One Winner Every Week: Win a Ninja CREAMi Deluxe and Make Authentic Dole Whip at Home All Summer Long
Disney Dining's 10-Week Summer Giveaway
There is a very specific summer craving that no amount of store-bought ice cream ever quite satisfies. You spot it in someone else’s hand, that cold, golden swirl, and suddenly nothing else on the menu exists. Dole Whip.
For 10 weeks this summer, Disney Dining is giving one reader everything they need to make that moment happen at home, every single week, whenever the craving strikes. No park ticket required.
What You Win
- The prize: A Ninja CREAMi Deluxe + a 4.4-pound bag of Authentic Dole Pineapple Soft Serve Mix (or $200 gift card), awarded to one new winner every week for 10 weeks
- Notification: 1 winner per week will be selected each Monday for 10 weeks starting Monday July 6th. Winners will be notified inside the Disney Dining daily email newsletter
- How to enter: Subscribe to the Disney Dining daily newsletter using the form at the bottom of this page. One signup enters you in every weekly drawing for the entire summer
- How to improve your odds: Read Disney Dining articles from your daily newsletter. Every article earns 10 bonus entries, up to 100 per week
- Ready now? Scroll to the entry form at the bottom of this page ↓
Why the Ninja CREAMi Deluxe?
The Ninja CREAMi Deluxe is not a blender or a standard ice cream maker. It uses Ninja’s CREAMi technology to process a frozen base into a range of frozen treats — ice cream, sorbet, milkshakes, smoothie bowls, gelato, frozen yogurt, Italian ice, and a dedicated soft serve function — with a texture that genuinely holds up against what you’d find at a park concession stand.
The Ninja CREAMi Deluxe includes 11 one-touch programs and two 24-ounce CREAMi Pint containers, and it is powerful enough to create a Dole Whip that tastes as if it came straight from the Parks. The result tastes less like a “pretty good homemade version” and more like the real thing.
Authentic Disney Dole Whip Mix
Dole Soft Serve has been a Disney institution since EPCOT introduced it in 1986. The mix that makes it possible is available to you, delivered straight to your door. A 4.4-pound bag available on Amazon contains 72 servings! This is enough to keep you stocked up for the summer whenever someone in the house starts humming In the tiki tiki tiki tiki room…
Why These Two Things Together
Most at-home Dole Whip attempts fail for the same two reasons: the wrong mix and the wrong machine. We know this because we’ve published what we believe is the best copycat Dole Whip recipe available — pineapple juice, frozen pineapple, and vanilla ice cream — with a squeeze of lemon juice to approximate the tartness of the real thing — and even we’ll admit it’s not quite the same thing.
That’s not a knock on the recipe. It’s a limitation of the ingredients. Vanilla ice cream adds a dairy creaminess that changes the flavor profile, and no combination of frozen pineapple and juice fully replicates the specific texture and bright pineapple intensity of what Disney actually serves at Aloha Isle. The result is delicious — but anyone who’s had the real thing at the parks knows immediately that it isn’t identical.
This prize package was built to close that gap entirely. The Dole Soft Serve Mix included is the actual commercial formula that Disney uses — not a consumer approximation. And the Ninja CREAMi Deluxe is the home appliance whose freeze-then-process technology comes closest to the commercial soft serve equipment that makes the park version taste the way it does — producing the smooth, swirl-able texture that a blender simply cannot replicate from frozen ingredients.
Together, they don’t produce something inspired by Dole Whip. They produce a real Dole Whip.
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Can’t Wait to be a Winner? Buy it Now.
National Dole Whip Day is celebrated on the third Thursday of July. This year it falls on July 16, 2026. We don’t blame you if you’d rather not wait until Monday morning to find out whether you’ve won. Both items are available on Amazon.
If you order now and your name comes up on a Monday morning, you can opt for the $200 gift card option and put it straight toward what you already spent. Either way, you’re a winner!
