Pixie Dust and Great Dining

[mommahnina]

We are leaving for Disney in 25 days. Yesterday my husband was able to find a CRT ADR on the computer. At that time we only had Mickeys Backyard BBQ, Chef Mickeys, and 1900 Park Fare Dinner booked, and we were having to pay out of pocket because we only had the free dining from the value ( qs meals ) We are a family of 6, ( 2 adults and 4 kids 3,7,9,12 ) and we are staying at All Stars Music Family Suites. Well my hubbie did the math and just the Mickeys BBQ was 283 something, Chef Mickeys and 1900 were probably going to run us 150 each. So he told me to call and see how much to upgrade our dining plan would be. Lucky for us it was only 360!!! So to us it was worth it to upgrade and get other TS places we wanted to go only down fall is the tips are not included I am not sure about taxes ( 3 of ours have taxes and tips included the shows and CRT ). So yesterday we just happened to get ADRS for *drumroll please * lol CRT , LeCiellar, Sci Fi Diner, Spirit of Aloha, Via Neplia (sp?). We got all of them in one day with 26 days to go plus they were all for a table of 6. I am thinking that tinkerbell herself came to visit us in our sleep and sprinkled some MAJOR pixie dust on us LOL!! so My ? is The last time we went to Disney was two years ago and we had some pretty bad experiences mostly with the Liberty Tree Tavern and Tusker house breakfast. So I was wondering if I could get opinions on the ones I did book this time. I tried not to have ALL character meals because honestly we had some bad experiences So I tried to choose wisely. So I would love to hear some of ya'lls thoughts If you think those are good ADRS and if you think it was worth it for us to upgrade? ( our main reason for the QS plan was for the mugs LOL yes silly and for the snacks cause we were under the impression that you could still get the goofys candy shop make your own was still on the DP, and its NOT which was a heartbreaker for me!! and after him paying all of that for the few ADRS we did get at the start of us planing it just made sense to us to change. Anyways like I said before any thoughts/ opinions would be appreciated! thank you!

 

[DISNEY1975]

Did you upgrade to the deluxe plan? If not, you will still be paying OOP for some of those meals.

I didnt like the food at Tusker House and wasnt impressed with LTT dinner (Im never a fan of a turkey dinner, but it was edible!), so I think we are working with similar taste buds. I think your picks look really good except 1900 dinner. I didnt like it there, but you might!

Im leaving in about 16 days for 11 days! We have 9 character meals planned. I think you can never have enough! When else will you ever have the chance to eat with the characters. For us, its only at Disney. We can go to a steakhouse or Italian restaurant any time at home. We try to stick with "Disney" places when we are at Disney!

I wrote on a post before...you can never replace this with a good steak!

 

[wahmtexas]

Just back and we did many of those TS too. We really did not have a bad meal or service.
We actually did Tusker House Breakfast for the first time and loved it Liberty Tree has always been on our list, love the Clam Chowder and if you are not a Turkey fan their salads are wonderful.
Also Via Napoli was one of our best meals with the exception of Cali Grill. The Pizza, Salad and Homeade desserts were wonderful
Have fun with your upgrade to deluxe For us it was completely worth it because we did CRT and Cali Grill.