Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Because touring the Animal Kingdom takes less than a day, crowds are heaviest 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. Expect a mob at lunch and thinner crowds at dinner. We recommend
you tour early after a good breakfast, and then eat a very late lunch or graze on vendor
food. If you tour later in the day, eat lunch before you arrive, and then enjoy dinner in
or out of the theme park.
Animal Kingdom offers a lot of counter-service fast food, along with
Tusker
House
, a buffet-style restaurant, and
Yak & Yeti
, a table-service restaurant, in Asia.
You'll find plenty of traditional Disney-theme-park food—hot dogs, hamburgers, and
the like—but even the fast food is superior to typical Disney fare. The third restaur-
ant in the Animal Kingdom is the
Rainforest Cafe
, with entrances both inside and
outside the theme park (you don't have to purchase theme-park admission, in other
words, to eat at the restaurant). Unlike the Rainforest Cafe at the Downtown Disney
Marketplace, the Animal Kingdom branch accepts Advance Reservations.
Liliane's Top 10 Disney World Snacks
FOLLOWING IS A TOP-10 LIST
of particularly decadent or unusual snacks available at WDW.
We've omitted the usual funnel cakes, popcorn, and ice cream available anywhere. Also absent are
the truly bizarre snacks, such as the squid treats sold at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in the Japan
Pavilion at Epcot's World Showcase. These are the goodies worth scouring the parks and resorts for,
in ascending order:
10.
KAKI GORI at the Japan Pavilion, Epcot World Showcase
A little on the sweet
side but lighter than ice cream, the shaved ice at this small stand comes in such unique fla-
vors as honeydew melon, strawberry, and tangerine. And at $3.50, it's a bargain.
