***1st Week of December Thread ADR Plans, Park Hours, and dealing with Pop Warner***

[jillyh]

thought id also share this here, cause this would have sucked for me to get here and not know this..
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How the heck can they change that mid year? when people have already purchased their dining plans!!! Wow! Glad I was planning on going for breakfast anyway!

 

[Lisa F]

http://www.disboards.com/threads/when-did-they-change-these-to-2-credit-meals.3516686/
Also see this thread

Tusker house Lunch and dinner
Chef Mickey's Dinner
Akershus Lunch and Dinner

found it. Well I'm glad I booked TH breakfast because I bet it is going to be hard to get. If they make that package 2 credits I will fastpass RoL. or skip it all together. Our favorite nighttime show (me and the kiddo) is illuminations. Right now we have one night (CA Grill) where we plan another park in the morning, nice dinner then back to Epcot for Illuminations. Maybe we'll do it twice that way.

 

[Lisa F]

How the heck can they change that mid year? when people have already purchased their dining plans!!! Wow! Glad I was planning on going for breakfast anyway!

yeah there is going to be major uproar but I don't think Disney ultimately cares. I had been planning TH dinner for a while and glad i switched to breakfast now (mostly was just giving more structure to my plans and keeping the character meals to breakfasts and slightly more grownup dinners), there is no way I'm paying 2 credits for that.

 

[Winniebell10]

Thank you! I don't know anything about Saratoga Springs, never been on my radar. As far as distance is concerned- is it inconvenient to Epcot?

From what I understand H&V f! Packages haven't been released, if that's what you're looking for.

Just to confirm, our online time for booking tomorrow is 6am correct?

Yes. Online is 6am.

I'm actually just wanting the holiday dinner I think. That one may be popular. But just wondering why several on my list seem to have nothing open.

 

[Lisa F]

Yes. Online is 6am.

I'm actually just wanting the holiday dinner I think. That one may be popular. But just wondering why several on my list seem to have nothing open.

what's on your list? I can't book online past 180 but I can SEE them until 12/8. If you pm me a list I can give you an idea of what to expect so you have some time to figure out backups. It was kiddo's bday party this morning and he has a headache now. we are back in pjs and hanging on the couch watching chopped Jr. Happy to help anyone see the future while I am chillin.

 

[Winniebell10]

You know, sometimes you are just trying to cram TOO much into one trip. For me, I've decided to kind of let the RoL and nighttime at AK go for now.. we'll see how i feel later. I will hopefully have a coveted Ohana dinner reservation for saturday night which was my AK day at 5:25. If RoL is at 9pm then it will be great, I can get back there for the show (I am hoping to get a breakfast wtih tusker house package). If not maybe we'll just do illumiantions (we are staying at BWV). Not sure I will even be able to pick up that ADR but I'll try.

I think anyone's guess is as good as anyone else's and also right now the shows are 9pm and 10:30pm - I don't think that will be happening in december but it might on Saturdays in december? I really don't know.

I also have let the DVC merry member mixer go, it was too hard to keep things open for it. If I can work it in, great. if not, no big deal. I have found my stress dissipating now that I have decided to let a few things go (emotionally) and if i can work them in, great.

I hear you. I changed things up just a little again this morning. I had been trying to work in a RD AK day and it was messing me up. It finally hit me this morning to just make AK our day after our MVMCP day. We can just sleep late (which for us isn't usually too late) and just get there when we get there. If the nighttime things are great, we can do it, if not, we can leave. Changing that has made other things fall into place better.

 

[Candycane83]

yeah there is going to be major uproar but I don't think Disney ultimately cares. I had been planning TH dinner for a while and glad i switched to breakfast now (mostly was just giving more structure to my plans and keeping the character meals to breakfasts and slightly more grownup dinners), there is no way I'm paying 2 credits for that.

Wow I planned Tusker house for dinner but I guess that's if that's the case then I will just go with Tiffins... Sucks. Or maybe I'll do breakfast and yak and yeti for dinner instead... Hmm such last minute changes! I wish someone would confirm on the phone if this is a glitch or not...

 

[Lisa F]

I hear you. I changed things up just a little again this morning. I had been trying to work in a RD AK day and it was messing me up. It finally hit me this morning to just make AK our day after our MVMCP day. We can just sleep late (which for us isn't usually too late) and just get there when we get there. If the nighttime things are great, we can do it, if not, we can leave. Changing that has made other things fall into place better.

I am still tweaking a bit myself. At the last minute I swapped my break day/ H&V & F! night with my Epcot/CP day. It turned out that the Epcot/CP day was going to be a red day due to evening extra magic hours and I really wanted my break day my 4th day there instead of 3rd because it is better spacing really. The trip just flows so much better that way but last year the DVC Merry Member Mixer was on Tuesday so I was trying to stay on Epcot on Tuesday. Now we'll take a break and then do our nighttime HS stuff that might. If fireworks is not that night we can go there one night just for fireworks when we had been planning to go to Epcot for Illuminations. I'm babbling but just saying I had to add more flexibility in and not try to plan for every possibility for the things that haven't been scheduled yet. I am only doing F! because we didn't go on our last trip and the kiddo wants to see it (it was never my favorite nighttime show).

