And this brings us to my final review: the Wishes Dessert Party. I was so excited to try this.
We got to the Noodle station around 8:45 p.m. and found a HUGE line of people waiting to check in. We joined and stood, and waited, and waited, and waited some more. At 9:00 pm they had one person checking people in. Apparently, some people were allowed to check in earlier and had already received their bracelets. We were not one of these chosen few and ended up having to wait about a half an hour. Around 9:20 p.m. we were finally allowed to enter the terrace. We had to hunt for our table as they are all reserved. We found it and it was in a very nice spot with a good view of the castle.
The lines for the dessert buffet were enormous. We joined the line and again we were waiting. I will admit, I am impatient. I don't enjoy standing in lines and found this whole process not as organized as it should have been. Once we reached the desserts themselves, at least 50 percent of the trays were already completely empty. It felt like I was racing other people to grab the
food before it was gone. This to me is unacceptable. There was not nearly enough out to for the amount of guests that were there.
You couldn't really see the Spectro parade as many people were crowding the railings. I realize this event does not claim to give you a great view of Spectro so this to me was not a big deal. It would have been nice to see it, but I didn't want to be in the crowd up at the railing.
In this picture, you can kind of see how many people were standing at the railing:
It did look like they had a few hula hoops and such for the kids but there was nobody organizing that and I didn't see any kids go over on their own to play with the stuff.
Wishes started and it was nice to have a seat although it still felt more crowded than I expected it to be. We did have a wonderful view of Tink and loved the fireworks as always.
As for the desserts themselves, there was nothing over the top fabulous. There were some things that were decent and some that I didn't care for. I would have liked to try a few things that had disappeared before I got to the front of the buffet line.
I will say that after a while, they did come out and replenish a few of the trays but there were still a whole lot of empty ones. The drinks were good (we had the lemonade) and they did have coffee and tea available if anyone wanted it although it was way too hot for me to consider.
I won't be attending this event again if they extend it. I don't think it was worth the money and it felt very disorganized. I did way too much standing in line for my taste.
Overall grade - C-
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Many of the places you ate at we will be visiting on our next trip - I am particularly excited to try 'Ohana for the first time - your review was excellent and has me really looking forward to it so thank you.
