Signs for Basin on the BoardWalk are up, but Disney still hasn't set an opening date. The shop takes over the old art gallery, which showed up in filings as "Project Bubbles," and the photo on Disney's own webpage still carries that codename.
Basin's newest Disney World shop has its name on the building.
Two Basin on the BoardWalk signs are now up at Disney's BoardWalk, in photos bioreconstruct posted Sunday, Nov. 8. One is a tan-and-white sunburst panel with a big "B" in the center. The other hangs over a bay-window storefront whose doors are still blocked off by rolling hedge planters.
Disney hasn't announced an opening date. Its webpage for the shop still says "Coming Soon," and the official timing is still what Disney said in June: the BoardWalk's new spots start opening in late 2026.
For the record, there are about seven and a half weeks of late 2026 left.
Here's a look inside Basin's Disney Springs store from The DIS, filmed a few years ago:
When does Basin on the BoardWalk open?
Disney hasn't gotten more specific than "late 2026." Here's how the project has moved so far:
May: BlogMickey spotted it in address filings under the codename Project Bubbles.
June 18: Disney announced Basin on the BoardWalk and the Hurly-Burly lounge for late 2026, WDWNT reported.
Oct. 1: Hurly-Burly opened, the first of the new BoardWalk spots to debut.
Oct. 15: WDWNT reported that Disney's website now had a Basin on the BoardWalk page marked "Coming Soon."
Nov. 8: Signs were up, per bioreconstruct's photos.
Where is Basin on the BoardWalk?
In the old Promenade Fine Art Galleries space near the BoardWalk Inn lobby. The gallery closed in October 2025 after almost 30 years.
In May, BlogMickey found Central Florida Tourism Oversight District address filings that put Project Bubbles where the gallery used to be, in a space of about 2,300 square feet. BlogMickey later reported that Basin is filling it.
The codename never fully left. The main photo on Disney's Basin on the BoardWalk webpage, a bar of soap being stamped with the Basin name, is saved as a file called "Bubbles."
Disney Files, Disney Vacation Club's member magazine, described Basin as "nearby" Hurly-Burly, which took over the [old Jellyrolls spot](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/hurly-burly-opens-oct-1-in-the-old).
The gallery isn't gone for good, either. It reopens in December as Imagination Fine Art Gallery in downtown Celebration, [as we reported Nov. 3](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/disney-boardwalks-old-art-gallery).
What can you do at Basin on the BoardWalk?
Make soap, mostly. Disney calls it a "1920s-style apothecary-inspired shop" with three hands-on stations:
Bath tea blending counter: mix a custom bath tea, which works like a tea bag for the tub
Make-your-own-soap station: make a bar of soap from scratch
Soap-embossing press: stamp a personal touch onto a bar
On the shelves, Disney lists natural soaps, botanical bath salts, bath bombs, body butters, lip salves, and shampoo and conditioner bars. It hasn't posted prices for the products or the stations yet.
That's a rainy-day activity with a souvenir at the end, and it's a short walk from EPCOT's International Gateway. Parents of bath bomb fans, plan accordingly.
Where else is Basin at Disney World?
Two places. Basin has a store in the Marketplace at Disney Springs, where Disney bills it as an all-natural bath, body and hair care shop. Basin White is inside Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
Disney Files said the BoardWalk shop will feel familiar to fans of those two stores, but with hands-on experiences they don't have.
At Disney Springs, the draw has long been the bath bomb displays and the sinks for testing products, which AllEars noted were still there after the store's 2024 refurbishment. The BoardWalk version adds a workbench.
What else is changing at Disney's BoardWalk?
Basin is one piece of a much bigger makeover:
Hurly-Burly opened Oct. 1 in the old Jellyrolls space, with trivia and games by day and live music at night.
A new quick-service restaurant is on the way. Disney hasn't named it. BlogMickey has tied it to filings for the old Big River Grille space, which closed in January 2024.
The BoardWalk Inn refurbishment now runs into 2027, with a pool closure, [as we reported in October](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/disneys-boardwalk-inn-refurb-extends).
Promenade Fine Art Galleries lands in Celebration next month under its new name.
If you're staying at the BoardWalk this winter, pack your patience for a few more construction walls.
Article compiled and written by Kambrea Pratt (editor-in-chief), Derek Gibbs (beat editor) and the Pirates & Princesses newsroom. Pirates & Princesses is part of WebReef Media.
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Hat Tips:
bioreconstruct on X (Nov. 8, 2026), the photos of the new Basin on the BoardWalk signs
Walt Disney World (Nov. 8, 2026), the Basin on the BoardWalk and Disney Springs Basin pages, shop descriptions and "Coming Soon" status
WDWNT (June 18, 2026), Disney's Basin and Hurly-Burly announcement and the late 2026 timing
WDWNT (Oct. 15, 2026), the launch of Disney's Basin on the BoardWalk webpage
WDWNT (Sept. 23, 2026), the Disney Files description of Basin and the quick-service tease
BlogMickey (May 9, 2026), the Project Bubbles and Project Amazon filings, location and square footage
BlogMickey (Nov. 1, 2026), Basin filling the old gallery space and the gallery's closing date
AllEars (Feb. 8, 2024), the test sinks at Basin in Disney Springs after its refurbishment
The DIS on YouTube (about 2021), the Basin at Disney Springs video
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