1st timer meal questions.

[andijean]

I have not been in quite a while and am taking 2 toddlers in February. I am trying to get together an itinerary and need some help.

First, Can I make PS's ahead of time, if I am not staying at a Disney resort? We are staying off-site. If I cannot is it still worth making a pitstop when we enter the park or can I call the day of from my hotel?

Second, where are the meal vouchers from that people are talking about?

Third, Does anyone have toddler insight. Do you end up making most of your priority seatings? What times worked best? Did you go back to your hotels for naps or just push it? And last if you are staying off site did you do a lot of park jumping and going back to your hotel?

Thanks,
Andrea

 

[topcat011]

I havent been to DIsney with toddlers in many many years. My suggestion from what I see on various vacations watching people with toddlers is try to keep as much to wee ones schedule as possible. I have seen many people be mad at their children because they were too tired to have a good time.
As far as making reservations for dining...when my kids were little we winged it except for a character dining during our visit. Which I made for later in the breakfst time. (I didnt want to be rushing them early in the morning to get ready and hurry or we will be late kind of mode.

 

[solotraveler]

Yes, you can make PSs ahead of time. All you have to do is call WDW-Dine when they begin taking reservations. Reservations are taken at different times depending on where you want to eat. There is a great PS calculator out there on the web that I'm sure someone could post the address for that would take all the guesswork out of it for you.

Meal vouchers are offered through a couple of different compnaies, I believe. The people on the Budget Board are very well versed on that subject and I'm sure they'd be happy to give you all sorts of info.

Finally, good luck with those toddlers. If you have any that are finicky about what they eat you might want to check out the kids menus at wdwig.com to make sure they will have something they like. All of the servers I have seen are very used to having kids in their resaurants and most are great with them.

Hope this helps!
Solotraveler