Tortuga Tavern Remains Closed as Refurbishment Continues at Magic Kingdom

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Tortuga Tavern Closed - Flooring Refurbishment March 2025

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Posted: Friday March 14, 2025 8:20am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Tortuga Tavern in Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland remains closed as refurbishment work continues at the outdoor dining location. Crews are currently installing new flooring throughout the restaurant’s seating area.

Tortuga Tavern Closed - Flooring Refurbishment March 2025

New flooring at Tortuga Tavern

Tortuga Tavern Closed - Flooring Refurbishment March 2025

The adjacent Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop, Plaza del Sol Caribe Bazaar, has partially reopened following earlier construction work related to the upcoming Pirates Tavern addition. With that project progressing, Tortuga Tavern is now clear of merchandise displays but remains unavailable as a dining location.

Merchandise setup at Pirates of the Caribbean exit gift shop

Disney has not yet announced a reopening date for Tortuga Tavern or provided further details on any potential menu changes once the location returns to service.

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wdwmagic8 days ago

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JMcMahonEsq9 days ago

Well obviously. But from a risk management perspective I don't let any of our sites/operations be videoed while active operations are ongoing, just so that we don't inadvertently provide evidence for OSHA violations, improper workplace maintenance, or ammunition for owners. By videoed i mean for third party distribution not for documenting progress or internal use.

lazyboy97o9 days ago

It’s in a caption that her role is Assistant Producer.

solidyne9 days ago

...how young people speak. I am ageist not sexist. In my line of work, I encounter many young men with these speech patterns, perhaps even more men than women.

LittleBuford9 days ago

Sorry if I seemed to be contributing to it; that was the opposite of my intention.

LittleBuford9 days ago

I don’t hear that either. She sounds fine to me! It’s strange that such an inoffensive video should have caused such irritation.

RosR99 days ago

love it when we spend time criticizing how young women speak 🙄

solidyne9 days ago

Yeah, not too much fry. More uptalk, I suppose.

LittleBuford9 days ago

There was very little of it in the video anyway.

solidyne9 days ago

Exactly. Did this person even state her role in the project? Did she say, "producer" anywhere? (I can't stomach another view, myself.)

Disstevefan19 days ago

It amazes how long it takes WDW to do anything. For example the facade in DHS, the broken façade of Keystone Clothiers has been broken since 2022 and covered with green plywood. It seems that they are now trying to fix it maybe. A unverified rumor, the cannons in Rise in Disneyland has finally been fixed and the rumor was that they were waiting YEARS for replacement parts? If this is true, its a terrible design and why were there no spare parts in house? I have worked in manufacturing and building spares was always part of the process. I understand Disney does not want to spend an extra penny when not necessary in their theme park business, but some if what we see is hard to understand.

lazyboy97o9 days ago

There’s also just the big problem that the public image of Walt Disney Imagineering is highly romanticized. You go back and watch the interested stuff and it is a lot of the same few people summarizing years of work down to minutes. It’s a punchy highlight real focused on the sexiest aspects of the company. A lot of these videos are trying to highlight roles beyond creative director because a lot more people work on these projects than a lot of other media might have you believe. A big challenge though is that a lot of the day-to-day stuff, even for those sexy roles like creative director, aren’t very interesting. Then they do something like this where they try to make a role like producer more interesting by filming in the field, but it’s not really a field role nor is it a design role so it comes across feeling a bit off.