Please Rate My Itinerary

[gtp]

Please Rate My Itinerary. Thank you!

Saturday
Cinderella's Royal Table
Magic Kingdom® Park
Time: 2:40 p.m.
Restaurant Marrakesh
Epcot®
Time: 7:45 p.m.

Sunday
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
Epcot®
Time: 1:30 p.m.
California Grill
Disney's Contemporary Resort
Time: 9:35 p.m.

Monday
Citricos
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Time: 6:20 p.m.

Tuesday
Tokyo Dining
Epcot®
Time: 12:00 p.m.
The Hollywood Brown Derby
Disney's Hollywood Studios®
Time: 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday
Tusker House Restaurant
Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Jiko – The Cooking Place
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
Time: 8:05 p.m.

Thursday
The Crystal Palace
Magic Kingdom® Park
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Flying Fish Café
Disney's BoardWalk
Time: 5:50 p.m.

Friday
Teppan Edo
Epcot®
Time: 12:40 p.m.

 

[Sweet Melissa]

You have a good selection of restaurants there! Eat light at your lunches, especially on Thursday. You'll want to make sure you're hungry for Flying Fish!

 

[gtp]

Thanks for the suggestion of a light lunch on Thursday. I am trying to get an earlier lunch time at the Crystal Palace, but have not had any luck! I have heard good things about the food at the Flying Fish. This is our first trip so we have never been to any of these restaurants.

 

[disneymomof1]

Looks great to me, my only question, are you traveling with children, because you have a couple late dinners and with kids sometimes, even with a nap, they are exhausted later in the evening. You have some great ADR's, love them all !!

 

[gtp]

Yes we actually have a 2yo and a 4yo. Some of the reasons for the late dinner times were: those were the only times available, trying to have enough time to get back to the resort for an afternoon nap and getting to the other resort in time for dinner, and seeing Hallowishes fireworks. Do you think it is feasible with 2 kids? We are trying to see a different park each morning and night, while squeezing in an afternoon nap. Thanks

 

[dvcHammer]

with a 2 and 4 y/o in tow, be prepared to miss a few of those, especially the late ones.

It's no big deal to go with the flow and have to cancel some if you need to. Make sure everyone is having fun is the important part.

 

[hannahdrewmom]

The restaurant choice are fine... the times are terrible with a 2 and 4 year old. I would really try to scale back on the meals so late. Later meals normally have longer waits AND they are already late to begin with. I can not imagine nap/no nap having a kid eating a meal that won't start until 8 or even worse 9:35! Those signature meals take 1.5 normally and I just don't see an overtired child sitting through a meal quietly. I have 2 and 4 year old and they have both been many times..... but there is no way we would make it.

 

[gtp]

We are on the DxDP and so made all these ADRs to use up all the credits. I don't even know how we are going to use all those snack credits (food and wine festival maybe?).
Maybe if the kids wake up late and/or get a long afternoon nap they will be able to go for a few late dinners? California Grill for fireworks was hard to secure. What is the earliest dinner ADR time for watching fireworks at the California Grill?

 

[Sweet Melissa]

We are on the DxDP and so made all these ADRs to use up all the credits. I don't even know how we are going to use all those snack credits (food and wine festival maybe?).
Maybe if the kids wake up late and/or get a long afternoon nap they will be able to go for a few late dinners? California Grill for fireworks was hard to secure. What is the earliest dinner ADR time for watching fireworks at the California Grill?

That depends on what time the fireworks are and whether there's a Halloween party the night that you're going. Hallowishes will be at 9:30 PM. I think the earliest reservation you could feasibly make without seriously overstaying your welcome in the dining room would be 7:30-ish.

 

[budafam]

Can I ask what dates you're going? We have an ADR at Cali Grill for 9:30 on Halloween night and I'm hoping we'll be able to see the fireworks but I'm not counting on it. I'll have a 5 year old with me and I know what you mean about trying to use up the credits. Everything is booked now that I've been looking to switch. Oh well... all we can do is try Luckily my son is pretty good about stuff like this.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Please Rate My Itinerary. Thank you!

Saturday
Cinderella's Royal Table
Magic Kingdom® Park
Time: 2:40 p.m.>>>>I would change this for an earlier time. Or push back Makarresh for later.
Restaurant Marrakesh
Epcot®
Time: 7:45 p.m.

Sunday
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
Epcot®
Time: 1:30 p.m.
California Grill
Disney's Contemporary Resort
Time: 9:35 p.m.

Monday
Citricos
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Time: 6:20 p.m.

Tuesday
Tokyo Dining
Epcot®
Time: 12:00 p.m.
The Hollywood Brown Derby
Disney's Hollywood Studios®
Time: 4:15 p.m.>>>Can you get a later time??? Not much of a gap between meals

Wednesday
Tusker House Restaurant
Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Jiko – The Cooking Place
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
Time: 8:05 p.m.

Thursday
The Crystal Palace
Magic Kingdom® Park
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Flying Fish Café
Disney's BoardWalk
Time: 5:50 p.m. >>>there is not much of a gap between CP & FF. From experience, whenever we ate at CP we'd be full for at least 6 hours.

