Does anyone have....

[STLDisney_Freak]

an example of their schedule of resturants during the day...I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to schedule each restuarant. We, of course, wanna do all the character dining....We wanna do BBB and make sure we see each park. We are there for a a week so I'm almost getting a headache on trying to figure all of this out. If no one has an example, is there a program out there that can help?

 

[TheDizMom]

Here's our plan for our trip starting on 3/29. We are on the DDP so we are saving all of our TS meals for dinner and one dinner show. We will use our CS meals at lunch and usually play that by ear.
Day 1- just eat at hotel CS place because we get in at 6pm so not to hotel until about 7
Day 2-we are going to MK so we are eating at Crystal Palace
Day 3-we are going to AK for day then heading back to the hotel before dinner at Chef Mickey's for DD birthday meal
Day 4-we are hitting MGM and are eating at Prime Time
Day 5-is water park and DTD day then back to the hotel for dinner at Grand Floridian Cafe
Day 6- we are staying at hotel for the day to relax and have some fun in the sun and have dinner at 1900 Park Fare
Day 7- we are going back to MK and then doing the HOOP-DEE-DOO revue
Day 8- we are off to Epcot and dinner at Le Cellier Steakhouse in Canada
Day 9- we leave for home

Hope this helps you . It is a royal pain but if you approach it by determining when you want to go to each park and then picking your restaurant from there it makes it a little easier . If you want to go to a restaurant inside one of the park then plan for that day to be the day you go to the park. Then you are already there and it's a little easier. Don't let it get you down. You'll figure it out .

 

[hvivona]

Make a spreadsheet. This really helped me. At the top list the days you are going. Decide then what parks for what days and write that park with its hours under the day. Then plan your breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner according to where you will be that day. So here's part of ours:

Sun. Mon. Tues.
E MK Ak/E
B: road main st. Donalds

L: road col. harb. hs snack kringala

D: akershus tony's beirgarten grdn grill

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

Here is our plan on the Dining Plan. . .

Friday Day 1 -- arriving at 530pm so we will eat at CBR food court

Saturday Day 2-- lunch 1150am ADR @ Crystal Palace MK
Saturday Day 2 -- dinner 530pm ADR @ Whispering Canyon WL

Sunday Day 3-- breakfast 1030am ADR @ Chef Mickey Contemp

Monday Day 4-- lunch 215pm ADR @ Cinderella Royal Table MK

Tuesday Day 5-- breakfast 1015am ADR @ Hollywood and Vine MGM
Tuesday Day 5-- dinner 610pm ADR @ Sci Fi MGM

Wednesday Day 6-- breakfast 1030am ADR @ Restaurantasaurus AK

Thursday Day 7-- Bibbity Bobbity Boutique @ 1pm DD
Thursday Day 7-- dinner 455pm ADR @ Akershush Princess Dining Epcot

Friday Day 8-- dinner 540pm 1900 Park Fare GF


I still have 4 more days to plan for too!
Ive been reading good things about Ohanas on here so I may try and make a breakfast reservation over there too (hopefully).

We will be dining with our DD who is turning 4 right before we go, so if anyone has anymore suggestions, please let me know!

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Here's our plan... with the help of Tour Guide Mike, I am staying sane!

Day 1: Travel Day - no park
Dinner @ Boatwrights 6:00pm
Day 2: Lunch @ Teppanyaki 12:30pm
CS Dinner
Day 3: CS Lunch
CS Dinner
Day 4: Lunch @ Coral Reef 12 pm
Dinner @ Boma 7pm
Day 5: Breakfast @ H&V 10am CS Dinner
Day 6: CS Lunch
Dinner @ LeCellier 6pmDay 7: CS Lunch
Dinner @ CRT 6pm
Day 8: CS Lunch
Dinner @ Tony's Town Square 6:30pm
Day 9: CS Lunch
Dinner @ Rose & Crown 6:30pm
Day 10: Breakfast @ Crystal Palace 8:30am
GO HOME.

 

[MamaOfTwoPrincesses]

Here is what we did. We stayed at POFQ. I sent ahead a box which included breakfast foods and snacks, so we did not generally eat breakfast out. We were on the dining plan.

Day 1:
Arrive @ 3pm. 6pm Dinner at Chef Mickey's (TS)

Day 2:
MK
12 noon lunch at Crystal Palace (TS); 5:45 dinner at Cosmic Rays (CS), so we could get into line for the 7pm Spectromagic light parade by 6:30

Day 3:
AK
lunch at McD's - the kids were so happy! (CS)
dinner at Earl of Sandwich in DTD (CS)

Day 4:[COLOR="Red"] (dd's 4th bday)[/COLOR]
breakfast at resort (DD wanted pancakes and eggs) --paid out of pocket
MK
12 noon lunch at CRT (paid ahead of time out of pocket)
back to resort
BBB 3pm
walk around DT[I[/I]D
6pm Cinderella dinner at Grand Floridian (TS)

Day 5:
Epcot
Princess Breakfast in Norway (CS)
quick McD's lunch (CS)
dinner Rose and Crown pub (TS) last minute reservation

