Coop chats with Carol Chuckwu, Disney Spokesperson on Summer Fun at Disney's Animal Kingdom and EPCOT
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00:00It's Coop live from Walt Disney World. By the way, you can win your very own vacation
00:05right now. Big98one.com. We got so much to get into. I'm with Carol right now, who's
00:09with Disney. We're going to talk Animal Kingdom, which I will start by saying is actually where
00:15we're staying.
00:16Oh, great.
00:17We're staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge Jumbo House. Beautiful. Of course, the room
00:20is incredible, but it overlooks, which is such an amazing thing.
00:23Isn't that the best?
00:24The animals. There's zebras outside of our room. There's a giraffe walking by. It's an
00:28incredible place to stay.
00:29I agree. I've stayed there before and I love going out on my balcony with my cup of coffee,
00:33looking out on the savannah. It's just such a calming and beautiful way to start my morning.
00:38Let's talk about the park itself, Animal Kingdom, because there is so much to do at Animal Kingdom.
00:43Talk to me about it.
00:44It is one of my favorites. As soon as you enter and you see the beautiful tree of life,
00:48you know that this is just going to be a day filled with the magic of nature. I love going
00:52back to Kilimanjaro Safari, so talking about those wonderful animals and taking that guided
00:57African savannah safari, you never know what animals you're going to see. Giraffes, zebras,
01:02lions, elephants, maybe even baby Cora, who was one of our baby elephants that was born
01:07last year. It's just so much fun. And then we have amazing stage shows at Disney's Animal
01:11Kingdom theme park. So Finding Nemo is one of my favorites. Puppets, performers. The
01:16set is beautiful. Songs that you're going to be humming all day, but in a good way,
01:20not in an annoying way. And then Festival of the Lion King is another fun one where
01:25it's just takes over the entire stage area and you're a part of the story, seeing amazing
01:29performances and again singing those beautiful classics.
01:32Let's go back and touch on a few things here because the safari is an incredible thing.
01:35I've been lucky enough to do it. I want to say four or five times now. I've gone at different
01:40times and it's a different experience every single time you go. I've done it first thing
01:45when I get to the park at like 9 a.m. or whatever time it was. And it's different than doing
01:49it at the end of the day. So if you've done it before, do it again. Do it again. It's
01:53incredible.
01:54The shows are a lot of fun, too. Finding Nemo is one of my personal favorites just because
01:58it's so much fun. The kids, I've got three kids who are 12, 11 and 6. And so it's across
02:03the board. They love it. It's an interactive show. Sometimes they get the crowd involved
02:07and all that kind of stuff. So it's definitely something that I recommend for people to do.
02:12And then, of course, you've got Avatar, which is part of Animal Kingdom as well. Can we
02:15talk about that for a second?
02:16Please. If you've ridden that attraction with maybe your older children, Fly to Passage.
02:21So you board your own winged Banshee. You soar throughout the landscape of Pandora.
02:26It is just breathtaking.
02:28One of the things about Disney that we know, and this is what Disney is known for, is you
02:31guys think of things that the rest of us wouldn't even have thought of ever. And so when you
02:34do Flight of Passage, I thought this was so cool. You can feel it breathing. It's breathing
02:41underneath you as you ride it. I mean, that's such an incredible touch, but it speaks to
02:44what you guys do here and these immersive experiences.
02:46It's a lot to transport you. You said it exactly. Immersive experiences. You can go
02:50from Africa to Asia to Pandora all in one day. It's amazing.
02:54Let's talk about Epcot a little bit as well. One of my personal favorites.
02:57Same. Exactly. Jinx. But that's another place where the impossible becomes possible. So
03:02in one day, you can walk all the way around the world. You can blast off into the stars.
03:06You can just do experiences that are so completely different. With your family and with your
03:10ages of children, Celebration in Kanto is probably a fan favorite, which I know for
03:14my family it is. You get to dance, sing, have trivia, and Mirabelle and Bruno even
03:19show up. So it's just so much fun.
03:21It is a really, really great time. Obviously, Epcot, you've got those great experiences
03:24as well, but there's the food and the drink around the world as well. So mom and dad can
03:28maybe have a little fun as well while the kids have a great time as well, too.
03:32Carol, thank you so much. So excited about Animal Kingdom. So excited about Epcot. And
03:36you, you can win your very own trip. Just go to big98one.com.