40 ddp credits for FREE with lots of pictures to boot

[momof2disprincesses]

We are a family of 4 ~ Mom, Dad and 2 dd's (ages 11 & 15) so we're all "adults" on the ddp.

We stayed at Pop Century for 10 nights Aug. 24-Sept.3. This was our 3rd time on the free dining plan (4th time in total using ddp). We booked it last Dec. when we stayed at POFQ, so it was part of the "bounceback" offer.

We also booked bounceback again with free dining for next Sept. for dh and I ALONE to celebrate my 40th b-day. - can you tell I'm excited about that?

Anyway, I won't be too wordy - I know you all want to see the pictures, so here goes ...

Here are some from our CP breakfast. They knew my birthday was coming up and so decorated our table. How sweet!!

This includes a "made to order" omelet (cheese & bacon) and 2 kinds of yummy potatoes, banana bread and other "obvious" items...

Assorted breads & cheeses that we all shared from. My favorite was the raspberry crumb cake ...

Next up is another bacon & cheese "made to order" omelet and bacon (duh!) and breakfast lasagna. I know many people rave about the breakfast lasagna, but I didn't care for it. Sorry!

And of course, the adorable and "almost too cute to eat" Pooh waffle ...

More to come, we still have 36 ddp credits to share with you!!!

 

[ilovejack02]

LOL no way.. dont stop now! I leave in a month and cant wait and OMG ive made no reservations. YES I KNOW IM STUPID, but ive had a rough few months and havent had a bit of time to think about it. Now im just hoping i can get something. Im not gonna worry about any character breakfasts this time around.

Cant wait to read more!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Next up is the always delicious Beaches & Cream at Disney's Beach Club resort. We LOVE this place. It always has friendly servers and scrumptious desserts. So we will begin with the most important part of this meal ... ice cream!!

I love banana splits, but I almost never get one because they are usually too expensive and too big for one. However, being on the FREE ddp, I splurged. AND OH MY was I glad I did. This was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!! I'm drooling on the keyboard right now just thinking of it.

Next up was everyone else's dessert. Even though mine was by far the best.

Vanilla milkshake for dd11 ...

DD15 and DH got the same thing ... fudge mudslide ...

Now I know the "regular" food isn't nearly as exciting, but here it is ...

Bacon cheeseburger with fries (and Mickey to show it off ) ...

Chicken sandwich with cheese ...

A repeat of the bacon cheeseburger ... one was a double, the other a single patty ...

Chicken sandwich plain ...

32 ddp credits to go!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

LOL no way.. dont stop now! I leave in a month and cant wait and OMG ive made no reservations. YES I KNOW IM STUPID, but ive had a rough few months and havent had a bit of time to think about it. Now im just hoping i can get something. Im not gonna worry about any character breakfasts this time around.

Cant wait to read more!

Well, if my Beaches & Cream pics made you drool too, they don't accept ressies, so you just "pop" in there. Personally, I'd be satisfied to eat there every meal.

We often go for lunch as the wait time is MUCH less at lunch than at dinner. The place is tiny, but popular!

The ESPN Club on the Boardwalk also is on ddp and doesn't take ressies. We also found coupons online for Planet Hollywood and one is for a free "front of the line" access which we used and then used ddp credits there. So again, no ressie needed. It can work if you don't get a chance to make a lot of ressies. ENJOY! I wish I could go with you.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

OOOOOOOOOOOOPS ... I got so caught up in the ice cream at Beaches & Cream that I totally forgot we had appetizers too. Silly me!

Us 3 girls all got the onion rings. They were typical WDW onion rings, which we just so happen to LOVE! You'll see them as a recurring theme in this report.

DH got the chili and we all had a taste. It was GOOD!

 

[ilovejack02]

Well, if my Beaches & Cream pics made you drool too, they don't accept ressies, so you just "pop" in there. Personally, I'd be satisfied to eat there every meal.

We often go for lunch as the wait time is MUCH less at lunch than at dinner. The place is tiny, but popular!

The ESPN Club on the Boardwalk also is on ddp and doesn't take ressies. We also found coupons online for Planet Hollywood and one is for a free "front of the line" access which we used and then used ddp credits there. So again, no ressie needed. It can work if you don't get a chance to make a lot of ressies. ENJOY! I wish I could go with you.

Great pics.. I will take your advice on B&C !
Im gonna get on trying to make a few ressies tomorrow, wish me luck!

 

[Tinkerbelll]

Ohh more pleasseeeeee... we arrive in in about 60 hours and can't wait to stuff our faces!!! Give us more to look forward to!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Now introducing WCC at the WL. This is an all-time family favorite of ours.

DD11 realized she loves these WDW sticky wings. She got them several times during our trip and loved them ...

I had the nachos, which is now called the "Western Chips". WCC has recently changed their menu and the nachos have changed significantly. I didn't think I'd like the "new" nachos, but they were in fact really, really tasty! Change can be good!

The sauce accompanying the chips is a spicy cheese sauce which was YUMMY!!!

DD15 tried the new cheese & sausage (and pickle ) plate. This was also delicious!

And of course, the always succulent and fabulous WCC cornbread!!! LOVE this stuff!!! Apparently Mickey loves it also. See the way he is "eyeing" it!

Us 3 ladies had the "all you can drink" milkshakes ... vanilla and chocolate. And DH "winked" at our server and asked for a "LARGE" diet coke and this is what he got (and wanted) ...

For entrees, we had the new shrimp dinner ...

which DH said was "okay." It was hard to peel them all. It took FOREVER too.

I had the ribs dinner, which I didn't like (too fatty and not "barbeque" tasting enough for me) ...

