please rank your favorite character meals!

[punkin413]

hey, DISers! i'm helping a friend plan a trip with their 3-year-old and i'm thinking they'll want to include a few character meals. being an adult with no kids i've only been to one, so i'm not experienced in this area. can you help me? please list your 3 favorite character meals and rank them with #1 being your favorite and so on. thanks!!!

 

[lynninpa]

I think the best thing to do first is to find out the little person's favorite characters! Mickey & Minnie? The Princesses? Pooh & Friends? Lilo & Stitch?

 

[punkin413]

he's a boy so i think anything but the princesses. i'm thinking the classic characters. but there's so many meals with those characters that it's hard to pick only two or three for them!

 

[lynninpa]

With The Classic Characters? Chef Mickeys, hands down! I would suggest Breakfast-it is the perfect way to start a day in Disney for kids and parents alike...and less meltdown possibilities for most little ones.

 

[Joanna71985]

1) LTT dinner
2) CP dinner
3) CM breakfast

 

[KatMark]

From the character meals we have had, with and without our kids:

1. Crystal Palace Breakfast (Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet)
2. Chef Mickey's Breakfast (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto
3. Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner (Minnie, Goofy, Chip N Dale)


We have not eaten at the Cape May Cafe breakfast, but here it is wonderful and not as crowded and that the characters spend a lot of time with you

 

[eccobleu]

1) Crystal Palace B/D
2) Donald's Breakfastosaurus (No longer around)
3) Chef Mickey's D (Good character interaction/Bad food)

HTH

 

[AdWayInc]

You are forgetting the best one - The Garden Grill at the Land...
Hey have Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, and Chip & Dale. And great food too in revolving restaurant!

 

[bubba]

1. Chef Mickeys breakfast
2. Mickeys Backyard BBQ dinner
3. Garden Grill lunch or dinner

Pretty much the same characters at all 3 - Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Chip, Dale ...
We love all three !

 

[stitchlover]

Crystal Palace
Chef Mickey
Lilo and Stitch

 

[Hootch]

1. Crystal Palace dinner - always my favorite both food and Pooh and Friends

2. LTT Dinner - food that will be familiar, good characters and not as hectic as CM

3. Chef Mickey's breakfast - I have oly been to CM for breakfast. It's our last day tradition. Good character interaction.

Others we have done but may not fit your friends needs.

CRT - we do lunch for my daughter but probably not great for a little boy.

Ohana's - it's fun but make sure that you'r friends sone knows who Stitch is. My daughter wasn't too familiar with Lilo and Stitch at three. Mickey and Goofy were there too when we were there but you can get them and other characters at other locations.

 

[beattyfamily]

1. Crystal Palace breakfast
2. Chef Mickey's dinner
3. Ohana breakfast with Stitch
4. H&V breakfast with Jo Jo and Goliath and June and Leo from the Little
Einsteins

(If there were girls then I'd include the PSB breakfast)

 

[graeme1299]

We had a "resort" day during our recent trip and tried Cape May breakfast at 9:30. It was late enough that we did not wait for our ADR's and had fantastic character interaction since most folks had left. Heck, Goofy sat down and wrote notes to DS on our table cloth and Minnie, Pluto and Dale visited multiple times.

Plus, the food is excellent, the resort is gorgeous and they actually had Mousekeeping doing towel animals in the lobby for whoever wanted one. You just had to tell them what you wanted.

Highly recommend this meal.

 

[Sorsha]

1) Garden Grill - lunch or dinner
2) Liberty Tree Tavern - dinner
3) Ohana - breakfast (LOVE dinner there too, but it isn't character)
4) Crystal palace - breakfast.

 

[SGMCO]

We have been to:

#1--O'hana's Best Friends Breakfast (everything about this
meal was good--the Atmosphere, Characters, Food.
we've ate here several times and theConsistency is always the same.

#2--Donaldsbreakfasaurus at AK(name and location is changing--
still at AK but will be I think in Africa) Food Very Good!
Characters Fun!!

On the other hand:
Chef Mickeys for Dinner YUCK! (maybe better for Breakfast)
Character Rushed to get to the next table.

Garden Grill was Gross (we did not like the cafeteria styled food) We also had very little character interaction.

 

[Brian Noble]

I generally prefer the "family style" or "pre-plated" service model to the buffet model, especially with younger kids. It's much nicer not to have to run and get food with the kids in tow given all the other distrations. So, Garden Grill, LTT, CRT, and 'Ohana breakfast all get bonus points. Akershus gets an Incomplete; the first course is buffet, but the second course is set-meal.

 

[Prose]

Best food - Crystal palace dinner.
Food was delicious, and I saw the purest expression of joy on the face of a little one at the next table as the Pooh characters came by.

Best "cool factor" - Chef Mickeys, watching the monorail.
Food is decent, but no one really eats -- there is too much going on.

Best for girls of all ages - Princess lunch at Akershus
DD loved the experience, but did NOT like her kids' pizza - the worst lunch she had all week. The characters were lovely to everyone.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Here are our three favorites (my ds is 9):

1. O'hana Breakfast
2. LTT
3. Chef Mickey's Dinner -- mainly for the access to the Fab Five, the food was ok at best.

We've also had Donald's Breakfastosauraus -- we like the food better, but the character interaction was extremely rushed. I generally prefer not to be trying to get up and get food with characters out and about. The sit down meals are much comfier for the adults.

 

[Jaime]

Crystal Palace....it was fablous..the kids parade around the restaurant...the food was good for a buffet...and the character were great...Winnie and Friends...

We would like to try O'hana's Best Friends Breakfast with Mickey Leo & Stitch and Goofy's Beach Bash Cape May with Goofy, Minnie, Pluto and Chip & Dale all in bathing attire.

We did not like Chef Mickey's...alot of classic characters but very long wait...cold food...selection wasn't good and service was bad...

We have done a few character meals in the past and we personally find the first reservations in any meal to be the best when travelling with little ones...this way your aren't waiting forever to be seated and the characters and servers are "fresh"...the food always seems to be the best then too...also you are usually finished eating by time everyone else startes to so the lines for rides aren't as long either...

 

[shaniadobie]

Breakfast: Cinderella's Castle
Lunch: 50's Prime Time
Dinner: Crystal Palace