Day 6:
MK
Perfectly Princess Tea at Grand Floridian - just dd5 and me (paid out of pocket)
DH and dd1 did their own thing for lunch
Dinner at Pinnocchio restaurant in Fantasyland (CS)


Day 7:
MGM
Hollywood and Vine Playhouse Disney breakfast (TS)
lunch at Toy Story Pizza place (CS)

 

[LaraK]

Here is what we're doing (we don't do DDP)
Day one-arrival
6:00 ADR for Whispering Canyon (haven't been before)
Day two
8:00 AM ADR for Crystal Palace (park opens at 9)
6:00 PM ADR for Beirgarten
Day three
8:00 AM ADR for Chef Mickey (park opens at 9, but we still may not make rope drop)
6:00 PM ADR for 1900 Park Fare
Day four
no ADR's...switching hotels and doing a water park
Day five
8:00 AM ADR for Donald's Breakfastasauras
playing dinner by ear
Day six
no breakfast ADR (eating before we go the park)
6:30 PM ADR for Hollywood and Vine
Day seven
no ADRs all day...winging it but planning on getting yummy cream cheese pretzels for breakfast
Day eight
8:10 ADR at Cinderella's Royal Table (park opens at 9)
6:30 PM ADR at Rose and Crown

We'll do a light lunch in the room right before nap each day (I'm going to pick some stuff up at the store and stick it in the fridge.

 

[suffolkprincess]

A couple of things-- I have a spreadsheet we used and I would be more than happy to share it with you. The best way would probably be for you to PM me and I will email it to you as an excel attachment. My spreadsheet lists the meals each day, and has spaces for costs of each, how many credits etc. We found it very helpful.

There is another website that has a vacation planner tool that we *liked* as a starting point but we didn't end up using it for the real thing.

I think that one major thing to acknowledge as you try to plan this is that the character meals, while FUN, are very stimulating and high-energy. So you might want to ramp back on doing them for every day. Each time that we have gone we felt a little overbooked. On our second trip we booked much less than our first trip, and still ended up cancelling two meals that we had thought we really wanted-- Biergarten and Chef Mickey. At those points we really needed to chill out-- we replaced Biergarten with resort CS eaten on the beach and Chef Mickey with a cinnamon roll watching the Main Street entertainment after park opening. And we have no regrets!

Final tip: early breakfasts, that get you into the parks earlier than opening are GREAT. Its definitely "killing two birds with one stone" because you get all the benefits of the character meal with the bonus of beating everyone into the parks.

 

[suffolkprincess]

I meant to also post what we did:

Day 1: Flight, ate at airport in am... had a snack en route to the Polynesian (granola bars) then Counter Service at Pinocchio's Village Haus (had to go to MK right away!) later Dinner (7 pm) that night at Ohana (we were staying at the Polynesian and wanted to be close to home first night.)

Day 2: had to be a MK day with my DD, so we had breakfast at Park Fare (Alice and Mary Poppins) at 8 am and made it to MK for opening (monorail!) Lunch was CS at Casey's and dinner was at Park Fare (Cinderella) at 7 PM
After dinner we enjoyed the lobby at the Grand Floridian and had a nice walk back to the Polynesian, where we watched the Electrical Water Pageant and Wishes in our PJS!

Day 3: MK in the am, EPCOT in the PM-- we had breakfast late at Cinderella's Royal Table (9:55 am) which meant that DD and DH had an apple (from home) and I had a latte (got that at Kona's stand)on the walk to the monorail because we still went for park opening. That afternoon we shared some Captain Cook's counter service by the pool at the resort before heading to EPCOT in late afternoon. We had dinner there at Marrakesh at 7 PM. (Wonderful!)

Day 4: We had reservations for the Perfectly Princess Tea (a gift) so that AM we ate granola bars from home at the room and hung out at the resort before heading to the Tea at the Grand Floridian. After Tea we went back to the room, had pool time, and then went back to MK for late afternoon. We had snacks (Dole Whip, French fries) and no real lunch. We got last minute ADRS at Kona Cafe for later (8:30 PM) and so we stayed at MK until the last minute before dinner.

Day 5: We had an 8:30 ADR for Donald's at AK but we went early (there by 8) and they seated us early. We had a GREAT day at AK including a CS lunch at Flam Tree BBQ. This was the evening we went to the Polynesian Luau, which we really enjoyed.

Day 6: We canceled our Chef Mickey's ADR so we could do a park opening again (we love being there at open!) so we used snack credits galore and had a great breakfast from Main St Bakery. Then lunch was Pecos Bill's. We had planned on using CS to eat to Tomorrowland Noodle Terrace between the first Spectromagic and Wishes, but... they weren't open and everything at MK was PACKED-- so we used up snack credits (nuts, popcorn, churro) and granola bars from home (in my backpack) and had a late dinner from the CS at the resort (Captain Cooks.)

Day 7: Counter Service breakfast from Captain Cooks and some shopping at our resort before catching ME home!