How is Artist Point for breakfast? Still a Pooh meal?

[JC Butterfly]

Hello-

It's been a couple of years since I've visited the Wilderness Lodge and I can't wait to go again! Does Artist Point still host Pooh for breakfast? Who else serves breakfast at the Lodge?

Any recent breakfast reviews here?

Brenda

 

[TDC Nala]

Artist Point no longer serves breakfast. It is open only for dinner. Whispering Canyon and the Roaring Fork counterservice place are the breakfast options at the Lodge.

You can see all the menus at www.wdwig.com

 

[jaysue]

None of the restaurants at WL have character dining - need to go to CR/GF/Poly/MK for that - I guess that is one thing plus the "boat" thing to MK that makes WL less deluxe for some people than the rest of the deluxe properties

Thanks
Jason

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by jaysue
None of the restaurants at WL have character dining - need to go to CR/GF/Poly/MK for that - I guess that is one thing plus the "boat" thing to MK that makes WL less deluxe for some people than the rest of the deluxe properties

Thanks
Jason

So does that mean that AKL is an even less deluxe then WL since it doesn't even have a boat in your opinion? Only transportation offered there is busses. I have always thought that myself and feel that is why AKL always has the cheapest rates and then WL followed by the other deluxes.

 

[AspiringCindy]

Those were the days when WL had such great Character breakfasts. We even ate at Artist Point when it hosted Pocahontas and friends. Does anyone know why they stopped these character breakfasts at WL?

 

[Uncleromulus]

Good question and I'm sure somebody will have the answer.
Unfortunately, it leaves Bedlam (oops, I mean Whispering) Canyon as the only alternative.

 

[goofy4tink]

I think I remember reading somewhere that the character breakfast at WL was discontinued when resort attendance dropped. Probably the same time they were closing down sections of resorts, stopping the original EE days.

 

[crisi]

It was a little before that.

I think Disney flooded the market for character meals. Every one of them had lots of people at them - but few were booked solid. Character meals have to be very expensive to run - I was watching my daughters sticky maple syrup fingers touching Dale's cheeks - which were spotless - and thinking that keeping those costumes clean in that environment (and they are always clean) must be challenging.

If I were Disney, I'd rather have fewer character meals book solid than lots of character meals, some which aren't filled and therefore have low margins. And I'd rather continue to provide the quality in character meals (five or so characters, clean new costumes, all you can eat food that is actually pretty decent), than cut corners.

 

[TDC Nala]

That would make sense, because the current character meals that are not actually inside theme parks are either at monorail resorts or at Epcot resorts, which makes them very easily accessible to the theme parks. I think they had greatest demand for breakfasts in these locations, because the breakfasters would prefer to run over to a park after they'd finished eating.

I remember that the Pooh dinner at GF replaced the Villains dinner at pretty much exactly the same time that the Pooh breakfast was discontinued at Artist Point. (The GF dinner is Cinderella's feast now, I think; probably the princesses have proven themselves a bigger draw than that silly old bear. How soon will Princess oversaturation be reached?)