Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Baby Care Center - Epcot

This post is the second in a mini series, there will be four total; one for each theme park. If you have a Disney, Travel, or Mommy blog (or any other kind of blog you think this could fit into) and are interested in using this post and the ones that follow, please contact me!  Part one was Disney's Hollywood Studios. This time we will be exploring Epcot. 

Signs to the Baby Care Center. 
Epcot's Baby Care Center is located in the Odyssey building next to First Aid. It's about as centrally located as you can get in a park with a lagoon in the middle. Strollers can't come into this Baby Care, but there is parking right outside the doors.  

Stroller parking area, right outside. 
When you first walk in, there is a little lobby area with a couch, usually occupied by dads or grandparents. There is a short hallway & then you are usually greeted by the Cast Member stationed there. 

Little lobby.

To the right is the little play room. There is a TV in there playing Disney Channel or a Disney movie, several chairs for sitting, & some toys for the kids to play with. A minor thing to consider, there is no food allowed in this room. 
Play room. 

A little further down the hall on the right are full sized adult restrooms. A nice thing to have right there. The hallway ends with the changing room. There are four large, nicely padded changing tables in this room, along with a hand washing sink. 

Roomy changing tables.
Continuing back down the hall (as if you were headed to the exit), you have the feeding room/mini gift shop. This room has a few small merchandise displays of Baby Mickey & Minnie plush, rattles, bibs, & onsies. This area has a child sized table and chairs along with high chairs and regular sized chairs for adults. 

The feeding room, with merchandise.
The next room is the kitchen & supplies room, very important!! They have filtered water, a microwave, sterilizer, bottle warmer, & a sink. They also carry all those forgot to grab before you left the house/hotel items or things you just run out of. They have bottles, pacifiers, diaper kits, food, sippy cups, formula, juice, sunscreen, sundries & some childrens medicines!
Kitchen/merchandise shop.
Items available for sale. 
Last but not least, is the nursing room. Not my favorite of the four parks, but at least it's there! This nursing room, unlike the ones at Disney's Hollywood Studios (and Disney's Animal Kingdom, which I'll cover later) is a public one. Only nursing mothers are allowed in the room, but it still holds 4 at a time. The room is quite large, it has 4 non-padded wooden rocking chairs, each side of the room has a small table between the 2 chairs, outlets all over the room for pumping or charging a cell phone, and there are dimmer lights over each chair. If the room is set up properly by the Cast, the four chairs all face the center of the room. A lot of mothers will turn their chair around to face the wall instead. Most of the time when we've gone in there, we're either the only ones or there is only one other person in there. Only once have I ever gone in (and we go at least once a month) and there been a wait, all 4 chairs occupied and one lady nursing sitting on the floor. That is far from a normal day though! 


Door to the nursing room.

Chairs in the nursing room. 




Of all four Baby Care Centers, this is our second most visited and our third favorite! Stay tuned for our next installment -Magic Kingdom

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this! I grew up going to the parks but never once thought about taking a baby. My boys are 4 and 7 but my baby girl is 10 months and we're going in a few weeks. Good to know they have this and that it's a nice place.