Advice, tips, please.

[SereneOne]

Advice, tips, please.

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We have booked a visit to Disney from Nov 29-Dec 6th (off-season! ). We...okay I, was thinking that my husband is off work for Thanksgiving from Nov. 25 through the 27th (his company gives him this time off with pay) and our 5yo is out of school at that time (like every other child, duh), so why not go ahead and go down to Florida. I do not want to go to Disney at this time, too expensive and crowded, but DH has piles of hotel points, so we have booked the 25th until the 29th offsite. Wednesday will be a travel day and we would eat at HRC (our teen son loves HRC, he is coming too) and we plan on spending Friday and Saturday at SeaWorld, maybe do the Dinner with Shamu one of the nights.

I know Thanksgiving is a SUPER busy time for Disney...is SeaWorld as heavily packed? We do not ride the thrill rides but we do enjoy the shows. Also, is there a good place to eat Thanksgiving dinner at DTD or at one of the resorts?

When we do tour Disney the following week, this is our schedule:

S/Nov 29-(DHS) early lunch at 50's PT (never been) and dinner at Chef Mickeys (never been)

M/Nov 30-(Epcot) lunch at Coral Reef (one of our teen's faves) and dinner at Norway (one of our daughter's faves)

T/Dec 1st-(MK) CRT lunch (everyone's fave) and dinner at 1900PF (never been)

W/Dec 2-(AK) Safari BF (Never been) and dinner at O'Hana (never been

H/Dec 3-(MK) Crystal Palace for lunch (everyone's fave) and LTT for dinner (my fave, even with no characters now)

F/Dec 4-(Epcot) Romantic dinner at Mexico while our teen son keeps lil sis busy and they eat at America (he is a bacon cheeseburger fanatic) and dinner in Italy/Tutto Italia (never been)

A/Dec 5th-(MK) lunch at the Plaza (never been) and dinner at WCC(DH's fave)

S/Dec 6th-Supercali BF and hit the road to return home.

Now I know we have not been able to make ADR yet, but we usually eat at off times and have been pretty lucky about getting places.

We did think of Fulton's for TG, we have never ate there, but it is really expensive and has really mixed reviews. Seems like one either hates or loves Fulton's...I would love to try a signature restaurant...but for Thanksgiving??

Advice on SeaWorld and a place to get a good TG dinner would be appreciated...or any helpful tips, we have never been in the area during TG weekend.

Thanks so very much for taking time to read this and offer advice.

Hopefully I put this on the right forum this time, my main question is where to eat for TG.

 

[ROEDISNEY]

This is just my opinion. I would do breakfast & dinners not lunch & dinners unless you are really spaceing them out. It's a lot of food in my opinion. But you know what your family is like .

 

[SereneOne]

Thanks for reading and taking the time to respond, however, that was not my question...my questions were-

1) Where to eat for Thanksgiving in either DTD or the resorts. I posted where we were planning on eating so that no one would suggest some place we were already eating.

2) How crowded is SeaWorld during Thanksgiving weekend?


We eat early lunches and late dinners and for bf, we just have fruit and maybe cereal.

Thanks though for responding.

 

[Hootch]

in DTD had had special Thanksgiving Day dinners. You could call to see if they are doing anything this year.

I can't answer the Sea World question directly. We were there over New Years week in 2008 and it was pretty crowded. That may or may not be helpful. The other thing is that Sea World is not really well designed for cold weather. Some of the shows have splash zones and most are designed to allow air/wind blow through. Also most of the casual places have outdoor seating. There is a centrally located one that is enclosed but I think it's equipped with AC and no heating. Whether that's an issue is uncertain. The day we arrived the temperature was in the 80s. Our Sea World day the temp never got out of the 40s.