Chances to Win All Summer Long
Most giveaways have 1 prize and 1 winner. This giveaway has an extra dose of Disney Magic.
Starting Monday, July 6th, Disney Dining will announce its first winner and will continue to announce a new winner every week for 10 consecutive weeks:
- Ten separate weekly drawings
- Ten complete Ninja CREAMi Deluxe + Dole Whip Mix prize packages
- Ten chances to WIN
The 10 Week Giveaway period runs through Saturday, September 5th, with the final weekly winner announced on Monday, September 7th. The Prize Vault keeps the summer going even further — potentially through October 10th or beyond. Keep reading to find out how.
Increase Your Chances to Win
It’s easy to enter. Simply sign up for the Disney Dining email below, and you’re in!
But as a thank you to our loyal readers, there are additional opportunities to earn up to 111 entries per week. The more you engage with Disney Dining, the better your odds. Here is a breakdown of how to do it:
Build Your Advantage
There are two ways to stack entries on top of your base: a permanent one-time boost and a weekly engine that compounds throughout the summer. The following actions are completed once to permanently increase your entry count for the rest of the giveaway. These are available directly on the sign-up page and take only a few minutes to complete.
The two most valuable actions are Google-specific, and they are definitely worth doing first since each action earns three additional entries rather than one. Completing these simple actions makes them the highest-leverage permanent actions in the system:
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- Set Disney Dining as Google Preferred Source – earns 3 additional entries
- Follow Disney Dining on Google News – 3 additional entries
Beyond the better odds in the giveaway, following Disney Dining on Google means the content you’re already looking for finds you more reliably all summer long. After completing the above items, a quick round of social media follows creates an even stronger permanent baseline at one entry each:
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- Follow on Facebook – earns 1 additional entry
- Follow on Instagram – earns 1 additional entry
- Follow on X – earns 1 additional entry
- Follow on Threads – earns 1 additional entry
Complete all of the above, and you have 11 total entries into each of the 10 weekly drawings, without any further action required! These permanent actions provide a solid foundation that will get you well on your way to increasing your chances of winning.
But Wait, There Are Even More Ways to Increase Your Chances
To take your entries to the next level, you can also earn additional weekly bonus entries. This is where the giveaway separates casual entrants from readers who build a genuine statistical edge. For every article you open through the Disney Dining daily newsletter, you can earn 10 bonus entries toward that week’s drawing, with a maximum of 100 bonus entries per week. Here’s a breakdown of how the bonus entries work:
| Articles Read via Newsletter | Bonus Entries That Week |
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| 1 article | 10 entries |
| 2 articles | 20 entries |
| 5 articles | 50 entries |
| 10 articles | 100 entries (weekly maximum) |
A few things to know about how weekly entries work:
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- Bonus entries are based on the prior week’s article reads from your newsletter. The specific entry window dates are available in the official rules.
- Weekly bonus entries do not roll over. They reset each week. This is by design. It rewards readers who show up consistently rather than those who engage heavily once and go quiet.
- Entries are tracked through newsletter article clicks. If your ad blocker or VPN interferes with click tracking, your entries may not register. More on how to prevent this in the notes below.
The cumulative effect is significant. A reader who earns the full 100 weekly bonus entries every week for 10 weeks accumulates 1,000 newsletter-driven entries on top of their permanent baseline entries. A reader who signs up, completes all the permanent follow actions, and never opens a newsletter article, enters every drawing with only 11 entries. Compare this to the engaged reader who can have up to 111 entries per week. Now that’s a difference that would get even Mickey excited!
The Disney Dining daily newsletter goes out every morning with the park news, dining updates, and Disney coverage you’re likely interested in anyway. Opening it through your inbox rather than finding articles another way doesn’t require any extra effort, but it meaningfully changes your odds each week.
