We are doing the Tusker House breakfast on the last day of our visit in JUly. It will be our first time dining there and now I am a little worried. No characters for my daughter would NOT be good!
I wouldn't worry too much about it. I think it was a blip. And we could have choosen to stay until they arrived - no one forced us to leave. (However, after sitting at an empty table for at least 20 minutes after we had paid the bill, we were getting kinda antsy!
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I'm sooo sorry about your character interaction or lack of at Tusker House. I would have been P'd off so you did well by getting up and moving on with the day.
Yeah, Disney may not be something that your DH likes at all bc of the lines and crowds. My DH is from California and in 2008 we went to DLR and it was soooo nice and slow. We went in September. We didn't have crowds or lines. I was VERY shocked!!!
I was in DL for the 1st time last year. Absolutely LOVED IT!!!
DH hasn't been since he was a kid. And my kids haven't done it yet. My plan is to take them in 2012 once Carsland is complete. I want to show them San Diego, visit LA and DL, and then drive up the coast thru Big Sur and wine country (overniting in Big Sur in a yurt), ending up in San Fran.
I can't wait, and I am already thinking September as well! I love southern CA at that time!
New reader here. I wish i would have found this report sooner. what do the monorail transportation cards look like? Sorry to hear you didn't like your salad but at least the Grapefruit cake made up for it. My hunny doesn't like lines either. It makes it rather difficult. Sorry to hear that you didn't get to see Mickey at the restaurant.
Thanks so much for posting and joining in!
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any photos of the transportation cards. They are about the size of a business card and have a picture of the monorail on them. Definitely ask for one on your next trip!
WOW!! I am in shock that not one character came to your table at TH! I would have said something to someone for sure! You pay too much money for character meals to be ignored like that! How horrible!
LOVE the swingset!! The kids look like they are having a blast with it!!
Yes, the kiddos sure love the swingset!!!
Longtime lurker, still catching up! But I love your TR so far!
I was going to suggest, about the characters at TH, that maybe they thought you didn't want to meet characters? When we went to TH 2 years ago, one CM was very observant of our wary 5 year old hiding behind me while we were waiting to go in.
He chatted up DS, then told us he would ask the characters to wait to visit our table, and that he would warm up, because all the kids do. The characters stayed away, waving from another table or something. Then, Donald gave ds a high five, and the fear was gone! After that, the characters did come to the table.
I wonder if they misundestood your wanting to be seated for your kiddos not wanting a pic with Donald. Just a thought, for what it's worth! (A penny is the going rate, I think...) lol!
So glad you posted, and welcome!
As for TH, I don't think the fact that we bypassed the Donald photo affected the character visits at the tables. As I recall, the characters did not have a handler with them, and appeared to be doing the tables in a particular order. We just happened to be the very last table in the restaurant!
Our server was certainly aware that we were interested in the characters. We had finished our meals, paid our bill, and were waiting at least 20 minutes for a character before we finally gave up.
He kept assuring us that Mickey would be right over, and had even advised us that our table was the 1st stop in the back room. (As it turns out, our table was to be the last visit in the room!
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The table right beside ours also didn't get a visit with Mickey. However, we were seated for a long time before they sat down, and I believe they were still eating when Mickey got sick and walked away from us. So they were probably were still at the table when he got back to doing visits.
In retrospect, perhaps our table was assigned based on the assumption that we would have been having a photo with Donald (which probably would have meant that we would not have seated for an additional 20 minutes). This might explain why we had to kill so much time waiting for the characters to arrive.
So sorry about the characters at TH!
We had bfast there last summer and had no problem with all the characters. Got to see them all!
I am glad that you enjoyed the food!
Yes, the food at TH was definitely yummy!
sorry things didn't all go as planned -I had a similar trip with DF's family last summer -all those months of planning & dreaming and they just weren't 'getting it' 
.. I always knew I'd have to find a guy that loved the Mouse.. it means we are going to the World for our honeymoon next year! 
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But I do like the expression on your DH's face at the breakfast table -- it's obvious he's enjoying the breakfast!!
I agree with a PP, the picture at breakfast looks like DH was having a fun time! 
Once I can do a 5K in 30 minutes, I'll move on to the 10K I think. 
What a fun playscape!
Our dd was over there the other night and the two of them took a bunch of pictures of each other on the swings, pretending to drive the pirate ship, going down the slide and my dd wrote in the sand in the attached sandbox "Disney Sisters Forever". Then they put their pics on FACEBOOK. 
