Tusker House

[klmorg]

Can anyone give me reviews for this as a choice for a character breakfast? Which characters come besides Donald? Is it a buffet breakfast?

Thanks!

 

[jgazda]

We were there last November and loved it. We saw Donald, Daisy, Mickey and Goofy. They had a dance every 45 minutes or so and Donald was assigned to our room. The kids get these noisy shaky things and dance around with the character. Very cute and my DD2 LOVED it so much we stayed for the second dance. It is quite noisy in there but what we have come to expect with character dining. The food we thought was great. Many choices from pastries to waffles, fruit, oatmeal, carved meat, eggs and some african inspired dishes. We are going again in May we liked it so much.

 

[klmorg]

Thank you so much! I was 90% convinced to go ahead and make a reservation for the morning of our AK day and now I am going to do it! My DD is 4 and just loves to interact with characters. We have done Chef Mickeys a couple times and I thought I would throw this in for something different. She preferres the Mickey gang as opposed to Princesses or Pooh and friends.

 

[eventamy]

Here's my review I did last week. Goofy and Daisy were also there.
To see the pictures go to the real review.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2100030&page=2

Tusker House!

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This morning we had an 8:00 ADR for Donald's Safari Breakfast at Tusker House. We arrived at the AK parking lot at 7:35 and walked to the entrance where we waited for a few minutes in line where they checked our name on a list and let us in. We had a very pleasant walk back to Africa with the other families, stopping to take a picture of the Tree of Life on the way.


We checked in and were called within a few minutes. We were shown the buffet area and told what to do before being brought to our table in the room to the left of the entrance and in the far corner. We met our server, who poured our Jungle Juice (YUMMY!) and since we had a few minutes before the characters arrived we went to hit the buffet. I had my DD1 in my arms so I only grabbed one small plate for her before heading back.
On this plate is a lot of her very favorite things: a blueberry muffin and fruit, grapes, watermelon and pineapple. She enjoyed it all, but especially the fruit.


I dropped DD1 off at the table with her grandma and went back for a plate for myself. This one had a cheese blints with cherry sauce (good, first bite was weird but I liked it the more I had it), Mickey waffle (my first, wow! DD1 liked it too), tater tots (what can I say, they're crunchy tater tots!), veggie egg type thing (no crust so not quiche, was good, but only lukewarm) and red potato wegdes (ok, nicely seasoned, but again only just warm).


Then Donald arrived!


The characters were great, we got autographs and pictures from all of them. DD5 was very into it and loved the attention. DD1 really wanted to see them but is afraid of them when they get close, especially Goofy, but she talked about them all day! I think she'll be better soon, but that was our last non-princess character meal!
Here's us with Mickey!


Between characters I went back up to get another plate. By then the line over near the porridge and Mealie Pap was huge, I don't think people understood that you could start anywhere in the buffet, they were lining up over there and nobody seemed to want any. Since I wanted that I excused myself and just took some. I think some people were put out, but hey, it's not my fault they didn't understand! Plus I had a baby in my arms again! And I need me some mealie Pap!
Here's the Mealie Pap (tasted like really thick corn chowder, I liked it!) and 2 croissants, one for me and one for DD1. We both liked them, very fresh and tasty.


At this point I wanted to try more different things and the other characters were coming (Daisy and Goofy) so my mom went up and got us some more.
Veggie Quiche (ok, peppers were overpowering), more wedges, tater tots (DD5 stole them) and scrambled eggs (ok). There were 2 more Mickey waffles too but the DDs took them! They liked them!


I didn't get pictures of Mom and DH's plates, but they liked their food. My mom's favorite thing was the corned beef hash with the corned bread topping and DH liked the egg frittata with meat in it. He also liked the bacon.

The service was great, he brought us our bill early without us even having to ask. I asked DH to ask for it early but he was more concerned about getting his cream for his coffee (he's NOT a morning person!). I really liked this breakfast and would definitely do it again. I liked getting out before rope drop and getting right onto the Safari.
Next year I think we're skipping AK though. We LOVE animals, but we don't particularly enjoy this park as much as the others. I really highly recommend the Finding Nemo Musical! It was amazing!

 

[mef78]

We really loved our Tusker House breakfast, and the characters (at least that day) moved very quickly. We saw them twice.

 

[klmorg]

OK! Tusker House is now officially on our roster for breakfast!! Thanks everyone!