Piwacket's Mom
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- May 7, 2015
Hi, this will be our first visit and both my brother and I love steak. Can you please help me? I want the best steak I can get. Which place should I choose for best meat quality and preperation?
I was wondering about that. I'm feeling daunted by all the reservations I have to make, let along figuring out planning to get around and making reservation on time without being familiar with each area yet. I paid 500 extra for the upgrade to deluxe and am hitting menus to see if 3 big meals out of pocket and just roving around the park and eating where ever is a better choice.Shula's IS the best steak on property. It IS NOT on any of the dining plans. Between YS and LC, YS is the all around better dining experience.
I think you are making a big misteak (see what I did there?) doing DxDP on your first trip. You are giving up A LOT of time just on meals. Even if you do a TS breakfast and Signature dinner, you are still losing a lot of time with having to go and get ready for your dinner. You might want to consider dropping to just the regular DDP and paying for a few meals OOP.
I was wondering about that. I'm feeling daunted by all the reservations I have to make, let along figuring out planning to get around and making reservation on time without being familiar with each area yet. I paid 500 extra for the upgrade to deluxe and am hitting menus to see if 3 big meals out of pocket and just roving around the park and eating where ever is a better choice.
I agree with this 100%. For your first time, i'd stick with the DP, not deluxe. Thats way too much food AND time wasted. The best way to use the deluxe DP is to have a breakfast/early lunch, followed by a signature dinner each night. Two restaurants each day max is more than enough. Although for your first time, the DP is plenty. Its still A LOT of food.For a first trip, I would stick with the basic DDP. I think the basic DDP is good for first timers and gives them a chance to sample and experience all that WDW has to offer. After the first trip, that's when people can play around more with either DxDP or no dining plan. IMO DxDP should not even be an option for someones first trip and the basic should be manditory. If you make yourself 1 dinner ADR a day it will give you a chance to try a variety of restaurants, plus it gives you a nice break to recharge. If there is a Signature restaurant that jumps out at you, book it and pay for it OOP, then take the extra TS credit and put it towards something like a character breakfast. A lot of the CS restaurants on property are not just burgers and fries. In fact, you can go for more than a week, eat nothing but CS and never actually eat a burger, fry, chicken finger or pizza.
Hi, this will be our first visit and both my brother and I love steak. Can you please help me? I want the best steak I can get. Which place should I choose for best meat quality and preperation?
I agree with this 100%. For your first time, i'd stick with the DP, not deluxe. Thats way too much food AND time wasted. The best way to use the deluxe DP is to have a breakfast/early lunch, followed by a signature dinner each night. Two restaurants each day max is more than enough. Although for your first time, the DP is plenty. Its still A LOT of food.
Dont forget that on the deluxe DP you get 3 meals, plus 2 snacks. For those meals you also get an appetizer and dessert in addition to the entree. You dont think thats too much food (x3 a day?).I agree it might not be the best idea to commit to multiple daily ADR's on a first trip. Figuring out new things and attacking the parks can take up a lot of time as new guests, let alone worrying about getting to multiple ADR's. However, people need to it. If they intend on eating a sit down lunch and a sit down dinner, then I'd say go deluxe.
I completely disagree about the 'too much food' part.
12:00PM - 1TS Lunch
7:45PM - 2TS Dinner
Seven hour spacing even on a sedentary day should lead to hunger and even from a dietary standpoint. Seven hours between meals isn't even healthy from a metabolic and nutritional standpoint, let alone on a physically active trip like Disney. Even with three courses, many of the signature offerings are smaller portioned and a soup/salad shouldn't have anyone struggling to finish their entree.