How fun!
You're going to have a fabulous time!
Hooray for MNSSHP, can't wait to see what you all dress up like
How could pass up "Boo To You"?!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to see you are going.
We knew early on that a dinner on Arrival day at EP would work best and Amy had requested Via Napoli in Italy
She had eaten there in 2010 on a different ladies weekend trip and had loved it. Heidi and I have yet to dine there. I was a little hesitant planning an ADR for Day 1) especially at EP w/ all the great F&W booths but then realized that Heidis suggestion of looking forward to a nice relaxing sit down meal after a full day of travel is a nice thing
I did this last November and it really worked out well to have an ADR where you know that you can sit and relax to eat and make it thru the rest of the night
The idea sunk in and we have not deviated from this plan.
I hope my pizza isnt cooked in the Vesuvio oven cause he looks like he is about to sneeze .
Im not sure if the other ladies are thinking pizza but the above margherita pizza looks delish!
That will be my first choice!
We had also early on discussed how we would all LOVE to go to the new Be Our Guest restaurant in MK if it is open in time but we knew wed need a back-up ADR plan for this night too. We decided that MK and the monorail resorts would be our target area for this meal so then the crazy charts, emails and ranking began.
Heidi devised a chart that we ranked the various restaurants as either a Yes, Maybe, or a No (Id rather eat a crustable) and then we each emailed backed our choices and came up w/ a top ranking of restaurants. From there we went back and ranked them by number I know Amy and I read thru menus to help w/ the decisions. Here is a picture of my notes as we were figuring this out:
After some debate we narrowed the some 20 choices down to 5
The Wave
Kona Café
Grand Floridian Café
OHana
Plaza in MK
In the end Kona won out, Amy was a bit nervous about eating here, not sure if she would find something for sure on the menu she liked, but both Heidi and I reassured her (as we both have eaten here a few times) she would love it!
I'm sort of stuck in the middle of my two friends here. Amy is a non-adventurous eater (that's code for picky) and Julie doesn't like to spend too much on dining. But's it's more about the dinner conversation then the food so we'll have a great time
The next ADR to decide was for our evening out the FREE night we decided to look over the gazillion choices at EP and the TS restaurants at the Y&BC, BW and Swolphin .wow this was a BIG list
By lots of discussing we narrowed down that list to a top 4
Chefs (France)
La Haciendenda (Mexico) How did we every expect Amy to eat here? lol
Captains Grille
Yatchsman
We werent quite unanimous in our decision on this one. I know I favored Chefs and CG. We bounced around a few more idea like Rose and Crown as well.
In the end I believe we decided on Captains Grille.
Now I say I believe because once we began talking about attending MNSSHP we knew wed have to knock out one dinner ADR.
We then had the free night dinner to re look at. And since we were pretty excited about eating at Kona and had already decided that wed eat at Captains Grille for breakfast another morning
We talked about how we wanted this free evening to flow. Thats when Heidi came up w/ a really fun idea of going to a monorail resort for dinner; taking the monorail back to EP, walking through grabbing a drink from F&W and walk back out to the Boardwalk for our night of singing and dancing
Amy and I loved that idea and we just knew Kona was the place to stick with
Only 2 days till our ADR day wow cant believe we are up to the 180 day mark seems like we have been planning forever it always starts to go a bit faster at this point!
I know you all have been salivating at wondering where we have decided to eat and let me tell you it was a fun task figuring and narrowing down our list.
Fun? A little scary for this non-foodie!
We began thinking about ADRs early on as we were formulating our itinerary for the 4 days and had been thinking 4 off the top. We figured a few dinners and a breakfast.
We knew early on that a dinner on Arrival day at EP would work best and Amy had requested Via Napoli in Italy
She had eaten there in 2010 on a different ladies weekend trip and had loved it. Heidi and I have yet to dine there. I was a little hesitant planning an ADR for Day 1) especially at EP w/ all the great F&W booths but then realized that Heidis suggestion of looking forward to a nice relaxing sit down meal after a full day of travel is a nice thing
And I was scared to rely on F&W booths to fill my belly!
