Gluten Free SeaWorld Dining Plan Options

Visiting SeaWorld as a child was one of my first experiences with ocean life and recently we had the opportunity to bring the kids back. One of our issues on this trip was the need to look into gluten free SeaWorld dining options.

Are there gluten free SeaWorld dining options?

Gluten free diets can be necessary for those with gluten allergies or intolerances. In my case, my family doesn't eat gluten free, but I have had to due to some colon issues. For this reason and the reason that the kids are ALWAYS hungry and constantly want to eat, we decided to look into all day dining SeaWorld San Diego options to maybe save us some time and money.

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• Are there gluten free SeaWorld dining options?
• Gluten free SeaWorld restaurants
• Planning your SeaWorld trip snacks
• All day dining Seaworld San Diego options
• Who the All Day Dining deal is best for
• Was the gluten free SeaWorld dining deal worth it?

Gluten free SeaWorld restaurants

Whether you opt for the all day dining pass or not, there are plenty of gluten free restaurants at SeaWorld San Diego. You will want to download the SeaWorld San Diego app. It's super helpful in locating gluten free restaurants and dishes you can eat.

Planning your SeaWorld trip snacks

While you're planning, take note that SeaWorld DOES allow you to bring your own snacks if you have a food allergy. This may also help save a lot of time and money trying to find places within the park to just grab a quick snack.

All day dining Seaworld San Diego options

Looking at SeaWorld's meal plans available, there are several different rotating types of meal plans available. The one we found and utilized are:

• All day Dining: The all day dining option allows you to visit a participating restaurant once every 90 minutes to receive 1 entrée, plus 1 side or dessert and 1 soft beverage or iced tea. It works at these restaurants:
•  Explorer’s Café
• Calypso Bay Smokehouse
• Hibisco Modern Mexican
• Manta Pizza
• The Chicken Snack Shack

Calypso Bay Smokehouse is the designated allergen friendly restaurant of the park. But there are also some gluten free meals at Explorer's Cafe and Hibisco Modern Mexican.

Who the All Day Dining deal is best for

The All Day Dining deal is the best if you can financially show that it would save you money. Look and see how much you would realistically spend at the parks in a day. In our case, with a teenage boy and a picky eater it was totally worth the expense. My teenager ate. And ate. And ate. And we didn't have to stress about the money once. We also have a picky eater. She grazed, and grazed and grazed all day and we didn't have to worry about making her eat every meal so we got every dollar out of the prices we paid.

Was the gluten free SeaWorld dining deal worth it?

I don't know. I gave it a C to C-. Here were some of the issues that we experienced while at the park:

• Long Lines: We waited at least 30 minutes at one place and the other two restaurants we waited close to an hour at each. The lines were just really long each time we went to eat at a restaurant.
• Availability: When we were at SeaWorld, Explorer's Cafe was closed. Big Bird's Bistro had very limited hours. They didn't allow us to use our all day dining wristbands at Coral Market or the Pretzel Shop. We were told by workers they were only good at the restaurants.
• Food Choices: Great if you don't have food allergies! The kids and my husband said the food was really good! I was limited to just a couple of places and at some places I could only have just a couple of things.
• Accommodations: It was difficult at a couple of places that I needed to make accommodations for. At one restaurant I just asked if they could take make a separate green salad with no croutons and I had some difficulty getting that request. But mostly it was okay.