Dining Adventures with Character, March 8-14

[jenseib]

Prince Charming came out first, and then a little later Cinderella came out. Prince Charming went to greet her. And they swirled a bit and then went back to meeting people.

Skip swore this was the same Cinderella from the night before at the castle. I wasn’t too sure. They looked similar, but I didn’t think so.

Finally it was Claire’s turn to meet Mr. Handsome. I really didn’t think he was that handsome. The one last year was much better looking. LOL! The one last year also was more friendly and interacted with Claire more. But Claire was very happy with this guy. Claire has a thing for Prince Charming.
LOL!
Look at this blushing face she has when he approaches our table.

Skip doesn’t care if he sees the characters at all, so he just kept trucking back up to the buffet over and over and over. LOL! He got some kind of rice with seafood in it that he really liked and he liked the cream of asparagus soup. I was having a hard time going up to get food for fear of missing our photo ops, so I kept sending DH to get food for me. LOL!
DH said the prime rib cutter must’ve thought he was a pig because he went up a couple of times for me and himself. LOL! I told him to get me mash potatoes, prime rib and broccoli, and he comes back with corn. Corn doesn’t even LOOK like broccoli. LOL! Oh well I did go get some broccoli too, later on.

 

[jenseib]

Cinderella was supposed to come to our table next, but Lady Tramaine stepped out of the flow and came over to our table.
I know she isn’t supposed to be “nice” but I was very unimpressed with this one. She wasn’t friendly at all.

Cinderella came over then. Her and Claire had quite the conversation. I heard her ask Claire how she liked the castle dinner. Wait!.. Is this the same one from last night like Skip said? I asked her and she said yes. But the more I think about it, I think they have to say that to keep the illusion up. And she might’ve known that Claire was at the Castle because Claire had the wand from the castle on the table. Who knows for sure. But when I compare pictures, I really don’t think it is the same one.

Cinderella also forgot to sign Claire’s book, but I didn’t worry too much on that since we had gotten her signature the night before already.

 

[BreTyPres87]

Thats not the same lady but I can see why she would say that in front of your daughter lol, the first one was prettier IMO she looked a little softer(i've got nothing better to do than analyze the Cinderella's ) I want to see last years Prince Charming because that one is not too shabby to me !
keep up the good reviews!

 

[skellingtonfreak]

Great reviews. We are debating on the 1900 PF dinner as well...it looks like a good time!

 

[Myhappythought5]

Cinderella was supposed to come to our table next, but Lady Tramaine stepped out of the flow and came over to our table.
I know she isn’t supposed to be “nice” but I was very unimpressed with this one. She wasn’t friendly at all.

Cinderella came over then. Her and Claire had quite the conversation. I heard her ask Claire how she liked the castle dinner. Wait!.. Is this the same one from last night like Skip said? I asked her and she said yes. But the more I think about it, I think they have to say that to keep the illusion up. And she might’ve known that Claire was at the Castle because Claire had the wand from the castle on the table. Who knows for sure. But when I compare pictures, I really don’t think it is the same one.

Cinderella also forgot to sign Claire’s book, but I didn’t worry too much on that since we had gotten her signature the night before already.

I agree I don't think they were the same at both dinners. But I will say that the one who was at 1900 was the one we had the last time we at at CRT. I really liked her.

 

[jenseib]

Thats not the same lady but I can see why she would say that in front of your daughter lol, the first one was prettier IMO she looked a little softer(i've got nothing better to do than analyze the Cinderella's ) I want to see last years Prince Charming because that one is not too shabby to me !
keep up the good reviews!

We also saw Cinderella at Akershus and she was totally different.I didn't think she was very pretty at all. LOL!

Here is Prince Charming from last year.

My 16 YO, Paige was looking at the pictures yesterday and said she thought this years Prince was hot, IF he stopped wearing lipstick. LOL! I thought he looked too girly with too much makeup. LOL!

I thought last years was really great. Paige said he looked like an old man.

