Animal Kingdom - Orlando (Disney's Animal Kingdom Park)

Member Name: lindseyphilpot

Product:	Disney's Animal Kingdom Park
Date:	13/06/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: beautiful park

Disadvantages: Hard to navigate around.

We have very recently come back from Florida and i have so many reviews to write on our wonderful trip. I have chosen to start with some that stand out the most for both goodand bad reasons and I hope they will all help with planning your vacation.

We visited Disney's animal Kingdom towards the end of the first week of our holiday. We were over the jet lag and ready to do some real Disney trekking and thought we would visit the anmimal Kingdom as it is the newest park in Disney World built in 1998. None of our party has been there before so we wasnt sure that to expect at all.

It was an extrememly hot day and we got there about lunch time because we were getting up increasingly late. On arrival like the other 4 parks you have to pay $12 to park on top of you park entrance fee. The car park is not really anywhere near to the park and transport from the car park to the park is laid on. The parking system is so well oragnised though as with all the disney parks and we parked in a car park labelled with an animal name. We were directed there at every step by about 20 parking attendants. Very easy.

When we got into the park we were not surprised to see that is was quite quiet as all the parks that week had been, we went at the end of May. The pathways were shaded and we were pleased with this because of the heat but we were soon to learn different.

It seemed to take us asges to get anywhere worth going to. The park seemed quite hard to navigate around even with the map and there was so much walking. Everybody got tired very quickly and we soon realised that actually it was only the entrance to the park that was shaded and everywhere else was in the pure sunshine.

We cued up about 20 minutes to ride the Kilimanjaro Safaris and were impressed with this. It was great to get up close and personal with some animals including lions, elephants and zebras even if it was slightly scary. They are very well planned and aparently no 1 safari is the same. Other attractions we made it to see was finding nemo the musical which was great for the little ones and very well produced etc, well worth and visit and Lion King the musical which is a MUST SEE as it was just fantastic. They had some wonderful acrobats who really made the show and it wasn't too long so the kids didnt get bored. The costumes and make up was excellent.

Unfortunately we didnt get to do a lot more than this. I May/June time the parks shut at 6ish so time was short. We was also very hungry as there seemed to be less places to grab something to eat in this park and cues were extremely long and burgers were extremely expensive!! There is a rainforest cafe withing the park though which is handy because prices here are reasonable for what you are getting.

I have heard that the other rides here are fantastic though and I am dissappointed that we didn't get to see more of this park!!

If you do visit be sure to go and see the tree of life because it is absolutely beautiful and kind of unmissable but if you do miss it be sure to find it.

Summary: A park not to be missed but not my favorite