Home today - highs and lows!

[Disney-fan]

Hi all

Thought I'd do a quick post prior to my trip report with the brief highs and lows of the last few days...

Highs
Monday - not busy at all.. most of the rides were walk on or a 5-10min wait at most. Really good!
Weather - overcast and patchy showers for the most part, meant that we weren't too hot (I'd been worried about that as being from the NE of Scotland I had concerns that we'd all get too hot and burn!!).
Staff - lovely and polite, not a bad experience in the 5 days we were there.
Big Thunder Mountain... we all LOVED this ride.. went on three times!
Character lunches - Cowboy Cookout, Cafe Mickey and Auberge... all great fun and the perfect way to see characters without having to queue for hours!

Lows
Seeing a mouse in the Chuck Wagon Cafe... yes, we did leave that on our feedback form and I will be emailing Disney to complain. Not surprised to see a Mouse at Disneyland , but I was pretty shocked to see vermin
Torrential rain on Tuesday meant a late start and missing out on valuable park time.
Bad food.. unless you're willing to pay big prices I think the food is of shockingly bad quality. Considering we were in the world capital of gastronomy.... terrible.
Coming home....

... I WANT TO GO BACK!!!!! Now thinking about how I can persuade DH to plan another trip (and to stay in the DLH this time )

 

[jothp]

Glad you had a great time, the highs certainly seemed to outweigh the lows

 

[Ms Poppins]

Glad you had a good time, feels so sad when you come home though

The only cure is to book another trip

Look forward to the tr

 

[Disney-fan]

Thanks guys!!!

Have a "cunning plan" to go next November....

 

[kizzabel]

We saw a mouse in Cafe Mickey last May and he most certainly was not sigbing autographs. I stood on a chair until the bugger was evicted.
Sounds like a fantastic trip. You're among friends with the cunning plans and subtle hints! Is it too early to say Happy Planning!?!

 

[tennisfan]

Welcome back, i'm pleased the highs outweigh the lows

 

[JohnnySharp2]

I have to admit as regular Florida visitors but 1st time DLRP this August, the quality of the food given a lot of what I have read is a concern, especially with some of the high prices.

 

[TheTizardFamily:0)]

Welcome home!

Glad you had a lovely trip!

Have fun and good luck planning the next one!!

 

[Ware Bears]

Welcome back we were there Sunday through Tuesday and couldn't get over how quiet it was. Good luck with planning your next trip!

I have to admit as regular Florida visitors but 1st time DLRP this August, the quality of the food given a lot of what I have read is a concern, especially with some of the high prices.

Unfortunately the higher prices are really down to the poor exchange rate these days - when we first started visitng DLP we were getting a rate of 1.50 instead of the meagre 1.14 we got last week. I'm not a huge fan of counter service, it's typical theme park food which is going to be overpriced whatever country it's served in, but I really do love my table service meals at DLP. IMO they far surpass the meals we've had at WDW/Florida (and we've always been very happy with our food there). One of my favourite things about DLP is the individual crockery for each restaurant - Blue Lagoon has a desert island setting, Walt's has Mickey as a waiter, Inventions has Tinker Bell etc.