a one time mistake or if they had run out of berry compote. At any rate, for that reason, I decided to make the sweet potato pie the winner.
Food
- Joyful Chicken & Waffle
- Deep Fried Chicken, House Made Waffle, Hot Honey Syrup & Scallions
- Montecristo
- A twist on a Montecristo sandwich featuring a waffle & a berry compote
- Sweet Potato Pie with Cream
- Pie made of sweet potatoes and topped with cream
Drinks
- Mistletoe Margarita
- Tequila, Triple Sec, Lime Sour & Cranberry
- Garnished with Lime Wedge
- Apple Ginger Mule
- Bourbon, Apple Cider, Ginger Beer & Lime Juice
- Garnished with a Lemon Wedge
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#9: Waterway Bar
Food
- Snowman Holiday Soft Pretzel
- Buttery Soft Salted Pretzel
Drinks
- Frozen Jack & Coke
- Frozen Margarita
- Tequila & Lime
- Craft Serve French 75
- Gin, Prosecco, Lemonade & Raspberry
- Frozen Piña Colada
- Coconut, Pineapple & Cherry
- Craft Serve Spicy Margarita
- Tequila, Triple Sec & Lime
- Craft Serve Strawberry Mule
- Rum, Strawberry & Ginger Beer
- Craft Serve Bourbon Street Daisy
- Bourbon, Triple Sec & Notes of Lime
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#10: Donut Open Till Christmas
Food
#11: Tottin Around the Christmas Tree
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Roasted Turkey
There’s something so fitting about having classic holiday food like turkey and stuffing at a holiday event, don’t you think? And the turkey and stuffing are especially good here. We did not care for the mashed sweet potatoes as much, but overall, this is a great dish.
Food
- Roasted Turkey
- Roasted turkey breast, stuffing, sweet mashed potatoes & brown gravy
- Jingle Totchos
- Tater tots loaded with chili, sour cream, cheese & green onions
- Cherry-Pineapple Glazed Ham
- Ham glazed with cherries & pineapple, sweet mashed potatoes, stuffing & brown gravy
Drinks
- Merry and Bright Rita
- Milagros Tequila, Granny Smith Apple, Lime & Brown Sugar
- Iced Honey Pumpkin Cider
- Cinnamon sugar apple garnish
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#12: Seasons Eatings
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: All Grown Up Birria Grilled Cheese
Sometimes there’s something so comforting about eating the foods we grew up with, and that’s what you get with this grilled cheese and tomato soup combo. But it’s not just any standard sandwich, with great ingredients like smoked cheddar and Texas Toast. This was a favorite of my family.
Food
Drinks
- Spiced Apple Paloma
- Apple cider enhanced with tequila
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#13 – Lil Sweet Lil Salty Kettle Corn
- Freshly Popped Kettle Corn
- Can have a sweet or salty version
- Comes in both regular and jumbo sizes
#14: Baking Spirits
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Lamb Chop with Olive Tapenade
It was a bit hard to come up with a favorite here, simply because the food here is great. We could have easily given it to the Yuletide Pasta. But the lamp chop with olive tapenade really stood out as one of the best things we had on vacation. All the tastes blended well together, and it was really great.
Food
- Gingerbread Cake
- Gingerbread spice cake filled with vanilla bean mousse, Dusted with powdered sugar
- Kris Kringle’s Biscuit Pot Pie
- Biscuit covered in chicken pot pie
- Yuletide Pasta
- Baked ziti with ricotta cheese & marinara
- Lamb Chop with Olive Tapenade
Drinks
- Maple Bourbon Sour
- Bourbon, Lemon Juice, & Maple-Garnished Candy Bacon
- North Pole Cosmo
- Vodka, Blue Curacao, Lime Juice, White Cranberry Juice & Blueberry
- Hidden Seas Red Blend
- Red Blend Wine
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#15: Moonshine
Drinks
- Butter Pecan
- Banana Pudding
- Shine Nog
- White Chocolate & Strawberry Cream
#16: Frosty Fare
Green Vacation Deals Favorite: Fresh Baked Deep-Dish Cookies
We absolutely loved these cookies. They were soft, gooey, delicious, and everything I want in a cookie.
Snacks
- Deep-Dish Cookie
- Freshly Baked
- Comes in chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin or M&M’s
- Soft Pretzels
- Popcorn
Drinks
- Premium Specialty Hot Cocoa
- Served in a Souvenir Cup
- Make Any Drink Jolly
- Add Baileys Irish Cream, Peppermint Schnapps or Kahlua to make any drink Jolly!
- For 21+ only
- Bottled Drinks
- Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite & Dasani
#17: Holiday Bar
- Winter Wonderland Hot Toddy
- A cozy blend of Jack Daniel’s Honey and Jack Daniel’s Winter Cider stirred into warm chai tea for the perfect cold-weather sipper.
- Campfire Mule
- Smooth bourbon enhanced with rich maple syrup and topped with spicy ginger beer for a warming take on the classic mule.
- Amaretto Sour
- Classic amaretto paired with Triple Sec and fresh lime juice for a sweet and tangy twist on a timeless favorite.
- Apple Cider Mimosa
- Tequila meets seasonal apple cider and Apple Pucker, brightened with subtle grapefruit notes for a festive brunch cocktail.
Festive Food & Sips Sampling Lanyard
Want to save money on all theses delicious food and drink options (and why wouldn’t you?). Then consider purchasing a Festive Food & Sips Sampling Lanyard. We’ve found buying lanyards like these at festivals saves you money. We talked about how the Seven Seas Food Festival Lanyard saved us money here.
Basically, how it works is you purchase one lanyard and it gets you either 5 food or drink items or 10 food or drink items, depending on which lanyard you purchase. This can save you a lot of money versus buying each item individually.
You can purchase one of these lanyards here.
And speaking of saving money, you can currently purchase tickets on sale for up to 61% here. This is a great deal, especially because the price is all-inclusive (meaning there are no extra taxes or fees, unlike if you purchase through SeaWorld’s website).
