Happyinwonerland
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2014
Character meals. Expensive, sub-par food filled with brief meet and greets with some of your favs. A Lot of people on here say "But I don't go for the food, I go for the convenience of seeing the characters while eating". But is it really saving that much time? And is the cost worth it?
Take the CP. There you meet Pooh and the gang. For a family of four you're looking at roughly $120. The meal takes an hour to an hour and a half of your time, counting walking and making reservation time. Not to mention, you were up at midnight 6 months prior in order to snag your reservation. So you pay your $120 (on top of the $400 you spent for your family to go into the park) and spend an hour and a half eating $15 worth of waffles a and sausage. Most of that time is spent waiting to be seated, waiting in buffet lines, etc. During your meal, the characters come and spent roughly 2 minutes each with you, interrupting your meal and making your food get cold. After paying all that money, YOU are on THEIR schedule, and will meet when they day or not at all. Hope you aren't at the buffet line when they come by! Your photos are not taken by photo pass photogs, so usually aren't the best, and the background is just the dining room, with 100 other families.
OR you could eat your breakfast on the way to park ( pancakes and sausage on a stick, baby!), spend 10 minutes in line to meet Pooh and Tigger, get one on one time with fewer distractions, have the photopass photogs take you picture ( thank you, memory maker), with the themed backdrop as your background. You can meet them when you decide. And best of all, you just saved yourself $120! Woohoo, Mickey Bars all around!!
****IF there are characters you ABSOLUTELY must meet that are only offered during character meals, I can see it being worthwhile.*****
Take the CP. There you meet Pooh and the gang. For a family of four you're looking at roughly $120. The meal takes an hour to an hour and a half of your time, counting walking and making reservation time. Not to mention, you were up at midnight 6 months prior in order to snag your reservation. So you pay your $120 (on top of the $400 you spent for your family to go into the park) and spend an hour and a half eating $15 worth of waffles a and sausage. Most of that time is spent waiting to be seated, waiting in buffet lines, etc. During your meal, the characters come and spent roughly 2 minutes each with you, interrupting your meal and making your food get cold. After paying all that money, YOU are on THEIR schedule, and will meet when they day or not at all. Hope you aren't at the buffet line when they come by! Your photos are not taken by photo pass photogs, so usually aren't the best, and the background is just the dining room, with 100 other families.
OR you could eat your breakfast on the way to park ( pancakes and sausage on a stick, baby!), spend 10 minutes in line to meet Pooh and Tigger, get one on one time with fewer distractions, have the photopass photogs take you picture ( thank you, memory maker), with the themed backdrop as your background. You can meet them when you decide. And best of all, you just saved yourself $120! Woohoo, Mickey Bars all around!!
****IF there are characters you ABSOLUTELY must meet that are only offered during character meals, I can see it being worthwhile.*****
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