Directions to Chef Mickey's

[Queenie]

Hi all,

Hoping one of my fellow "off site" people could help me out on this. We have 8.30am reservations at Chef Mickey's and I want to be sure how to get there as the park won't be open. We do have a hire car.

I am assuming that we can drive up to the MK parking payment booths as normal at about 8am, tell them we have CM reservations, pay and park like usual. Then we get the tram (does it run that early?) to the TTC and get a RESORT monorail to the Contemporary - these depart from a different platform if I've heard right, is it well signposted? Then we just go up to the restaurant, eat, and get another resort monorail into the MK (or walk if there's a queue.)

Anything else I need to know or are there any problems with this?

 

[JohnnySharp2]

Hi - that's a good question.

I do not have a full answer, but being generally an "off site" person too asked similar questions recently when we booked one of our Character Breakfasts at Crystal Palace.

I know that access via the payment booths is as normal, and that the monorails are running also.
One thing I did find out was that if you book a dining reservation you get free parking for up to 3 hours at the resort, which may not be what you are after I know.
So is driving to the Contemporary and then onto the park after having breakfast a better or different option?

 

[Minniespal]

Personally if I was staying off site and wanted to get to an early ADR, I would drive to the resort. As Johnny has stated you get 3 hours from the time of arrival till the time of departure. So even factoring into it the time for breakfast and a nosy around the Contemporary, 3 hours would be plenty.

 

[Queenie]

We'll be going straight to the MK for a full day (until park closing at 9pm) so wouldn't parking at the Contemporary just waste time as we'd have to drive the car around to the main MK parking lot once we'd eaten?

 

[henrys carpet skip]

I was going to put a thread on about this also.

We are thinking of getting a reservation at Chef Mickeys about 08.30 and then moving on to MK for the day. It would therefore be useful to park up in the car park as usual and take the monorail to the Contemporary, then to MK after the Breakfast. Is this possible at that time in the morning, even if that park doesn't open till later??

 

[carolfoy]

If you have a breakfast booked you can guarantee to getthere, also if you time it right you can, park at the TTc, monorail to the contemporary, have breakkie, then monorail to MK and still get to see the opening show

 

[jowan]

Hi, just wandering about the opening show, could you give us more details please?

 

[carolfoy]

Hi Joanne the opening show is for me, the best bit (cos it means theres a whole day of magic kingdom in front of me ) it starts around ten minutes before the MK opens and theres a song and dance routine and all the characters arrive by train then they countdown to opening and the streamers/confetti fly
whoops - getting all teary just thinking about it

 

[ely3857]

We did exactly as you are suggesting Sophie, parked at the TTC and caught the resort monorail to the Contempory which will be the last stop on the loop from TTC. When you decide how long it should take you I suggest increasing it by 15-20mins just in case, It took us 15mins longer than I thought and we were running to the podium!



Jodie

 

[Gonz Of Lancashire]

Hi all,

Hoping one of my fellow "off site" people could help me out on this. We have 8.30am reservations at Chef Mickey's and I want to be sure how to get there as the park won't be open. We do have a hire car.

I am assuming that we can drive up to the MK parking payment booths as normal at about 8am, tell them we have CM reservations, pay and park like usual. Then we get the tram (does it run that early?) to the TTC and get a RESORT monorail to the Contemporary - these depart from a different platform if I've heard right, is it well signposted? Then we just go up to the restaurant, eat, and get another resort monorail into the MK (or walk if there's a queue.)

Anything else I need to know or are there any problems with this?

If you want to park at the Contemporary Resort, tell the man at the entance to the Magic Kingdom you have breakfast reservations and he'll tell you where to go. When you arrive at the hotel, there will be another man at a barrier. Give him your name and time of reservation and he'll let you into the hotel car park. I think you get around a couple of hours free parking. It means that you don't need to enter the park on the day of a character meal if you don't want to, unless your meal is in the park.

 

[jowan]

Hi Joanne the opening show is for me, the best bit (cos it means theres a whole day of magic kingdom in front of me ) it starts around ten minutes before the MK opens and theres a song and dance routine and all the characters arrive by train then they countdown to opening and the streamers/confetti fly
whoops - getting all teary just thinking about it

Thanks for that, we're planning on spending the 'full' day at MK after breakfast at Chef Mickeys. This will be our first character breakfast and first trip with kids involved so can't wait.

 

[carolfoy]

Thanks for that, we're planning on spending the 'full' day at MK after breakfast at Chef Mickeys. This will be our first character breakfast and first trip with kids involved so can't wait.

WoW! you are gonna have SUCH a good time

 

[jowan]

Thanks for that, we're planning on spending the 'full' day at MK after breakfast at Chef Mickeys. This will be our first character breakfast and first trip with kids involved so can't wait.

Could anyone reccomend a time for breakfast to enable us to be at the gates for opening?

 

[JohnnySharp2]

Could anyone reccomend a time for breakfast to enable us to be at the gates for opening?

You would need to book for 1st thing ideally, I think Chef Mickey's starts at 7.
I would say, 0730 or 0745?

 

[kkymmy]

we went later on in the morning, i think we went about 9/930 and it was quite good, most of the familys with really exciteable kids had been and gone off to the parks for opening....and although it would never have been totally adult, i think it was less kid orientated than they can be....we were so lucky, our table was right next to the hot counter so we got to see when fresh batches of pancakes and mickey waffles came out