After Aquatica? Dinner at Ciao Italia

Your Post-Aquatica Dinner Plan

The slides are over. The wave pool is closed. The kids are wrapped in towels and asking what is for dinner. You need a restaurant that is close, comfortable, and serving real food. Ciao Italia is all three.

We are a family-owned Italian restaurant 3 minutes from Aquatica Orlando. The pasta is made fresh daily. The dining room is relaxed and welcoming — no dress code, no attitude. Families come straight from the waterpark in their sandals and tank tops and feel completely at home.

Show your Aquatica ticket and save 10% on dinner for the whole table. It works with any ticket type. The hardest part of your evening will be choosing between the chicken parm and the fettuccine alfredo.

• 3-minute drive from Aquatica Orlando
• 10% off dinner with any valid Aquatica ticket
• Kids menu $13, includes gelato dessert
• Homemade pasta, bread, and sauces daily
• Free parking lot right in front
• Walk-ins welcome, open 7 nights a week
• Family-owned and operated since 1991
• Casual and welcoming, not stuffy or formal

Wind Down the Right Way

After hours in the Florida sun, you deserve a proper dinner. Not a quick bite from a food court. Not another slice of pizza from a chain. A real sit-down dinner where someone brings warm bread to the table and the pasta is made from scratch.

Ciao Italia has been the post-park dinner spot for thousands of families since 1991. The restaurant is easy to find, parking is free, and most evenings you can walk right in. It is the kind of place where you relax, eat well, and talk about the best ride of the day.

About Dining Near Aquatica Orlando

Aquatica Orlando is SeaWorld's water park, a full day of slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, and sandy beaches. It is one of the most popular waterparks in Central Florida, and families typically spend 6 to 8 hours inside before heading out hungry, sunburned, and ready for dinner.

The dining options around Aquatica are similar to what you find along International Drive: fast food, chain restaurants, and tourist-oriented buffets. After spending an entire day in the Florida sun, most families want something better than a drive-through meal eaten in the car.

Ciao Italia Ristorante is a family-owned Italian restaurant about 4 minutes from Aquatica on Westwood Boulevard. The Navarra family has operated the restaurant since 1991, and everything is made from scratch: the pasta, the bread, the sauces. The dining room is air-conditioned, casual, and quiet enough to actually have a conversation.

Aquatica ticket holders receive 10% off dinner, and the kids menu is $13 with gelato included. After a day of waterslides and wave pools, a proper Italian dinner with free parking and no wait is exactly what most families need.

How to Get to Ciao Italia from Aquatica

Ciao Italia is about 4 minutes from Aquatica Orlando, roughly 1 mile south along International Drive. Exit the waterpark, head south on I-Drive, and turn onto Westwood Boulevard. The restaurant has a free parking lot right in front at 6149 Westwood Blvd. The drive is quick and easy, with no highway needed.

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