*** New Official February 2013 Thread ***

[jannel80]

Less than a month away for most of us to make our ADR's! What is everyone's ADR list so far? I have so many places I want to eat at, I have to narrow it down! Have to decide which restaurants can wait until the next visit.

 

[Kathy Z]

Less than a month away for most of us to make our ADR's! What is everyone's ADR list so far? I have so many places I want to eat at, I have to narrow it down! Have to decide which restaurants can wait until the next visit.

Arrival night: undecided - something in DTD; new to us. Will take boat from POFQ.
Animal Kingdom day: no ADR needed for Flame Tree; dinner at Flying Fish (Yes, we will take bus to BWI.)
Epcot day: lunch at Le Cellier; dinner TBD
Magic Kingdom day: late breakfast at Kona cafe; dinner BOG (will book a temporary back-up when my window arrives if BOG not yet taking ADRs.)
Finday day: no parks - CS lunch TBD and TS dinner TBD.
We get a rental car late afternoon and can drive to dinner and then take off on our 2.5 hour drive to our overnight stop before our week on Sanibel Island.

 

[Bearybear]

Less than a month away for most of us to make our ADR's! What is everyone's ADR list so far? I have so many places I want to eat at, I have to narrow it down! Have to decide which restaurants can wait until the next visit.

Assuming we get free dining, these are the places we want to eat:

Be Our Guest (dinner)
Chefs of France (dinner)
Akershus (lunch)
Crystal Palace (?)
Garden Grill (dinner- DH's request, I don't really like this place)
1900 Park Fair (dinner)
Ohana (breakfast)

We do a lot of character meals because we have to eat anyway, might as well get to meet some characters, too. Of these, we might skip Akershus this time, even though we all really love it, because we have another Princess meal (PF) and my DH thinks two might be too much, even though my DS loves to meet the princesses.

 

[rmsdsp]

Our family's first vacation is booked and Paid in Full. We are staying @ AOA LM with the MYW+dining package. If free dining is offered, we will re-book a pirate room at the Caribbean. I JUST CANT WAIT!!!

 

[rmsdsp]

By the way, our trip is 2/26/13 - 3/5/13.

 

[rmsdsp]

cant wait!!

 

[ThreeKMom]

Just wanted to say hi everyone!
I am trying to plan a trip for February, 9-16, however I am a CM at my local Disney Store and we can't book for 2013 yet! It's sooo frustrating!

Tentatively we would like to do a split stay with the first 3 nights at the Wilderness Lodge and the next 4 nights at the YC. I will let you all know what we decide and when we can book.

Typically how is the weather at this time of year?
How are the crowds.

We usually plan our trips for the week after Thanksgiving but now that I am a CM that is a blackout time!

 

[jannel80]

Assuming we get free dining, these are the places we want to eat:

Be Our Guest (dinner)
Chefs of France (dinner)
Akershus (lunch)
Crystal Palace (?)
Garden Grill (dinner- DH's request, I don't really like this place)
1900 Park Fair (dinner)
Ohana (breakfast)

We do a lot of character meals because we have to eat anyway, might as well get to meet some characters, too. Of these, we might skip Akershus this time, even though we all really love it, because we have another Princess meal (PF) and my DH thinks two might be too much, even though my DS loves to meet the princesses.

You got a lot of good places picked, especially for character meals. We do quite a few also to save time from waiting in lines later at the parks. We LOVE CP breakfast. We have done it the past 2 trips and are doing it again this trip. When I ask the boys were they want to eat in Disney, they always say CP for bkfst! I highly recommend Breakfast there. We are also planning O'Hana bkfst. Never had bkfst there.

 

[jannel80]

Our family's first vacation is booked and Paid in Full. We are staying @ AOA LM with the MYW+dining package. If free dining is offered, we will re-book a pirate room at the Caribbean. I JUST CANT WAIT!!!

Got you added to the list!

 

[jannel80]

ThreeKmom- just let me know your def. dates and resort and I will add it. When can you book for 2013? Why do they make you wait? Thats awesome that you are a CM at the Disney Store! You must get some great stuff for great prices to bring to Disney!

 

[jannel80]

So far my list of ADR's are (as long as there is FD):

CP breakfast
O'Hana dinner
O'Hana breakfast
Sci-Fi
San Angel
Coral Reef ???
Les Chefs De France ???
T-Rex

Have to start to get it finalized!!

 

[ThreeKMom]

ThreeKmom- just let me know your def. dates and resort and I will add it. When can you book for 2013? Why do they make you wait? Thats awesome that you are a CM at the Disney Store! You must get some great stuff for great prices to bring to Disney!

I'm not sure why they make us wait or when I can book, someone said it's usually about a month after they release the packages to the general public. So hopefully soon.

I just started at the Disney Store last October as seasonal help and they kept me . I LOVE working there, it's so much fun! The discount is awesome!

You actually get paid to help guests with Disney stuff!

 

[Bearybear]

You got a lot of good places picked, especially for character meals. We do quite a few also to save time from waiting in lines later at the parks. We LOVE CP breakfast. We have done it the past 2 trips and are doing it again this trip. When I ask the boys were they want to eat in Disney, they always say CP for bkfst! I highly recommend Breakfast there. We are also planning O'Hana bkfst. Never had bkfst there.

We've done CP for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My son loves it, but I can't decide what meal we'll do. We might do a late dinner on an EMH night, so we can go to a different park in the morning, and then come to MK for dinner and EMH. We were also considering a late breakfast for Ohana, so we could go to MK, maybe grab some FP for a return time later in the day for BTMR or Splash, then go to a 10:30 or so breakfast. My DH requested Ohana again, he loved it last time we did it. The only restaurants that are new to us are 1900 PF and BOG (obviously!). I am so excited to try that. From the menu posted on line, I am going to have a hard time picking what to eat.

My issue is that we have mainly MK & Epcot meals. Last time, we went to 50s Prime Time, and we thought it was meh, and nothing else there really seems to interest us.

 

[Bearybear]

Just wanted to say hi everyone!
I am trying to plan a trip for February, 9-16, however I am a CM at my local Disney Store and we can't book for 2013 yet! It's sooo frustrating!

Tentatively we would like to do a split stay with the first 3 nights at the Wilderness Lodge and the next 4 nights at the YC. I will let you all know what we decide and when we can book.

Typically how is the weather at this time of year?
How are the crowds.

We usually plan our trips for the week after Thanksgiving but now that I am a CM that is a blackout time!

Your dates are the week before President's day, which is when we went this past February (and are returning again in 2013). The crowds are really light until Thursday or Friday of that week, then they get insane. The weather was beautiful this year. Highs in the low to mid 80s. More than warm enough to go swimming, but not melt your skin hot.

 

[Stasieki]

Assuming we get free dining, these are the places we want to eat:

Be Our Guest (dinner)
Chefs of France (dinner)
Akershus (lunch)
Crystal Palace (?)
Garden Grill (dinner- DH's request, I don't really like this place)
1900 Park Fair (dinner)
Ohana (breakfast)

We do a lot of character meals because we have to eat anyway, might as well get to meet some characters, too. Of these, we might skip Akershus this time, even though we all really love it, because we have another Princess meal (PF) and my DH thinks two might be too much, even though my DS loves to meet the princesses.

We love to do character dining to, so we don't have to stand in lines for characters. They are a bit more rushed, though, but my 2 year old is still nervous around them so it's ok for now.

 

[LoveMyMoos]

Hi everyone! I'm new to these boards. I am registered for the Princess Half Marathon on Feb 24. It's my first half and first RunDisney event. I'll be staying Feb 22-26. And one of the best parts is this is a mommy vacation! Hubby will be staying at home with the kids, so it's girls only. We're booked at AoA in the LK area. I'm so excited and once again facing the problem of playing the waiting game lol.

 

[ThreeKMom]

Your dates are the week before President's day, which is when we went this past February (and are returning again in 2013). The crowds are really light until Thursday or Friday of that week, then they get insane. The weather was beautiful this year. Highs in the low to mid 80s. More than warm enough to go swimming, but not melt your skin hot.

Sounds GREAT!

Thank you!

 

[Tara D]

Got you added to the list! We will be at AoA the same time! Are you staying in the suites or LM rooms?

We are staying in LM. It's just me, dh, dd5 and ds2. Unless free dining offer comes out and doesn't work for the LM rooms and then we might end up somewhere else!

 

[aoffhaus]

So excited!!! We are headed back to Disney in February to celebrate my son's fourth birthday. We went last year the same time and celebrated his third birthday!! So much fun!! Anyway we will be there Feb 23rd-Mar 2nd. We are staying off property this year at Bonnett Creek. Last year we got some extra pixie dusts sprinkled on us...we were booked for a Royal Room at Port Orleans Riverside, the were not completed, so Disney upgraded us to the Polynesian Resort. It was a great vacation!! I am looking forward to our vacation in 2013 as well. Gotta get my countdown calendar made and plan our Disney Movie nights!!!

 

[bellanotte10]

I have dates for my February trip! Just... Not a hotel haha. It's been tough planning so I'm glad to at least have dates! We're thinking ASMo from February 23-27. So I'm still resort tbd but I got dates!