The idea sunk in and we have not deviated from this plan.
I hope my pizza isnt cooked in the Vesuvio oven cause he looks like he is about to sneeze .
Im not sure if the other ladies are thinking pizza but the above margherita pizza looks delish!
That's exactly what I'm thinking! That's what I had last time (along with their sangria) and it was a great meal. And very inexpensive for a TS at Disney!
We had also early on discussed how we would all LOVE to go to the new Be Our Guest restaurant in MK if it is open in time but we knew wed need a back-up ADR plan for this night too. We decided that MK and the monorail resorts would be our target area for this meal so then the crazy charts, emails and ranking began.
I hope BoG is open!
Heidi devised a chart that we ranked the various restaurants as either a Yes, Maybe, or a No (Id rather eat a crustable) and then we each emailed backed our choices and came up w/ a top ranking of restaurants. From there we went back and ranked them by number I know Amy and I read thru menus to help w/ the decisions. Here is a picture of my notes as we were figuring this out:
After some debate we narrowed the some 20 choices down to 5
The Wave
Kona Café
Grand Floridian Café
OHana
Plaza in MK
In the end Kona won out, Amy was a bit nervous about eating here, not sure if she would find something for sure on the menu she liked, but both Heidi and I reassured her (as we both have eaten here a few times) she would love it!
A bit nervous? I was very nervous, but after a second look at the menu & the suggestion of looking at what accompanies other dishes (to make substitutions) I was actually looking forward to this meal!
The next ADR to decide was for our evening out the FREE night we decided to look over the gazillion choices at EP and the TS restaurants at the Y&BC, BW and Swolphin .wow this was a BIG list
By lots of discussing we narrowed down that list to a top 4
Chefs (France)
La Haciendenda (Mexico) I was very scared of this one... I would have been eating chips for dinner!
Captains Grille
Yatchsman
We werent quite unanimous in our decision on this one. I know I favored Chefs and CG. We bounced around a few more idea like Rose and Crown as well.
I had always thought I'd want to eat at R&C but after looking at the new menu... nope!
In the end I believe we decided on Captains Grille.
Now I say I believe because once we began talking about attending MNSSHP we knew wed have to knock out one dinner ADR.
We then had the free night dinner to re look at. And since we were pretty excited about eating at Kona and had already decided that wed eat at Captains Grille for breakfast another morning
We talked about how we wanted this free evening to flow. Thats when Heidi came up w/ a really fun idea of going to a monorail resort for dinner; taking the monorail back to EP, walking through grabbing a drink from F&W and walk back out to the Boardwalk for our night of singing and dancing
I love taking the monorail into Epcot! And I really like the idea of resort hopping! But it's our "free" night so we'll see what happens.
Amy and I loved that idea and we just knew Kona was the place to stick with
So if you followed all of that this is how our ADRs line up:
1) Via Napoli dinner
2) Kona Dinner
3) Captains Grille breakfast
How that looks in the itinerary:
Day 1) Thursday
B: airports
L: F&W booths
D: Via Napoli ADR (shooting for a 5:30 time frame)
*****
Day 2) Friday
B: room/bakery
L: F&W booths
D: snacks @ Boardwalk/MK before/during Party
*****
Day 3) Saturday
B: room/bakery
L: QS @ DHS or ??
D: Kona (shooting for 6:00 pm)
*****
Day 4) Sunday
B: Captains Grille (shooting for arriving btwn 7-8:30 am)
L: MK QS
D: airport
So what do you think?
I have you all caught up to as far as we are w/ the planning Im sure once Amy and Heidi get back from their Spring Trips to WDW well began the fun stuff of fine tuning and coming up w/ our daily touring plans so stay tuned
Thanks for reading, J~ for A & H