Friday
Teppan Edo
Epcot®
Time: 12:40 p.m.

Other than the suggestions i have indicated above, everything looks amazing! Great selections.

 

[OhThePain]

Other than the suggestions i have indicated above, everything looks amazing! Great selections.

While we personally wouldn't eat at some of those restaurants, if those are the choices you want, then thats all that matters. However I will agree with the PP where she noted. You have some meals right on top of eachother (you will literally have to leave CP to head to the Boardwalk to make it to your Flying Fish ADR).

Also, with the little ones, especially since it is your first trip, you might want to consider dropping to the basic dining plan this time around. It's a lot of food and a lot of time away from the parks that, when you look back, all your going to think about is the food and nothing else. So while yes, food is a big part of a WDW trip, it is not the only part and with a 2 and 4 year old you may have lost sight on what the trip is supposed to be about.

 

[gtp]

budafam - We are going 10/22-10/28. Good luck with making your ADR
goofy - Brown Derby is the Fantasmic package, CP and FF gap is a problem, but not much luck with reservation times so far
We'll have to have a light lunch if we can't move.
I was able to move the Jiko dinner to an earlier time
OTP - We can't handle too much fast food/sandwiches/fries over a week trip. The DxDDP seems to be the way to get higher quality entrees, seafood, veggies etc. The DDP has a lot of CS meals.

 

[belleatheart]

I would consider moving or getting rid of CP, or a breakfast there, a late breakfast, try going in the morning and seeing if you can get in earlier, they just might have an opening, and knowing disney they will, and not being so close to your other meal

 

[gtp]

I would consider moving or getting rid of CP, or a breakfast there, a late breakfast, try going in the morning and seeing if you can get in earlier, they just might have an opening, and knowing disney they will, and not being so close to your other meal

So you think that if we just show up at CP for breakfast or early lunch that we have a chance of getting in?

I wonder if we show up to California Grill at 8pm if we would have any chance of getting seated early? Has anyone ever pulled this off with a 9:35 ADR?

 

[OhThePain]

OTP - We can't handle too much fast food/sandwiches/fries over a week trip. The DxDDP seems to be the way to get higher quality entrees, seafood, veggies etc. The DDP has a lot of CS meals.

If you do your research you can easily spend a week at WDW, eating nothing but CS meals and never have pizza, a burger, fries or a chicken finger. CHH at MK, Sunshine Seasons at EC, Flame Tree BBQ at AK, EoS or WPE at DTD are just some restaurants with more to offer than the typical fast food restaurant. Check out the menus on allears.net. Dropping to the basic dining plan will really help minimize your travel/restaurant down time and maximize your park time while still giving you that TS meal break durring your day.

As for showing up early to ADRs, sometimes restaurants can help you out and you'll be able to get seated. However, if they can't help you then you risk just sitting there until your actual ADR time + any addition wait time you may have had had you checked in normally. Like showing up to CG at 8 for a 9:35 ADR. Well HalloWishes is that night at 9:30 or so, which means if you get there at 9:35 odds are you're going to have an additional wait for the restaurant to clear out (people tend to drag their meals there until after Wishes). If you were to show up for your 9:35 ADR at 9:30 or whatever, you could still wait until almost 10 before you get seated. If you show up at 8 for the 9:35 ADR, you could still wait until almost 10 before you get seated, but there is a chance you could get seated early. It's all luck of the draw.

 

[gtp]

Great advice on eating options with CS. Do you think it would be easier to try to eat healthy at a TS as compared to CS? (Quality proteins, fish, steamed veggies, fruit, etc.) Sometimes restaurants are more accommodating to special requests.
I don't have a good feeling about showing up early for dinner at the CG. I would hate to waste an hour or more there if we cannot get seated. Maybe we would have better luck trying to come early to the CP? At least we can do something else if they refuse us for breakfast.

 

[abay]

You definitely chose some great restaurants, but I think you aren't going to be happy with your meal plan, in the end. We have 2 and 5 year olds too. Someone told us before our first trip to Disney to try to keep to their regular schedule as much as possible. It was the best advice we were ever given.

We are very careful about what we eat at home. On vacation, we sort of give up a little bit. Sometimes, my kids will eat better at a CS meal then at the TS meals due to the stupid kid's menus everywhere. Do some research on CS meals, especially at Epcot and at the resorts.

My fear for you, besides your kids being in a restaurant at 8 or 9 pm, is that you aren't leaving alot of time for theme park touring (which is pretty slow with the littles).

Anyway, just my 2 cents. Have an amazing vacation!

 

[JCbob]

Looks like an expensive dining week for you! hah.

 

[gtp]

It seems difficult to try to balance out eating well with theme park touring. The food at the TS restaurants look a lot more appealing to me than the CS food. The CS menus at Disney World remind me of the CS food at Disneyland. In the past, we can't really handle more than one day of eating DL CS food.
Unfortunately the signature dining is mostly at the resorts, which cuts out even more time from theme parks. We will have a rental car so hopefully this will save us time driving ourselves to dinner rather than taking the shuttle? Do most people use the parking lot or valet when they go to their resort ADRs?