Orlando, FL – Finding kosher food on your next Disney World vacation will soon be much easier, thanks to the initiative of the World Gate Hotel and Conference Center in Kissimmee and Cohen’s Kosher Deli in Clermont which have teamed up to create and open a kosher hotel in Orlando in time for Rosh Hashanah.

South Lake Press writes (http://bit.ly/PFnNm5) that Justin and Angela Cohen have brought on Rabbis Yosef Konikov and Sholom Dubov to consult and supervise on what they hope will ultimately be three restaurants on the premises – only two of which will be kosher (meat and dairy). The mashgiachs will remain on site at all times, even on Shabbos and holidays.

The World Gate Hotel, which was recently bought by three Orthodox Jews from Miami and is located near Disney’s Animal Kingdom, will have 480 rooms (100 of which will have mezuzahs affixed to the door); a kosher wine cellar; a shul on premises with daily minyanim and holiday services; a beit midrash; daycare; and banquet halls for meetings, weddings, or conventions. Shuttle service will also be made available to and from Disney World and Universal Studios.

The Hotel expects some of their most lucrative business to come from the yeshiva students who visit Orlando on winter break, usually at the end of January and into early February. During that period, the Cohens plan to offer hot, buffet-style food to the teens. “Kosher travelers often have to work extra hard to make their trips to Orlando successful ones.” Justin Cohen said. “This will make for one-stop-shop travel for an observant tourist. You come to Orlando to relax; not to work.”

Cohen also plans to market the kosher food to religious Jews staying at Disney hotels. He estimates that 2.3 percent of the people who visit the Disney theme parks each year eat kosher. “If you think about it, 2.3 percent of 90 million people is a lot,” he said.

Free kosher food delivery service will also be available to those in the parks, or kosher-eating tourists can pick up their food in advance at the hotel, which will also have a kosher supermarket on the premises. “It’s hard to find kosher in certain places,” he explained. “It’s not hard in New York. It’s not hard in South Miami or Chicago, but it’s hard here. But they (people) don’t have to worry. We will make it easy for families to satisfy their dietetic needs while traveling.”