Boma Dinner - Kid Friendly + Timing

[Frozen2014]

Looking at options for a day we have as a cruise stop at Port Canaveral. A few questions....

1. We have two kids that are picky (14 and 10 years). We've been there for breakfast but not dinner. Is dinner kid-friendly with American type food? Or is it all unique/different stuff?
2. Is we made a reservation for 5:15pm. Is it reasonable to be done and able to get ourselves back to the TTC for 7pm? (I believe this is the timing for catching the ship bus back to the port)

We also have a couple days at Disney parks in the summer so also looking at the option of booking breakfast ADR...which may be better food-wise.

 

[Geomom]

1. Boma dinner--while there are some pretty unique/different stuff, they do still have the typical 'kid' friendly options at the buffet as well.

2. I don't think you'd make it...if Boma seats you on time, say an hour of eating/waiting for check, then taking a bus from Animal Kingdom Lodge to Magic Kingdom (say 20 minute wait for the bus, then another 15 minute ride to Magic Kingdom), then the monorail/ferry to the TTC. Personally, if I just had the 1 day cruise stop, I'd have dinner in a park, probably Magic Kingdom, so that you're just a monorail away from your transport. Or being the anxious sort, I'd do a table service lunch somewhere and a quick service dinner, so you can feel more relaxed dining at the more expensive meal.

I'd save Boma dinner for your Disney park days in the summer.

 

[GoingSince1990]

Doable, but show up at Boma at 5 PM, and Uber/Lyft to TTC directly from there instead of messing around with buses.

 

[Frozen2014]

Thanks for the feedback. We are not actually visiting the parks...just things like Disney Springs and maybe resort hopping. So we could do an ADR at say a resort place, but not at a park.

We are also ok taking an uber from Boma to the TTC...but I think timing is still pretty tight?

Good to know they have kids food too. Things like chicken fingers, pizza?

 

[Frozen2014]

P.S. - One pro keeping with our park day is that it is $30 per person vs dinner on our cruise stop at $52 pp. Only negative with park day is we only have 3 park days (+ partial day) and so it would eat into our park day (lol...no pun intended)

 

[Geomom]

Boma menu: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/animal-kingdom-lodge/boma-flavors-of-africa/menus/dinner/
Yes, looks like chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, a version of corn dogs, meatballs/pasta at the kids' station. My teen kids love the dessert options here.

Ah, wasn't sure if this cruise stop was similar to the ones Disney has done that include a parks ticket. If you're doing an Uber and choose the earliest dining time, perhaps it would work? Definitely not going to work if you're using Disney transit--too many connections.

For doing it on a park day: If you're doing Animal Kingdom Park, it's a quick bus ride to/from the lodge. Easy enough to either end your Animal Kingdom day there or take a dinner break there if you're going back for any evening hours.

 

[Frozen2014]

Thanks for the menu link. Since it was a buffet, I didn't even think to check the site.

That's nice that Disney includes Park tickets. Wonder the cost? This cruise is Royal and it's transportation only.

I just checked and earliest time for our day is 5:10pm. At least since it's a buffet, they would seat us and then our own pace.

For a park day, it would be in our Epcot day. Stating at Pop so probably have to Uber to Boma and then Uber from AKL to Epcot afterwards.

 

[ssnelle]

Thanks for all the tips. Planning on eating here during our AK visit!!!

 

[Geomom]

Thanks for the menu link. Since it was a buffet, I didn't even think to check the site.

That's nice that Disney includes Park tickets. Wonder the cost? This cruise is Royal and it's transportation only.

I just checked and earliest time for our day is 5:10pm. At least since it's a buffet, they would seat us and then our own pace.

For a park day, it would be in our Epcot day. Stating at Pop so probably have to Uber to Boma and then Uber from AKL to Epcot afterwards.

Disney Cruise line doesn't do those cruises very often, and I don't think they have one currently offered, but it was a fall roundtrip sailing from NYC that included a stop in Port Canaveral with park tickets/buses, etc.

Yeah, I probably would not leave Epcot as there are just so many interesting restaurants there to choose from. (Hollywood Studios doesn't have very interesting restaurants, so I 'might' do that if I really wanted to eat at Boma.) If you wanted, you can take the AKL bus to/from the parks vs. an Uber. Obviously nothing straight to/from Pop.

If you decide to do it on your cruise stop day, after you've ordered any alcoholic/upcharge drinks you might want, I'd ask for the check early, so that way you can leave when you need to vs. needing to wait for your waiter to return.

 

[Frozen2014]

Disney Cruise line doesn't do those cruises very often, and I don't think they have one currently offered, but it was a fall roundtrip sailing from NYC that included a stop in Port Canaveral with park tickets/buses, etc.

