need help with dining

[aldi_elle_mom]

ok we are booked for coranado springs for march 21-26. first question is what charater breakfast do you suggest? traveling with son 8, daughter 18 and my mother 60. son8 - is most interested in **Pluto**, and then Mickey, chip &dale or lilo & stitch perhaps.
As far as other dining plansbut we did get the dining plan. we currently have no plans.... feel free to make suggestions (keep in mind son is very picky eater). on my previous trip to wdw 15 yrs ago, I do not remember much good food, let's change that this trip : )

 

[mlm5l]

Have done the quick meal plan twice. I think its worth the price. Plenty of options. Charectar dining is not included.

 

[TinkerbellinLouisian]

I highly recommend the 'Ohana Breakfast... it's a character breakfast...

we've done it 4x or so... it was always SO much fun...and your picky son can eat whatever he likes and they will re-fill the tray if he empties it...

it is a "Family Meal" type plan.

This is a Table Service meal... so you would need the REGULAR dining plan which includes Table Service @ one per day....

Hope that helps !

Mary

 

[Quin]

If you have the 'regular' DDP then you get 1 TS credit plus 1 CS credit plus 1 snack credit per night you are staying. Most people feel that it is the better economic value to use the TS credits for dinners. Breakfast is the cheapest meal of the day so you may want to consider paying OOP for a character breakfast and saving your credits for dinners.

Two issues: your DS is picky and is 8, which means that on any DDP he is always limited to the "kids menu". For some kids that works great; for others not so much. Look at some of the kids menus for places you would like to go. If you're not sure they'll work for him, go to buffets. At buffets, although all of them have a "kid section" with chicken nuggets, mac n cheese, and plain pizza, everybody can eat from the entire buffet.

For a single character breakfast, how about either CP on your MK day or Tusker House on your AK day? You can either make the very earliest ressie of the day before the park opens so you get the maximum park time, or make one of the latest breakfast ADRs so that it works more like a brunch.

Good food - I think there is lots of good food available in the parks and at the different resorts, but you will get both positive and negative opinions on every single restaurant here. The best thing I can tell you is to check out the menus and check out some of the picture threads. You know your family's tastes best. For me, I'd suggest some dinners like Boma at the AKL, Ohana, Biergarten in Germany at Epcot, and Cape May buffet (easy access from Epcot and DHS).

 

[nanni]

For Pluto, Mickey, Chip and Dale you should go to Garden Grille for dinner. It's served family style and I thought the food was pretty good both times I went. Kids can either eat what the adults eat or the kids menu (or both).

If your son is the type who tends to eat the standard kids meal items (chicken nuggets, pizza, mac n cheese...) I think he'd be okay at most restaurants. It seems like they tend to have 2 or 3 of these types of items for them to choose from. If he tends to like the same foods the adults eat, I'd go with buffets since he could have the same food.