 Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It is a beautiful April day So I wanted to come out and ride some rides eat some food and have a wild Animal Kingdom kind of day any hoos. Let's go do this Look at that big beautiful blue sky today's April 13th, and it's 81 degrees out And it's nice and windy. So I love it. This is like the perfect weather to come to Animal Kingdom I always say that Animal Kingdom is one of the hottest parks, and I don't even know why and maybe it's the lack of shade It's definitely one of the biggest parks, but I don't know why I always feel like it's the hottest and today Like I said, it's the perfect weather. It's a perfect day One of the places I want to explore today is over in Pandora in the Valley of Mora Actually, you can see the floating mountains from here as soon as you walk in the park I don't know I just feel like I haven't been able to go over there and ride rides in a while You know, I mean usually because they're super long. They're probably the most popular attractions in the park So today we'll take a look at them whenever I do come to Animal Kingdom I usually come around 1 30 2 o'clock in the afternoon because once 2 o'clock comes Everybody can park cop and a lot of people don't like staying at Disney's Animal Kingdom because number one They don't have a nighttime show and it closes kind of earlier than the other parks So I feel like sometimes at 2 o'clock people park cop and that makes the wait times go down So we'll test that theory out today a little bit as well Now I do have a dining reservation at Tusker House and that is a character dining So we're gonna be able to eat with some of my favorite characters And I also believe it's the cheapest character dining at Disney World right now So that's gonna be great to show you guys as well I'll go over the prices of Tusker House and give you guys a little bit more information I think I ate here when it first reopened I think it was over a year ago and it was really good, but things might have changed So it's always fun to actually come back and check them out now. I want to go see what the wait times are looking like I just said hopefully they're gonna drop down at 2 o'clock Looks like Cali River Rapids is a 60 minute wait Dinosaur's 45 minutes Navi River is 90 minutes flight of passage is a hundred and 40 minutes Like I said, it looks pretty busy today. It's tough to be a bug is 15 minutes But we want to see what Kilimanjaro safaris is like and I'm not seeing it here Any second now Africa Temporarily closed. Oh, no Kilimanjaro safaris is temporarily closed. So all the attractions are gonna be busy today. Oh My lord Expedition Everest is closed which that's been closed for a while and Kilimanjaro's is closed That means all the attractions are super long like they are like Navi River 90 minutes a hundred forty for flight of passage There's not too many things to do in the park Especially with two of those big gigantic attractions being down at the moment now Kilimanjaro's is only down because of probably just routine Something happening, but hopefully they come back up later in the evening Much later on I plan on coming back and meeting up with a friend and handing up Nomad Lounge We've been talking about how cozy it is. It's actually just come to Animal Kingdom chill out at the Nomad Lounge It's really fun in there. It's probably my favorite place in Animal Kingdom to get a drink We're gonna head straight back to Pandora though because if we plan on riding any of the rides We might be looking at a long wait. So might as well get it out of the way now. I Did check to see if there were any lightning lanes available for the Pandora rides and Avatar flight of passage is completely sold out and the next time for I think the Navi River was like 730 at night. So at this point it's better just to hop in line and just wait it out Another thing I've been really wanting to see is Pandora all lit up at night But it's almost impossible because the park closes at 8 and it's still daylight here in Florida at 8 o'clock So you rarely get to see all the bioluminescence all lit up And that's something I missed but back in the day Animal Kingdom used to close at 5 o'clock So I remember when it first started opening up at night. It was a big big deal and I missed that the hyper's real When you come here though at night and everything's all lit up It's like you're just in a different world like it really does feel all the bioluminescence and the concrete here is all lit up Green and it just glows everything's just so beautiful We can try tonight, but like I said, I don't think it's gonna be dark enough usually at 8 o'clock It's still daylight. Well, it's not daylight. It's just getting sunset and that's what time the park closes So maybe we'll see Now we're gonna head over to the Navi River journey. It says a 90 minute wait So hopefully it's not that long and it's funny because the other day I just went to a really cool Airbnb and they had like a Navi River like movie theater So that's what kind of inspired me to come out to Animal Kingdom today. I was there and I was like wait I haven't been to Animal Kingdom in a while. I Like hanging out in the queue for Navi River because you get to hear all this like amazing background sounds I can fall asleep to it actually. It's really really cool and Yeah, I guess the wait is on the wait is on I love all the detail in here like it looks so amazing doesn't it and this also looks really cool