Jersey Week 2005 - Where we ate; what we spent

[disneysteve]

Cast of characters: Me, DW and DD-10
Dates: 11/4-11/13

We drove down from southern NJ so this meal report includes travel days.
All breakfasts were eaten in our room. On the travel days, the hotels included breakfast so that cost isn't in the food spending total but rather in our hotel spending total (see my other post for that).

Our total food spending for all meals, snacks and beverages came to about $550. As we have previously, we averaged about $20 per person per day.

I'll list lunch, then dinner. On 11/6, however, we actually ate 4 meals due to the timing of our meal reservations.

11/4: Dinner only - Popeye's chicken $18.10
11/5: Wendy's $12.93; Publix $22.29 (included food for dinner and supplies for the week)
11/6: Cosmic Rays $19.55; Crystal Palace $72.87; Flippers Pizza $12.82
11/7: Land food court $22.65; San Angel counter $14.88
11/8: Wolfgang Puck Express $16.99; Beaches and Cream $35.37
11/9: Tusker House $19.46; Fantasmic concessions $23.24
11/10: Prime Time Cafe $41.71; Boma $75.24 (had CM discount here)
11/11: Tomorrowland Noodle Station $20.94; Electric Umbrella $16.59
11/12: Wendy's $12.80; Pizza shop $8.19
11/13: Lunch only - KFC $14.04

We did bring a few things from home, maybe another $10-15 worth of stuff for some snacks on the road and during the week.

We felt like we were constantly eating this trip for some reason, especially on that day we had 4 full meals. So we definitely did not go hungry.

Tomorrowland Noodle Station was new for us and we really liked it. In fact, last nite for dinner I duplicated the vegetarian tofu noodle bowl at home and all 3 of us loved it. So thanks to Disney we've got a new item on our home menu and its even a healthy one! First time I ever bought Bok Choy in my life.

 

[pumba]

Oh Sounds Like You Ate Really Good Around The World. I Want To Try The Noodle Station For The Pot Stickers.......those Are My Favorite Things To Eat .......thanks So Much For Your Report On Foods...........i Love To Read Those

 

[jonestavern]

thanks for the info--
which Popeye's did you go to & was it clean & in a 'safe' neighborhood?
We love Popeye's & Sonic, both which are not around here.
Last trip DH found a Popeye's but said it was in a pretty nasty neoghboorhood

Thanks in advance-
Jean

 

[disneysteve]

which Popeye's did you go to & was it clean & in a 'safe' neighborhood?

Sorry. The Popeye's was on our way down. It was at the Chesapeke House in Maryland. Won't help you when you are at Disney.

 

[Minniespal]

Enjoyed reading your report ~ Thanx for posting.

 

[byoung]

Thanks for the report.

 

[Nank]

How was "Jersey week"? Was it extremely overcrowded? My DS is starting school next year and if we pull him out, maybe we'll go somewhere else.

 

[disneysteve]

How was "Jersey week"? Was it extremely overcrowded? My DS is starting school next year and if we pull him out, maybe we'll go somewhere else.

Jersey week is busy, relative to that time of year, but not bad overall. It does get bad on the final weekend which usually coincides with the end of Food and Wine, Super Soaps Weekend and the Festival of the Masters. I know MK was packed on Friday. We left on Saturday, but I heard the parks were very busy then too.

 

[janets]

Sorry we missed you Steve!

We flew in on 11/5, out on 11/12. We did parks every day (we purchased APs this trip) and since we were offsite, we did a few meals out of the parks as well.

We found the parks in general very manageable each of the days except for Friday. I totally forgot it was Veteran's Day and the parks were mobbed. We did MK early in the day, EPCOT later on and frankly managed only about 3 rides the whole day (across both parks). I heard that FP for Soarin' were gone by 11 AM and TT's were gone by around 2.

All other days we did all of the rides, using FP mostly on the Fantasyland rides and a couple of times on SM or SpM. DH and DS1 did a few a couple of times in a row since the crowds were light.

We also stopped by on Saturday before leaving and it was fine until about 10:45 or so. DS2 and I got stuck on POC for about 40 minutes and by the time we got off, the crowds starting showing up. Before that, DH and DS1 did SpM and BTMR a couple of times with hardly any wait.

We're going back next year (we purchased DVC in June so this will be our first trip home) and we're also going Easter week (yes, I know we're crazy but got a great airfare and couldn't resist) plus, now DS1 wants to go for his birthday in February so we might go for a 3 night weekend trip the first weekend in Feb.

The weather was terrific, if not a bit on the hot side. I don't think there was more than a sprinkle of rain (not that I actually remember) and we had a great time.

 

[RichieGraciemom]

Also there Jersey Week. Would go again that week, but not in the parks thursday or Friday at the end if it coincides with the Veterans day again. Too croweded for me, but earlier in the week, like the first Saturday we walked on Everything at animal kingdom and at night in Magic kingdom sunday had little crowds but used fast pass. WEather is great and kids dont miss much school, also saw three teachers who took off that week, and the kids were given NO homework to bring. Good luck