The Cake Bake Shop Sets Four Santa Dinners at Disney's BoardWalk at $200 Per Adult
The Cake Bake Shop is taking reservation requests for Dinner With Santa Claus at Disney's BoardWalk on four Tuesday evenings: November 24, December 1, December 8 and December 15. The price is $200 per adult and $150 per child 12 and younger, covering beverages, a three-course dinner, a professional family photo delivered through Disney PhotoPass and a hot chocolate and cookie kit to take home. Tax and a 24% gratuity are added on top, and the full amount is non-refundable once the reservation is confirmed.
Santa Claus has four nights booked on Disney's BoardWalk this holiday season. The Cake Bake Shop is taking reservation requests for Dinner With Santa Claus, a ticketed evening built around sparkling Champagne and cocktails, a three-course dinner, a professional family photo delivered through Disney PhotoPass, and a gift to carry home. It runs $200 per adult and $150 per child, and the entire run is four Tuesday evenings.
Four Tuesday Evenings Make Up the Entire Run
The dinners are scheduled for November 24, December 1, December 8 and December 15, four consecutive Tuesdays running from the week of Thanksgiving to the Tuesday before Christmas week. No additional dates have been published, and the shop has not said whether it will add any.
That matters more than it might sound. The Cake Bake Shop seats a single dining room on the BoardWalk promenade, the lakeside stretch between EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios, and it has been one of the hardest tables at Walt Disney World to walk up to since the Indiana-founded bakery opened its Florida location in 2024. A four-night holiday event inside that room is a small number of seats against the busiest weeks on the resort calendar.
Key Details
- When: November 24, December 1, December 8 and December 15
- Where: The Cake Bake Shop, Disney's BoardWalk, Walt Disney World
- Price: $200 per adult, $150 per child ages 12 and younger
- Included: Beverages, an entree of your choice, a seasonal dessert, a professional family photo with Santa Claus, and a gift to take home
- Not included: Tax and a 24% gratuity, both added at booking
- Booking: By reservation request through the shop's Dinner With Santa page
What the Three-Course Holiday Dinner Includes
The meal opens with sparkling holiday Champagne and cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre, moves to a main entree, and closes with a seasonal dessert. Both an adult's dinner menu and a children's dinner menu have been published for the event, so the youngest guests are ordering from their own card rather than picking around a tasting menu built for grown-ups.
The beverage allowance is where the two price tiers actually differ in substance. The $200 adult seat includes up to three drinks, with anything beyond that available for purchase. The $150 child seat, for guests 12 and younger, covers any beverages of their choice. Both tiers include the entree, the seasonal dessert, the Santa photo and the take-home gift.
The Santa Photo Arrives as a Disney PhotoPass Download
Every family at the dinner gets time with Santa Claus and a professionally shot photograph, delivered as a digital download through Disney PhotoPass, the same system that handles ride photos and character-meet shots across the resort. The shop describes the visit as a chance for children to share their "Holiday Pixie Glitter Wishes," its own trademarked phrasing for the moment.
The PhotoPass detail is worth pricing out. Individual PhotoPass downloads, and the Memory Maker package that unlocks them in bulk, are normally a separate purchase at Walt Disney World, so a professional family portrait with Santa arriving as an included download takes a line item off the holiday-trip budget rather than adding one.
A Hot Chocolate and Cookie Kit Goes Home With Every Family
The take-home gift is a hot chocolate and cookie kit: everything needed to make a cup of hot chocolate at home, packed with cookies to go alongside it. It is a small thing, but it is the piece of the evening that outlasts the reservation, and it is included at both the adult and the child price rather than sold at the register on the way out.
The Buzz
Holiday dinners with Santa are a fixture on the Walt Disney World calendar, but most of them surface as a date range with details to come. This one landed with everything attached at once: four fixed dates, two hard prices, the full inclusion list, the gratuity policy and a live reservation request form. Guests planning a late-November or December trip can decide today whether it fits the budget, and because the Cake Bake Shop is one of the most photographed rooms on the BoardWalk, a four-night run inside it is the kind of listing that moves fast.
How to Book, and What the $200 Does Not Cover
Seats are handled as reservation requests rather than instant bookings, through the Dinner With Santa page on the shop's own site. The published prices are before tax and gratuity, and the fine print is firm on two points: a 24% gratuity is applied, and the full cost, tax and gratuity included, is charged and non-refundable at the moment the reservation is confirmed.
Run the arithmetic before requesting a date. A family of two adults and two children comes to $700 at the listed prices; the 24% gratuity adds another $168 on top, and tax is charged above that. There is no partial deposit and no refund window in the published terms, so a confirmed Tuesday in December is a committed Tuesday in December.