at night as well They also have a really good fan system in here, so it does keep you cool even though you're outside Okay, that was just about 90 minutes. Oh My lord, but I can smell the water. I can smell the water. I Love the smell of this ride. It is so amazing. I love the smell of any boat water ride I have no idea why and I think they all smell different You gotta love that bromane and we're getting row number one That animatronic gets me every time and the music like you really do get the feels in there It's nice and breezy the AC strong Wonderful animatronics a good music score. I really do love Navi River I just wish it was a little bit longer You know what I mean like I don't mind waiting the long waits as long as like the ride is actually a lengthy ride That one I feel like it's not so bad like I think it ends in like a minute 30 Maybe two minutes. I'll have to look up the exact like ride time for that The official ride time is four and a half minutes four and a half minutes for that ride Now let's head to flight of passage see if the wait time went down while we are in line there because I think when we went in It was a hundred and forty minutes. I think it was like a hundred and forty minute wait So maybe the two o'clock Going past two o'clock actually does prove my point that the wait times go down because people park up. So we'll see oh Yeah, look at that 95 minutes now 95 minutes for flight of passage right now if I would have known it went down the 95 minutes I probably would have waited and just wait in line here. You know what I mean? I just did that long haul for Navi River, but I don't have time for that now So before two o'clock a hundred and forty minute wait after two o'clock 95 minute wait that is a big difference That's almost an hour difference We have to make our way over to Tusker house because it's almost time for our reservation and that's over in Africa so we're just gonna skip out of Tantora and come in the back way This might actually be my last socially distant character dining meal because as you may know April 18th the ropes come down and we're gonna be able to actually have regular character meet and greets again So this will be the last one. I think Alright, we made it to Tusker house a lot of people don't even know that Tusker house is back here because it doesn't have like a Big sign, but if you guys get drinks out here behind the back This is where tusker house. There's like a little sign in the back way that you can see Oh, yeah, it's right there and I really do like it here Here is a look at the prices for Tusker house, and I thought that it was 42 dollars But it looks like it went up to 55 so it's guessed three to nine thirty six dollars And then guess ages ten and over is fifty five dollars. So I think it did go up a little bit Maybe I'm hallucinating though because I could have sworn it was like 42 dollars Maybe that was one that first reopened and all of the prices were down and maybe they didn't have characters yet I don't know. It's really tough. I'll have to look back The theming inside this restaurant is so amazing. We already have our table So I'm gonna take you guys back But this used to be a buffet now it's family style and it's really really good It's definitely a special unique dining experience and I think we're all the way back here Looks like we got Daisy there and we'll see Daisy Donald Mickey Goofy Pluto Everybody look at Safari Kilimanjaro Safari, and I think our table is back here Now we're at our table and like I said the price is fifty five dollars And that's still the cheapest actually character dining because I think some of them were sixty five dollars But I thought it was forty two like I might be wrong, but that includes everything It's all you care to enjoy it used to be a buffet now It's a family style, so they're just gonna bring everything out to us We have a salad bread service and then we get the main skillet and that also includes soft drinks like your beverages, too First things first the bread service and this comes with hummus and then a mango chutney Which this mango chutney was phenomenal and I like the bread a little pop of Don and then it actually has an African-inspired Salad with the citrus vinaigrette dressing. That's good as well And yeah, we'll dive into some bread and why we're here and wait. I love this bread though. It's like honestly eating a chip Oh here comes Donald. Oh wow. I Love it Donald is so wild We're gonna be seeing all the characters they're gonna come right up to the table and like I said soon April 18th, we're actually gonna be able to get up We're gonna be like have a very close selfie or take photos with them again And it's gonna be nice even hug them now. You have to do it a little bit socially distance, but it's not too bad As Donald was strutting on the hallway there our food came out and we've got Moroccan Spiced beef with some chimichurri on there. We've got split roasted herb chicken. We've got a marinated pork We've got rice. We've got potato roasted potatoes Corn green beans everything under here. Look at that. Oh the carrots then we also got some mac and cheese that they bring out and Oh, yeah, this is the shrimp. So this is really cool because this is a cape Cape Malay green curry shrimp. Look at this Can you see the green shrimp in there? It looks like a little tiny baby shrimp though little tiny baby ones. I Have done a full like dining video here when it first opened and it does look like