Epcot - Ice Station Cool

Post by **rdeacon** » May Thu 25, 2006 1:41 pm

Esmeralda wrote:
rdeacon wrote: I missed it this trip, by 10 minutes. Stupid 7pm closing time. Of course I was there 2 other days and forgot to stop in...

Rich
Just another reason to go back soon! As if you needed one...

Yeah umm I never need a reason to go back

Rich

ps planing an October trip now!

briar_rose_59 · Post by **briar_rose_59** » May Sun 28, 2006 2:48 pm

Didn't they re-open it recently as Club Cool or something like that? I thought I read that somewhere, and that it still had free drinks

I'll have to check it out the next time I'm down there.

foldmama · Post by **foldmama** » May Tue 30, 2006 2:50 pm

Yes, it is reopened as Club Cool. When I was there a few weeks ago most of the soda areas were empty and they only had one or two different drinks available to sample. What's up with that!

AKLRULZ · Post by **AKLRULZ** » May Tue 30, 2006 3:31 pm

Gosh that is nuts - on the three visits to WDW that we've been on since Club Cool opened it's been great (well not the sodas but you get the drift).

rkobom123 · Post by **rkobom123** » Jun Thu 08, 2006 1:08 pm

I was just there recently and they refrefurbished it. It still has all the places where you can drink cola from around the world but it dosent have the snow or anything cold anymore

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abrcrmbegrl20 · Post by **abrcrmbegrl20** » Jun Wed 21, 2006 8:20 pm

Yeah I was just there 2 weeks ago and it was all refurbished and they took away all the snow and "cool" effect. Now you just walk through some doors and bam you're there.

Mr.ToadWildRider · Post by **Mr.ToadWildRider** » Jun Sat 24, 2006 6:00 pm

The snow and intense cold shock were my favorite parts!

knedeau · Post by **knedeau** » Jun Sat 24, 2006 10:44 pm

Mr.ToadWildRider wrote:The snow and intense cold shock were my favorite parts!

Mine too! Especially on the WAYYYYY Too hot days!

Vicki_Mouse · Post by **Vicki_Mouse** » Jun Sun 25, 2006 6:08 pm

they were just starting demolition of the outer igloo part when were were there last summer. We're looking forward to seeing it as Club Cool in a few weeks!!!

Hathaway · Post by **Hathaway** » Jun Mon 26, 2006 2:30 pm

Are the drinks still the same? I love vegitibeta and I used to go and fill up my souveneer Spaceship Earth Mug with it during my visits. Is it still there? Does anyone know?

knedeau · Post by **knedeau** » Jun Mon 26, 2006 4:28 pm

Hathaway wrote:Are the drinks still the same? I love vegitibeta and I used to go and fill up my souveneer Spaceship Earth Mug with it during my visits. Is it still there? Does anyone know?

They don't stop you from doing that?!?!?! SCHWEET!

jbvenn · Post by **jbvenn** » Jun Tue 27, 2006 12:07 am

rkobom123 wrote:I was just there recently and they refrefurbished it. It still has all the places where you can drink cola from around the world but it dosent have the snow or anything cold anymore .

I don't know... maybe it's because I live in a place where winter lasts 6 months, but the "snow" part of Ice Station Cool was never that appealing to me. We always visit Florida in winter or early spring, so being warm is not a bad thing and seeing snow is hardly a novelty.

The attraction for me has always been learning about and sampling what people drink in other parts of the world... my favorite is the watermelon-flavor (China?).

dwellsbct · Post by **dwellsbct** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 12:27 pm

I love the Veggie Beta ...

Imagine a soda that's actualy healthy wow!!! I wish I could by it in my local grocery store.

figmentaholic · Post by **figmentaholic** » Jan Wed 21, 2009 6:36 pm

I was just reading over the posts here and I had to giggle at all of the Beverly posts (the drink from Italy).
Being Italian, I think I need to set this straight.

The reason that the drink is bitter is because it is an appertif- which means that it is drank after a meal to help wash it down and just to have a nice finish to the meal.
There are alot of Italian drinks that do the same thing- a lot of them alcoholic- like the bitter apertif Campari, and the licorice tasting Sambuca.

Bitter is a much more previlant flavor in Italy than it is here in the US, and that is why it is so popular there.

Personally, I *LOVE* Beverly, and I actually have a funny story about it.

My husband, our friend Jon, and I were at Epcot years ago, when it was still Ice Station Cool.
My hubby was out of work and broke (he had gotten an annual pass while he still had a job) and I explained to him that if he drank a whole glass (those little paper glasses, I would guess about 4-6 oz) of Beverly with *NO* chaser and *NO* water afterwards, I would buy him lunch.
He did it, and I bought him lunch, but it was worth it just to watch his face. And I am still not sure he has ever forgotten or forgiven.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Jan Wed 21, 2009 7:58 pm

figmentaholic wrote:
The reason that the drink is bitter is because it is an appertif- which means that it is drank after a meal to help wash it down and just to have a nice finish to the meal.

A Beverly is no way to have a nice finish to a meal.

Perhaps to relive the meal, if you catch my drift!