Carnation Cafe

[mystic_path]

Next month on my upcoming trip we wont be landing at SNA until about 6:30-7:00pm. Not once in the years we have been going to DL has it taken us more then an hour to land, get to our hotel, check in and be over at the park. The park is open until 11 that night giving us a few hours of play time before the park closes. We knew we would only have a few hours but we purchased an 8 day hopper to have those extra few hours the first night. However we figured that we will be hungry when we arrive at the DLR. So my mom suggested that we try out the Carnation Cafe on Main Street before we hit up a few rides. It's odd I've never eaten here or know this answer. However I am not sure what time Carnation is open until, or if I can make pre reservations there. It's just that it will be a Saturday night, and people will be lining up for the fireworks. So my concern is that there maybe a good lineup in there. Should we skip this idea? What would you do?

If worst comes to worst I suggested when we get to the park just grab a pretzel or something to tie us over and have a late dinner at Ihop. There are no kids on this trip so we don't have to worry about curfew or getting super tired.

 

[skiingfast]

Make a reservation for dinner, you can do this and eat then. I'd give yourself about 1.5 hours so you can land, check in and get to the parks with less rushing and maybe grab a set of FPs to use after dinner.

 

[mommommom]

Next month on my upcoming trip we wont be landing at SNA until about 6:30-7:00pm. Not once in the years we have been going to DL has it taken us more then an hour to land, get to our hotel, check in and be over at the park.

I don't have an answer to your question, but do you usually have checked luggage? We were wondering how long we could expect for the whole process of getting to DLR, check in, etc would take, so I was happy to read this in your post.

 

[Malcon10t]

So my mom suggested that we try out the Carnation Cafe on Main Street before we hit up a few rides. It's odd I've never eaten here or know this answer. However I am not sure what time Carnation is open until, or if I can make pre reservations there.

I *think* the last reservation they take is for 745pm on Saturdays/peak season.

 

[mystic_path]

I don't have an answer to your question, but do you usually have checked luggage? We were wondering how long we could expect for the whole process of getting to DLR, check in, etc would take, so I was happy to read this in your post.

Yeah no time at all. The luggage never takes very long to come out of the carousel at the airport, and keep in mind too that we take a cab from the SNA airport to the hotel in the DLR area. It's a direct way to travel with no stops.

Also Malcon10t I think you are right. I we made reservations for other places and their last seating was around 7:30. OK well its no big deal. We can find other alternatives.