 

[ZeroToHero]

Even if Lady Tremaine wasn't nice, she looks the part, definitely. She actually looks wayyy prettier than in the movie (I wish I looked like her, although not as tall)... and Claire is so cute blushing!
Except that guy isn't blushable material for me... I agree that last year's was WAY better.

 

[BreTyPres87]

We also saw Cinderella at Akershus and she was totally different.I didn't think she was very pretty at all. LOL!

Here is Prince Charming from last year.


My 16 YO, Paige was looking at the pictures yesterday and said she thought this years Prince was hot, IF he stopped wearing lipstick. LOL! I thought he looked too girly with too much makeup. LOL!

I thought last years was really great. Paige said he looked like an old man.

I agree with your daughter he looks too old to be Prince Charming, you're right though that lipstick did take away from this years hotness a little!

 

[fall08CP]

Well I'm college-age and I agree with your DD that this year's prince is waaaaay cuter.

 

[jenseib]

Anastasia was the next one to our table. I was laughing because she kept doing this cheesy smile and it is the same one that Claire does a lot!
I think she was the same one we saw last year. She was pretty funny. Both stepsisters were. They would screech across the restaurant at each other. If any dish fell or rattled they would yell for Cinderella to go and clean it up.

And the last character was Drizella. She was fun. Claire laughed with her and told her that her dad wanted to dance with her. LOL! She was so happy that she had a new Prince.

As we were doing our final shots with Drizella the music started playing and she invited Claire out to dance with her. Claire followed and on the way Drizella invited more children. See the lady in the green…Well this lady must have bionic powers. LOL! I followed Claire up hoping to get some shots of her, and this lady was all of a sudden in front of me from out of no where. I swear it! And then it was next to impossible to get a shot of Claire. And this ladies one DD was very tall (at least I think it was hers), so when I tried to get Claire from another angle the tall girl was in the way! LOL! I just shot a few, but basically all you can see are pieces of Claire.

You can see a bit of her Pink fluff in these pictures. LOL

That was FUN!

 

[wilma-bride]

Great pictures

 

[KarBear]

Loving the reviews! Can't wait for more!

 

[jenseib]

Now is when I kind of got annoyed with our server. So far she had brought drink refills when needed, but she didn’t check on us much and she didn’t do the bussing, it was some other guy that did that. We also needed more silverware, because Claire kept dropping it, and she seemed to disappear when we needed it.
While Claire was out dancing is when she brought the chocolate slipper, and she set it in my spot. I wanted to this to be special and here we come back to the table with it just sitting there. So no “presentation” for Claire. There was also a happy birthday crown next to it. But this crown was even small for Claire’s head. LOL!

So like I said I was ticked off a bit because our surprise got muted, and Claire didn’t even realize it was at the table till I showed it to her.

This thing was awesome. I am a big white chocolate fan and it was ooh so good! I snatched one raspberry off it, which I love as well and told Claire to try one. She ate the others in seconds. LOL! I guess she likes red raspberries too.
DH and I made pigs of ourselves breaking apart that pretty shoe and eating every last bite. Yes we even scraped off the raspberry sauce. LOL!

The side thing was chocolate with chocolate mousse in it. Very good. And the slipper has some kind of white crème in it, but it wasn’t whip cream. Also very good. We were breaking that beautiful shoe apart and even holding up to our mouths and biting it. LOL! Claire didn’t really want any of it, which was good, because I was fighting DH for it.

So now I decided I can’t miss out on the desserts at the bar either. They had mini cheesecakes and mousse, AND rice crispie treats. So I went back up and got a plateful. LOL! Claire snatched my rice crispie right away and I had to go get another. LOL!

 

[jenseib]

In the mean time our waitress was still MIA. So I went up to the buffet and snatched a few shots while we waited for our bill.

FINALLY the waitress brought the bill after we were completely done, and just sitting there with an empty table. I handed her our KTTW card and Skip and Claire decided to go outside to wait for me, while I waited for the return of the card.

