9/30-10/5 Dining Plan Review

queenof2princesses

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Well here goes:
Cast: ME 32, Mom, DD8, & DD5...girl's only trip. (Boy, were the daddy's jealous!!!!)
Friday 2pm: We arrived at POP and ate in the food court 2 CS, plenty for an afternoon snack.
MNSSHP arrival at 6ish, LTT (really surprised at the wait time) I'll never plan a TS on our first 'park' day again. The kids were so antsy they could hardly sit still, luckily it was drizzling so we were nice and dry. We all really enjoyed the food, service was good, will do again.=A

Saturday morning we walked over (felt like a mile) to POP's food court and all had bfast, 2 CS- good food-Mickey waffles are all I need to be happy. WOW was this place crowded!!!!! It was so chaotic at 9:30, we decided we would come earlier next time. :goodvibes
Lunch at Earl of Sandwich-YUMMY!!!2 CS I love the pineapple ham! This is added to my must do. Only fountain drinks on plan, even with bottle COKES displayed (annoying since I am very particular about COKE), no biggy.=A
Dinner at Chef Mickey's WOOHOO!!!! This is probably our favorite, Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, DD5's new fave (CHIP), and Dale. We really get in to this experience, love the monorail coming through, love napkin twirling, food is not that terrible, it is actually fine for us, I'm a terrible cook, so we're not hard to please :) =A

Sunday morning back to POP, not as crowded (we went earlier :) ) 2 CS
We went to Wal-Mart for extra costume supplies for that nights MNSSHP and got in line for a RAVEN!!!!!! meet and greet, DD8 is a big fan, I ran back to POP just to get her backpack (That's so Raven) So she's now going to school with the COOLEST backpack. This was totally by luck, we were in our suits on our way to Typhoon Lagoon, when we spotted the line forming at Wal-mart. Highlight of her trip :) Anyway, the dining connection? We were starving by the time we got to TL, sat down immediatley at Leaning Palms--good food 3 CS- this was a fave because for dessert instead of taking the ice cream Mickey's at checkout, they gave us tokens to come back later. So we actually had our dessert/snack, hours later when we really enjoyed it more.=A
Dissapointed for Dinner selection at MNSSHP, we made our way to the CS in Frontierland??? it was closed and it was raining, Pinnochios was also closed during party, we finally made our way to Cosmic Ray's, it was good, chocolate cake was yummy :) 3CS-A

Monday- dragged everyone out of bed for our 8:30 ADR at PSBB (after our late night at party) This was good, food selection was OK, you are paying for Princesses and characters at these meals...Oh has everyone already figured that one out? Snow White was dreamy, she has the prettiest Princess voice. The princesses are so magical, don't miss this one...=A+
This was supposed to be a hopper day, but we tried Soarin', fell in love, got fastpasses for 3 hours later, had ADR for LeCellier at 4:40, just not feasable to hop. Took mom and DD5 back to POP, me and DD8 hopped the bus back to Epcot to do the cookie bake in the LAND--she loves this part and won't miss it, and I like the COOKIES :) Oh yeah, in between the Soarin's, we snacked around the World, snack credits for F&W, Yippee!!! We got quesadilla in Mexico and the fruity drink, sorry ?name, we also got chicken on a stick( :goodvibes my formality) in China. Met up with MOM and DD5 around 4:30 for LeCellier, when I informed the waitress that we were only using 2 TS, WWWWEEEEEEEE, did her attitude change, Notice I am not hard to please, but RUDE service I will not tolerate. We ordered Northern Lights drinks for the kids, went the entire meal with empty glasses (begged once for refills) Dinner plate was snatched away while my mother was still eating, begged for Desserts, then presented with the bill for OOP drinks with 18% gratuity added, no ma'am I'm sorry, you are not worth 18% to me, manager removed the tip, said tip would be 'on house account'. So what really burns me up, is that SHE still got her 18% for her terrible service, I will never step foot back in LeCellier, even though...yes the cheese soup and pretzel bread and filet mignon and maple creme brulee were yummy, I much more enjoyed every other TS meal at WDW.=D-...for upsetting me where???in my happiest place in the whole wide world!!!
Anyway, the night was turned around with ice cream mickeys and Coke and watching the Commodores!!!

Tuesday late (unfortunately) bfast at Main Street Bakery (a must do for us) Lunch at CRT--the best-also a must do for us, Snow White with her sweetest voice was there again, Wendy is the cutest!!, Cindy is lovely...Food was yummy, Major Domo, my mom was :rotfl: when she heard my order this, she thought I had jumped to dessert :goodvibes . They did let me order the kiddie dessert, can ya'll tell I like chocolate? I got the crown with ice cream. Kiddies and I liked it. A+ atmosphere and good food.
We had dinner at POP, we were about tuckered out, the sky fell on me as I started my first voyage on Primeival Whirl so I spent most of the afternoon soaked :rolleyes: Decent dinner, 4 CS, I love the marshallow chocolate topped cheesecake, had it 2x this week.

Wednesday morning was our first bfast at Chef Mickey's--loved it!! Dinner just seems more economical to me, we are happy with cereal for bfast, but will never again miss ChefM on our trips=A

We still had 7 snack credits left--we should have gotten more water in the parks??? I got mickey krispy treats as gifts for dads and grands, chips and drinks for the ride home (We just recently moved closed to WDW only 7 hrs away, which now makes for a weekend getaway :cheer2: )
We will probably not do the Dining Plan again, unless we couple it with an offsite stay the first night or last, we just really don't need all that food, did not get the same service, only at LeCellier, we would probably rather just walk up and order what we want and pay. I am very budget conscious and I feel that I HAVE to get the max benefit out of everything. We were overscheduled, I wish we had just gone to AK after our PSBB instead of Lecellihoo, after all that could have been my last time to see Tarzan!!
Must do's:
CRT anything you can get, I loved the major domo, so bfast will not be critical in the future as long as princesses remain at lunch.
ChefM dinner 1st night--sets the mood like nothing else.
LTT in December (food would be perfect for MVMCP nights)
PSBB-lunch menu looks scary
Earl of Sandwich

Hope you all enjoy!!! I will continue my PMM (Post Micky Mourning) :guilty:
 
Thanks for the reviews. Sorry about the service problems at Le Cellier, this is nothing worse than bad service.
 
Enjoyed reading your reviews ~ Thanx for posting.

No excuse for bad service.
 
I enjoyed reading your reviews, sounded like you had a good time except for the bad service at Le Cellier
 

Loved the reviews!!

Sorry about your bad service at Le Cellier.... No excuse for bad service! :guilty: Especially at the happiest place on Earth! :goodvibes
We ate there several weeks ago and had an awesome experience! The food was great and our server (Steph) was great! I guess we got lucky!!
 
queenof2princesses said:
me and DD8 hopped the bus back to Epcot to do the cookie bake in the LAND--she loves this part and won't miss it, and I like the COOKIES :)


What is this? Have never heard of it. Thanks ahead!
 


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