It's a great deal especially when you want to do character meals
We did that on our last trip and saved big. We loved the Crystal Palace for dinner
, 1900 Park Fare for dinner
, and Chef Mickey's for breakfast and dinner
. The princess lunch at Akershus was great for the characters
but the food was a bit to Norwegian for my DH. The kids meals were fine, but my husband isn't very adventurous and hated the food. I have been told by a friend that it is great for breakfast though. I would say of all of them Chef Mickey's was our favorite because there's a lot of action and to me it was more relaxed with the kids. There is a lot that goes on so it's not as noticeable if the kids get a little overly excited. Of course with the dancing, music and napkin twirling that is a part of the experience there, I could see where some people might not like that aspect of it. My kids loved it and we are planning to go back when we're there over spring break to do our DD birthday
bday:
A bonus to the
DDP is that you get a lot of food so you can share meals in some cases, though not at the buffets, and make your meals stretch
. It's really easy to do for lunches like at Peos Bill's and Pizzafari where the larger burgers and the pizzas are big enough to split in half (and you get dessert with them too), and when you are on the move a lot you don't want a huge filling meal mid day to slow you down. We could then use 2 CS meals instead of 4 and use those extra meals for another day. Another thing I was impressed with, at our resort CS restaurant we had to endure a really really long wait to get our desserts. The cashier noticed how long it was taking and how frustrated my DH and I were getting and told her manager. He in turn came over to me apologized and asked for my card, when he came back he told me he had refunded me the 4 CS meals we had used
. We brought food with us from home for breakfast since the DDP only gives you 2 meals and a snack, and with the refunded meal we were able to have another breakfast out (we got in later in the day the first night and had to only use the CS meal that day so we tok our extra TS meal and did breakfast at Chef Mickey's)
. For us it was a really great way to do the meals, and like someone else said they're paid for before you go
. If we hadn't done that my husband, like hers, would have been pitching a fit about the prices
and we wouldn't have gone to half the the places we did./
