eliza61
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There is a small underground group of disser who for whatever reasons don't like making ADR's, for my family the reasons are pretty simple:
1) We never seem to keep the darn things.
No matter how many plans and schedules I seem to make, we are never where we're supposed to be. 
We missed the 2 lousy ones I did make.
2) In real life, I'm on a plane 2 to 3 times a week. The thought of keeping another reservation while on vacation breaks me out in hives. No matter how fun.
My cast of characters: Myself (age unknown) DH (50)
Ds (16) 
and Ds(14) who was celebrating his Bday 
One good thing about my sons is that they are teenagers. Translation: If it is not moving and they can put ketchup on it, its fair game. Picky eaters they are not.
Anyway, after 6 full days we did pretty good. 4 of the 6 days we ate 2 TS meals and we were turned away from a walk up only twice. Once at Sci fi diner for lunch and the other turn down was at the Plaza restaurant in MK again for lunch. Both times we tried to eat at noon.
Yeah, we really believe in magic some times.
Generally, we ate "off-hours". Dinners were usually around 7:15 pm, a few times we had early dinners or late lunches around 4:00 pm.
I checked with the concierge every morning on our way out to see what was available.
Day 1. My first ADR was at Tony Town square for dinner in the MK and of course my family wanted to go to Epcot.
We stayed at the Beach club and since epcot is within walking distance we decided to go there first. I warned every one in advance that we would be missing this adr. (another reason I hate adr's is because I always forget to cancel the things then I feel guilty. I imagine some poor starving family with their noses pressed against the windows of Tony's staring at an empty table that my butt should be parked under) For lunch we did the Electric Umbrella around 1:00 pm we had a basic but good lunch of burgers and fries. Dinner: Eureka!! we stopped by nine dragons in China around 6:30 and they were able to get us a table at 7:15pm. The food was good but the service was a little rushed. I swear we we're outta there in 1 hour flat. No lingering over dinner here. 
Day 2: We woke up and decided to start the day with a big breakfast. Now where to go? The Beach club has a character breakfast in its lobby but I knew we would strike out there so we decided to try the Yacht club. Inside the Yacht club is a restaurant I call wdw's best keep secret. The Yacht club galley. We were able to get a table immediately (it's about 8:15 am). The restuarant was about 1/2 full. The food was hot and delicious.
Dh and Ds decided to get the buffet while birthday boy and I settled on mickeys waffles. hubby and son #1 loved the buffet. said all the food was hot and fresh. They did wish they could have ordered their own omlets though. Our waffles were fresh, hot and light.
Since we had a big breakfast we skipped lunch. Around 4 pm our stomachs began to rumble, since we were at MGM we decided to walk over to the swan and try Gullivers. It had just opened up and we were the first there. I had steak, while the kids had the pizza.
So far so good. We've been here 2 days and no one is revolting yet. I'll post the rest of our week tomorrow.
1) We never seem to keep the darn things.
No matter how many plans and schedules I seem to make, we are never where we're supposed to be. We missed the 2 lousy ones I did make.2) In real life, I'm on a plane 2 to 3 times a week. The thought of keeping another reservation while on vacation breaks me out in hives. No matter how fun.
My cast of characters: Myself (age unknown) DH (50)
Ds (16) and Ds(14) who was celebrating his Bday One good thing about my sons is that they are teenagers. Translation: If it is not moving and they can put ketchup on it, its fair game. Picky eaters they are not.Anyway, after 6 full days we did pretty good. 4 of the 6 days we ate 2 TS meals and we were turned away from a walk up only twice. Once at Sci fi diner for lunch and the other turn down was at the Plaza restaurant in MK again for lunch. Both times we tried to eat at noon.
Yeah, we really believe in magic some times.Generally, we ate "off-hours". Dinners were usually around 7:15 pm, a few times we had early dinners or late lunches around 4:00 pm.
I checked with the concierge every morning on our way out to see what was available.
Day 1. My first ADR was at Tony Town square for dinner in the MK and of course my family wanted to go to Epcot.
We stayed at the Beach club and since epcot is within walking distance we decided to go there first. I warned every one in advance that we would be missing this adr. (another reason I hate adr's is because I always forget to cancel the things then I feel guilty. I imagine some poor starving family with their noses pressed against the windows of Tony's staring at an empty table that my butt should be parked under) For lunch we did the Electric Umbrella around 1:00 pm we had a basic but good lunch of burgers and fries. Dinner: Eureka!! we stopped by nine dragons in China around 6:30 and they were able to get us a table at 7:15pm. The food was good but the service was a little rushed. I swear we we're outta there in 1 hour flat. No lingering over dinner here. Day 2: We woke up and decided to start the day with a big breakfast. Now where to go? The Beach club has a character breakfast in its lobby but I knew we would strike out there so we decided to try the Yacht club. Inside the Yacht club is a restaurant I call wdw's best keep secret. The Yacht club galley. We were able to get a table immediately (it's about 8:15 am). The restuarant was about 1/2 full. The food was hot and delicious.
Dh and Ds decided to get the buffet while birthday boy and I settled on mickeys waffles. hubby and son #1 loved the buffet. said all the food was hot and fresh. They did wish they could have ordered their own omlets though. Our waffles were fresh, hot and light.
Since we had a big breakfast we skipped lunch. Around 4 pm our stomachs began to rumble, since we were at MGM we decided to walk over to the swan and try Gullivers. It had just opened up and we were the first there. I had steak, while the kids had the pizza.
So far so good. We've been here 2 days and no one is revolting yet. I'll post the rest of our week tomorrow.
All 4 of us took a whack at it and still had plenty to spare. Not only did this thing have about 2 gallons of ice cream in it, there were brownies, vanilla cake and strawberry shortcake bisquits in it! We enjoy beaches and cream. It's not fine dining by any stretch of the imagination but the food was hot and tasty. They have huge onion rings also.
Our next big trip will be next December, and there will be about 12 of us, and we will try again! 