everything's the same So we're not gonna go too far to detail with it, but I'm gonna start with the Moroccan beef here. I Remember last time the Moroccan beef was my favorite then the pork then the chicken the rice is really good here too And in case you don't like some of the more adventurous food items You can get chicken nuggets and french fries like you bring those out to the table I ordered some french fries because I love them and Yeah, we're just gonna dive in and wait for more characters. Maybe goofy Mickey soon On top of the great food You also get a really nice dessert sampler and I can't wait to show you guys that as well And they brought out chicken nuggets with my french fries. So you can't just get french fries on their own They'll bring out everything You see they brought out a little bit of the chicken nuggies and the french fries all together And I think we got another character coming out Honestly, I forgot about these roasted potatoes though. These are really good Especially when you get that chimichurri sauce in there got to get that all in one bite. That is so awesome Oh, here comes Mickey himself the man himself just got back from a safari. I love it. Are you about? Oh, that's awesome Nice Another really cool thing you can do is make a little steak sandwich take these little tiny rolls right here Cut them right down the center. There we go Get like a nice little open up But a big then you take your steak And this steak is so good Perfect And here is the goof look at that You're my favorite just to let you know goof. Yep hands down. Oh, yeah much love. Well, thank you Oh, and I hope you had a great safari Nice thanks, man It's like a little steak slider a little steak slider Oh, but here comes Mickey coming back Now I think it's time the desserts come out So we're gonna have a little dessert and uh, I haven't seen Minnie yet. I think Minnie should be here too So Mickey Mouse and ala cup cake with buttercream frosting cream life chocolate and caramel ground And a honeybee sponge cake with milk chocolate Nice I love it. And this is our plant-based Oh, it's a plant-based chocolate mousse with dried passion fruit and raisin Wow, that looks really good. Well, thank you Oh That looks so good. I didn't get this last time, but this is the plant-based dessert But I remember this honey sponge cake is so amazing. Also the trio life brownie That is so cool. I can't wait to dive into it though Look at Donald just sitting there. Yeah, I'm watching I'm watching Seriously the fest wow and let's get to these desserts here. I mean I'm ready. I'm ready to dive in Let's start off with the honeybee cake. Look at this nice little sponge cake Ooh, don't want to lose that bee. This was my favorite last time too Now let's dive into the plant-based dessert gonna get a little bit of this strawberry a little bit of this right here Put it right on there perfect It's like eating a chocolate covered strawberry. Well, it is a chocolate covered strawberry. So look at that Really good I can't stop looking at Donald I think I'm throwing in the towel Like I said, I didn't go into like a full review because I really did I did a whole review when I first opened and nothing really changed except for the characters can get a little bit closer So if you wanted to check that I'll put a link in the description for a full review But here I just kind of hung out a little bit got to see some characters Eat some food and have fun and now I think it's time to head back out to animal kingdom Now that we just got done having a great meal at tusker house I think we might as well head on over to killum and jarrow see if it opened back up again And if not make our way over to asia If you guys are wondering whether or not tusker house is worth 55 dollars I can tell you most of the character dinings are 55 dollars. Like I said Some of them going over up to 65 dollars and if I was gonna rank them I would probably put this in like my number four spot. It's still very good But I mean I kind of like storybook dining. That's one of my favorite character dining chef mickey's really up their game Garden grill has been phenomenal. I think garden girls just always a go-to for me Then I would say tusker house and then maybe hollywood and vine hollywood and vines. Okay. It's good I like the characters better there, but the food here is way better than hollywood vine Oh my lord, it does look like killum and jarrow's actually opened up And because it's been closed for most of the day when it opens up It's kind of like the go-to attraction and that's why it is a 125 minute wait 125 minute wait So whenever a ride goes down all those lightning lanes that people have they don't just disappear They just get pushed back and you're allowed to come at any time So then therefore you have a lightning lane that is just taking up all of the basically ride vehicles And it's gonna make the standby go much longer So for 125 minute wait, I think we're gonna have to pass on killum and jarrow's Maybe later it's gonna go down once everyone gets to go ride it after they haven't been able to ride it all day You never know might quite doubt a little bit later on so we'll we'll we'll come back and check We're gonna keep moving along and making our way over to expedition everest even though we can't ride it We can still look at it. We can just stare at it Other than kite tails until expedition everest opens up There's really nothing over here and it used to be such a crowded area