Every time I think I am settled I figure out a way to make it "better." At some point I'm not going to be able to make changes anymore.

 

[Candycane83]

what's on your list? I can't book online past 180 but I can SEE them until 12/8. If you pm me a list I can give you an idea of what to expect so you have some time to figure out backups. It was kiddo's bday party this morning and he has a headache now. we are back in pjs and hanging on the couch watching chopped Jr. Happy to help anyone see the future while I am chillin.

Anxiety is getting the better of me.. If you do have a chance, could you check Garden Grill for 10am on Dec 5 for 3? Also Hollywood and Vine for same day 4pm? thanks @Lisa F

 

[Lisa F]

Wow I planned Tusker house for dinner but I guess that's if that's the case then I will just go with Tiffins... Sucks. Or maybe I'll do breakfast and yak and yeti for dinner instead... Hmm such last minute changes! I wish someone would confirm on the phone if this is a glitch or not...

How did you feel about the Tiffin menu? I read it and nothing was really making my mouth water. I mean it sounds kind of interesting I guess and I do like all kinds of ethnic food (I am from NYC and worked in washington DC for a while - two cities known for amazing ethnic food...) but nothing on it made me go "wow I want to try that!"

 

[Lisa F]

Anxiety is getting the better of me.. If you do have a chance, could you check Garden Grill for 10am on Dec 5 for 3? Also Hollywood and Vine for same day 4pm? thanks @Lisa F

Garden Grill has 10:05
H&V has 3:50 & 4:05.

 

[21stamps]

Garden Grill has 10:05
H&V has 3:50 & 4:05.

Do you think I should book H&V dinner, or wait until the package comes out?

 

[Lisa F]

Do you think I should book H&V dinner, or wait until the package comes out?

I am booking the dinner because I want to do the dinner with or without the package... but would prefer the package. If you will ONLY do it with the package then no sense to booking the dinner alone. I will FP F! if I need to.

 

[21stamps]

it is across from Disney Springs (you can walk from certain parts of SS to DS) which is not awfully inconvenient to epcot but not "walking distance or boat" convenient to epcot. it's about as good as Port Orleans I think.

Have you looked into the Swan or Dolphin? I mentioned it a while ago - half the price of BW Inn but on the boat line.

I'm looking at the Swan on orbitz- pretty good deal. The Dolphin is more than I want to spend. What disadvantage is there to either of those? We can't purchase our refillable mugs correct? And I know we can't use ME, but I may just rent a car at the airport since will probably be arriving thanksgiving night @ midnight and staying offsite then. For that night I'm looking at the B hotel.

 

[21stamps]

I am booking the dinner because I want to do the dinner with or without the package... but would prefer the package. If you will ONLY do it with the package then no sense to booking the dinner alone. I will FP F! if I need to.

We will do it either way, but much prefer the package.

 

[Lisa F]

We will do it either way, but much prefer the package.

then book it. no downside.

 

[Lisa F]

I'm looking at the Swan on orbitz- pretty good deal. The Dolphin is more than I want to spend. What disadvantage is there to either of those? We can't purchase our refillable mugs correct? And I know we can't use ME, but I may just rent a car at the airport since will probably be arriving thanksgiving night @ midnight and staying offsite then. For that night I'm looking at the B hotel.

No ME, no refillable mugs (they have them for the resort but not compatible with disney owned resorts). you're just spending one night there for the day you're at Epcot, right? I don't think really there is any appreciable difference. not as well themed maybe, more like a corporate hotel.

 

[Candycane83]

I am booking the dinner because I want to do the dinner with or without the package... but would prefer the package. If you will ONLY do it with the package then no sense to booking the dinner alone. I will FP F! if I need to.

Doing the same thing! Thanks so much for checking for me! Now I just hope those times stay there! Lol

 

[21stamps]

I just realized that's going to be a lot of moving.lol. Oh this is annoying! The the theming at AoA and Pop looks interesting, I just don't know how I feel about the room size, and at AoA I know the distance to bus stop is supposed to be far. I just need to make a decision. It's only 1 night, 2 at most!

So fellow December peeps, what's your vote-

A. Swan.
B. Pop
C. AoA

 

[Candycane83]

How did you feel about the Tiffin menu? I read it and nothing was really making my mouth water. I mean it sounds kind of interesting I guess and I do like all kinds of ethnic food (I am from NYC and worked in washington DC for a while - two cities known for amazing ethnic food...) but nothing on it made me go "wow I want to try that!"

It sounds ok... Menus in Disney generally is not the first thing that interests me, more of the theming. I'm from Toronto and am originally from Asia so it's not anything amazing for me either, lol. The theming looks nice though and I feel if it's 2 credits between that and TH, I would pick a order from menu than a buffet...