Birthday Character Meal

[amcelroy]

My family (husband, myself and 5 year old son) will be making our first ever trip to WDW in May!! I'm excited! Our son will celebrate his 6th birthday while we are there and we would like to make it as special as possible for him. I was thinking of a character meal (Chef Mickey's or Ohana), but am totally open to suggestions since this is a totally new experience for us! Please help! Also, is breakfast or dinner better at Chef Mickey's and are there better times to schedule? Thanks from a newbie!

 

[IllumFan]

We took our son to Chef Mickey's for his third birthday and he loved it. Breakfast was great - a lot of variety of interesting and also tradiitional breakfast food. He wore his "birthday" pin that he got when we checked in. Mickey spent extra time with him and brought him a special birthday cupcake. He received a birthday placemat that was signed by Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy.

 

[bigfish2215]

My kids B-days was at Tusker House in AK. They loved it. (dd14 ds11) Mickey, Goofy, Daisy and Donald. And the characters seemed to stay fairly long too. They each got a cupcake (free). And our server had everyone around us sing Happy B-day to them. Make sure you get him a Birthday button. Everyone will say happy b-day to him.

 

[MickeyNicki]

I had my thirty something b-day at Chef Mickeys (not my choice it was more for our nieces) and although the food was terrible they did make a big deal out of my b-day and had the table all decorated and when the server brought out the cake I ordered the characters came over and "sang" to me

 

[camtheriot]

I guess that depends on how much your son likes the characters. Last May was our first trip and we were celebrating my dd 3rd b-day. We went to Chef Mickey's the first night and she absolutely LOVED it!! The food is just "OK", good but not great, but the character interaction with the children was worth the trip. Every one of the characters come to your table one by one to interact with each of your children, hug them, & take pictures.The birthday children do get their own placemat and b-day cupcake with a candle. They also have a little b-day song for them and swing their napkin around above their heads while singing. The whole restaurant participates. It was really cool. The look on my daughters face when she saw them was priceless.

We also went to O'hana's on that trip, and I have to say - it was REALLY GOOD food!!!They cook the food on these huge fire pits inside the restaurant and bring the food to your table. They also do lots of fun things for my ds9 in the restaurant to do (coconut races, limbo contests, hawiaan music, etc. ).

My ds still talks about how much fun he had at O'hana's and my dd still talks about Mickey and friends at Chef Mickeys. However, she is 3. Your son will be 6, and depending on how much he "loves" Mickey and the gang would determine for me where to go. If you can afford it, do both. You can celebrate his birthday at as many restaurants as you want to.

Hope this helps. And don't worry, he will have fun wherever you bring him. This is DISNEYWORLD!! Everything is fun!!

 

[amcelroy]

Thank you for all the wonderful advice!

 

[KatMark]

We love Crystal Palace with Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet. It is the ONE character meal we do every trip. They decorated our table for my 50th birthday in September 2007 and again for DH and my 25th wedding anniversary in September 2008. The brought an autographed picture birthday card/anniversary certificate signed by all the characters and a cupcake on my birthday and sang to me. We also like Cape May Cafe but we've never celebrated anything there.