ok how crazy are these ADRs for our 1st time!

[pequele]

yeh yeh yeh I know I probably just made our trip incredibly crazy but I just want to let my son see all the character meals we can yet have some other fun meals at the same time. It is me, my 3 yo and Nana!

this is what we got for Feb...I have a question about our Fantasmic Meal though (see below).
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2/21 Chef Mickey's 5:30p

2/22 San Angel Inn 11:30a
Disney's Spirit of Aloha Show 5:15p

2/23 'Ohana 8am the character breaky cuz we are doin a dinner there later this week too
Whispering Canyon Café 5:25p
also doing the Pirate thing at 11 where they will dress him up like a pirate

2/24 Cape May Café 9am
The Garden Grill Restaurant 5:35p

2/25 Hollywood & Vine 11:30a (CAN"T miss Special Agent Oso!!!)
'Ohana dinner 5:20p

2/26 The Hollywood Brown Derby 11:30a for the fantasmic meal
The Crystal Palace 4:45 early so we can get over to fantasmic! Show's at 7...with having to be there early please tell me we can make it????? How early are we supposed to get there?

2/27 Tusker House Restaurant 9am (our flight is at 5:30)


how crazy are we

 

[hannahdrewmom]

The Crystal Palace 4:45 early so we can get over to fantasmic! Show's at 7...with having to be there early please tell me we can make it????? How early are we supposed to get there?

This won't work. You need to be at F! by AT LEAST 6:30. Working backwards you need to leave MK by 5:30. There is no way you will be in and out of CP at that time.

You are doing ALOT of park hopping for food. While the character meals are fun... the actual rides are even better. For a first timer I'd pick a park and stick with it as much as possible. It will take you an hour to get from one park to another and adr's, especially characters you should plan about 90 minutes from your ADR schedule time until you walk out the door.

Can you get a F! later in the afternoon this day and switch your hollywood and vine here for an early breakfast. Then move your Crystal Palace to the day before? That way on the 25th you are at MK for the day crystal palace brunch with dinner at Ohana. Same area not a lot of bus transfers. The 26th you'd have breakfast at HW and vine and then late lunch/early dinner for F! and stay at HS without the traveling.

 

[pequele]

in Feb Fantasmic is only offered on a few days that we are there. With a 3 yo, we will be ok without going on a lot of rides, heck some of the times we'll be coming from the resort, too. But I did get Crystal Palace "dinner" changed to something like 3:40 (without looking) so that gives us a leisurely meal and time to move over. Probably hungry of course by the time the show is over haha.

I think it is hard really with a lot of the meals at resorts and not even really at the parks ya know! Really we will be ok without a lot of the rides being that he's 3 and Nana who is going with us (just the 3 of us) doesn't do much more than It's a Small World! We will learn for the next trip (as well as not have to do so many character meals hahaha).

Thanks!

 

[lync]

I agree...you are doing a lot of park hopping. I would pick a park for each day and try to eat there. If you do a resort TS, I would do breakfast or a later dinner. You are not going to get in a park good (or on an attraction) before it's time to start making your way to the next reservation.

 

[dzneelvr]

You are experiencing what most of us did on our first trip-WAY TOO MANY character mealsSome considerations: since you are already in EPCOT for St Angel, stay in the park for the day and finish up with Illuminations. You could try an ADR in Germany/Biergarten: buffet meal and alot of activity for a child to watch and participate in (dance a polka!). The Spirit of Aloha show was a disappointment for our DS and DD when they were small. You can see the fire dance during Festival of the Lion King At AK and they'll be more than impressed. We'd swap Illuminations for SoA show anydaySince you are doing a breakfast ADR in the Poly, I'll assume you are in MK for the day. Try Crystal Palace for a relaxing Pooh and friends meal at lunch and then just hang around the park for the evening parade. A counterservice at Pecos Bills is fun. Save the Whispering Canyon for another trip. 2/24--what park are you going to? I can't tell. Again, get dining in the park you'll be at for the day.2/26: this will work if you take off the CP (I have you doing it earlier in the week). Don't hop from dhs to mk and back to dhs againwhy????Really re-think how often you are leaving a park just for a meal.......don't make it this crazy or DH won't want to go back

 

[boydstcher]

I agree with the others. I think you should stick with meals in the park you are going to each day. Otherwise you are going to go crazy with all of that park hopping. Even if your little one isn't into rides there are lots of shows and parades that you will miss out due to traveling.