Park Fare breakfast or one of the Princess meals?

[Smiling Cheshire Cat]

Our little princess, who is 6, enjoys meeting characters and has been to CRT, Akershus, Garden Grill, Tusker House, Chef Mickey's and Crystal Palace.

I'm thinking of booking Park Fare for breakfast for our upcoming trip as we like to take her to at least one character meal per trip. Does anyone have opinions about the food and experience here? We went many, many years ago for dinner and weren't impressed with the food. Also would the easiest way to get there for a 10:00 breakfast be to take the boat to the GF from MK?

Or should we just stick with one of the princess meals- like Akershus since we like the food there and it is easy to get to?

We are paying OOP so it is quite the investment at apprx. $30 per adult (or more) for most character meals.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

We've been to the 1900 breakfast twice.

Once it was a late breakfast with great character interaction and the food was really good. The 2nd time was more rushed for some reason they seemed to be running late - had to ask our server to bring back the Mad Hatter as he skipped our table (we seemed to be in an odd place) - that didn't go overly well

Food was IMO better than dinner.

When we were in our TS phase the princess breakfast at Akershus was a "must do" while the 1900 PF was just another fun meal.

 

[AshleeH]

We did the breakfast in Oct. '10 and it was fun, but we enjoyed the Princess meal more (and this was with two little boys). The food was good and the character interaction was fun, but it was more personal at CRT. I would say it's worth it - especially because you've tried so many other character meals, so this one be one more to add to the list .

 

[North of Mouse]

The 1900 Park Fare breakfast is delicious, and the characters there are different that the princess ones, so I would definitely give it a go - also, the dinner is great too, and the stepsisters priceless

 

[mom2rtk]

I would definitely take into account the "hassle" factor involved in getting there and back. If you have to leave the MK and give up several hours, it would depend on whether you had ample MK time on other days. Or maybe you could schedule something really early before heading to the park.

I guess I really just prefer to have my ADR's in the park when possible.

 

[merlee76]

We are heading there in a over a week. We went to the dinner last year and loved it (the characters more than the food) and already did Akershus too. So I think it will be a good change. I heard the mad hatter is fun and we met a Mary Poppins in Hollywood Studios last year who was really dead on. I say go for it but maybe switch to early, like 8 or 8:30 then head to MK.

 

[kt_mom]

I'm considering 1900 PF for breakfast as well on our March trip. More for the food than the characters though. We ate here years ago and to breakfast was really good. When we go with DH he is not a breakfast person so I try to only schedule 2 during the week and this one never makes the cut.

So I thought DD and I could try it on our trip. But we are going a very busy week in March (13-18) and want to maximize our park time too so I'm up in the air as to whether I should schedule an 8:00 and try to hit MK rope drop or switch days, do MK early EMH and do a late breakfast around 11:00. If its just the two of us, I wonder if we could be done and on to MK in time with the 8:00 ADR.

 

[Sandy321]

I'm considering 1900 PF for breakfast as well on our March trip. More for the food than the characters though. We ate here years ago and to breakfast was really good. When we go with DH he is not a breakfast person so I try to only schedule 2 during the week and this one never makes the cut.

So I thought DD and I could try it on our trip. But we are going a very busy week in March (13-18) and want to maximize our park time too so I'm up in the air as to whether I should schedule an 8:00 and try to hit MK rope drop or switch days, do MK early EMH and do a late breakfast around 11:00. If its just the two of us, I wonder if we could be done and on to MK in time with the 8:00 ADR.

It sounds like you would like to make rope drop, and if you go to breakfast first, anything that would slow you from making it to MK would frustrate you (we have had slow servers bringing the check!) So I think it would be perfect to eat something like granola bars at rope drop - tour MK

then you'll be done as crowds hit - and take the boat over to Grand Floridian and have a leisurely Brunch! Then back to your resort for pool time and rest!

 

[kt_mom]

It sounds like you would like to make rope drop, and if you go to breakfast first, anything that would slow you from making it to MK would frustrate you (we have had slow servers bringing the check!) So I think it would be perfect to eat something like granola bars at rope drop - tour MK

then you'll be done as crowds hit - and take the boat over to Grand Floridian and have a leisurely Brunch! Then back to your resort for pool time and rest!

I was thinking that might work even better if we did it for morning EMH and had from 8 until about 10:15 or 10:30 to hit our favorites and then head over. If we were doing regular rope drop at 9:00 I'm not sure how much we can get done by 10:30 with the mid March crowds.

I'm just not used to having to plan around a crowded time, we usually go in mid October or early December and have had very low crowds.