mindylee847
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2012
Part Four: Animal Kingdom Lodge
I was really excited to have snagged a Thanksgiving dinner reservation for Jiko at Animal Kingdom Lodge. Our ADR time was at 8:50 PM and we headed out from All Star Movies around 7:30. ASMo is in the Animal Kingdom area so I knew it wasn't going to be too far of a drive. It took us less than 10 minutes, maybe only 7 to get through security and park. Upon driving in, we saw the Jambo House sign decorated for the holidays. (Sorry it's a little blurry. My phone couldn't capture images that well in the car.)
We had plenty of time to check out the decorations before trying to find Jiko and check in. This was the display window for the gift shop.
And then we walked in and were basically floored by the size of the tree in one of my favorite lobbies!
We checked out the signs and the map... and somehow we still ended up not being able to find Jiko the first time we walked around.
We explored the gift shop which was also all decorated. They had a guy carving animals out of wood and a few games for kids too. I found a great AKL mug, but Mike said that I couldn't have it until we stay there to commemorate that visit. Boo! But at least he thinks we'll be staying there one day...
There was a fire going in the lobby and plenty of people sitting around and enjoying the warmth. On our way down to Jiko, we noticed that the Packers game was about to start at the lounge. It was pretty busy so we continued down to check in around 8:25 for our reservation.
We were told that they were seating by reservation time and that we had a while to still wait. We took our buzzer and walked outside to check out the little river and walkway that I assume heads to the pool and to Mara since people kept walking by with french fries in their swim suits.
So, did we get in on time? What did we order? Was it a feast to remember? All coming up next!
I was really excited to have snagged a Thanksgiving dinner reservation for Jiko at Animal Kingdom Lodge. Our ADR time was at 8:50 PM and we headed out from All Star Movies around 7:30. ASMo is in the Animal Kingdom area so I knew it wasn't going to be too far of a drive. It took us less than 10 minutes, maybe only 7 to get through security and park. Upon driving in, we saw the Jambo House sign decorated for the holidays. (Sorry it's a little blurry. My phone couldn't capture images that well in the car.)
We had plenty of time to check out the decorations before trying to find Jiko and check in. This was the display window for the gift shop.
And then we walked in and were basically floored by the size of the tree in one of my favorite lobbies!
We checked out the signs and the map... and somehow we still ended up not being able to find Jiko the first time we walked around.
We explored the gift shop which was also all decorated. They had a guy carving animals out of wood and a few games for kids too. I found a great AKL mug, but Mike said that I couldn't have it until we stay there to commemorate that visit. Boo! But at least he thinks we'll be staying there one day...
There was a fire going in the lobby and plenty of people sitting around and enjoying the warmth. On our way down to Jiko, we noticed that the Packers game was about to start at the lounge. It was pretty busy so we continued down to check in around 8:25 for our reservation.
We were told that they were seating by reservation time and that we had a while to still wait. We took our buzzer and walked outside to check out the little river and walkway that I assume heads to the pool and to Mara since people kept walking by with french fries in their swim suits.
So, did we get in on time? What did we order? Was it a feast to remember? All coming up next!