Need your opinion, please.

[DVC~OKW~96]

I've just heard from my neice who is graduating from USC (the main reason we are off to California in May). She is offering reservations at Club 33. (She knows someone).

Would you bring a five and seven year old to Club 33? For lunch maybe? I know how "prestigious" the offer to dine there is, and would hate to pass it up, but my DP and I are going to Disneyland with the little girls (and their Da) and would not feel right in going to dinner or lunch there without them.

So, do we accept the wicked generous offer, or pass?

Also, do you have any information on the cost that lunch might be, generally speaking?

 

[OrlandoMike]

If the kids know how to eat in a nice place take them by all means. The cost is roughly the price of admission to the park.

Take pics!

 

[wallyb]

You could check here to get a better feel...
http://www.disneylandclub33.com

 

[npmommie]

I agree , if they do well eating out in nice restaurants then I see no reason not to take them.

 

[tiggr33]

I agree with what others have said here, depends on behavior. I have been lucky enough to have dined at Club 33 twice. Neither time did I see anyone younger then a teenager to be honest. Lunch will be a slow experience. Take that into account. It is a price fixed menu. Your entree will from a menu and there is a buffet for salads, seafood, soups (sometimes) and dessert. BE FORWARNED if you suffer from food allergies bypass dessert. They are not made inhouse, and they could not provide me an ingredients list. I may be wrong, but I think lunch was was around $45 per person(excluding tip). Since I have never seen kids there, I dont know tha cost for them.

 

[padalyn]

umm tig??? we did see kids there the first time, I remember because in the bathroom they were laughing about the <spoiler>...I won't say what....

but, I agree with the other posters. The lunch is a long affair, be sure to leave a lot of time for the photos - I must have taken about 200.

The whole thing is a nice affair. As Tiggr33 said - we have been lucky enough to eat there twice.

I can post pictures if people are a little more specific about what they want to see, since I took so many, I could not possbile post them all.

edited to say: {Ok I said 200 - more like 67, my bad!}

 

[OrlandoMike]

I forgot how long lunch was! I think I was there for about two and a half hours! There were kids around the age of 7 or 8 the day I went, and they were pretty well behaved. But be advised, this is not the usual 1 hour at Olive Garden.....

 

[padalyn]

Menu from July 2007:

 

[M4travels]

Club 33 is one of our favorite places. We've been fortunate to enjoy numerous dinners there but just one lunch. There were definitely kids there at the lunch (besides us big ones!) and Mickey and Pluto made their rounds making sure they stopped at every table. The cost for lunch is currently $66 and that does include your park-hopper ticket for the day.

ENJOY!!!!

Michael

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Gosh. This is a much harder decision than I realized. I'm not worried about the girls behaving, they are used to dining out and very well behaved. I just didn't know if they were allowed.

The menu doesn't offer much for children, but the buffet selections would suit them.

The cost includes park entrance? What if we already have our tickets? Oiy.

Thank you all for your information. I really hate to turn this down, but I'm still worried about our guests. If it were just my DP and I, no problem!

To add to the angst, no idea when we'll be returning to California, and the connection that we now have for the Club 33 reservations will no longer be there.

SOMEONE JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!!! LOL!

 

[OrlandoMike]

Once and a lifetime opportunity.......

DO IT!

I'm sure they have chicken fingers or something for the kids to eat...

 

[M4travels]

....
The cost includes park entrance? What if we already have our tickets? Oiy.
....
To add to the angst, no idea when we'll be returning to California, and the connection that we now have for the Club 33 reservations will no longer be there.

SOMEONE JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!!! LOL!

Some would say that, unfortunately, if you've got tickets well, then you're paying for a pricey meal on top of your entrance.

Me? I say, "SO WHAT! It's a great invite."

And if you think you might be returning to CA at some point, who knows what other connections might develop! Our connection came totally out of the blue and the member was always generous in her offers to make ressies for us.


Michael
(I'd do it!)

 

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

OMG, if you don't go, I am going to cry! NEVER turn down a chance to go there. I would so love to go there just once.

 

[MousekaMaddi]

go.

 

[rpmdfw]

Stop over analyzing it and say "YES!"

Scott and I would kill for the chance to eat at Club 33.

Well, maybe not KILL. Just Maim. Or MAME! Yes, we'd definitley act like Auntie Mame in order to go to Club 33.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Over analyzing. I think I do that a lot!

Once in a lifetime opportunity. I think so too!

I'll have to ponder, worry and gnash my teeth a little longer (hey, work with me here, it's the way I am programmed to do things LOL)...

Need to work out the ticket thing. We're probably going to have "twofers" so not sure how that would fit in.

Thank you all so much for the help though, honest. Sometimes you just need a little direction from cooler headed folks!

 

[minicoopercraig]

Stop over analyzing it and say "YES!"

Scott and I would kill for the chance to eat at Club 33.

Well, maybe not KILL. Just Maim. Or MAME! Yes, we'd definitley act like Auntie Mame in order to go to Club 33.

Wow!! I don't know HOW he worked in Mame reference, I bow to your superior gayneess..

If it were me, I would definately say I would accept, just to see the place from the inside, I saw the windows when I dined at Blue Bayou..

 

[wallyb]

Well, maybe not KILL. Just Maim. Or MAME! Yes, we'd definitley act like Auntie Mame in order to go to Club 33.

OMG I pullout the Auntie Mame card all the time -
when referring to Paul and I living vicariously through my nephews at WDW.
They're really just props.

 

[npmommie]

Over analyzing. I think I do that a lot!

Once in a lifetime opportunity. I think so too!

I'll have to ponder, worry and gnash my teeth a little longer (hey, work with me here, it's the way I am programmed to do things LOL)...

Need to work out the ticket thing. We're probably going to have "twofers" so not sure how that would fit in.

Thank you all so much for the help though, honest. Sometimes you just need a little direction from cooler headed folks!

I say go!! enjoy and have fun!!
as for the menu and the kids..............we have eaten in many places that were more than happy to make the kids something not on the menu.
I will always ask if there is not a thing on the menu they will eat.
We don't tend to eat places like that, but on the occasions where we have, the chefs have always been more than happy to accomodate.

for instance looking at that menu, I would be asking for some plain fettucine, with a little marinara if they have it, if no sauce that would be fine too....they like it plain with cheese.......rolls and butter, and my kids would eat ...LOL............and dessert is never a problem

 

[donald...really]

"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

Go!