Animal Kingdom Lodge dining
Boma Flavors of Africa: Buffet Guide Without a Park Ticket
Boma, Flavors of Africa is the buffet at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, a resort restaurant with no park ticket required. Breakfast is a big, familiar spread with African touches, and dinner is the full African menu the room is known for. There is no lunch service and there are no characters.
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Quick facts
Boma, Flavors of Africa is the buffet at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, a resort restaurant with no park ticket required. Breakfast is a big, familiar spread with African touches, and dinner is the full African menu the room is known for. There is no lunch service and there are no characters.
Fast read
What matters first
Use this page as the practical filter before you plan a trip out to the lodge.
Best fit
Groups who want buffet volume and African flavors without park admission, especially on arrival, departure or rest days when no ticket is in play.
What changes the value
Breakfast is $39 per adult and dinner is $58 as of August 2026, and they are different products rather than tiers of one meal. Dinner is where the full African spread appears.
Do not assume
There are no characters at Boma, and it is not inside the theme park. For a character buffet nearby, Tusker House inside Animal Kingdom is the booking.
Decision system
The planning sequence
Use the sequence below to decide which Boma seating, if either, earns the trip to the lodge.
Two products, one room
Boma is really two bookings, a value breakfast and the full African dinner, sharing one buffet room.
The $39 breakfast is the volume play: omelets made to order, carved ham, pastries and African touches like Turkey Bobotie. The $58 dinner is the reason the restaurant has a reputation, with soups, wood-roasted meats and dishes drawing on more than 50 African countries. Decide which product the group wants before comparing prices.
What Boma actually is
Boma is the all-you-care-to-enjoy buffet at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, a resort restaurant and not a theme park one. Disney frames the food as flavors drawing on more than 50 African countries, served casual-dining style at breakfast and dinner only. Because it sits at the resort, anyone with a dining reservation can eat here with no park ticket.
Which meal is usually the smart pick
The official menus checked August 1, 2026 show breakfast at $39 per adult and $23 per child. Dinner is $58 per adult and $34 per child, plus tax and gratuity. Breakfast is the value pick, a large morning spread with made-to-order omelets, Turkey Bobotie, French toast bread pudding, coconut steel-cut oatmeal and Kenyan coffee. Dinner is the full spread: Moroccan Harira and Butternut Squash soups, African Spiced Beef Striploin, Durban Chicken, Lamb and Beef Bobotie, Tamarind BBQ Pork Ribs and chakalaka.
What to know before reserving
Reservations open 60 days out, and per-person fees apply for no-shows. The dinner menu rotates daily, so specific dishes are not promised on a given night, and that includes the famous Zebra Domes dessert, which listings hedge as desserts may include. There is no lunch service, no characters, and a June 2026 participating list shows the meal at 1 table-service credit on the 2026 dining plan.
How to actually get this table
Walt Disney World dining reservations open 60 days ahead, and the window opens in the early morning Eastern time, so the hardest tables go to people who book the moment their date unlocks. Disney Resort hotel guests can book the whole stay, up to 10 nights, when their 60-day mark hits, which is why popular seatings vanish before off-site guests wake up. If you miss it, keep checking My Disney Experience for cancellations in the week before your visit, and check the walk-up list in the app on the day you want to eat.
Deep Arrival recommendation
Book Boma breakfast on arrival, departure or park-free days when the group wants a big meal at the lowest price without admission math. Book dinner when the African menu itself is the draw and the group will eat beyond the safe basics. Skip it when characters are the point, because Tusker House inside Animal Kingdom covers that version of this cuisine.
Planning traps
Mistakes to avoid
These are the small decisions that quietly derail an otherwise good plan.
Boma is at the Animal Kingdom Lodge resort, a separate bus or car ride away, and no park ticket is needed.
There is no lunch service; the restaurant runs breakfast and dinner only.
No characters appear at Boma; book Tusker House inside the park for the character version.
The dessert lineup rotates daily and listings say desserts may include them, so no single night guarantees the domes.
Sources checked
Official and supporting references
These are the references checked while writing this page, so you can confirm live prices, dates, rules, and operating details before money changes hands.
FAQ
Common planning questions
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