Help me choose: Crystal Palace or Akershus

[BigGoof81]

Throughout our trip, the characters meals we are doing include:

Cinderella's Royal Table (breakfast)
Tusker House (dinner)
Hollywood and Vine (lunch)

We have 2 days in MK, 1 day in Epcot, 1 day in HS, 2 day in AK.
Plus we have MMSSHP.

On our last day, our flight leaves at 7pm, so we'll be able to get a decent amount of time in at 1 park.
We don't have park hoppers.

So right now I have ADR for Akershus (breakfast) 10:55am or Crystal Palace (lunch) 12:10pm.

Torn between what we should do.
We can only book FP's at 1 park and want to do it ASAP while there are still FPs available for big rides.
We know our DD (4) would love meeting Pooh and friends but she is obsessed with the princesses.
And seeing Belle in her yellow dress would be awesome.

I heard there is better interaction at Akershus. Is that true?

I know it's subjective, but what would you do?

 

[momof2n2]

Um.
If you mean Akershus v Crystal Palace I would actually vote pre-park open CP breakfast. ❤
Akershus breakfast was a let down for us, although we'd enjoyed lunch before. Plus, more time in MK over Epcot would also increase my vote for CP.

Haven't done CP lunch, but I'd still pick MK over Epcot. And I love Pooh.

 

[PollyannaMom]

If your title is correct, and you're choosing between Crystal Palace and Cinderella's Royal Table, I would do Crystal Palace because they are both at MK and you already have CRT earlier in your trip.

If your post is correct, and you're deciding between Akershus at Epcot and Crystal Palace at MK, I would definitely choose based on which park you'd rather have the extra day at! I don't think you can go wrong with either of those places, so it would all come down to park time. Based on your other ADR's, I can't tell if you have an Epcot day at all, so I would pick that if you don't. But if the last day would be doubling (or tripling) up anyway, I'd probably want more MK time with a four-year-old.


I think I would choose Akershus just because I've never been there. But I did do this:

...pre-park open CP breakfast. ❤

once, and it was one of the best Disney planning decisions I ever made!! We got some great pictures, and the "almost empty park" feeling was really neat. (I'm assuming that's not an option, though, as you only listed lunch for that one.)

 

[helenm29]

I'd pick Crystal Palace. It's as fun place to eat, the foods not bad and even though I'm almost 60 I love the Pooh & friends! Go to Disneyworld.com and check the menu's...they are literally two different worlds.

 

[momof2n2]

I'd pick Crystal Palace. It's as fun place to eat, the foods not bad and even though I'm almost 60 I love the Pooh & friends! Go to Disneyworld.com and check the menu's...they are literally two different worlds.

This! The menus are tremendously different.

PPO breakfasts are my favorite to help position for Rope Drop Rope Drop. It's the main reason we eat breakfast in amy park.

 

[BigGoof81]

Um.
If you mean Akershus v Crystal Palace I would actually vote pre-park open CP breakfast. ❤
Akershus breakfast was a let down for us, although we'd enjoyed lunch before. Plus, more time in MK over Epcot would also increase my vote for CP.

Haven't done CP lunch, but I'd still pick MK over Epcot. And I love Pooh.

If your title is correct, and you're choosing between Crystal Palace and Cinderella's Royal Table, I would do Crystal Palace because they are both at MK and you already have CRT earlier in your trip.

If your post is correct, and you're deciding between Akershus at Epcot and Crystal Palace at MK, I would definitely choose based on which park you'd rather have the extra day at! I don't think you can go wrong with either of those places, so it would all come down to park time. Based on your other ADR's, I can't tell if you have an Epcot day at all, so I would pick that if you don't. But if the last day would be doubling (or tripling) up anyway, I'd probably want more MK time with a four-year-old.


I think I would choose Akershus just because I've never been there. But I did do this:

Yes. Sorry!!!
My brain is shot.
Akershus vs CP.
I updated our park days as well.
We already have a day in Epcot.
Along with 2 MK days PLUS MNSSHP.

We're on the fence because we were thinking maybe enjoy a little more of Food and Wine Festival, but then I think, this is for DD. Leaving Disney from MK is more magical for her, and all of us really.

I just know she would love meeting Belle in that setting.

Back and forth, back and forth.

As of now we made MK FPs.
So if we change, we'll have to wait in line for FEA at Epcot if we choose that route because there are no FPs left early in the morning.

 

[Hootch]

I would do Crystal Palace.

 

[PollyannaMom]

We already have a day in Epcot.

I'd stop second-guessing it, then. She's going to love either restaurant, she's not going to know what you didn't book, and I think you're right about the magic. - To a 4-year-old, MK is Disney World. Keep Crystal Palace and the Fast Passes, and enjoy your trip!


P.S. - It looks like Belle wears the yellow dress in this, too:
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/magic-kingdom/enchanted-tales-with-belle/

 

[BigGoof81]

I'd stop second-guessing it, then. She's going to love either restaurant, she's not going to know what you didn't book, and I think you're right about the magic. - To a 4-year-old, MK is Disney World. Keep Crystal Palace and the Fast Passes, and enjoy your trip!


P.S. - It looks like Belle wears the yellow dress in this, too:
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/magic-kingdom/enchanted-tales-with-belle/

Thank you!!

I think you just solidified our decision.
We're newbies, and I didn't even know the Enchanted Stories with Belle was actually meeting her.
I'm a dumb dumb haha.
DD is going to LOVE that!

Sticking with MK.

THANK YOu ALL!!!

 

[Kkb0517]

This! The menus are tremendously different.

PPO breakfasts are my favorite to help position for Rope Drop Rope Drop. It's the main reason we eat breakfast in amy park.

I thought they changed the opening procedure and PPO CP no longer have you an advantage. (I love pooh and friends so I'd still go there personally)

 

[DisneyFansInNYC]

For food I would pick Akershus definitely but for the park I would pick MK for our last day. We love to end our stay at MK. The characters at CP are great to interact with. You will enjoy it.

 

[BigGoof81]

To now throw a monkey wrench into this, just when I was set on CP, my wife gets back from the food market where she was picking up a cake for our DD birthday.....a Frozen cake of course.
So the lady behind her says like "ohhh Frozen. We just got back from Disney and had lunch with Anna and Elsa at Epcot."
She explained it was a castle in Norway, so assuming she meant Akershus.
Do Anna and Elsa do Character meals in Epcot??
Or was this lady clearly confused??
Maybe she did the meet and greet and then did the meal?

 

[momof2n2]

I thought they changed the opening procedure and PPO CP no longer have you an advantage. (I love pooh and friends so I'd still go there personally)

Whoa! What? How?

 

[mamamelody2]

To now throw a monkey wrench into this, just when I was set on CP, my wife gets back from the food market where she was picking up a cake for our DD birthday.....a Frozen cake of course.
So the lady behind her says like "ohhh Frozen. We just got back from Disney and had lunch with Anna and Elsa at Epcot."
She explained it was a castle in Norway, so assuming she meant Akershus.
Do Anna and Elsa do Character meals in Epcot??
Or was this lady clearly confused??
Maybe she did the meet and greet and then did the meal?

Hmmm. I don't believe Anna and Elsa do the character meal. She could be confused.