I know it's a dinner/lunch in a tray you pick up and eat at your leisure and with it you get preferred seating ticket near Small World for Paint the Night. I believe they have tables you can use if you want to eat it immediately. I am curious how it works, like if you're eating cold chicken or cold lasagna?!
But I am curious to hear more as well since it's significantly cheaper than Blue Bayou. I mostly want the PTN ticket.
We did the Aladdin's Oasis package on 9/5 (which was the "last day" of PTN), and I would recommend it. As you said, the food was in a plastic tray. They heated it up, and yes there are tables there you can use to eat. There were plenty of tables available when I was there. We didn't end up eating the food right away, but we took it back to our hotel and ate it later. I had the lasagna, it was fine. I think the kids got some kind of pasta, I don't remember now. Food quality didn't really matter to me much since I wanted the PTN ticket like you. It actually took quite a long time to get our food though, that was probably the main downside.
I enjoyed the PTN seating area. We arrived just at the time when they were letting people in. I don't remember what time exactly, but around the time listed on the ticket. There was a long line which wrapped around from the entrance to the end of the "street" between Small World and the seating area over to the other side in front of IASW. Despite that, we were still able to get good seats, sitting on a ledge with our feet on the ground floor at street level. It was basically in the second row, right behind people sitting on the ground in front of the rope. And we weren't packed tight or anything, we could have squished together a bit to make more space but it wasn't needed. Would have been perfect if the person right in front of me in the first row wasn't standing up the whole time, insisting that "everyone does it", somehow ignoring the fact that no one else in the front row was standing, lol. Still great view despite that.
9/5 was pretty much as packed as it's going to get I would imagine. The CMs at the Oasis said that you can usually buy the Aladdin's Oasis PTN package on a walk-up basis without reservations, but for that particular day they were only accepting reservations and turning everyone else away. Unless they make the seating area smaller or increase the cap, I don't think it can get much more crowded than it was on 9/5. But the PTN seating experience was stress-free.
After the parade, people just walked across the street to stand in front of IASW where they had projections for the
Disneyland Forever fireworks. I was able to see the projections no problem, but if you're shorter it might be difficult since everyone was standing. Not sure what kind of fireworks they are having this time around.
We went to Blue Bayou on a separate day (just regular reservations without PTN package) and really enjoyed it as well. I don't know anything about the BB/PTN seating area though.
Overall I recommend it. We are booking the Aladdin's Oasis PTN package again for Thanksgiving weekend.
