Just decided where to eat, what do you think

[Disney_momto2]

We are going to do 8 days, 7 nights this October with the Deluxe Dining Plan. Even though our ADR window doesn't open until April we like to plan ahead. DH and I sat down this afternoon and figured out where to make our ADR's. This is our 5th trip.

Please let me know your thoughts on our choices. I have indicated with a star * if this will be our first visit to a particular restaurants.

Breakfasts
Crystal Palace * Frist time for breakfast
WCC
Princess Storybook Breakfast
Hollywood and Vine * First time for breakfast
Tusker House
O'Hana

Lunches
Le Cellier * First time at lunch
WCC
Plaza*
Food and Wine festival appetizers
Yak and Yeti
Columbia Harbour House (QS)*

Dinners
California Grill*
Yatchsman Steak House*
Chef Mickeys
Kona Cafe*
Cape May*
Raglan Road
Chefs de France

I know that there are a lot of TS, but we plan to do a lot of 8am Breakfasts so we are in the park at opening and we have two little kids so we don't go comando through the parks and like the breaks.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

We are going to do 8 days, 7 nights this October with the Deluxe Dining Plan. Even though our ADR window doesn't open until April we like to plan ahead. DH and I sat down this afternoon and figured out where to make our ADR's. This is our 5th trip.

Please let me know your thoughts on our choices. I have indicated with a star * if this will be our first visit to a particular restaurants.

Breakfasts
Crystal Palace * Frist time for breakfast love it
WCC never been
Princess Storybook Breakfast never been but planning on going in Aug.
Hollywood and Vine * First time for breakfast ONLY do this if it is to see the characters...food was "meh".
Tusker House BEST character breakfast for our family!
O'Hana never been

Lunches
Le Cellier * First time at lunch Never been for lunch, planning on it for Aug!
WCC We liked it.
Plaza* LOVE it!
Food and Wine festival appetizers
Yak and Yeti Went once for dinner when it opened and it was terrible...however we are going to try it again in Aug.
Columbia Harbour House (QS)* LOVED it in Dec, ate there twice....I loved the fried shrimp plate.

Dinners
California Grill* never been
Yatchsman Steak House* never been
Chef Mickeys We didn't like it...crazy loud and food was icky. Characters were great.
Kona Cafe* One of our favorite dining spots in the World
Cape May* never been
Raglan Road never been
Chefs de France only had lunch there and we did not enjoy the food at all..service was excellent. (we went to see Remy and he was great!

I know that there are a lot of TS, but we plan to do a lot of 8am Breakfasts so we are in the park at opening and we have two little kids so we don't go comando through the parks and like the breaks.

Hope that helps!

 

[VTNuke]

I would not plan more than two meals a day. Realize all TS meals will be at least an hour and a half. That means even if you do an 8 am breakfast, you aren't leaving that until 9:30. Then you have 2 1/2 hours until a Noon lunch. Get out of there at 1:30 and you have 4 1/2 hours until your dinner. That schedule may be fine at home, but remember these are pretty big meals and you have to spend at least a 1/2 hour just getting to the place to eat.

I've done the three TS meals a day and at the end of the trip, we hadn't used more than 2 snacks all week. We ended up getting 20 snacks on the last day.

I'd do a TS breakfast, use your snacks for lunch, and then do a 2 meal dinner at a nice place. That worked for us on our last trip. Everyone eat enough and never went hungry, yet we didn't leave the trip thinking all we did was eat.

 

[B-Ride]

Looks like you have some excellent choices but I still can't see how people can do the DxDP. Just too much food and a lot of time spent at TS restaurants. Oh well, maybe next trip you can actually visit the parks.

 

[Disney_momto2]

I would not plan more than two meals a day. Realize all TS meals will be at least an hour and a half. That means even if you do an 8 am breakfast, you aren't leaving that until 9:30. Then you have 2 1/2 hours until a Noon lunch. Get out of there at 1:30 and you have 4 1/2 hours until your dinner. That schedule may be fine at home, but remember these are pretty big meals and you have to spend at least a 1/2 hour just getting to the place to eat.

I've done the three TS meals a day and at the end of the trip, we hadn't used more than 2 snacks all week. We ended up getting 20 snacks on the last day.

I'd do a TS breakfast, use your snacks for lunch, and then do a 2 meal dinner at a nice place. That worked for us on our last trip. Everyone eat enough and never went hungry, yet we didn't leave the trip thinking all we did was eat.

Thanks for the imput.

We have never had breakfast take 90minutes when we went at 8am, mostly because you are there early enough that there is no one in front of you and you aren't waiting for a table.

A couple of our days we plan to have a later lunch, making ADRS for between 1:30-2:30 and then have a 7/7:30 dinner.

I'm really not worried about travel time b/c all of the am ADR choices are picked with the park we are going to be at in mind, lunch ADRs are based on the part of the park we are going to be in and Dinner ADRs are on our way back from our mid/late day break.

