Florida2012
If you can dream it, you can do it
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Got back this morning, after a 10 day stay at ASR Music. must admit we are a little sad, but we definitely had the best time!!
Highs
First into Magic Kingdom - on our first day there we had a reservation at Crystal Palace (which was amazing, I've never tasted anything like the breakfast lasagne! It was delicious!) Anyway, we were about 4th in line but the first 3 families stalled for pictures, leaving us to be first in the kingdom! Great start to the holiday!!!
Weather - we had been looking at the weather just before we departed and were a little concerned. However, on the main, the weather was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! Monday and Tuesday wasn't brilliant but by then we were so relaxed we couldn't care less! (In fact we had some pictures taken during the downpour on Monday which we are viewing now and are laughing about it!)
Characters - we go to DLP quite often where characters are few and far between and are always a scrum when they are there. We had photos with 42 different characters and, with the exception of one (which I will get to on lows), the interaction was brilliant!
Wishes - WOW! There is no other word I can use to describe how amazing this display is!
Photpass - £87 for 375 pictures over the ten days was just such value for money! Some of them are quite poor, but some are just SUPERB!! Would highly recommend it to anyone
Brown Derby - we booked a Fantasmic! dinner package here and had a fantastic meal! $55 each for a three course meal (where I had the best steak I've ever eaten) was amazing value for money!
Value for money - people had been saying how we would be spending a fortune whilst at Disney, but we really couldn't see that. Yes, snacks and alcohol was expensive, but beyond that we found it very reasonable! (In fact we came back with nearly $700 from a budget of $2,000 - and we brought back half the park!!)
Lows
American service - I've worked in retail since I left school and am always told how American service is heads and shoulders above ours. I didn't see that. Yes, their service was ok but GOD was it slow!!
Chef Mickey - $60 each for a poor choice of sub standard buffet food would usually be hard enough to take, but at least you get some decent character interaction right? Wrong! We found that as it was just the two of us the characters really didn't want to be at our table (with the exception of Donald, he was great!!). This would usually be bad enough, but then we witnessed the worst display from a character!
Pluto originally missed our table and was asked to come back by the handlers. When he did he had to wait, as Mickey had arrived at our table, so decided to lean against the wall with arms folded. As he came to us, I went say hello and he just breezed behind me and indicated to my wife to take the pic. She did and as he went around the table to her side, she started tidying the table (as she didn't want glasses and dishes in her pic) she picked up my empty beer bottle and was moving it to the other side of the table and, as I started taking a picture, Pluto went mental!! He stormed over to the handler, furiously indicating that we tried to take a picture of him with the bottle and stormed off! My wife was so upset and embarrassed by this accusation and wanted to leave. It was extremely poorly handled and left such a sour taste in an otherwise fantastic holiday!
So overall an amazing holiday, we will definitely be back, we just wish we had more space in our case to bring back more bits!
Highs
First into Magic Kingdom - on our first day there we had a reservation at Crystal Palace (which was amazing, I've never tasted anything like the breakfast lasagne! It was delicious!) Anyway, we were about 4th in line but the first 3 families stalled for pictures, leaving us to be first in the kingdom! Great start to the holiday!!!
Weather - we had been looking at the weather just before we departed and were a little concerned. However, on the main, the weather was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! Monday and Tuesday wasn't brilliant but by then we were so relaxed we couldn't care less! (In fact we had some pictures taken during the downpour on Monday which we are viewing now and are laughing about it!)
Characters - we go to DLP quite often where characters are few and far between and are always a scrum when they are there. We had photos with 42 different characters and, with the exception of one (which I will get to on lows), the interaction was brilliant!
Wishes - WOW! There is no other word I can use to describe how amazing this display is!
Photpass - £87 for 375 pictures over the ten days was just such value for money! Some of them are quite poor, but some are just SUPERB!! Would highly recommend it to anyone
Brown Derby - we booked a Fantasmic! dinner package here and had a fantastic meal! $55 each for a three course meal (where I had the best steak I've ever eaten) was amazing value for money!
Value for money - people had been saying how we would be spending a fortune whilst at Disney, but we really couldn't see that. Yes, snacks and alcohol was expensive, but beyond that we found it very reasonable! (In fact we came back with nearly $700 from a budget of $2,000 - and we brought back half the park!!)
Lows
American service - I've worked in retail since I left school and am always told how American service is heads and shoulders above ours. I didn't see that. Yes, their service was ok but GOD was it slow!!
Chef Mickey - $60 each for a poor choice of sub standard buffet food would usually be hard enough to take, but at least you get some decent character interaction right? Wrong! We found that as it was just the two of us the characters really didn't want to be at our table (with the exception of Donald, he was great!!). This would usually be bad enough, but then we witnessed the worst display from a character!
Pluto originally missed our table and was asked to come back by the handlers. When he did he had to wait, as Mickey had arrived at our table, so decided to lean against the wall with arms folded. As he came to us, I went say hello and he just breezed behind me and indicated to my wife to take the pic. She did and as he went around the table to her side, she started tidying the table (as she didn't want glasses and dishes in her pic) she picked up my empty beer bottle and was moving it to the other side of the table and, as I started taking a picture, Pluto went mental!! He stormed over to the handler, furiously indicating that we tried to take a picture of him with the bottle and stormed off! My wife was so upset and embarrassed by this accusation and wanted to leave. It was extremely poorly handled and left such a sour taste in an otherwise fantastic holiday!
So overall an amazing holiday, we will definitely be back, we just wish we had more space in our case to bring back more bits!
- but i won't say what i was thinking after writing that)..
