I've eaten the brunch at Goofy's Kitchen a couple times in years past and liked it. I've noticed the price increase though and am not sure it's worth $44 a person. We are staying at GC this time so I was thinking about giving the Storyteller's Character breakfast a try as it seemed cheaper. Thoughts? What are the main differences?
Thanks for your help!
Just out of curiosity - when did you see a price increase for Goofy's? $44
should be the peak
dinner price, not the off-peak brunch price. What happens is, normally Goofy's has breakfast/brunch prices for the off-peak season and the dinner prices for the off-peak season, which are different. Then, in the peak seasons like summer and the holidays, they raise the breakfast/brunch prices and they raise the dinner prices, but the dinner prices are always higher than the breakfast/brunch prices, no matter what the season. In any case, when we ate breakfast at Goofy's (which we have been doing since 1992) in October 2008, that was considered the
off-peak season, and the price was around $27 per adult, roughly. The peak season breakfast should be around $32 or so. However, when we just ate breakfast at Goofy's again in December, that
was the peak season and they had NOT raised the rates from what they were in October, shockingly. They were supposed to raise them, but did not. It would not have been wise for them to raise the rates because from what a Disney Dining person told me, the Priority Seatings for the character meals were down during the holidays and overall, probably due to the economy. So if they raised the breakfast/brunch prices from $27 to $44 that would be an
awfully large increase in a tough economy! Usually they just hike them up by $5.00 each year or so, and same with dinner. That is why I was curious to know when and where you saw that $44 rate, because that sounds like peak season dinner prices to me! I wondered if they just hiked up the breakfast/brunch rates as soon as 2009 hit.
Anyway, I like Storytellers better as a regular, off the menu restaurant than for its buffet. But I prefer Goofy's by a mile over all. The Storytellers buffet is cheaper than Goofy's by a bit. The main difference (and for me, the reason why I like Goofy's better) is that Goofy's has a much wider selection of food because Goofy's is all day character buffet and never acts as a 'regular' restaurant like Storytellers does. Storytellers has a more limited buffet but some people love it. You can also order off the menu at Storytellers, unlike at Goofy's. The characters are different from Goofy's, other than Chip and Dale, and are often lesser known. They have characters from Brother Bear, and also Rafiki, sometimes Meeko, and the other jungle and woodsy-type Disney characters. It is a pretty quiet restaurant, not as lively as Goofy's. Storytellers is definitely worth a try if you want a cheaper character buffet. I remain a diehard, loyal Goofy's fan because their buffet is just too good!
)? I definitely do not like Storytellers as much as many other DIS'ers do, and I don't have to eat there every trip, but I haven't really had a bad experience like you have, Fairycat. I like it well enough so far. The breakfast buffet just didn't appeal to me when I had it because it was limited. It tasted okay, but just didn't bowl me over. And the off-the-menu breakfast stuff seemed too expensive per plate. Now when we ate there for lunch in October, all the food that the three of us got went over very well. We were all quite pleased with our choices and we all had different things (a burger, a thick turkey and bacon sandwich and a veggie burger). Now, when we went back to Storytellers for dinner in December, the lower priced menu options were very limited, as were the dinner buffet choices. So it was either a matter of getting the spaghetti at a lower $17 a plate or paying $27 for a steak or some crazy thing. We both got the spaghetti (because we felt like that was the only logical option) and fortunately, it was delicious spaghetti with yummy garlic bread, but I would have liked to have the same choices to pick from as the ones on the lunch menu - just a wider variety in general.