So we see it as

Breakfast until 9am
Park for 3 1/2 to 4 hours (my kids will be 6 and almost 3 and won't go any longer a stretch than that
Lunch
Leave park for 2 1/2-3 hour break at the resort
Dinner
Evening activities

I'm not worried about snack credits b/c DS is too young for the dining plan so he will be using our credits, we always go to Goofy's and get treats to take home and I don't mind using them for bottles of water etc while we are there.

I don't want to put in too many 2 credit restaurants b/c, 1. we like a lot of 1 credit restaurants, 2 they take even longer than TS restaurants and 3, we are paying OOP for DS and the kid prices at Sig restaurants are more expensive.

 

[abubu919]

we are going to do 8 days, 7 nights this october with the deluxe dining plan. Even though our adr window doesn't open until april we like to plan ahead. Dh and i sat down this afternoon and figured out where to make our adr's. This is our 5th trip.

Please let me know your thoughts on our choices. I have indicated with a star * if this will be our first visit to a particular restaurants.

Breakfasts
crystal palace * frist time for breakfast - favorite breakfast at the world
wcc - haven't been
princess storybook breakfast - heard great from my mom
hollywood and vine * first time for breakfast - never been
tusker house - delicious, another one of my favs
o'hana - very good

lunches
le cellier * first time at lunch - good steak
wcc - never been
plaza* - never been
food and wine festival appetizers - yummo!! Lol
yak and yeti - want to try, heard it was great
columbia harbour house (qs)*

dinners
california grill*
yatchsman steak house* - amazing, one of favs
chef mickeys - very good and fun
kona cafe*
cape may*
raglan road
chefs de france

i know that there are a lot of ts, but we plan to do a lot of 8am breakfasts so we are in the park at opening and we have two little kids so we don't go comando through the parks and like the breaks.

hope this helps

 

[KatMark]

We are going to do 8 days, 7 nights this October with the Deluxe Dining Plan. Even though our ADR window doesn't open until April we like to plan ahead. DH and I sat down this afternoon and figured out where to make our ADR's. This is our 5th trip.

Please let me know your thoughts on our choices. I have indicated with a star * if this will be our first visit to a particular restaurants.

Breakfasts
Crystal Palace * Frist time for breakfastOur absolute favorite breakfast
WCChave not done breakfast
Princess Storybook Breakfasthave nto done breakfast
Hollywood and Vine * First time for breakfasthave not done breakfast...one of two Disney restaurants you could not pay us to eat at
Tusker Househave not done
O'Hanahave not done since they switched from Minnie and buffet (not Stitch lovers)

Lunches
Le Cellier * First time at lunchhave done numerous times -- we'll take lunch or dinner as long as we go every trip
WCC the other Disney restaurant you could not pay us to eat at again -- awful service and awful food (although we did do dinner)
Plaza*our last meal of every trip--we love it here
Food and Wine festival appetizers
Yak and Yetiloved our meal here two years ago
Columbia Harbour House (QS)*a favorite

Dinners
California Grill*never done
Yatchsman Steak House*never done
Chef Mickeysprefer breakfast, but a great way to see the characters
Kona Cafe*never done
Cape May*a good and filling meal
Raglan Roadnever done
Chefs de Francenever done

I know that there are a lot of TS, but we plan to do a lot of 8am Breakfasts so we are in the park at opening and we have two little kids so we don't go comando through the parks and like the breaks.

Our comments in red

 

[Mom2Elliot]

Your choices look great! We are doing the Deluxe plan in July and I am similar to you and don't worry too much about the time of it. It sounds like you have planned the parks/restaurants well! Enjoy!

 

[VTNuke]

Thanks for the imput.

We have never had breakfast take 90minutes when we went at 8am, mostly because you are there early enough that there is no one in front of you and you aren't waiting for a table.

A couple of our days we plan to have a later lunch, making ADRS for between 1:30-2:30 and then have a 7/7:30 dinner.

I'm really not worried about travel time b/c all of the am ADR choices are picked with the park we are going to be at in mind, lunch ADRs are based on the part of the park we are going to be in and Dinner ADRs are on our way back from our mid/late day break.

So we see it as

Breakfast until 9am
Park for 3 1/2 to 4 hours (my kids will be 6 and almost 3 and won't go any longer a stretch than that
Lunch
Leave park for 2 1/2-3 hour break at the resort
Dinner
Evening activities

I'm not worried about snack credits b/c DS is too young for the dining plan so he will be using our credits, we always go to Goofy's and get treats to take home and I don't mind using them for bottles of water etc while we are there.

I don't want to put in too many 2 credit restaurants b/c, 1. we like a lot of 1 credit restaurants, 2 they take even longer than TS restaurants and 3, we are paying OOP for DS and the kid prices at Sig restaurants are more expensive.

Your DS could actually eat off of any other person's plate. My DS was 2 on our most recent trip and we never had to order anything for him. They even split the meals for us if we said he was sharing with his sister, Mom, etc. He has a peanut allergy as well and they would even come out and offer to make him something special to split with my DD. It worked out very well for everyone.