ADR's DRAFT 1 complete - feedback welcome

[akadada]

Hi All,
DW, DD16mo, and I are heading down in March. Here's our ADR's. I'd welcome your feedback. We're DDX plan and I have perfectly allocated them

Day 1 - Arrive late - OOP

Day 2 -
Crystal Palace BF or lunch
California Grill Dinner (early dinner)
Day 3
Captain's Grille BF
Le Cellier Lunch (trying to keep it to 1 CR versus 2 at dinner)
Tokyo Dining Dinner (sushi focus)

Day 4
Kouzzina BF
Akershus Lunch
La Hacienda Dinner (date night timed to watch Illuminations)

Day 5
Boma BF
Rose and Crown Lunch
Coral Reef Dinner


Day 6
Brown Derby Lunch (early)
Citricos Dinner (date night two)

Day 7
Grand Floridian BF
Via Nappoli Lunch
Flying Fish Dinner

Day 8 (depart)
BF - Open
Lunch - Open


Feedback is welcome. Also, should I switch out one of the dinners for Yachtsman Steak house? Or any other recommendations?

What about our last day? We have two credits left, perhaps run over to Downtown Disney since we have to check out early and our flight is late?

Cheers,
AKADada

 

[Colleen27]

Have you read any of the posts about Tokyo Dining on the dining plans? Most of the sushi menu is excluded. There are a couple of sampler type platters that count as entrees, but individual rolls aren't included on the plan at all (not as appetizer or entree). I absolutely love sushi but we're waiting for a non-DDP trip to try Tokyo Dining because the menu items I find most appealing aren't DDP eligible.

Aside from that possible issue, the plan looks really good. As far as that last day, would it be possible to book a departure day breakfast at/near your resort, then plan for Raglan Road or Wolfgang Puck at DTD for lunch? Or maybe Kona for breakfast before DTD, since that's a DIS favorite I don't see on your lineup?

 

[akadada]

Hi Colleen,

Thanks for the heads-up on Tokyo dining. We were there in the past and I thought we did it on the DDP, but maybe we did OOP. It never occurred to me that the sushi was off the DDP.

I'll change that. Perhaps to Teppan Edo? Maybe Yachtsman Steakhouse?

I like your idea for lunch at Ragland - we've always wanted to try that place.

If I do Yachtsman in lieu of Tokyo Dining, then we'll have one credit left, so maybe we just do a quick breakfast last day and then Ragland for lunch.

As an aside, we did Kona two years ago too and we did not like it. It was super rushed. My wife had the Tonga toast and I tried it and it tasted like a sugar bomb. She couldn't finish even a quarter of it. Although a quarter of it is the equivalent of a meal. I had an egg dish that was basically pure butter/oil and couldn't finish it either. The french press Kona coffee we ordered was not properly prepared, overroasted and full of grit. . . more like cowboy coffee. We sent it back and they never offered any other drinks or coffee or anything. Then we had to request they take it off the receipt which they didn't. When I told them this, she said well it's on the dining plan so it doesn't matter. I was upset at this point because it did matter. At $6 for the coffee, that's in theory another $1.5 tip. The waitress was a disaster. We did not tip her at all after that, which is super rare for us.

Respectfully to the DISers who like it, we thought it was the worst place we've ever eaten at Disney and have no intentions of ever going back.

All that said, on a plus note, almost everything else we ate at Disney two years ago was fantastic! We ate well and are grateful for the dining experience Disney offers overall.

Cheers!