5 Character Breakfasts = Overkill?

[flower72]

I am planning a January trip for my 2 girls (6 and 7) and I. It's their first time to Disney. I decided to go with the Deluxe Dining Plan so I wouldn't have to worry about out of pocket for the trip.

I have been scheduling my ADR's and realized I planned 5 character breakfasts for our 8 day trip. Is this overkill? I tried to get them as early as possible on extra hour days at the parks but some are still at 9 or 9:30 (these things book fast).

Thoughts?

THanks!

 

[jllough]

I am planning a January trip for my 2 girls (6 and 7) and I. It's their first time to Disney. I decided to go with the Deluxe Dining Plan so I wouldn't have to worry about out of pocket for the trip.

I have been scheduling my ADR's and realized I planned 5 character breakfasts for our 8 day trip. Is this overkill? I tried to get them as early as possible on extra hour days at the parks but some are still at 9 or 9:30 (these things book fast).

Thoughts?

THanks!

Well, if you have overkill, then I'm beyond that! I am taking my second granddaughter to Disney in a couple of weeks, we are soo excited!! For our eight day trip, I have scheduled, 6 Character breakfasts, 3 Character dinners, 1 dinner show, 1 regular dinner, Halloween Party, Wishes dessert party and a balloon ride. These are just the "scheduled" things, but they are all meals we have to eat anyway, so I don't really see it as overkill. Each year that one of my grandkids turns 9, I take that one child for a trip to Disney, just the two of us. I want to do the things that are hard to do as a family of 8 when we all go, so we do a lot! I think overkill is all in the eye of the beholder and most people know better than anyone else what your children, grandchildren, etc, can handle. Just have a GREAT time!!

 

[Dizneydaz]

It would be for me but then my DD is almost 12. However, even when she was younger we didn't do more than 2 character meals, or so, each trip (when we had free DDP).

Personally, for our family (me, my DM71, and my DD12) we prefer the food at most of the non-character meals so that's how we choose our TS. Last year for the first time we did QSDP and I loved the casualness of not having to make any ADRs. My DM really liked it. Not having to arrange our days around meals was a nice break. In fact, we are doing the QSDP again this year.

Of course, with the Deluxe DDP you will want to do TS. Do you have any of the signature meals scheduled? My DD really loved going to the fancier restaurants for a nice change. She loves CG and Narcoossees. Your kids are probably old enough to handle it. There are usually quite a few kids there. DD thought is was a real treat to have cloth tablecloths and everything that went with it, inc. dressing up for dinner. And of course the food is really good.

Oh, and be aware that the character meals will take a while to eat if you want to see the complete rotation of characters. Even at 'Ohana and Crystal Palace for breakfast it takes over an hour to see everyone.

 

[Woth2982]

You could cut a character breakfast and schedule something like Hoop De Doo at night. I absolutely love this show. We did the Deluxe plan in December when we stayed at the BWI. We had a ADR at CRT and HDDR, and glad we did it because we found that we only needed about 2 meals per day. The Deluxe plan is a LOT of food. We did a regular sit down breakfast at the Yacht club and really loved it. If your girls are scared of the characters it may be an incredible over kill for them.

 

[Belleofthehouse]

i agree with jllough. It is subjective. For us, yes, it would be overkill. We prefer non-character table service meals. But my boys are 14 (almost 15 ), 13, and 9. They really do not want to do that anymore. If your family enjoys it, go for it. HAVE FUN!!!

 

[daraddg]

we have 5 for our trip too and I'm trying to figure how to cram in more nope not overkill for those ages

 

[sydneysmom]

if it makes you feel better, we stayed for 8 days and did character meals for breakfast on 6 of those mornings. We would have done 7 but the Stitch Ride traumatized our DD, so we had to cancel Ohana. ooops.

We didn't feel like it was character overload at all. The way we looked at it, we're at Disney.... that's DISNEY. We could eat out at home anytime where there's no characters..... this was our DD's first trip (she was 4 1/2 at the time) so we wanted to jump into the whole Disney experience as much as possible.

the only thing I would do different.... I went and made our CRT breakfast for the first full day and Akershus the next day. I should have separated them out better.... since the Princesses aren't the same girls.... they were pretty close but Snow White looked TOTALLY different. You do not want to have to answer those questions ! But we absolutely LOVED the character meals.

(Tusker House is amazing... try and get that one if you're going to AK !!)

 

[Jessieknj]

My son is 5 and loves every character dining so I don't think he would mind that many lol. The food usually isn't the best Disney has to offer but for us it doesn't matter. It's about the expierence and doing something DS really loves. The whole rest of the year he gets stuck going to boring restaurants with us so this is his week.