now. It's just empty like it's it's crazy Look at it over here I remember coming over here and always being super busy But now it's just like I said wide open spaces Now I think we're gonna make our way over to dino land usa I really want to ride dinosaur and it probably isn't that long of a wait You know, I checked the wait times Just a couple minutes ago and everything else seems pretty busy, but dinosaur was only like a 15 minute wait Also, I hear that there's a special little coffee beverage over here a little coffee ice cream So maybe we'll get that once we get done with dinosaur if not Maybe into restaurantosaurus or the uh restaurantosaurus lounge This actually is one of my favorite lounges too, but I'm much like nomad lounge a little bit better But we're gonna head right on in it said it's only a 15 minute wait, so I'm pretty sure it is Now it does get a little bit dark out there, so I'm not gonna be able to show you much, but we'll show you what we can Oh securely locked in okay, here we go Oh Time travel commencing in t-minus 10 seconds This is secret. Listen up. We've got to get in grab the quadadon and get out before that asteroid hits. Oh boy Now let's go get that dino Oh Seriously that ride is one of my all-time favorite rides. I love it. It's so much. It's just so much adrenaline and anxiety I just can't get over it Last time I was here. There was some primeval world left But look at that Nothing look it is just completely gone And so much possibility so much room over there You know if you're gonna tear it down you got to put something in its place So hopefully soon we'll find out what it's gonna be And now I think I need to get myself some coffee. We've been here for a very long time I know sometimes in the videos it doesn't like seem like that because everything's edited and put together But like I've been here for like six and a half hours now Like it's time to get some coffee. I need to pick me up. I need to pick me up her Right here at dino bite. They actually have a cold brew coffee ice cream flow. Look at this So it's joffrey's coffee with either french roast or I think they have to shake in jamaican and then hog and does vanilla ice cream So it's like a root beer float, but with coffee instead and I am interested Oh, wow, that's mine. That's the french roast that looking good Thank you. I like this a lot. Oh wow, they give you a big straw too It's crazy because I'm sure it starts to taste even better the more it sits the more the ice cream melts Look at that. Look at what's happening in this cup right here And like I said, they give you this gigantic straw too I mean this is I'm pretty excited. I needed the coffee too french roast is pretty strong coffee, but here we go Very coffee-ish you really got to mix in that ice cream to get something other than just black coffee Yeah, once you actually mix it around a little bit when you just first take your first sip It's just gonna be like coffee like you're just gonna taste black coffee But as the ice cream melts and it gets really really good Especially if you suck up a little bit of coffee and then the ice cream afterwards Because then you get like that taste of strong coffee But then delicious vanilla ice cream and it's it's kind of pleasant And it was six dollars actually too. So kind of like the price of a coffee and a side of ice cream Literally, that's what it is and now look it looks like a completely different beverage Now I'm gonna make my way back over to Africa We're gonna check on Kilimanjaro Savaris and I think it is a little bit better than before since it closed down And if it's good wait time, maybe we'll ride Before we make it over to Kilimanjaro Savaris I ran into my friend Kristen and she ended up getting the spice potato hand pies here And they look amazing. I would definitely get one, but I already ate that big meal. Look at that. There they are They look really good though. So you have to tell me how they are Oh, maybe I will try a little bit. I will I might try a little bit Kristen's making her TikToks It's a Got a show inside The cross section there. Yeah We're gonna see and give it a try and I think it's just potatoes and vegetables Don't know what vegetables are in there, but the crust looks good It's not it's not overly flavorful though. It's kind of just a kind of plain bland It looks like it did go down a little bit 60 minutes still a while but I mean might as well looks like the lightning lane isn't backed up. So we'll time it. We'll see how fast it goes This might be the longest I've ever waited for Kilimanjaro's Usually when you walk out of the little like room there, you go straight down there But we're actually we're queuing up down here Kristen, what's our time now? 27 minutes that's not too bad and we're here it's at 60 but less than 30 I'll take that Yeah Smallest species of rhino it has a prehensile lip that allows it to grab twigs and branches off the forest for entries And uh, it's pretty cool. It's a very lucky on the left. Oh See some more hippos now. Look at that. Oh, it just went under water There's a wildebeest chase happening Those are wildebeest right in front of us Now wildebeest will Actually have really poor vision whenever they start to run their eyesight starts to go blurry So they have to actually slow down in order to regather themselves and figure out where their herd is If you have a question just shout it out as long as i'm able to hear it Uh, we'll do my best to answer it. Are there any