Each subscriber can win once during the 10-week giveaway period. Once you’ve claimed a prize, you’re ineligible for subsequent weekly drawings. This keeps the competition fair and ensures that every reader, new and longtime, has a genuine shot every Monday morning.
Introducing the Prize Vault
Every winner has 72 hours to reply and claim their prize from the moment their name is announced in the Disney Dining daily newsletter. That’s a Monday through Wednesday morning window to see the announcement and respond. If a winner doesn’t reply in time, their unclaimed prize doesn’t disappear. It gets locked into the Prize Vault.
The Prize Vault is a running tally of unclaimed prizes that accumulates over the course of the summer. At the conclusion of the 10 week giveaway, every prize held in the Vault is put into a series of bonus drawings during the week of Labor Day, with the first Vault announcement on September 14th.
Here’s what makes the Vault worth paying attention to:
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- Every week, a winner misses their window, and the Vault grows
- Readers who stay engaged all summer remain eligible for Prize Vault drawings
- Weekly newsletter bonus entries continue to count during the Vault drawing period
You’ll be able to follow the Vault in real time. So, you’ll know exactly how many prizes have been claimed and how many are waiting in the Vault for any bonus drawings.
Here’s what the newsletter updates will look like:
When a winner doesn’t claim their prize:
The Prize Vault isn’t just a safety net. It’s a live scoreboard that confirms this is a real giveaway, the prizes are accounted for, and something is always at stake. Every week, you can see whether a real reader walked away with the prize or left it in the Vault for someone else to claim at the end of the summer.
How Winners Are Announced
Winners are announced every Monday directly inside the standard Disney Dining daily newsletter. To find out if your name was drawn, scroll to the bottom of your email to find that week’s winner announcement.
Winners are listed by their first name and last initial when that information is associated with their account. If a name isn’t on file, a partially redacted email address appears instead.
Here’s what the Daily Disney Dining newsletter winner announcement will look like:
If you are the winner, you will receive a special edition of Monday’s newsletter, congratulating you. Reply to the email within the 72-hour timeframe to claim your prize.
Here’s what the special edition winner’s newsletter will look like:
The 72-hour claim window closes each Wednesday morning. Winners are notified through the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday newsletter editions. Reading your email daily, which, as we’ve covered, also earns you bonus entries, means you’ll never accidentally let that window close without seeing it.
Eligibility
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- U.S winners receive the physical prize, the Ninja CREAMi Deluxe and Dole Whip Mix, shipped directly to them.
- International winners receive a $200 gift card in lieu of the physical items, allowing them to purchase equivalent products through their local Amazon marketplace.
If a U.S. winner is already enjoying the benefits of the Ninja CREAMi at home, they will also have the option to receive the $200 gift card in lieu of the physical item.
International eligibility allows nearly all of the audience to enter. Full eligibility details and the complete list of participating countries are in the official rules.
A Few Important Notes
VPNs and Ad Blockers: Weekly bonus entries are tracked through article clicks from the Disney Dining daily newsletter. Some VPN services and ad-blocking software can prevent those clicks from registering. Therefore, your entries may not be counted even if you read the article. For best results, whitelist DisneyDining.com in your ad blocker and avoid routing your newsletter clicks through a VPN. We are not able to retroactively credit entries for clicks we cannot verify.
Keep Your Email Active: Winners are notified through the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday newsletter editions following each weekly drawing. Make sure the email address you used to sign up is one you check regularly and that Disney Dining emails aren’t going to spam or a promotions folder. Adding Disney Dining to your email contacts now takes one second and ensures you never miss the notification that matters.
Ready to Enter?
Ten weeks. Ten prize packages. One winner every Monday morning (starting July 6th).
Someone reading this right now is going to win. They’re going to make actual Dole Whip — the real thing, from the actual mix, with the right machine — on a Tuesday afternoon in August while everyone else is still dreaming about their next park trip.
It could be you.
Sign up below. Your Dole Whip summer starts here!
