Loews Resorts at Universal Orlando Articles

Now that the Halloween season is finally here, we can start thinking about the Holidays!!! Over at Loews Portofino Bay "the" holiday event that kicks off the season is Holiday Harbor Nights — and after a one-year hiatus, this year's event will take place on Friday, November 29th, 2024 (one day after Thanksgiving), from 6:30pm - 9:00pm in the Harbor Piazza. Right now (I'm writing this) all the ticket levels are still available... but they do tend to sell out quickly (especially the VIP Tickets). The ... ( read more ... )

Harbor Nights had been one of my favorite large-scale dining events in year's past, but recently — it's gone missing. We have just received word that Harbor Nights 2.0 La Dolce Vita has re-emerged over at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel ... and there have been some subtle (and not so subtle) changes to the menu and to the pricing structure. This year's Harbor Nights La Dolce Vita event will take place on Friday, October 18th, 2024 from 6:30pm until 9:00pm. Here's a quick link to the Eventbrite ... ( read more ... )

The fall version of Jake's Beer Festival takes place on Friday, October 4th, 2024... and just from carefully reading the info from Loews, it sounds like the VIP Ticket has changed a little bit from what it had been. More on that in a minute (below the menu). Jake's Beer Festival is a "sip and stroll" style event and is three hours long (from 6pm to 9pm). It features 50+ craft beers and hard seltzers from local and regional breweries, along with some fun tapas-sized food pairings. The featured breweries ... ( read more ... )

The spring of Jake's Beer Festival takes place this year on Friday, April 26th, 2024. The popular "sip and stroll" style event is three hours long (from 6pm to 9pm) and features 50+ craft beers and hard seltzers from Florida local and regional breweries... along with some great tapas-sized food pairings. Jake's Beer Festival takes place in a mostly covered area known as the "Wantilan Pavilion" behind Jake's American Bar at the Lowes Royal Pacific Resort — and there's usually a small band that ... ( read more ... )

It's never too early to start making plans for New Year's Eve, and there's a pretty cool sounding event happening at the end of this year over at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel near Universal Orlando. Actually, the Loews group have historically had a couple of cool events on New Year's Eve… this is the first one we're hearing about so far… I'm not sure if they're doing anything else this year or not. On Sunday, December 31st, 2023 — there's going to be a Party on the Piazza held in the ... ( read more ... )

The late-fall edition of Sapphire Falls Resort's Rum Dinner will feature Privateer Rum and takes place on Friday, October 27th, 2023 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. This version of the Caribbean-inspired food and rum pairing dinner series takes place in the outdoor "Cayman Court" at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort and is for guests 21 and older. Andrew Cabot, founder of Privateer Rum and descendant of the 18th century merchant and rum distiller of the same name will be on-hand to talk about his New England aged rum. ... ( read more ... )

The end-of-summer edition of Jake's Beer Festival is just around the corner. It takes place this year on Friday, October 6th, 2023 — from 6:00pm until 9:00pm. The VIP Level Tickets do occasionally sell out in advance, but the Standard Festival Tickets are generally available right up until a couple of days before the event. For the most part, Jake's Beer Festival takes place in a partially covered area called the "Wantilan Pavilion" behind Jake's American Bar at the Lowes Royal Pacific Resort. A ... ( read more ... )