Please critique my ADR's/Dining Plans

[bmagee777]

Going to arrive on March 29th with my 11 year old daughter and my parents. This will be our 2nd trip to Disney. Second year in a row that we have gone on spring break. We will be staying at the Coronado for 7 nights. We have the free dining plan by arriving on the 29th instead of the 31st as originally planned.

Our ADR's are as follows:
Thursday:Hollywood Studios
Mama Melrose's-Fantasmic Dinner Package

Friday-Magic Kingdom
Crystal Palace Character Breakfast
Boatwrights-Dinner

Saturday-Animal Kingdom
Flame Tree BBQ-Lunch
CRT-Daughter & I-Dinner
Narcoosee's-Parents for dinner

Sunday-Downtown Disney
Wolfgang Puck's Express-Lunch
Ohana's-Dinner

Monday-Blizzard Beach
Chef Mickey's-Dinner

Tuesday-Epcot
Garden Grill-Dinner

Wednesday-Hollywood
50's Prime Time-Dinner

Just wanted to see what people think of these, good or bad, and any suggestions that you might have.

 

[Wendy31]

I might switch Boatwrights & 'Ohana if I were you.

On the day you have Boatwright's scheduled, do you plan to be in MK all day? What are your evening plans? 'Ohana is right there at the MK, so it might be easier & make more sense to do 'Ohana on your MK day.

Additionally, on your DTD day, you can take the boat from DTD to Port Orleans for your Boatwright's ADR. Is there a particular reason you've chosen Boatwright's? I only ask because it's not at your resort, & there would be other restaurants at DTD I would choose over Boatwright's.

We enjoy Garden Grill, but, if I were you, I might switch Garden Grill to one of the World Showcase restaurants since you're already doing a Mickey character meal w/ Chef Mickey's. There are some really good World Showcase restaurants! But, again, we like Garden Grill too!

In DHS, we prefer Sci-Fi to Prime Time - our kids think the cars & the movie clips are cool.

But I think you've made some good choices! 3 of our "must-do" restaurants are always CRT, CP, & Chef Mickey's (breakfast)!

My only real suggestion is to think about maybe switching 'Ohana & Boatwright's.

 

[Anal Annie]

I might switch Boatwrights & 'Ohana if I were you.

On the day you have Boatwright's scheduled, do you plan to be in MK all day? What are your evening plans? 'Ohana is right there at the MK, so it might be easier & make more sense to do 'Ohana on your MK day.

Additionally, on your DTD day, you can take the boat from DTD to Port Orleans for your Boatwright's ADR. Is there a particular reason you've chosen Boatwright's? I only ask because it's not at your resort, & there would be other restaurants at DTD I would choose over Boatwright's.

We enjoy Garden Grill, but, if I were you, I might switch Garden Grill to one of the World Showcase restaurants since you're already doing a Mickey character meal w/ Chef Mickey's. There are some really good World Showcase restaurants! But, again, we like Garden Grill too!

In DHS, we prefer Sci-Fi to Prime Time - our kids think the cars & the movie clips are cool.

But I think you've made some good choices! 3 of our "must-do" restaurants are always CRT, CP, & Chef Mickey's (breakfast)!

My only real suggestion is to think about maybe switching 'Ohana & Boatwright's.

The OP is going the same days we're going...it's going to be really busy because it's the start of spring break and the week before Easter and some of these places are already booked up (like Ohana's). Switching things around now could be tricky if she has good times. I also have a dinner ressie that same Sunday at Ohana but the only time I could get was 9:10 PM. I keep checking for something earlier but there hasn't been anything pop up.

OP - do you have an alternate plan for the Blizzard Beach day if it's cold? I am planning to pack 1 or 2 bathing suits but am not holding my breath for pool weather even at the resort and am not planning any water parks. Last time we went over spring break (same dates as this trip) it was pretty chilly. We tried to go to the pool a couple of times but didn't stay long and ended up sitting in the hot tub the whole time. (Just a thought that you may want to have a backup plan.)

 

[bmagee777]

My concern about switching now would also be the reservations that would be available. I really wanted to go to ROse & Crown instead of Garden Grille, but I just figured my daughter would like it best. I also chose Boatwright's because my parents grew up in the south and my father really enjoys catfish, which they have. I also want to see POR, because we might want to stay there in the future.

I do agree I probably should have scheduled a little different on a couple days. I guess none of the days are etched in stone, and we could switch where we are going to better serve our ADR's.

I guess if it is to cold for the water parks we will just go back to one of the parks. We also might go to DTD and spend extra time at DisneyQuest. I am hoping it will be warm enough to swim. It was last year, but something I should definitely think about and be willing to change.

Thanks for the responses, it gives me some things to think about.