Anyone do a late Ohana breakfast?

[mommy4]

I'm trying to decide if I want to have an ADR before park opening or do this breakfast later, like a brunch, and go to MK first (maybe on a AM EMH day?).
We are staying at ASMu so it might be easier to go for the later ADR.
I need help!!
If you have gone later, are the characters and parade still going on?
Anyone have any comments??

 

[DCbride]

My mom did this with my aunt and my 1.5yo. She booked the 10:45 time and loved it. Plenty of character interaction and never felt like they were kicking her out.

 

[OllieDannyandMe]

We did a late character breakfast at Ohana's, and it was fabulous. The food was tasty and the characters spent lots of time with us.

We did a late character breakfast at Crystal Palace, though, and the restaurant seemed dirty and the food seemed picked over. The buffet bar was completely unappetizing.

I am going to give Crystal Palace another try next trip, hopefully in the early morning. Based on all of the wonderful reviews here, I have a feeling that something had gone horribly wrong at the buffet that morning.

 

[MexiFinn]

We did Ohana's late (last seating) and the characters still came out several times and the parade did go on. I enjoy the last seating because Ohanas doesn't have lunch. I know the servers are probably anxious to clean up and get home but there was no rushing us out on their end which was great! We did tip well that day because I know we must have held up the server a bit as we were busy chatting with other people (long story - they had a cake made).

Now we didn't have the park that day. Ohana's seems to be our final meal of the trip and the last chance to see the castle and say goodbye to Mickey.
This has turned into our new Disney tradition.

 

[crisi]

We did it once and it was horrible - we had last seating and weren't seated until 45 minutes past our ADR time. The characters left the restaurant before our food arrived (they did stop by our table before they left - I have pictures) and we missed the last parade. We got no sympathy from management about it - in fact they were pretty rude when I complained and simply said that the characters had to go off shift. We ate in an empty restaurant. I sort of suspect that they "lost" us and didn't realize they hadn't seated us (although I'd been stopping by the hostess desk regularly to ask).

 

[evanthep]

We had a 1030 am back in Feb. It was fabulous. The characters came around twice and we did the dance around the restaurant twice. The food was fresh. My kids 2 and 8 loved it.

 

[Kaler131]

We ALWAYS do a late breakfast at Ohana....we usually take the very latest seating time that they have open!!

 

[mommy4]

We ALWAYS do a late breakfast at Ohana....we usually take the very latest seating time that they have open!!

Do you go to the parks before hand? This is what we would probably do.

Also, have you always had the characters and the parade still going?

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I have to say we did this last year and had a HORRIBLE experience as far as characters. It wasn't a HUGE deal because DS has been to WDW a bunch of times and he was 12 at the time of the last trip so it wasn't a disaster, but it made me mad.

We had an ADR for about 10:30 AM because we moved from SSR to the Poly that morning. We got to the restaurant and we were seated in a reasonable amount of time. I think this is one of the only restaurants at WDW that has honest-to-God tables for 3. It was a triangle shaped table right on the aisle, so we were in plain sight.

Our server was fine. She wasn't the problem.

One character came by the table. The other 3 were circulating around. OK, great. Then they went on break. By this point there were not many folks left in the restaurant. They came back out, but they started on the side farthest away from us. The character handler asked if we had seen all of the characters. I said NO, we saw ONE, and we were finished eating an were ready to leave.

We signed for the charges. The handler was standing off to the side. I stood up, looked him straight in the eye, and waited for him to say something. Not a word. So we left.

Like I said, not a big deal for our family. But if it had been our first trip or my DS was younger it would have been a BIG DEAL.

There were 2 servers who got in an argument in the middle of the dining room. Which made for an interesting floor show.

I do not recall if there was a parade while we were there that morning.