Just back from 9 days of free DDP:

[estherhead]

We ate at: Chef Mickey's, San Angel, WCC, Nine Dragons, Spirit of Aloha, O'hana's, Le Cellier, Tony's, Crystal Palace.

We also ate at All Star Sports, Main St. Bakery, Flame Tree BBQ, Pizza Planet, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, etc.

Any questions about the food or the plan?

My dining review is being included in my trip report but so far I'm only done with Pizza Planet, All Star Sports, and Chef Mickey's.

 

[Mom of 3]

Were the restaurants cram packed? How about the lines at the parks?

We're going in a couple of days.

 

[estherhead]

Were the restaurants cram packed? How about the lines at the parks?

We're going in a couple of days.

The TS places were totally booked. Our first day I tried to get into any place anywhere near MGM (including Boardwalk TS's) and there was absolutely nothing. I tried 4 times & did a few walk-ups. Nothing. Later on I called about Epcot the following day and had a few choices of TS places and quite a few times available, we settled on Nine Dragons at 5:30.

As for CS places, I was surprised that they weren't packed. I never stood more than 3 deep in line, even in the dead center of the lunch hour (12:30) and we always found a table. At FLame Tree we had an entire pagoda-thing to ourselves.

As for water parks, we went once on Labor Day Sunday at the lines for the big slides were 45 minutes at peak time. Tuesday at Blizzard Beach there were hardly any lines at all. We waited maybe 10 minutes for the ski lift & Dh waited 20 minutes for straight down one but he said it wasn't bad at all because the view is so fabulous from up there.

We had NO problems finding chairs. THere were empty chairs everywhere, even on the Labor Day weekend.

And we liked the food at the water parks too. Plus you can get your ice cream for later & then just go right up past the cashier to the counter & pick it up. It worked perfectly.

The lines at the parks were easy/breezy no prob. Soarin' always has a line. We FP'd that & rode it 3 times over the course of the 9 days. EE didn't have a bad line at all. RnR we just used single rider which was no line. And everything else was pretty much walk ons.

Have lots of fun, it should be great, but do make ADR's right now if you don't have them.