Table service
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
The short answer
Princess character dining inside the Norway pavilion at EPCOT, family style rather than a buffet. $69 per adult and $46 per child in September 2026, plus tax and gratuity. It is the cheaper princess meal and the easier booking — Cinderella's Royal Table is neither.
- Where
- Norway pavilion, World Showcase at EPCOT. Through the courtyard and up the ramp — the entrance is inside the castle, not on the promenade.
- Cuisine
- Norwegian and American, character dining, family style
- Reservation
- Book at 60 days
- Booking opens
- 60 days ahead, 6:00am Eastern — and if you are staying at a Disney resort, day 60 books your whole stay, up to ten days. Off site, it is 60 days for each date separately, so the same table is gone before your window opens. Work out your date.
- Typical meal
- about $69 a head before tax · Disney’s set price, read Sep 21, 2026
- Dress code
- Theme park casual
- Noise
- loud
- Non-resort guests
- Yes — with theme park admission
- Dining plan
- Table-service plan, 2026 and 2027 · Disney’s own listing, Sep 22, 2026 · what a credit buys here
- Characters
- Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, Ariel, Jasmine, Tiana · confirmed Sep 15, 2026
Is it worth the money?
As a princess meal, yes, and it is the value option rather than the compromise. Cinderella's Royal Table costs substantially more and sells out at sixty days; this books days ahead and costs $69 against a comparable experience.
The honest trade is the room. You are in a Norwegian banquet hall in EPCOT rather than inside Cinderella Castle, and a child who has been promised the castle will notice. What you get instead is more time with each princess — they work the room table by table rather than at a photo point — and food that is genuinely better than the castle's.
Disney does not publish which princesses appear on a given day, and they rotate. Belle, Ariel, Aurora, Snow White and Cinderella are the usual rotation, but nothing is guaranteed and cast members will not promise one in advance. A child who will only accept Elsa should be somewhere else — Frozen characters are not part of this.
Who it’s right for
Families who want princess dining without the Cinderella's Royal Table price or the sixty-day scramble. Children who want time with the characters rather than a photograph — the princesses circulate table to table here. Plant-based diners, who get a full parallel menu rather than an improvisation.
Who it’s wrong for
A child who has specifically been promised the castle, who will notice they are not in it. Anyone hoping for Frozen characters, who are not here. And anyone booking on food alone: at $69 a head this is priced as an experience, and eaten as a plate of meatballs it is not worth that.
What is actually good
Read from Disney's own dinner menu on 10 September 2026: $69 per adult aged 10 and up, $46 per child aged 3 to 9, plus tax and gratuity. One price, everything included.
A cold board arrives first — lefse with cinnamon butter, cheeses, chilled Nordic shrimp salad, garden greens with lingonberry vinaigrette — then hot dishes family style: Norwegian meatballs with lingonberry jam, seared salmon, chicken, seasonal vegetables, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and macaroni and cheese for children who will eat nothing else. The Royal Chef's Dessert Plate finishes it.
Disney's restaurant page bands each meal separately, and correctly: breakfast $$$ ($35 to $59.99), lunch and dinner $$$$ (over $60). Dinner at $69 is over $60, so the page is right.
What misleads is the structured data. The JSON-LD carries a single priceRange of "$$$ ($35 to $59.99 per adult)" — the breakfast band — for a restaurant whose dinner Disney itself puts a tier higher. Anyone reading the machine-readable field, as an aggregator would, gets the cheapest of three.
Portions
Family style and replenished, so quantity is not the constraint — appetite is. The cold board defeats most tables before the hot dishes arrive, which is worth knowing if you are pacing children through it. Ask for more of anything and it comes.
Allergies and dietary needs
Unusually well handled for a fixed-price meal: there is a complete plant-based version of the whole menu printed alongside the standard one, not improvised — plant-based bread, bratwurst, meatballs, olive-oil mashed potatoes and a plant-based apple cake with vanilla gelato. Other allergies follow the standard process of speaking to a chef.
Common questions
- Which princesses are at Akershus?
- Disney does not publish the line-up and it rotates. Belle, Ariel, Aurora, Snow White and Cinderella are the usual faces, typically four or five at a meal, and cast members will not confirm who is working before you arrive. If a specific princess is the whole point of the booking, that is a risk you are taking.
- How much is Akershus?
- $69 per adult aged 10 and up and $46 per child aged 3 to 9 in September 2026, plus tax and gratuity, from Disney's own menu. Children under three eat free from a parent's plate. It is a single price covering the cold board, the family-style hot dishes and dessert.
- Is Akershus a buffet?
- No, and this is the most common misunderstanding about it. The cold starters come as a shared board and the hot dishes arrive at the table family style, replenished on request. Nobody queues at a serving line, which is a meaningful difference with small children.
- Is Akershus better than Cinderella's Royal Table?
- Cheaper, easier to book, better food, wrong castle. Royal Table's advantage is that it is inside Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom, which for some children is the entire experience. Akershus gives you longer with each princess and a considerably better meal for less money, in a Norwegian hall in EPCOT.
- Does Akershus serve breakfast and lunch?
- All three services — breakfast from 8:30am, lunch from 12:15pm and dinner from 5:25pm, per Disney's published hours. Breakfast is the cheapest of the three, and Disney's page bands it separately at $35 to $59.99 while banding lunch and dinner over $60.
Sources
- Walt Disney World official — Akershus Royal Banquet Hall dinner menu, read in a browser on 10 September 2026: "$69 per adult (ages 10 and up), plus tax and gratuity" and "$46 per child (ages 3-9)", with the full Princess Storybook Dining and plant-based menus. — Disney official · checked
- Walt Disney World official — Akershus restaurant page: operating hours (breakfast 8:30am–12:10pm, lunch 12:15pm–4:40pm, dinner 5:25pm–8:05pm), "Character Dining", "Family Style". Its page bands breakfast $35–$59.99 and both lunch and dinner over $60, which is right. Its JSON-LD flattens all three to the breakfast band alone. — Disney official · checked
- Disney Food Blog — Disney World character meals by character: who appears at each meal, with rotating princesses — reported by · checked