Disney Character Dining Dilemma!

[sammie1884]

Ok so we are deffo coming in June we are doing 2 days in the park and staying for one night, I have not yet booked our hotel and here is why.....
Because its a surprise for my hubbie's 30th (also because we are taking our 3 yr old son) I really want to do character dining, I know that the parks will be busy in June so its another way to meet the characters. When we went last year we managed to fit in Cafe Mickeys for dinner but that was because we went in january so had the evening free as parks were shut.
I really want to fit it in but I just can not see how! The only thing I can think of doing is Character breakfast? (this is why I have not booked hotel yet as unsure if will need breakfast.) We will be arriving just before midday on the first day so technically will not get a full day in the parks, second day we will be leaving parks about 6pm.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to do this,if at all?!
Thank you!

 

[Isila]

Lunch at Cowboy cookout?
Otherwise it's only character breakfast. You could upgrade your hotel breakfast to have character breakfast in Cafe Mickey's.

 

[DLPdaft]

you have a few options for character meals during the day - you could do Cafe Mickey at lunchtime (the characters are there from noon until just before 3pm each day), you could pay for the character breakfast (but by sharing pizza etc there for lunch, breakfast could work out more expensive as you pay per person for breakfast at Cafe Mickey, regardless of how much you eat). There the Cowboy Cookout character lunch, or the Cowboy Cookout character tea party. If you did the character tea party on your last day, it would finish just when its time for you to leave the park at 6pm ish.

 

[sammie1884]

thank you, will check out cowboy cook out now. I need to book hotel today really because they have already gone up since last week
I just wanna make sure we get the most out of the parks so i think if i go for a character lunch it will be on 2nd day then we could do the earliest seating?