food IS a theme park
If you’re heading to Disney World this next week, you’ll want to keep an eye on construction and updates going on around the parks.
Construction walls in Frontierland
We’re here to let you know what’s scheduled to be closed for refurbishment in the parks and Disney World hotels!
Greetings from Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge! We’re here this morning because something HUGE has returned to Disney World: buffets!
Animal Kingdom Lodge
We’ve already seen a few recently reopened buffets pop up over at the Disneyland Resort, but now we’re checking out the first all-you-care-to-eat buffet experience to return to Disney World since last year’s closures began at Boma, which reopened today.
By the end of the year, ALL of the current Disney World resorts will have reopened!
Animal Kingdom Lodge
Even though we are still waiting on a few more resorts to reopen, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is set to reopen to all guests VERY soon on August 26th! Before that date, Boma is reopening with a buffet and an updated menu. Now, we know another spot at the resort is reopening soon!
Boma, located in Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, is consistently rated a fan-favorite Disney World restaurant.
Boma
Boma is a buffet restaurant that has been closed since the Disney World closure in March of 2020. Now Boma is finally reopening on August 20th as the first buffet to reopen in Disney World and reservations opened up today! Disney also released Boma’s menus for breakfast and dinner, so let’s go over it!
Slowly but surely, the restaurants of Disney World have been reopening.
Welcome back, Boma!
We’ve certainly been reunited with some of our favorite Disney World restaurants, but we’re still waiting on many to reopen. Earlier this week, we got the news that Boma — Flavors of Africa will be reopening at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge (as the first buffet since the closure!), and now YOU can snag reservations!
OK y’all — this is pretty big news.
Boma
Remember how Boma is reopening soon at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge? Well, the delicious zebra domes and signature carved meats aren’t all that this restaurant is bringing back to Disney World! BUFFETS (well, at least THIS one!) are BACK!
Here at DFB, you know we’re all about some delicious Disney food!
Animal Kingdom Lodge
We’ve enjoyed many tasty meals in the past few months as Disney World continues to reopen many of the restaurants that were previously closed. We’ve dined at ‘Ohana, Trail’s End Restaurant, Casey’s Corner, and many other spots recently. But now another fan-favorite restaurant will be reopening soon at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge!
There are a lot of great Table Service meals in Disney World, but what about the things that come before the main course?
Yep, We talkin’ BREAD!
We’ve done our fair share of ranking the Disney World restaurants over the years — ranking them by park and even by condiments. There’s one (usually) free component of the meal though that we seem to look forward to almost more than the meals at times — BREAD! Today we’re talking to all you carb lovers out there and covering the BEST restaurants to eat at if you’re in it for that sweet, sweet bread basket!
We might be biased, but we would argue that Disney World hotels are some of our favorite hotels across the whole world! Not only do they offer a variety of themes and locations, but with the three categories — Value, Moderate, and Deluxe — they offer something to guests with a variety of budgets.
Can this view be beaten?
But there’s something else to consider when you’re booking that hotel room — what about the view? Now for some, the view isn’t that important, but if you’re like us and like to spend a little time at the hotel you’re staying at, you’ll want to book a hotel that has something nice to look at, right?
Extra Magic Hours haven’t been available at Disney World since it shut down back in 2020. Instead, Disney created new perks for hotel guests that aren’t quite the same as Extra Magic Hours but do allow guests more time in the parks.
Happily Ever After in Magic Kingdom
Hotel guests on Disney property are able to get Early Theme Park Entry to all 4 theme parks, meaning they can go into the parks before they officially open. This includes guests at every Disney-owned hotel on property as well as Disney Springs Resort Area Hotels, Disney World’s on-property military hotel, and other local hotels. We have a full list of all the hotels eligible for Early Theme Park Entry here.
However, ONLY guests at Deluxe and Deluxe Villa resorts have access to Extended Evening Hours, which allow you to stay in certain parks on select nights after they close. But the big question: would YOU be willing to shell out Deluxe resort prices for this perk? Here’s what our readers said!
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