Dinner with an Imagineer

[pavil]

Hi two questions,
1. I understand the dinner is at the Brown Derby, will i have to use one of my ticket days to enter Disney/MGM to get in for this? I would like to do this with just my wife while our friends watch the kids for the evening, but don't want to just waste a day of ticket.

2. Would young children at the Dinner be too much of a interference with the enjoyment of others. I know my children wouldn't really appreciate it at their ages, (7,5,4) and I would rather just have a special evening with my wife.

Any comments from those who have had dinner would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[BeamsofLight]

My husband and I did this dinner last year (almost exactly a year ago, in fact). It was a wonderful experience and the food was amazing. You really get the VIP treatment from the Brown Derby staff too. To answer your questions:

1. You will need separate park admission. That's not included in the price of the meal, and there's no way to get to the restaurant without going through the park.

2. At our dinner, it was just us and an older couple. I think sometimes the groups are larger, but not much larger than that. I don't think your children would necessarily interfere with others, but I do think they'd be bored sillly. It's a very sedate dinner. Don't get me wrong, our Imagineer was a great conversationalist and very entertaining, but it's still pretty much just a dinner party. If you and your wife could go alone, it would be a very good choice for a 'special evening'. Because it was off-season, our dinner actually finished after MGM closed, and we walked out through the empty, fully-lit park. It was definitely magical.