Downtown Disney – Wetzel’s Pretzels and Salt and Straw

Opened in 2001 at Downtown Disney, Wetzel's Pretzels has been serving tasty hand-rolled, baked fresh and served hot from the oven pretzels. Salt and Straw, opened on October 12, 2018 at Downtown Disney. Flavors offered at the ice cream shop vary depending on the season and ingredient availability, as all main ingredients are locally sourced.

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Hours of operation: 7:00 am to 1:00 am. (Hours are for Downtown Disney). Admission to Downtown Disney is free. This penny machine was moved here from 'D' street.

Parking: Downtown Disney's parking lot is located at the Simba Lot near Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel. $25 per vehicle for the first hour plus $10 for each additional hour, with a maximum rate of $65. Enjoy 3 hours of parking when you make a $20 minimum purchase and receive validation from any Downtown Disney location (including quick-service restaurants, merchandise locations and kiosks) or up to 5 hours of parking with validation from any Downtown Disney table-service restaurant. Beyond these validations, each additional hour costs $14, charged in 30-minute increments, with a minimum $7 charge after the initial 15-minute grace period. Additionally, the maximum daily parking and lost ticket fee is $56. Parking is subject to capacity.

If you park in the Downtown Disney parking lot, you can walk to Wetzel's Pretzels / Salt and Straw via Downtown Disney. Along the route, you can go the World of Disney (Two 3 design with back stamp machines), Tortilla Jo's (One 4 single sided design machine), Disneyland Hotel (Three 3 design with back stamp machines) and Paradise Pier Hotel (one 3 design with back stamp machine).

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Machine 5: 70th Anniversary design.
1) Donald and Daisy in a ride car,
2) Goofy in a water ride car,
3) Mickey and Minnie in a teacup ride,
4) Mickey, Minnie and Pluto in a boat,

Retired/ Moved machines.

Moved 1 has been moved to outside between Tortilla Joe’s restaurant entrance and the Disney Vacation Club kiosk.
1) (H) A smiling Lightning McQueen with 'Lightning McQueen Downtown Disney', 2) (V) Pirate Mickey Mouse with 'Mickey Mouse', 3) (V) Minnie Mouse singing with 'Downtown DIsney', 4) (H) Donald Duck holding Rio the parrot with 'Downtown Disney'.
Retired 2: 1) (V) Sorcerer Apprentice Mickey Mouse with 'Downtown Disney', 2) (V) Captain Hook with 'Downtown Disney Hook', 3) (V) Pirate Mickey Mouse holding a parrot above 3 mouse ears and crossbones with 'Yo Ho Yo Ho A Pirates Life For Me!', 4) (V) Tinkerbell with 'Downtown Disney'.
Moved 3: Moved to Tortilla Joe's: 1) Spacesuit Stitch, 2) Stitch, 3) Lilo in a Hawaiian outfit, 4) Stitch & Angel holding hands
Moved 4: (2025): 1) Rabbit, 2) Chimpanzee, 3) Beaver, 4) Wolf,

G.P.S. coordinates: Latitude: N33° 48' 33.1452" Longitude: W117° 55' 20.9022"
Google Maps coordinates: R35G+MX Anaheim, California

5/10/25: 70th Anniversary 4 design machine here.

07/17/2026 Machine is rolling great. East side of Wetzel's Pretzels, right next to bathrooms. Still 70th anniversary design, for now. Cost is $1.00 per coin. USD or Card only, penny(ies) included. Does not take coins. Card purchase is for all 4 souvenir pennies only, no option. Able to use US dollar bill to get one at a time. STJ