Interesting thread it seems that those with very early PSs had a little bit of difficulty with coordinating the characters.
Camcolt, I hope you complained about this type of treatment. It would have been upsetting to my party as well.
We had a very nice experience 3 weeks ago at Donald's. The characters were great. I have pictures of my niece and nephew with both Goofy and Pluto as we were one of the last families left and the characters seemed to be in a playful mood. The hostess and server were both very nice and said if we did not see a character to tell them and they would get the character. We were trying to make a fastpass for the safari, which I had gone to get while everyone else went to the restaurant. The only downside was that someone else answered to the CMs vague call of names and parties and they thought we were already seated when we were still out on the porch. Thank goodness my sister was listening and figured out the mistake as we had waited for 20 minutes when we were told it would only be a few minutes.
About those pictures the CM offered to make all keychains for us. We did get 8 of them for $32.00.
Food was terrific. We will definately be going back on future trips.