Yeah, I probably would not leave Epcot as there are just so many interesting restaurants there to choose from. (Hollywood Studios doesn't have very interesting restaurants, so I 'might' do that if I really wanted to eat at Boma.) If you wanted, you can take the AKL bus to/from the parks vs. an Uber. Obviously nothing straight to/from Pop.

If you decide to do it on your cruise stop day, after you've ordered any alcoholic/upcharge drinks you might want, I'd ask for the check early, so that way you can leave when you need to vs. needing to wait for your waiter to return.

Thanks for the tip about asking for the bill after any extras. Good idea.

If we end up booking Boma when we are at the parks, then we would book breakfast ADR. And ff things stay the same in the summer for our Disney trip as they are today, then it won't work to pair it with HS because of the Boarding Group thing. But who knows how things will change by then.

Sounds like we can try Boma with our cruise stop day...and so will just decide if its worth the hassle and additional cost over breakfast.

Any preferences of breakfast vs dinner at Boma? The breakfast was the one restaurant that stood out for DH. Not sure we'll do any other table services.

 

[Geomom]

We like them both. We did them both last February when we were staying at AK kidani villages. I would pick whatever works best for your schedule, or save it for some future trip with more Park days. I hate taking up Park time with travel. Doing a resort restaurant on the monorail loop on a magic kingdom day is easy, same with boma on an animal kingdom day.

As far as breakfast vs dinner...i just asked dd15. Breakfast has Simba waffles, dinner has zebra domes for dessert...so still a toss up. Lol.

 

[Frozen2014]

Thanks for your suggestions. No plans on Animal Kingdom so it doesn't naturally fit into our park day. And if we did an ADR, this is the only one in either sceanrio.

Thanks for asking your 15 year old. If the dessert is good, then our kids would be happy. Cute how they make some food items the shape of the characters.

One more question....I'm looking at Disney Transportation and it looks like we can take a bus from Disney Springs to Animal Kingdom Lodge? Or is it multiple buses? We could always bus and leave at 4pm...and if early for ADR, then check out the resort. (But would uber from AKL to TTC)

 

[DisneyWishes14]

Thanks for your suggestions. No plans on Animal Kingdom so it doesn't naturally fit into our park day. And if we did an ADR, this is the only one in either sceanrio.

Thanks for asking your 15 year old. If the dessert is good, then our kids would be happy. Cute how they make some food items the shape of the characters.

One more question....I'm looking at Disney Transportation and it looks like we can take a bus from Disney Springs to Animal Kingdom Lodge? Or is it multiple buses? We could always bus and leave at 4pm...and if early for ADR, then check out the resort. (But would uber from AKL to TTC)

Yes, you can take a bus from DS to AKL.

 

[Geomom]

Yes, 1 bus from Disney springs to animal kingdom lodge. If you're there early you can go to the savanna viewing area outside to see animals.
Definitely Uber back!

 

[Frozen2014]

Perfect...there is a bus and we don't have to transfer.
Thanks for all the help.

 

[amym2]

My kids (now 18 and 16) LOVE Boma! They are big fans of the Mac & cheese. Personally even if it wasn’t my kids’ favorite, I’d make them eat there because I want to, lol.

We also love Boma breakfast. The French toast bread pudding alone is worth a trip. My kids love the POG juice and standard breakfast foods.

I think you’d be fine with a 5:10 reservation. I assume Boma opens at 5, so you should be seated quickly. Agree with others who suggested Uber to TTC.

 

[Frozen2014]

My kids (now 18 and 16) LOVE Boma! They are big fans of the Mac & cheese. Personally even if it wasn’t my kids’ favorite, I’d make them eat there because I want to, lol.

We also love Boma breakfast. The French toast bread pudding alone is worth a trip. My kids love the POG juice and standard breakfast foods.

I think you’d be fine with a 5:10 reservation. I assume Boma opens at 5, so you should be seated quickly. Agree with others who suggested Uber to TTC.

Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like we can't go wrong with either. Now to just decide what to do. Looking at the price of Boma dinner, it's just half of getting a theme park ticket for the day. So may be to $$$.

Correct. Boma opens at 5pm, so it's funny that the first reservation is 5:10pm. It's not like the previous table will be done after 10 minutes. Guess it's the way the stagger people arriving.

 

[KenHutch]

For food Boma is great we are going back on our 1st Animal Kingdom night. The eleven year old requested it. She loves it. I have made an entire meal just out of the soups and then the zebra domes for desert.

 

[Frozen2014]

For food Boma is great we are going back on our 1st Animal Kingdom night. The eleven year old requested it. She loves it. I have made an entire meal just out of the soups and then the zebra domes for desert.

I was just watching a video on Boma. Those zebra domes look amazing.