Ohana and H&V

[firefly_ris]

Hi all,

We will be at WDW next February and I've been messing around with dining. We are a family of 5, my kids will be 8, 7 and 5 at the time of travel. We will be doing mostly QS dining and bringing in snacks, some breakfasts in room, QS at the hotel for some lunches, etc, but I do have a few TS reservations scattered over the week here and there.

Right now I have 2 character meals booked. One is the Disney Junior Play n Dine breakfast at Hollywood & Vine. I hear the food here leaves something to be desired, BUT I booked this mostly because Vampirina will be appearing at this meal starting in the fall and my youngest loves Vampirina.

The second one I have booked is 'Ohana Breakfast at the Poly. I've never been here either -- only been to Kona Cafe. My son likes Stitch, sleeps with a Stitch stuffed animal but doesn't really ask to watch the movie much.

I can't seem to find a really exact price for these meals, but I know character meals are pricey. I booked breakfast for both to try to keep the cost a little lower. My hope is to keep both of these, but if I end up having to cancel one, which would you cancel? Is the food bad enough at H&V that you'd skip and miss Vampirina?

I also have a QS lunch reservation for BoG but I've been hearing not so great things about that too, I just thought my kids would like to see the inside there, but it sounds like it could be like a big, loud cafeteria...

 

[Pumbaa_]

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[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

s the food bad enough at H&V that you'd skip and miss Vampirina?

Vampirina will be in the new Disney Jr dance show and meeting in Animation courtyard by February I would think. If that's your only reason for booking an otherwise costly meal that you have reservations about, you can build in time for those activities instead.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wdwi...mpirina-coming-to-disney-parks-this-fall/amp/

 

[firefly_ris]

There is a sticky thread at the top of this board that is kept up,to date

Ah I missed it, I see it now thank you. I'm not in the restaurant board too often!

Vampirina will be in the new Disney Jr dance show and meeting in Animation courtyard by February I would think. If that's your only reason for booking an otherwise costly meal that you have reservations about, you can build in time for those activities instead.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.wdwi...mpirina-coming-to-disney-parks-this-fall/amp/

Thank you for this information!! I will keep my eyes peeled for when she starts appearing in Animation Courtyard as that to me would be more ideal. That is a big help. So I'll probably just keep the Ohana reservation and ditch the Hollywood and Vine, I think being at the Poly and hitching a monorail ride for it sounds better anyway.

 

[Tksolomom]

Hi all,

We will be at WDW next February and I've been messing around with dining. We are a family of 5, my kids will be 8, 7 and 5 at the time of travel. We will be doing mostly QS dining and bringing in snacks, some breakfasts in room, QS at the hotel for some lunches, etc, but I do have a few TS reservations scattered over the week here and there.

Right now I have 2 character meals booked. One is the Disney Junior Play n Dine breakfast at Hollywood & Vine. I hear the food here leaves something to be desired, BUT I booked this mostly because Vampirina will be appearing at this meal starting in the fall and my youngest loves Vampirina.

The second one I have booked is 'Ohana Breakfast at the Poly. I've never been here either -- only been to Kona Cafe. My son likes Stitch, sleeps with a Stitch stuffed animal but doesn't really ask to watch the movie much.

I can't seem to find a really exact price for these meals, but I know character meals are pricey. I booked breakfast for both to try to keep the cost a little lower. My hope is to keep both of these, but if I end up having to cancel one, which would you cancel? Is the food bad enough at H&V that you'd skip and miss Vampirina?

I also have a QS lunch reservation for BoG but I've been hearing not so great things about that too, I just thought my kids would like to see the inside there, but it sounds like it could be like a big, loud cafeteria...

I like the BOG lunch. It is a little noisy but not horrible. It is beautiful inside and I think worth it.

 

[DaddysPrincess]

I think BoG is one of those restaurants where the atmosphere is more why you go.
The lunch imo sounds good but I like ahi tuna salad. Lunch is a really good deal if you're paying oop too! Bfast there is oddly expensive

 

[firefly_ris]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll hold onto that lunch res. I think the kids will enjoy the theming and I'd like to see it at least once!

So looks like just Hollywood and Vine will be on the chopping block.

 

[happymommy]

I really enjoyed my lunches at BOG! Since we were on the dining plan, we ended up with a LOT of food (subbed out the dessert for soup instead, and that plus the huge sandwich, literally half our sandwiches got left behind, but OOP it would have been over $50. We could have shared a sandwich and each gotten soup, and still been full). It was my youngest and me each time, and we both agreed the roast beef sandwich was really good, as was the French Onion soup. For young kids, they could split an adult meal if it seems to cost less; I've seen photos of the kids' meals that looked pretty tiny. We also would have just gotten ice water, but the dining plan came with soft drink so we had iced tea and lemonade. And got refills to go.

With little kids, it's sometimes a bit of a chore with buffets (I always had to help them with their plates), so I'd lean towards keeping 'Ohana for the fact that the meal is brought to the table. I've never eaten there personally, though.

 

[petrola]

My kids are fine with breakfast at BOG (and I love the PPO breakfast there so we get can in an early ride on Peter Pan's flight), however they do NOT enjoy having lunch there. Reason is, the kids menu has nothing they like. (My kids are 9 and 4 and very picky eaters however).

They love buffets because they can choose whatever they like. My DD loved breakfast at O'hana and although they did not serve bacon, my daughter asked for some and our server happily brought a family sized plated of bacon to our table. Service was wonderful and the character interactions with Lilo and Stitch were great. Mickey also made an appearance. Both DD and DS ask me when we can go back to O'hana!

My son loves Disney Jr. so the breakfast at H&V made his day! It depends on what your children will eat and which characters they enjoy. fwiw, my husband very much enjoys the braised pork at BOG and I find the French Dip to be pretty yummy but not worth it if my kids won't eat. So take a look at the menus and see what your LO's may like.