DD15 got the chicken pasta, which is her standard favorite at WCC ...

DD11 got the broasted chicken dinner with fries instead of whatever potatoes usually come with it ... this is her standard favorite at WCC ...

My standard favorite here USED to be the steak. I missed it this time around as it's no longer on the menu.

And last, but certainly NOT least is dessert! Of course by this time, we were ready to waddle out of WL, but we didn't say "NO" to dessert. We're not idiots!!

The banana dustbowl ...

The smores cheesecake ...

The carmel apple pie ala mode ...

Of course we cannot forget the oodles of ketchup bottles that we had at our table for like 2.2 seconds (the minute we got them, they were summoned away by another table). We all grabbed some before they left though ... I love this about WCC! Also because it was my birthday, they made my dd11 ride the pony around the restaurant singing "happy birthday to Mom" - that was awesome!!!

I promise more, but alas it is bedtime as I still have jet-lag from our CA trip this past weekend! Sorry and good-night for now!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Sorry 2 pic's above are sideways. I am too tired to figure out how to rotate them.

 

[Minniespal]

Brillant, looking forward to reading more.

 

[granmaz]

Loving the report and pictures!!! Thanks.

 

[sandybobandy]

Oh my. This is a wonderful way to begin my Thursday morning! lol

Am honestly anxiously awaiting more! lol

Sandy

 

[averill94]

Thanks for taking the time to share.

I love the Mickey and how he is posed too cute!

 

[lynn46356]

Thanks for sharing with us your reviews and AMAZING PHOTOS. Your making me so so hungry right now. We visited WDW in February of this year and had to cancel our ADR for WCC but we're going back next February and I've made an ADR for there already. Sounds like a fun place to eat and I'm sure our DS9 will enjoy it also. He loves ketchup. Did you eat at any Character Breakfasts while you were there? I'd like to eat at one but haven't decided which one yet. I'm looking for ideas. It won't be a princess one as our son wouldn't be too thrilled I'm sure with that. Also, how lucky to be able to go again by yourselves! I look forward to that day someday. Hoping maybe for our 25th anniversary in a couple of years. Oh well. Thanks again for sharing with us. I can't wait to read more!

Lynn

 

[momof2disprincesses]

I have time for one more quick review before going to work. We attended the Pirates & Princess party on Fri. Aug. 31.

Side note - we originally had tickets for the P & P party on Fri. Aug. 24, the night we arrived. However, when we arrived, it was POURING and storming. We got all ready for the party and took the bus to MK. We had made an ADR for Concourse Steakhouse before the party and ate dinner there. The entire time we ate there, it poured and stormed. After dinner, we took the monorail back to MK and were so disappointed that it was still pouring and storming. We never in a million years thought we could exchange our tickets, but we noticed a huge line at the ticket area at MK and starting asking people in line what they were doing. We found out they were allowing people to exchange their tickets for another night. Since we had 10 more nights in front of us, we got in line, switched our tickets and went back to Pop to dry out and get settled in. GOOD DECISION in the long run as the next Friday night was beautiful!! I love Disney!

Sorry to digress from the food! When we finally got back to the Pirate and Princess party the next Friday, we grabbed a quick dinner at Cosmic Ray's and then later smoothies from Auntie Gravity's.

Here are our dinners from Cosmic Ray's. Three of us had the chicken strips and one had the chicken/ribs combo. We all had the yummy pre-packaged chocolate cake (I do really love that cake!).

Here's a picture of our dd's dressed up for the party. All 3 of us girls wore matching "Will Turner" shirts. They were a HUGE hit. People kept telling us how much they loved our shirts. I had to say though that when we visited Captain Jack, he was not thrilled about our choice and reminded us that Will is spoken for.

Next up will be our breakfast at Boma! Let me just give you a preview ... IT WAS SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

OOPS! First I forgot to post the smoothie pictures in my previous post. Here they are:

We had breakfast at Boma. We had never eaten here before, but WE WILL BE BACK!!! I think it was one of my favorite meals of the entire trip.

Our server here was fabulous also!!

First up is our fabulous award for winning the daily trivia contest. I don't remember exactly what the question was, but something about if Africa was the largest continent. We totally guessed, but I guess we guessed good enough. We wore our proud awards most of the day.

Various pictures of the buffet:

My plate (at least one of them ):

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Oh, I have to tell you one funny thing that happened here. My DH was snapping pictures of the buffet when a fellow patron looked at him like he was from outer space and said "Sir, why are you taking pictures of the fruit?"



Some people just don't understand!

Here are the special drinks they brought for my birthday. They also sang Happy Birthday to me in one of the African languages (maybe Swahilli - I know I'm not spelling that correctly ... sorry!). It was beautiful. The woman who sang had an angelic voice. It was a nice treat! Plus, the drinks were delicious!!!!!!!!!!! The pink one is raspberry ... sooooooo yummy! The other one is mango and none of us liked that one.

This picture shows the raspberry one and "frunch" which we didn't care for (actually dd15 liked it).

This one is the mango one.

We also just HAD to go downstairs to Mara and get zebra domes! YUMMY!!!

More to come later. I must work now to pay for future Disney trips!

 

[my3disneygirls]

I love how you have Mickey presenting the food, very cute.

 

[m11dolphin]

Great pictures, enjoying the report

 

[medicgirl911]

Wow those are a lot of pics!!!!!! great job!!! I can't wait to see more...any chance you could give us a hint of where all you ate so we can look forward to the food porn??? And I love what Captain jack said about your shirts LOL! TOO FUNNY!!!