Patch Notes // latest change 2021.05.20
BoardWalk Inn · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · Walt Disney World
Restaurant · opened 2016 · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · 3 changes on record
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BoardWalk Ice Cream opened (at 3 p.m.) in the former Ample Hills Creamery space as a Disney-operated grab-and-go parlor, with a menu of sundaes inspired by Beaches & Cream Soda Shop such as the Shore-Side Sundae, Bay-Side Brownie a la Mode, and Strawberry Splash Shortcake.
Ample Hills Creamery did not reopen after the March 2020 pandemic shutdown (having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2020), and Disney confirmed on July 22, 2020 that it had closed at Disney's BoardWalk and would not reopen, leaving the space vacant.
Ample Hills Creamery -- the Brooklyn brand's first location outside New York -- opened in this BoardWalk space (soft-opened May 12, 2016), the predecessor that BoardWalk Ice Cream would later replace.
That's every change on the record at BoardWalk Ice Cream since 2016.
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Per the documented record, BoardWalk Ice Cream at Walt Disney World Resort Hotels opened on May 15, 2016.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for BoardWalk Ice Cream is dated Jul 22, 2020: Ample Hills Creamery did not reopen after the March 2020 pandemic shutdown (having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2020), and Disney confirmed on July 22, 2020 that it had closed at Disney's BoardWalk and would not reopen, leaving the space vacant.
The latest documented change (documented May 20, 2021): BoardWalk Ice Cream opened (at 3 p.m.) in the former Ample Hills Creamery space as a Disney-operated grab-and-go parlor, with a menu of sundaes inspired by Beaches & Cream Soda Shop such as the Shore-Side Sundae, Bay-Side Brownie a la Mode, and Strawberry Splash Shortcake.
3 documented changes, dating back to 2016 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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