Please critique my DXDP choices

[frannn]

DH, DD5, and I have been to WDW a handful of times, and have done DP twice. This time, we'd like to conquer the DXDP, and give DD all the character meal action she can stomach.....literaly! What do you think about our choices (yes, we know this will cut into park time,but we always eat 3X/day anyway)? ADRs are scheduled around EMH, MNSSHP, etc and all are 4-6 hours apart. If we cancel a meal while there, we'll get CS on last day. Here ya go...please be gentle

Fri- CP lunch MK
Teppan Edo
Sat-PSB
LC
Chef Mickey's
Sun-Cape May
Playhouse Disney Dine
Hoop De Doo
Mon-Tusker House brkfst
BD FDP
Tues-CRT lunch
CP
Wed-Chef Mickey's
Yak & Yeti
Boma
Thur-CP bkfast
Mickey's BBQ
Fri - Ohana
PS Norway
Narcoosees
Sat - Park Faire
Tutto Italia
Kona
Sun - CR lunch
Park Fare dinner
Mon - OOP

 

[dreamer17555]

Honestly I think you have too many meals planned- and I am doing DxDDP on our upcoming trip. Meals tend to last close to 1 1/2 hours and all you will be doing is traveling from meal to meal imo. I would change around some things...

Fri- CP lunch MK
Teppan Edo
Since you have dinner planned at Epcot why not switch to Garden Grill for lunch? Its a character meal and no park hopping needed. If you dont feel really in the Disney Spirit until you visit MK I would think about keeping CP and trying to have dinner at LTT or even at Chef Mickey's

Sat-PSB
LC
Chef Mickey's
I would drop a meal here. I assume you are planning an Epcot Day which is a ton of walking. I would keep Le Cellier and keep calling to see if you can move it to an early dinner. With all the good food at WS stands you can use either a CS or snack credits for lunch.

Sun-Cape May
Playhouse Disney Dine
Hoop De Doo
I would also let a meal go here. HDDR is amazing but you will need to do a later show 7 or later for this to work If you plan to take a long break in the middle of the day and do the first breakfast time at Cape May it might work and then go to a late showing of HDDR

Mon-Tusker House brkfst
BD FDP
What is FDP? Two meals looks good here. You might want to consider Boma for dinner since you are so close to AKL

Tues-CRT lunch
CP
I would not repeat meals (especially if the characters are the same. This would be a good ime to hit LTT if you didn't the first night or 1900 PF Cinderella Dinner

Wed-Chef Mickey's
Yak & Yeti
Boma
You really love chef Mickey's no? I would think about instead (especially if you keep one of the ADR's for it already) doing SoA or even Cali Grill to watch wishes

Hmm half way though this I realized I have not the foggest idea of which parks you will be in. I can guess some but was surprised not to see hardly any a DHS (booking a fantasmic dinner is always a good bet, and Sci Fi or Prime Time are a blast) I think I will simplify things that I just wouldn't repeat so much. There are so many GOOD places to eat at Disney.

-Becca-

ps. here is a list of how we are using the DxDDP:

March 30th, Sunday
3:00 Check in at Pop Century
8:00 California Grill Dinner (Wishes)

March 31st, Monday
8:00 1900 Park Fare Breakfast
9:30 to Magic Kingdom
5:00 Hoop Dee Do Revue Dinner
Hop to Epcot
9:00 Illuminations in Epcot

April 1st, Tuesday
7:30 'Ohana Character Breakfast
To Epcot
4:30 1900 Park Fare (Grand Floridian)
Princess Pirate Party

April 2, Wednesday
7:00 Chef Mickey’s Breakfast (Contemporary Resort)
9:00 Epcot
11:00 Garden Grill Lunch
4:00 DD to Neverland Club
5:10 Le Cellier (Adult Meal)

April 3, Thursday
8:00 Magic Kingdom
11:30 Lunch at Crystal Buffet
5:15 Aloha Luau Dinner
Back to Magic Kingdom
9:00 Spectromagic


April 4, Friday
Animal Kingdom (we only want to see very little here)
8:05 Tucker House
1:45 Head to Epcot
2:30 Lunch at Coral Reef
5:00 DD to Neverland Club
Cat to Neverland Club
9:30 Sci-Fi Drive In (Adults Meal)


Saturday April 5
DHS
11:00 Lunch at Prime Time Café
5:00 Dinner at Mama Melrose (Fantasmic Package)
8:30 Fantasmic Show

Sunday April 6
Epcot
8:30am Akershus Princess Breakfast
Hop to Magic Kingdom
1:00 Cinderella Royal Table
5:00 Leave

 

[frannn]

You guessed right- arrival day needs to be MK, but it closes early, hence the dinner at Epcot. Sat is Spectro, so we chose earlish CM. Sun, we are planning on a very early Cape May, and a 7:15 HDD. Monday, FDP is Fantasmic Dining Plan at Brown Derby. CM and CP are must-do's for us, and I only repeated them because I couldn't find any other desirable in-park character meals (for DD5- she is character crazy & we stopped for every autograph last trip, even with the DP meals). I will definetly consider your suggestions on LTT and Garden Grill. BTW, your schedule looks great! Let me know how it goes!

 

[dreamer17555]

Yeah I would look into Garden Grill (for lunch or dinner) LTT (Dinner Only) and think about booking 1900 PF for both breakfast and dinner- different characters (B- Alice, Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins, Pooh, Eeyore--- D-Cinderella, Prince, Step Sisters, Step Mom)Frankly I booked all the character meals I could while repeating as few characters as possible (I really don't need to see Mickey 3 times or Pooh twice but I wanted to see who else was with them)

Also if you are checking out on Monday I would space out meals a bit (give some up- hit another signature or so) so you should have to pay any OOP And with the kid friendly idea think about WCC, Prime Time, Coral Reef and Sci Fi. They are almost attractions in themselves!

-Becca-

 

[wezee]

We will be on the DxDDDP this fall, but are basically planning 1 TS for breakfast or early lunch and then mostly signature TS for evening meals. We had a hard enough time planing just two meals aday and still fitting in all the things we want to see at the parks.....I can't imagine eating 3 meals almost everyday.

Some of the meals at WDW are large, and I think your full schedule may get too overwelming after about the 2nd day. By the 3rd day....I think I would no longer be able to waddle from restaurant to restaurant, let alone park to park. I do agree with the OP, that paring it down a bit and trying to keep your ADR's grouped by scheduled park day may helpful.

But doesn't the DxDDP give you so many option?? I can't wait till our vacation.....was just working on a new park and dining spreadsheet last night to organize our ADRs. March 24th is our 180th + 10 day, so I'll be up early to call at 7:00am.