Need ADR Help for Arrival or Departure Day, and Maybe In Between!

[mmbrad02]

Just a little background... DH and I visited WDW in July 2006 on the Dining Plan, loved it, and we are returning this September on Free dining. Unfortunately it was planned a little too late, so we missed some ADR's we'd really would have liked to have had (LeCeller because of previous trip, and Coral Reef because it looks neat). However, I managed to fill our week up with other, hopefully, yummy restaurants!

We liked the restaurants we ate at last time, but the only one we loved enough to try on this trip was LeCellier. As mentioned before, it's booked. We also dined at Tony's Town Square (lunch), Mama Melrose (Fantasmic Dinner), Grand Floridian Cafe (dinner), and Chef Mickeys (breakfast). They were all good in our opinion, but there are so many other places to try!!

Right now this is our tentative schedule...

Sept 8 - Arrive around 4pm, Magical Express to Pop Century. Had 6:25 ADR at Crystal Palace, but I just canceled it because I want to not feel rushed. The plan for the night is to see Spectromagic and Wishes, but I think I see Casey's Corner now and sitting on the side walk, taking it all in! Also, we also discovered we don't like ADR's for lunch;we get too full and we are miserable all afternoon.

Sept 9 - Epcot. Dinner at 6pm at Rose & Crown.

Sept 10 - MK Day. Breakfast at Ohana's at 9:20am (thinking of seeing morning show and hopping on the Monorail for Poly)

Sept 11 - Keys at to Kingdom Tour at 8:30am, dinner at Yachtsman Steakhouse at 7:10pm.

Sept 12 - Animal Kingdom. Dinner at Kona Cafe at 6:05pm

Sept 13 - DHS - Lunch at Sci-Fi at 12:10pm.

Sept 14 - Depart via Magical Express at 11:30am. Currently have breakfast at Crystal Palace at 9:10am. Pretty sure this will be canceled, again, not to feel rushed.

Now, this uses all of our ADR's, plus one, but I don't really see Sci-Fi as a good way to use credits, so we planned to pay OOP for it and have another ADR somewhere (currently Crystal Palace breakfast on last day).

I'm not sure what I'm looking for, except some advise for where to eat on what day, given the above schedule. A couple of thoughts.... maybe dinner on Sept 10, and it could be anywhere. We probably won't stay late at MK that night because we will have seen Wishes already, and we'll be back early the next morning for our KTTK tour. This would also be a good night to check out DTD or use our resort pool. I don't know... does anyone see something really yummy that I'm missing?

 

[TDC Nala]

If you have a departure pickup at 11:30 for ME, definitely either cancel the 9:30 Crystal Palace or rebook it for at least an hour earlier. You must be at the resort with your entire party and your luggage ready to go on the bus by 11:15. If it takes you an hour to get the table and eat (likely to take longer), you'll be leaving MK at 10:30. Allow 15 minutes to walk to the Pop Century bus stop and 20 minutes for the bus ride itself. That makes it 11. If you have to wait for the bus at all, you won't make it. And there's no easy way to get a cab from the MK, the best way is to walk to the Contemporary and get one there.