Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A Charlotte, North Carolina, mom offers this handy tip:
A website called
AllergyEats
(
allergyeats.com/disney
)
is a lifesaver. Put in your al-
lergies and your park, and it shows you what you can eat
.
A FEW CAVEATS
BEFORE YOU BEGIN EATING
your way through the World, you need to know:
1.
Theme park restaurants rush their customers in order to make room for the next group of
diners. Dining at high speed may appeal to a family with young, restless children, but for
people wanting to relax, it's more like eating in a pressure chamber than fine dining.
2.
Disney restaurants have comparatively few tables for parties of two, and servers are gen-
erally disinclined to seat two guests at larger tables. If you're a duo, you might have to
wait longer—sometimes much longer—to be seated.
3.
At full-service Disney restaurants, an automatic gratuity of 18% is added to your
tab—even at buffets where you get your own food.
4.
If you're dining in a theme park and cost is an issue, make lunch your main meal. Entrées
are similar to those on the dinner menu, but prices are significantly lower.
5.
Disney frequently adds a surcharge of $4 per adult and $2 per child to certain popular res-
taurants during weeks of peak attendance, including Presidents Day, Spring Break, Easter,
mid-December-New Year's Eve, and every day from early June to early August. The fol-
lowing restaurants participate in the gouging:
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
(Princess
Storybook Dining),
Biergarten, Boma—Flavors of Africa
(breakfast and dinner),
Cape
May Cafe
(breakfast and dinner buffet),
Chef Mickey's
(breakfast and dinner),
Cinder-
ella's Royal Table, The Crystal Palace, Garden Grill Restaurant, Hollywood & Vine
(Play 'n Dine character buffets),
Liberty Tree Tavern
(dinner),
1900 Park Fare
(Super-
califragilistic Breakfast and Cinderella's Happily Ever After Dinner),
'Ohana
(breakfast
and dinner), the
Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show
, Trail's End Restaurant
at Fort Wilder-
ness (an exception: $2 extra for adults and $1 for kids), and
Tusker House Restaurant
.
WALT DISNEY WORLD RESTAURANT CATEGORIES
IN GENERAL, FOOD AND BEVERAGE
offerings at Walt Disney World are defined by ser-
vice, price, and convenience.
FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANTS
Full-service restaurants are in all Disney resorts (ex-
cept the All-Star Resorts, Art of Animation, Port Orleans French Quarter, and Pop
Century) and all major theme parks, Downtown Disney Marketplace, and Downtown
