I'm done

[WILDERNESS FAN 55]

My niece this past March wanted to do the character meals and we gave in and did one and it was a waste of money because there was nothing on the menu she would eat. :/ Plus she complained about the character's that came out and it's like we can't choose who it is. But she was like I never want to do that again. It was such a waste of money! We do buffet's outside of Disney and get much better food and options.

You can get both the menu and what characters are at which location in advance.FYI

 

[muffyn]

We had a late morning character breakfast planned at Chef Mickey's on our last day before flying out. I had the kids in the pool early in the morning and they asked if we could skip the character breakfast and just keep playing in the pool.

Saved about $150 bucks (and I didn't share it with the kids!)

but they now charge a no show fee...
did that make you think twice?

 

[RachaelA]

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinions - that's what keeps life lively

We seem to differ from most on here in that we like a lot of the Disney buffets. We love CP, Cape May, and 1900 Park Fare breakfasts, also Boma, Cape May Clambake, Ohana (not a true buffet, I know) dinners. It's just DH & I now, but a few character meals are enjoyable to us also.

To us, everything is over priced at Disney just as it is at most venues where there is mostly a captive audience. At least Disney will *let* you bring in drinks, snacks, even meals if you are willing to cart them around. That would be a chore to us, so we don't do it, but we could.

We love Disney, but just like other places we go, we accept the cost involved before we go, and just thoroughly enjoy our time there. When we can go, we will, when we can't, we'll stop.

I think your last part is especially true. Its Disney and you just need to accept that everything will be overpriced.

I'm really surprised by all the negative buffet comments. My husband and I are very picky about food, and regularly pay upwards of $200 for dinner for just the two of us at upscale local restaurants, and we loved the buffet meals we had. We went to TH breakfast, CP breakfast AND lunch, and Chef Mickey's for dinner. In fact I ranked Chef Mickey's highest of all the places we ate, and that included Artist Point and California Grill.

I'm not fond of the buffet system, simply because we have young kids and so we need to have someone at the table with them and multiple trips to the buffet to get food for everyone, but I definitely can't complain about the food.

I think it's impossible to divorce price/quality from the character experience. If you have two four star restaurants and one has a fabulous view to go with it, it shouldn't be surprising if they charge more for it. So the fact that a buffet with characters can cost as much as a sit-down with arguably better food, is not at all shocking and I'd say that trying to compare quality/type of food in that instance is like comparing apples and oranges.

You are paying more for the characters than anything else. DH and I did character meals pre-baby and now we do twice as many with a baby. I'll eat so-so expensive food in exchange for watching my daughter and Donald run around twirl their napkin as each other and then watching her play tag with Goofy. Totally worth it. To us, its all about the experience not the food.

My niece this past March wanted to do the character meals and we gave in and did one and it was a waste of money because there was nothing on the menu she would eat. :/ Plus she complained about the character's that came out and it's like we can't choose who it is. But she was like I never want to do that again. It was such a waste of money! We do buffet's outside of Disney and get much better food and options.

She doesn't eat mac&cheese, french fries (or sweet potato fries), chicken nuggets or pizza? Almost every character meal has all or some of that.