Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Character Dining
A number of restaurants, primarily those that serve all-you-can-eat buffets and
family-style meals, offer character dining. At character meals, you pay a fixed price
and dine in the presence of one to five Disney characters who circulate throughout the
restaurant, hugging children (and sometimes adults), posing for photos, and signing
autographs. Character breakfasts, lunches, and dinners are served at restaurants in and
out of the theme parks.
FAST FOOD IN THE THEME PARKS
BECAUSE MOST MEALS DURING
a Disney World vacation are consumed on the run
while touring, we'll tackle counter-service and vendor foods first. Plentiful in all
theme parks are hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, salads, and pizza.
They're augmented by special items that relate to the park's theme or the part of the
park you're touring. In Epcot's Germany, for example, counter-service bratwurst and
beeraresold.InFrontierlandintheMagicKingdom,vendorssellsmokedturkeylegs.
Counter-service prices are fairly consistent from park to park.
LILIANE
Look for the
Mickey Check
icon on healthy menu items such as
fresh fruit and low-fat milk.
Getting your act together in regard to counter-service restaurants in the parks is
more a matter of courtesy than necessity. Rude guests rank fifth among reader com-
plaints. A mother from Fort Wayne, Indiana, points out that indecision can be as mad-
dening as outright discourtesy, especially when you're hungry:
Every fast-food restaurant has menu signs the size of billboards, but do you think any-
body reads them? People still don't have a clue what they want when they finally get
to the counter. If by some miracle they've managed to choose between the hot dog and
the hamburger, they then fiddle around another 10 minutes deciding what size Coke
to order. Folks, PULEEEZ get your orders together ahead of time!
A North Carolina reader on counter-service food lines:
