O.K. Free Diners, where are you planning your ADRs?

[Tink_Or_Belle]

here is our plan and back up plan 1st choice (back up plan) we are on teh deluxe plan) 90 Total Credits

day 1
lunch-counter service (5)
dinner Sci Fi (Mama Melrose) (10)

day 2
Norway (Cape May)(15)
LeCellier (Coral Reef)(20)

day 3
Castle lunch (Crystal Palace) (30)
'Ohana (Kona)(35)

day 4
lunch undecided (40)
Boma (the new place) (45)

day 5
b-Crystal Palace (Chef Mickey 3rd choice 1900 Park Fare)(50)
Grand Floridian Cafe very Early (55)
Halloween Party CS late night (60)

day 6
in room dining breakfast (Halloween party late the night before) (70)
Dinner Yachtsman (some other 2 credit meal) (80)

day 7
Lunch Yak Yeti (Tusker) (85)
dinner downtown disney ? Raglan Road maybe maybe Earl of Sandwich (90)

if we end up with any of our planned 2 credit places not working out and doing the 1 credit back up plans we may do Pizza Delivery or in room dining again at some point

 

[JerseyJanice]

You deluxe people are tempting me to upgrade! LOL! Such luxury!

Tink or Belle (adorable username, I might add), we loved Raglan Road and will go back this time with my 100% Irish brother-in-law. He's a carpenter, too, and will enjoy seeing all the restaurant's hand-carved wood furniture imported from Ireland. I also saw his last name on some items in the gift shop. I know he'll get a kick out of that.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere at RR; it's a really beautiful place and the food was very good too. I had the "It's Not Bleedin' Chowder" and thought it was delicious. Others in my group got the Serious Sirloin and swore by it. Desserts are very special too.

Kim, as a former NYer, you must review Tutto when you get back. I'll look for your review to find out about what we missed.

 

[jessrose18]

We will be there 9 nights sept 24-oct 3rd and trying for:

Le Cellier: first night dinner, loved this last time!

Chef Mickeys bfast: hopefully bright and early before MK day (new)

1900 PF dinner: loved the prime rib and strawberry soup

boma dinner: loved bfast last time, excited to try dinner (new)

50's pm lunch: great pot roast and malts!

Kona Dinner: (new) ohana didn't do it for us last time, but still want to eat at poly so we are trying this!

le cellier lunch: got to try it twice, love the filet!

chefs de france dinner: (new) want to try the duck and mac and cheese

scifi lunch: (new) sounds cool

boma breakfast: last morning (OOP) hopefully we will still be hungry at this point, i loved this place and the chocolate croissants!

This will be our second time with free dining, we learned some lessons last time, some of the restaurants I was most excited for were dissapointing (ohana, whispering canyon, crystal palace bfast) , while others stood out that I wasnt' that hopeful about(1900 dinner, 50's primetime), and Le Cellier was as wonderful as I had hoped for! Good luck to everyone!

 

[PaulaSB12]

I am there 21st September - 5th October (originally booked free dining)

Monday night Beaches and Cream Dinner (flight should land 5pm)
22/09 Grand Floridian breakfast Sci Fi Lunch The Wave Dinner
23/09 1900 Park Fare Yak and Yeti Lunch Jiko Dinner
24/09 Crystal Palace out to do some shopping WCC dinner
25/09 Kona Cafe breakfast Rose and Crown lunch not decided about dinner
26/09 The Wave breakfast Busch Gardens/SeaWorld Narcoossee's dinner
27/09 Spoodles breakfast (if still open) lunch not decided B & C? Victoria and Albert's dinner
28/09 Captain's Grill breakfast maybe out again Yachtsman Steakhouse dinner
29/09 Grand Floridian breakfast Tutto Italia lunch California Grill dinner
30/09 Boma breakfast Tepan Edo lunch Le Cellier dinner
01/10 Grand Floridian Breakfast out Flying fish dinner
02/10 Tusker House breakfast Grand Floridian Lunch Dinner ?
03/10 1900 Park Fare Coral Reef Lunch Citricos Dinner
04/10 The Wave breakfast Le Cellier Lunch Artists Point Dinner
0510 Grand Floridian breakfast fly home that day.

 

[Goseethemouse]

We are going late Aug/early Sep for a total of 20 nights but only 10 with free dining. Here is our list:

Chef Mickey - breakfast (oop) on ds seventh birthday, never been before
CRT - lunch (oop), never been but both BOYS declare they want to
Planet Hollywood (oop) - use up the coupon

Coral Reef - boys liked the aquarium last time
Teppan Edo - a first, kids interested in 'show'
Tutto Italia - a first
Boma - liked it a lot last time
Crystal Palace - a favorite last trip
Garden Grill - that was probably our best meal last time
Le Cellier - a first
O'hana - couldn't get an ADR last time
Hoop dee Doo - went many years ago and really want to go again

Kona - dinner (oop) Liked it okay last time but want to give it another try
LTT - (oop) Last time we were so not hungry, want to see how it is if you aren't already full
T-Rex - (oop) Kids love the pictures

Also possible: WCC, Raglan Road

 

[ChasPowl]

We will be there for 7 nights at the start of free dining

We are planning all of these as dinners, lunch would be a fallback
Chefs de France --new for us
LeCellier (hopefully) --new for us
Rose and Crown --new for us
50's Prime Time --new for us
Boma --been there, loved it
1900 Park Fare --been there, loved it
Cape May Cafe --new for us

backup
Coral Reef
The Wave
Tutto Italia

 

[MelanieC]

We are going 10 nights without free dining and 8 nights with free dining 8/6-8/24 - All dates below show lunch and dinner - we eat breakfast in the room (breakfast bars).


No dining Package - 10 nights

8/6- arriving late -Dinner at POP -buying mugs
8/7-AK -Yak & Yeti, Jiko
8/8- MK- LTT, Ohana
8/9 DHS - Sci Fi, Prime Time
8/10 Epcot- Coral Reef, Tokyo Dining
8/11 Islands of Adventure, Mythos dinner?
8/12 Universal Studios, lunch ? , dinner ?
8/13 IOA/US, lunch ?, T-Rex
8/14 Sea World , lunch Sharks
8/15 MK - Tony's Town Square, The Plaza Restaurant


8 night Free Dining

8/16 - AK - Pizzafari, Boma
8/17 - Epcot - Tangierine Cafe, Biergarten
8/18- MGM - lunch ?, Dinner Mama Melrose Fantasmic Dinner
8/19- MK - Cosmic Ray's, Crystal Palace
8/20- Epcot -Cantina De San Angel, Le Cellier
8/21- AK - Flame Tree Barbeque, Whispering Canyon
8/22- MK - Cosmic Ray's, 1900 Park Fare
8/23- Epcot - lunch ? , Cape May Clam Bake

 

[nancyjo1998]

We will be there from 9/19 - 9/27 We upgraded to DXDDP Our flight gets in at 6am, and our departing flight leaves at 6pm. So here we go:

9/19: Arrival Day
Kona Cafe - Lunch
T-Rex - Dinner OOP

9/20:
Donalds Safari - Breakfast
CS - Lunch
Chef Mickeys - Dinner

9/21:
Play N Dine - Breakfast
Sci-Fi Lunch
Mama Melrose Fantasmic pkg - Dinner if available, if not probably a CS

9/22: MNSSHP
Whispering Canyon Cafe - Late Breakfast
Crystal Palace - Early Dinner
CS - Maybe late at the party

9/23: Off Day
Ohanas - Breakfast
Turf Club & Bar - Lunch
Planet Hollywood - Dinner

9/24:
CRT - Breakfast
CS - Lunch
Plaza - Dinner, Maybe LTT if characters return by then

9/25:
CS - Breakfast
Coral Reef - Lunch
Garden Grill - Dinner

9/26: Off Day
Boma - Breakfast
ESPN - Lunch
Ohana - Dinner

9/27: Departure Day
Chef Mickeys - Breakfast

 

[tlenzendorf]

We are going August 14-23, booked 14 & 15 with no dining plan, just over night stays. We have DDP August 16-23. Here is what we're going for...

8/15 Beach and T-Rex for dinner
8/16 Cindy's Royal Table Breakfast
QS dinner while waiting for parade to start
8/17 Typhoon Lagoon, just 2 QS meals
8/18 HS QS Breakfast, Mama Melrose Fantasmic Package
8/19 AK QS Breakfast, having a hard time deciding on dinner. Maybe Y&Y, but Tusker house would be better for kids I think. If we can't get ADRs for after the park closes then we'll head over to Boma
8/20 Epcot I had been thinking Ohana for breakfastsee diferent plan below) and eating QS dinner while waiting for Illuminations
8/21 MK QS Breakfast and Crystal Palace Dinner. If we can't get Royal Table for 8/16, will try for 8/21 and do Crystal Palace that day
8/22 Not going to make any ADRs. Gonna let the kids decide a day or 2 before what park they wanna go to this day and go with the flow
8/23 I'm thinking saving Ohana breakfast for this day. We need to leave for the airport at 1130, so instead of bumming around being sad we're leaving making a 9 ressie for a fun last character breakfast at Ohana

 

[1disneynutt]

We are also going the end of August hopefully I can get these ADRs:

Day 1 Pop Century for dinner (arriving late afternoon)
Day 2 Lunch at Flame Tree BBQ, Dinner at Narcoosees
Day 3 Lunch at 50s diner, Dinner at Sci-fi
Day 4 Lunch at Columbia House, Dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern
Day 5 Universal Studios lunch at Bubba Gumps, dinner at Pop Century
Day 6 Lunch at Sunshine Seasons, Dinner at Rose & Crown during Illuminations
Day 7 Lunch at The Plaza, Dinner at Ohanas
Day 8 1 CS meal (undecided)

So excited, cannot wait to make ADR's

 

[kimgof]

You deluxe people are tempting me to upgrade! LOL! Such luxury!

Tink or Belle (adorable username, I might add), we loved Raglan Road and will go back this time with my 100% Irish brother-in-law. He's a carpenter, too, and will enjoy seeing all the restaurant's hand-carved wood furniture imported from Ireland. I also saw his last name on some items in the gift shop. I know he'll get a kick out of that.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere at RR; it's a really beautiful place and the food was very good too. I had the "It's Not Bleedin' Chowder" and thought it was delicious. Others in my group got the Serious Sirloin and swore by it. Desserts are very special too.

Kim, as a former NYer, you must review Tutto when you get back. I'll look for your review to find out about what we missed.

I will do a review when I get back for sure. We are going 8/26-9/3 with a possible extra night off property to surprise kids with Sea World. I have read reviews from NYers that have enjoyed Tutto so I am hopeful. I know our very first trip we were mortified by what was called "pizza"
I have to agree with you about the Dxl Dining. I always thought it would be too much food, but some of the people on here make you think about diving into it.

 

[annie1995]

We are going for 10 nights at the end of August. We have a hard time going to new places, cause we can't give up our favorites LOL. We are eating at T Rex Cafe our first afternoon, but that doesn't count for our TS credits.

Our hopefuls so far are

Ohana~ Love it here!!

Crystal Palace for dinner~ My kids need and I stress NEED the Thai Curry Mussels

Yak N Yeti~ Another new fav of ours!!

Coral Reef

Garden Grill

Kona dinner~ Loved it last year

Hollywood and Vine Breakfast~ New for us

LeCellier

Chefs De France~ New for us

Whispering Canyon for lunch

Then as a back up, Prime Time Cafe

 

[brymolmom]

We're there 8/29 - 9/6. We have me, dh, ds7 and dd5:

Day 1 - Arrival - pickup takeout pizza from POP food court for dinner at the pool.
Day 2 - Full MK day. Late breakfast CP. Dinner - Cosmic Ray's
Day 3 - Typhoon Lagoon - CS. Dinner Luau (grand gathering with 20 people)
Day 4 - DHS - Lunch Sci-Fi. Dinner - Cape May
Day 5 - Daytime?? - Dinner Chefs De France
Day 6 - MK 1/2 day - lunch Columbia HH OR Tony's. Dinner WPE at DTD.
Day 7 - EPCOT all day - lunch - Yakitori House (new - can't wait). Dinner - LeCellier (hopefully)
Day 8 - AK morning - Donald's safari breakfast. Dinner POP food court
Day 9 - Leave early

I'm debating about the lunch at Sci-Fi and the lunch at Tony's...I'm thinking about dh and I splitting a burger at Sci-Fi (and maybe getting a milkshake as a drink and one as a dessert so we both get one??) - then we'd have one more credit to use and split at Tony's. We'd just have to pay OOP for the kids meals at Tony's. However, I wouldn't mind Columbia HH either. So I'm debating.

IF they have a 'trade in a TS' meal deal, we might just split one meal at Sci-Fi and trade the other one in. I guess I'll play that one by ear.

 

[Henlady]

Arriving 9/29, departing 10/4 - 5 nights. Current plans for TS are

'Ohana (new for us)
Narcoosee's (new for us)
Raglan Road (new for us)
Cape May Cafe (an old favorite)

Counter Services will most likely be at:

POP food court
Tangerine Cafe -me (lunch)
Harry Ramsdens - DH (Lunch)
Cantina San Angel (OOP supper)
Earl of Sandwich
Cookes of Dublin

 

[NMK62303]

We are flying in on Wednesday Sept 23rd in the evening and flying back on Sunday Sept 27th in the afternoon, so a quick trip! Since we are going "commando" style on this vacation our plans are to eat early TSH breakfasts, then probably a snack, then CS suppers, with one leftover CS to use at traveling discretion! Tentative plans:

TS
Chef Mickey's (breakfast)
Crystal Palace (breakfast, new to us, have done dinner there)
Boma (breakfast on check-out day, tour AK lodge, never been there)
?? Other TS (maybe Akershus breakfast, maybe 1800 Park Fare, suggestions anyone??)

CS
Flame Tree BBQ (Yum Yum!)
Cosmic Ray's (maybe twice depending on where we are which night)
Suggestions? We tried Sunshine Seasons but didn't really care much for it. Might end up at Pizza Planet which we did last year but we're open to suggestions!

 

[arielmomma]

Here's my wish list for 9 nights 9/18-9/27:

TS:
Chef Mickey's - Dinner
Crystal Palace - Lunch
Play & Dine - Lunch
1900 Park Fare - Dinner
Ohana - Dinner
Boma - Dinner
Akershus - Lunch
Biergarten - Lunch
??????

CS:
Flame Tree BBQ
Yak & Yeti - CS
Cosmic Rays
Catalina Eddies
Starring Rolls
Main Street Bakery
Tangerine Cafe


As you can see, we like the buffets and character meals. We are still deciding between a second lunch at Akershus (because we love the food) or the Garden Grill (which we enjoyed last year for the 1st time) for our last open slot. Good luck to all of you in getting the ADR's you want!

 

[JerseyJanice]

You thought of a creative way to use your TS credits, brymolmom, by splitting them to dine at two lower-cost TS locations. That may be a very good idea to consider.

The mistake I made last year was to schedule the same number of ADRs as we had TS meal credits. Twice, we had to miss our ADRs.

First full day in town, we got caught in a torrential downpour on the bus ride to the MK and missed our ADR for dinner at the Crystal Palace. Wound up eating CS at Roaring Forks instead that night and used the left TS at Captain Jack's on our last day. It wasn't terrible, but if I would have picked something else if I knew we were going to miss that ADR.

Another day, we missed our breakfast ADR at Cape May Cafe. All the kids on the trip wound up sleeping in my room, and I couldn't get them up and to the restaurant before noon. We took the boat over to ESPN and had lunch there instead. Again, not the best use of a TS credit.

This trip, I am scheduling a few low-cost meals late in the trip that can be paid OOP or cancelled if we're on track with our ADRs. Brymolmom, your idea is another way to back-up my ADRs. Hmmm....

 

[JerseyJanice]

As you can see, we like the buffets and character meals. We are still deciding between a second lunch at Akershus (because we love the food) or the Garden Grill (which we enjoyed last year for the 1st time) for our last open slot. Good luck to all of you in getting the ADR's you want!

Good luck to you too Arielmomma!

If you like the buffets--my family does--consider the Cape May Cafe. We've found it to be a very good Disney buffet, and it's convenient to both DHS and Epcot. We're planning to eat dinner there on DHS EMH night, then try to catch the second showing of Fantasmic.

 

[maslex]

We're going June 23-29th. Here's where we are going.....

Chef Mickeys Dinner
Crystal Palace Breakfast
Cape May Cafe Dinner (a first for us)
Sci Fi (late lunch/early dinner)
Coral Reef Dinner (a first for us)
Whispering Canyone Cafe Dinner (never been for dinner before, just breakfast)

 

[frannn]

We are planning on all TS if we do DXDP, as we enjoyed it last year. We can always do CS if we miss one.

Dinners
Chef Mickey's
Crystal Palace
Brown Derby FDP
Hoop De Doo
Mickey's BBQ
Park Faire
Narcoosees
Boma
Ohana
Nine Dragons

Lunches
CRT
Princess Storybook
Coral Reef
Le Cellier
Teppan edo
Yak & Yeti
Playhouse Disney
Tutto Italia

Breakfasts
Cape May
Park Faire
Tusker House
Ohana
Chef Mickey's
Crystal Palace
Princess Storybook

We are planning on a day at Universal as well. I know, thats a LOT of eating, with all the breakfasts, three of the lunches, and four of the dinners being character meals. DD6 will be in 7th heaven...again!