disneybound31
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- Joined
- Jun 26, 2006
We just returned last night from our first trip to WDW and the dining reviews were so helpful to my planning that I decided to add my own. We paid for the dining plan and I estimate (with reciepts in hand) that we got about $500 in "free" food. DDP for 2A and 2C for 6 nights = $588 Total reciept tally's including snacks approx. $1100.
Day 1-
CS- Pinnochio's Village Haus (total cost $41.53)
THis was our first experience with the DDP and it was a very good meal. We had the childs mac/cheese with grapes and carrots, the turkey&bacon panini with chips, cheese pizza meal with salad and for dessert shared the chocolate cake and strawberry shortcake. The panini was especially good and the shortcake was one of the best desserts I ate the whole trip! It was a ton of food and we (2A, 2C) all shared between ourselves so eveyone could try what they wanted.
*note: there was a messup with our DDP and we had to pay for this meal OOP and then get reimbursed at the POP check-in desk upon returning mid-day for a break. I think I saw it mentioned somewhere else that if you check-in and your room is not ready yet your DDP is not activated and this is what happened to us. It ended up not being too bad to fix-- but I would have liked a head's up from the POP people- luckily I had taken extra cash into the park that first morning or we would have gone hungry.
TS- Tony's Town Square (total cost $118.88)
After a relaxing midday break complete with a swim and getting settled into our POP room we returned to the Magic Kingdom for our 7pm ADR at Tony's. This was my DH birthday dinner, but they 'gave' our table to another family with our same last name even though the spelling was different and the man of that family kept telling them they were making a mistake because they were a party of 5 and WE were the party of 4, but the CM's kept acting like they couldn't understand the difference. So, long story short, the other family got our table (decortaed for my DH's birthday) and we had to wait another 30 min for a table to open up. Very wierd. And our server ignored us pretty badly. We had to flag her down twice and then we felt like we were bothering her. She also made fun of us for asking a question about the DDP even though we explained to her it was our first DDP table service meal. Anyhow, on to the food. Dh had the strip steak with he said was bland. I had the chicken fiorentina which was pretty good and I gave half to DH who was starving. The kids had pizza- good. Our apps were the spinach/artichoke cheese dip with crusty bread- so great! Even the kids loved this! Kids had fruit plate app which was good and I have no idea what DH app was. His meal was a sad affair from start to finish. He even ate half my tiramisu because his dessert was so bad. His was the Ice Cream Bomb and the middle was soggy.
Overall we probably would not do Tony's again. It's one of those 'have to do it once' kind of places. Pinocchio's was a great tasting meal and so much food we could have shared one adult meal and one childs meal. Very fresh.
One more note... the disboard tip about hitting the CS right at 11am proved to be invaluable. Sometimes I would look behind me at just 11:10 and the people would be 10 deep in line whereas I was number one or two just a moment before. No waits for tables and you can hightail it out of there when it gets too loud and crowded. It is also so much cleaner at 11am than at even 11:30. Obvious point, I know, but the difference was amazing.
More to come... next up... Pecos Bill's and Crystal Palace
Day 1-
CS- Pinnochio's Village Haus (total cost $41.53)
THis was our first experience with the DDP and it was a very good meal. We had the childs mac/cheese with grapes and carrots, the turkey&bacon panini with chips, cheese pizza meal with salad and for dessert shared the chocolate cake and strawberry shortcake. The panini was especially good and the shortcake was one of the best desserts I ate the whole trip! It was a ton of food and we (2A, 2C) all shared between ourselves so eveyone could try what they wanted.
*note: there was a messup with our DDP and we had to pay for this meal OOP and then get reimbursed at the POP check-in desk upon returning mid-day for a break. I think I saw it mentioned somewhere else that if you check-in and your room is not ready yet your DDP is not activated and this is what happened to us. It ended up not being too bad to fix-- but I would have liked a head's up from the POP people- luckily I had taken extra cash into the park that first morning or we would have gone hungry.
TS- Tony's Town Square (total cost $118.88)
After a relaxing midday break complete with a swim and getting settled into our POP room we returned to the Magic Kingdom for our 7pm ADR at Tony's. This was my DH birthday dinner, but they 'gave' our table to another family with our same last name even though the spelling was different and the man of that family kept telling them they were making a mistake because they were a party of 5 and WE were the party of 4, but the CM's kept acting like they couldn't understand the difference. So, long story short, the other family got our table (decortaed for my DH's birthday) and we had to wait another 30 min for a table to open up. Very wierd. And our server ignored us pretty badly. We had to flag her down twice and then we felt like we were bothering her. She also made fun of us for asking a question about the DDP even though we explained to her it was our first DDP table service meal. Anyhow, on to the food. Dh had the strip steak with he said was bland. I had the chicken fiorentina which was pretty good and I gave half to DH who was starving. The kids had pizza- good. Our apps were the spinach/artichoke cheese dip with crusty bread- so great! Even the kids loved this! Kids had fruit plate app which was good and I have no idea what DH app was. His meal was a sad affair from start to finish. He even ate half my tiramisu because his dessert was so bad. His was the Ice Cream Bomb and the middle was soggy.
Overall we probably would not do Tony's again. It's one of those 'have to do it once' kind of places. Pinocchio's was a great tasting meal and so much food we could have shared one adult meal and one childs meal. Very fresh.
One more note... the disboard tip about hitting the CS right at 11am proved to be invaluable. Sometimes I would look behind me at just 11:10 and the people would be 10 deep in line whereas I was number one or two just a moment before. No waits for tables and you can hightail it out of there when it gets too loud and crowded. It is also so much cleaner at 11am than at even 11:30. Obvious point, I know, but the difference was amazing.
More to come... next up... Pecos Bill's and Crystal Palace