The bill total, including the slipper was $100.08. The Slipper was $14 plus tax that we paid out of pocket for, which made our amount the plan covered to $85.17.
For those wondering, the plan costs us just under $90 a day. I don’t know the exact amount, but it’s less than $40 a person and $10 a day for Claire. So this meal alone about covers the payment for the day. Not all our meals cost THAT much, but most were close to it. So the plan is a benefit to us.


Later that evening, around 9:30ish, I decided I wanted something more to eat! Claire and I headed up to the food court at Pop.
I ended up getting a kids turkey sandwich, with apple juice, and two sides of apple sauce, figuring Claire could eat one at another point and time. Claire picked out a bowl of grapes for a snack.

The sandwich was pretty good. The grapes always seem excellent at WDW.
I already started losing track of how many kids CS’s I had used, if any. They don’t separate them on the receipts like they do for TS, so we just kind of went and got what we wanted, since I had no clue. LOL!

I have it written down as $5.32 for the sandwich meal and $3.62 for the grapes.
We used one CS credit and one snack credit.

And that was the end of day 2 for us!

 

[wilma-bride]

That white choc slipper looks delish

 

[mdsouth]

Thanks so much for the great reviews!
The pictures were great too! It really gives me a sense of what goes on.

I am going with my family in late June and my DD is 6. She has been once before when she was 2 so she does not remember much. She is now into princesses and so this year I have scheduled three meals with the princesses.

I first just had 1900 Park Fare for dinner and the one in Norway for lunch one day. We are not really breakfast people, so I thought it would be better to have lunch and dinner.

Just this morning, I called and was able to add CRT (both lunch and dinner times were available for my week). I couldn't believe it. So, I booked both and now have to decide between the two.

My dinner is set for 5:30 and lunch is 11:30 so now I have to decide which date and time is better. I just can't make up my mind. I have not scheduled BBB so if I can get a time either date that might make up my mind.

I wasn't worried about the characters not coming around to the tables at CRT dinner since we will have the other two events earlier in the week. What do you think? From your review, your DD seemed a bit disappointed that Cindy did not come to the table at dinner.

 

[jenseib]

I don't beleive Cinderrella comes to tables at all at CRT. And no, DD wasn't disappointed, because she had alot of time with her in the lobby. But she was a liitle mad about FG not coming over, b ut I knew she wouldn't, or it was rare if she did. But she loved it. If I could go back to CRT, I would try for lunch or breakfast so we could mingle with the princesses, but dinner is fun too. It was my last choice of the 3, but I am very happy to have gone, and we enjoyed it alot.

If I were you, I would go for the lunch, and try for a dinner on another trip. Or do both! LOL!

 

[jenseib]

I got my photopass CD yesterday, so I thought I would post the pictures they took with cinderella at CRT.

 

[Lynn5700]

YUM that chocolate Buckle looks so good!!!!

Your daughter with Prince Charming is so cute LOL. She looks like she had a blast at 1900 PF. That Cinderella is gorgeous!

 

[kckmom]

I have to say, your pictures are great! What camera do you have? We never seem to pick a good one and we need one desperately.

also, your comment below at Park Fare

"...so Claire took a seat and I tried to get a picture of her. Not much luck of getting a nice one. She was fidgety and kept putting her wand in her face"

I have to disagree! The one where she is looking off to the side with the wand on her face is so precious, it is a real nice candid one.

I am so happy to see pics and a review of the 1900 Park Fare, we are going down 8/23, and I plan on booking dinner there one night. We went there in 2005 when they had Cindy, FGM, Prince and Susie and Perla and the girls had a great time. We enjoyed the food as well, but I was a little nervous about having the 'mean sisters and stepmom', however I have read that they are actually funny, so we will do this one.

CRT was good for dinner, but we enjoyed breakfast more, all the princesses were there, even Snow White who you hardly see!

Enjoying your reviews...