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Cafe Orleans is our favorite for the food (Monte Cristo for me) and the patio dining with so much happening on the river and the walkways to see. Red Rose Tavern is our favorite quick restaurant with a good location, fun inside seating, and food options. There are so many great places to eat!

That sounds like a good selection of dining reservations. We book Café Orleans for a lunch and Storytellers Café breakfast for the day we leave. The other meals we the Disney mobile order app, Red Rose Tavern, Boardwalk Pizza and Pasta, or Craftsman Grill at the Grand. Enjoy you trip! 🏰

In Rome, we enjoyed the Vatican tour and the Colosseum the most. Walking around at night in Rome and eating at cafes is amazing. With 6 people an Airbnb would be good to check out. We stayed in an Airbnb next to the Piazza Navona, and it was amazing. The kitchen and washer/ dryer were nice...

I agree with you, and we stay at the Fairfield Inn because the pricing is better. I like the mobile order pick up at the Panera. It gets busy in the Panera store lines the morning so I use the Panera mobile order app, pick up breakfast and bring it back to the room for everybody. 🥐🥯☕☕

I like the blue milk better than the green milk, but would rather have an ice cream. 🍦🍨

Grand Californian Lobby Gingerbread House Recipe 2019

Grand Californian Christmas Tree Lobby 2019

Grand Californian Lobby Gingerbread House 2019

Hope you're having a great time with your Mom on Mothers Day! The Grand is amazing.

Yes, I have the Hilton app, and am able to select a specific hotel room a day prior to check in. It shows the hotel layout, and the rooms available by floor. It is a nice feature, and I have used their digital key feature too. I appreciate that guests like to make adjustments. It just seems to...

Thanks, I agree that room availability is dynamic and that 100% pre-assignment would not be totally efficient. I do think that with some effort, the view and villa type variables for each DVC property could be modeled and a percentage of rooms could be pre-booked. I assume that DVC capacity...

I was just thinking how nice it would be to confirm our villa room number when we initially book our reservation. That way we could get the actual room and view that we want. We do make a request, but why not just confirm it? DVC villa availability is predictable, like on the cruise ships, so it...

Mid-July is a busy time, but you go when you can go. We are going in July too. We just get there when it opens, reserve a good lunch spot for when it gets busy, and enjoy. Your fast pass strategy does help for sure. Later at night it is less busy, and you can Park-hop too. Consider spending...

We loved the Napa Rose chef's counter. Chef was great, and the food was excellent. It was a truly unique culinary experience. I would choose Blue Bayou because it really special eating inside the Pirate's attraction. It was dark to reading the menu, so we used our phones. The food was fine...

It worked out great for us. My teenage daughter slept on the Murphy bed under the TV. She was comfortable. I slept on the sofa bed with my wife, which was fine for three nights. It is a thick mattress, not the bad thin ones. My daughters and their kids were in the bedrooms, with room for...

That's great you were able to get connecting rooms in the end. Sounds like a fun trip.

Great beach + great BBQ = excellent

The technology is more noticeable, and that is a plus. Everything is a bit bigger, but it is still elegant. You will notice more people on Castaway Cay, just because you are used to fewer. It is still awesome, and you will have a great time.

We have stayed at the Residence Inn Garden Grove on Harbor Blvd. down by Bucca di Beppo. It is about 2 miles from Disneyland, so you would need to drive in to park, or take the shuttle (you pay a small fee). The bus/trolley stops right in front of the hotel. There is a pool, and a kids area...

Later in the day that Grand Californian entrance/ exit is very useful. It is especially nice to go on Grizzly rapids in the evening, then go directly into the resort. I agree that in the morning the just do not have the capacity for the volume of people that want to use it. Hopefully they...