Magic Kingdom's Tortuga Tavern Finishes Refurbishment, Not Yet Serving Food

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Posted: Wednesday March 26, 2025 7:08am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Refurbishment work is now complete at Tortuga Tavern in Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland. Crews have finished replacing the flooring throughout the outdoor dining location, and the seating area has reopened to guests.

Tortuga Tavern Refurbishment Complete - March 2025

While the space is once again available for parkgoers to sit and take a break, the restaurant itself is still not serving food. There has been no official update from Disney on when—or if—Tortuga Tavern will resume food service operations.

Tortuga Tavern operates seasonally and has been closed for an extended period. During recent construction tied to the upcoming Pirates Tavern addition, the location temporarily housed merchandise displays from the adjacent Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop. Those displays have since been removed, and sections of the Plaza del Sol Caribe Bazaar have reopened.

Tortuga Tavern Refurbishment Complete - March 2025

As of now, the area is functioning strictly as open-air seating.

Tortuga Tavern Refurbishment Complete - March 2025

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peter114351 day ago

ummmm… no

CAlexander1 day ago

Feel like that could warrant its own thread. That ride needs a refurb, they often only run half the boats recently.

wdwmagic23 days ago

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JMcMahonEsq24 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.

lazyboy97o24 days ago

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

solidyne24 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.

LittleBuford24 days ago

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

LittleBuford24 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.

RosR924 days ago

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

solidyne24 days ago

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

LittleBuford24 days ago

There was very little of it in the video anyway.

solidyne24 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.)

Disstevefan124 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.

lazyboy97o24 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.