bantabok? Are there any bantabok? We actually might get to see a bantabok. Oh, sometimes we can sometimes we cannot Bantabok are a really cool animal. I'm glad you brought him up. Thank you Only bantabok on the reserve. There's only one bantabok Hopefully we get to see him because I like to tell people about his story um bantabok There was a point in time where there were less than 20 bantabok in the entire world. They were on the brink of extinction Until one farmer actually set up a reservation much like this one in order to protect those bantabok And slowly worked on repopulating the world with them Now there are several thousand bantabok in reservations all across africa That's insane It's a really cool story about how one person was able to save an entire species From a certain extinction. That's the coolest story ever actually just goes to show what we can do I'm learning so many things Like the fact that there's only one bantabok on this whole entire safari and that there was only 25 in the world at one time That's that's that's impressive information Well, I've never seen the lion come down this far. There's a lion right there. Look at that The lions are going to rest or sleep for about 18 to 20. Yeah, right? There's a lioness standing up as well. Oh wow. Oh They're a lot less active than people real nice Oh The lion's moving absolutely gorgeous animals. Wow, this is some action The bantabok over there on the right. Oh, oh I see him that's Sebastian I love how I got everyone so excited for the bantabok like everyone the lions are right there And everyone looked for the bantabok and that's awesome Seriously, that was one of the funnest safaris I think I've ever been on especially with all the bantabok interaction So I made sure to give Dylan a cast compliment and I love how now on the mobile cast compliment You can recognize them by name. So it definitely gets to them. So make sure you guys do that Now that we got Kilimanjaro safaris done and we had an excellent cast member. Well, we had an actual like an excellent I don't even know what they would be called. What are they called christen? A safari driver. I was like, what kind of cast member are they? But we had an excellent safari driver I think we're gonna head to nomad lounge. I said we're gonna do that probably sometime today. So coming back Perfect weather to actually sit outside too. So we're gonna see if we can sit outside It's really really nice and like I said, I love being here Look at how cozy this is out here Yeah, this is shots good nice and cozy. Look at this It's got such nice cozy comfy seats And then take a look at these ones too for bigger parties and then you just sit back listen to music Hear the wildlife I like it Of course, I had to go with the kongolush. What did you get? Uh, what is it called? I forget. It's some type of like guava margarita almost. It has like Well, cheers Kongolush, you know, I shouldn't miss that cheers. I shouldn't just say kongolush. What was wrong with me? You know, but here kongolush As we're sitting here enjoying some kongolush We're thinking about trying to make it the flight of passage before it closes and hopefully getting right on there Without a wait, look how blue it is like the suns that's happening This isn't this is really nice. It's such a chill spot cozy relaxing everything you want to call it Yeah cozy Looks like we might be able to see a little bit of the Bioluminescence as we make our way over to the valley of mora It's definitely getting dark enough out Oh, you can definitely see it's lit up a little bit not so much now But definitely by the time we get off so i'm not going to film anything now a way until after we get off light of passage It is going to be so beautiful once we get off light of passage though. I mean, it's going to be lit up nice Well, it says 70 minutes, but we're going for it We're going all in here the line doesn't look like it's outside though. So that's a good sign There is no way this is a 70 minute wait like we were just walking right through the queue Look at this if there isn't a line out this far Right It's been 13 minutes and I think the entrance is right there Well, that would be the separation point because that's where the fast pass would Like merge. So just about 13 minute wait, I would say 20 minutes Seriously if I was going to say we were going to do flight of passage in under 20 minutes tonight Like I wouldn't even believe myself, but it just happened. It just happened I am so excited and honestly, I think the uh pre-show was longer than the wait We're getting there I can lift the spirits of anybody now we're going to close out the night and we're going to go see some of the bioluminescence Look at this Look at this. Isn't it so beautiful? Oh I just love walking through here Oh, my shirt probably looks so awesome right now This is just a regular roosevelt shirt and look how amazing this looks with the black light. I love it. It looks so cool And with that, I think we are done here today What a fun fantastic day today has been like a long day. It's dark out I think I've been here now eat nine hours because it's almost 9 30 Like isn't that crazy like mind blowing that blows my mind the park closed at 8 30 today I thought it closed at 8 o'clock So by the time we got off uh flight of passage and then hung out and checked out all the bioluminescence It's time that we actually just gotta get out of here. So I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye