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[katriscari]

Our family of 3 is taking our first trip to Disney in May 2014. I am planning on staying at Disney (I think in the sports hotel). My son will be 5 then and LOVES sports. We also will not be spending a lot of time at the hotel most likely. I also wanted to get the dining plan that has 1 quick service, one snack & one table meal per night. I will have 5 days of passes and plan on doing 1 park per day, most likely MK our first full day & last full day there. The other 3 parks will be whichever days look best on whatever calendars come out showing when they will be the least busy.... I love food! I want to do one sit down meal per day. Is it best to just pick a restaurant that takes the dining plan at the park we are going to that day and book that 180 days out? Of course that means I will have to have our schedule basically set, but that seems to me to make the most sense/waste the least amount of time travelling all over the place. Also, I definitely want to do a couple of character meals. I want to try for Chef Mickey's on our first day when we are going to MK. I also want to do the Disney Jr characters at Hollywood and Vine when we are at Universal....again, less wasting time to get to these dinner places? Does that make the most sense, or is there something else I should be thinking about? I am a planner, and I tend to get worked up when something doesn't fit my plan. I am going to try my best not to do that this trip and have back ups for all of the ADRs I want to do, but I am really looking for suggestions as to the best way to do the sit down meals Thanks for all of the input. I am having so much fun online, reading books, following on Twitter, etc

 

[tzeitel]

All the restaurants in the parks and resorts (other than Swan & Dolphin resorts and Victoria & Albert's restaurant at GF) on property take the DDP. This is the list for this year -

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/m...alog/WaltDisneyWorld/en_us/PDF/2013Dining.pdf

Most likely it will be the same for next year - do not freak out if at first the list for 2014 does not have every restaurant on it When they first release the list it is incomplete, it gets finalized closer to 2014.

If you want to do character meals or the more popular restaurants you really should book them the day your 180+ window opens.

Chef Mickey's is very hard to get - if you cannot get it for your first day try for later in your stay. Your first day is someone else's 7th or 10th so their window opened before yours. Hollywood and Vine at DHS (not Universal ) has the Fantasmic package so you can take advantage of that.

Non character (all character meals book fast!) meals that I've found get booked fast -

Be Our Guest
Sci-Fi
50's Primetime
Yak & Yeti (only 3 TS at AK and Y&Y is the more relaxed atmosphere)
Coral Reef
Via Napoli
'Ohana
California Grill (2 credits)
Flying Fish (2 credits)
Le Cellier (2 credits)

Hope this helps!

 

[katriscari]

Thanks for the info!! Yes Hollywood is what I meant! I knew I committed a sin by posting that LOL!