Halloween Party Dinner at Be Our Guest--differences from normal?

[Day-Day]

Are there any differences in dinner at Be Our Guest during normal park ours and the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP) Dining at Be Our Guest?

I have reservations for dinner during regular park hours which is more convenient but also have reservations for the Halloween Party scheduled at 6:25 (MNSSHP starts at 7pm). The one at 6:25 has the MNSSHP title in the reservation.

 

[Moliphino]

I don't think it's any different, you just need to have a party ticket for the one with MNSSHP on it.

 

[disneyvoice]

No difference in food. Just keep in mind that MNSSHP folks start coming into the park at 4:00 and the lines for the characters begin to form well before 7:00. If you want to do the character meet and greets the lines will likely be long by the time you are done with dinner. We usually do "dinner" around 3:00 on party days so we can do as much as possible during the party.

 

[Marthasor]

No difference other than you'll waste party time if you go at 6:25 pm.

 

[RAPstar]

Last year you could get the pumpkin spice cupcake that was at Gaston's Tavern at BOG dinner during the party.

 

[999_Happy_Haunts]

No difference in food. Just keep in mind that MNSSHP folks start coming into the park at 4:00 and the lines for the characters begin to form well before 7:00. If you want to do the character meet and greets the lines will likely be long by the time you are done with dinner. We usually do "dinner" around 3:00 on party days so we can do as much as possible during the party.

This is great advice. Unless you do the party multiple times each year, a TS Dinner in the park may not be the best use of time during the party. It goes by so fast....

 

[Texans_loyal]

the pumpkin spice cheesecake dome is available during dinner.

 

[eeyoreandtink]

I personally wouldn't waste party time on this, particularly if you are looking to meet characters during the party. Lines start forming at 4 and Jack and Sally, Moana, and 7D will be 2 plus hour waits all night. If you are looking to do one of those, then dinner may not be worth it.

 

[Day-Day]

As the OP, thanks for the replies. I was thinking 6:25 would mess up valuable time since the meals can take a while and only continued to consider it if there was something special about it being a Halloween Party dinner. I'm not concerned about meeting characters on this visit so now I'm trying to decide if 5:15 at BOG is worth it. I'm leaning towards dropping it and going with counter service when we are hungry. My thought was that attractions will have long wait times during the couple of hours before MNSSHP begins officially at 7pm but we are only going to WDW this one night while we are in Orlando so any time spent sitting at a meal will feel wasted. (Now leaning even more towards dropping the 5:15 BOG).

 

[Hopefully]

With such limited Park time I would not do a TS meal

 

[Auntof2]

We were just there on a party night with a 6:30 reservation. I wasn't concerned with meeting characters or trick or treating, but wanted to get in a certain number of rides. We arrived around 4:45pm and left because we were tired around 11. We were able to ride 9 rides (including 7 dwarves min train), eat dinner at BOG, watch the Halloween parade, and also watch the fireworks. It was a perfect evening for us.