Aquatica Dining Plan-Banana Beach Buffet questions

[vacation_junkie]

I have read on the Aquatica Website that it is a buffet restaurant.
Is it worth the money?
Are drinks/snacks included?
What type of food is on the Buffet?
How does that work with drinks and snacks. Can you bring them out of the buffet or do they all have to be eaten/drank inside of it.

Any feedback is fantastic!

 

[rowan555]

You must eat inside the buffet area, which has a very large and shaded area of tables. You may bring your drinks anywhere in the park, though, which we did quite a few times. The food consists of bread sticks/rolls, salad, a few types of pizza, a pasta dish, roasted chicken (on the bone), pulled pork with bbq sauce, chocolate and vanilla pudding, and cake. I am probably forgetting something, but that's what I can recall. We had the free dining, but I must say, unlike at Universal, we found it VERY worthwhile (even though rain cut our day short by 3 hours). Just being able to go grab a drink whenever we wanted was a wonderful perk (and I appreciated not having to lug around a big plastic collectible cup to do so). We find we get hungry often when we're in the heat and swimming, and we stopped in for a small bite 2 times and a bigger bite a third time in the six hours we were there. We'd have easily spent that amount of money paying as we went at the other spots.

 

[vacation_junkie]

You must eat inside the buffet area, which has a very large and shaded area of tables. You may bring your drinks anywhere in the park, though, which we did quite a few times. The food consists of bread sticks/rolls, salad, a few types of pizza, a pasta dish, roasted chicken (on the bone), pulled pork with bbq sauce, chocolate and vanilla pudding, and cake. I am probably forgetting something, but that's what I can recall. We had the free dining, but I must say, unlike at Universal, we found it VERY worthwhile (even though rain cut our day short by 3 hours). Just being able to go grab a drink whenever we wanted was a wonderful perk (and I appreciated not having to lug around a big plastic collectible cup to do so). We find we get hungry often when we're in the heat and swimming, and we stopped in for a small bite 2 times and a bigger bite a third time in the six hours we were there. We'd have easily spent that amount of money paying as we went at the other spots.

We're not pop drinkers, are there other drink options besides the typical fountain drinks?

 

[rowan555]

We're not pop drinkers, are there other drink options besides the typical fountain drinks?

Water is available from the fountain machine (no bottled water), as well as coffee. I don't recall seeing freshly made tea, but they had Powerade and Lipton Brisk in addition to soda in the fountain machine. Sea World DOES allow you to get bottled water as often as you like if you have the meal plan there.

 

[vacation_junkie]

Water is available from the fountain machine (no bottled water), as well as coffee. I don't recall seeing freshly made tea, but they had Powerade and Lipton Brisk in addition to soda in the fountain machine. Sea World DOES allow you to get bottled water as often as you like if you have the meal plan there.

OH LOVE the bottled water option at Sea World!
Atleast theirs other options other then Pop!

January 2014 packages aren't out for another month or so. I hope the Free dining promo is available for our stay.