Princess Dining Akerhaus- Lunch or Dinner??

[DJmommy]

Can't decide which meal to try for our upcoming trip, but have to do one for DD who will be disappointed that we are not doing CRT. Just can't justify the cost, and since we did it last year we want to try something different.

If anyone can tell me their experience here I would really appreciate it. What have you eaten that was good or outstanding, or bad? How is the atmosphere? What princesses have you seen there? Does the interaction or the meal feel rushed?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mommy*RN]

I have never eated here, but I booked Akershus for breakfast at 10:15 AM. The CM I was working with was wonderful...I was unsure if I should do lunch or breakfast. He suggested breakfast after asking me if I was into "different foods". I told him I really was not and I wasn't sure DH would enjoy unfamiliar foods (boy we're a picky bunch!) He said the breakfast is wonderful and his daughters LOVE it. They serve everything family style and there is so much food! I think he told me that Princess Aurora, Belle, Ariel and possibly Snow White (?) are all there. He said when you first walk in there is a princess there to greet you and your family and they take a picture (you can also take pics). Later that picture is presented to you and you can option to buy it. I guess the other princesses wander around stopping at the tables and such to talk with you and your family...

So - now that I was NO help at all! My SIL did the breakfast also last year and LOVED it!

Good luck with your decision!

 

[ThatsMe]

I'm curious too. I've been in line for Maelstorm when the man comes out and announces the arrival of the princesses.

 

[DaddyBeast]

It's all about the foods, so check the menus.

Breakfast is by far the best at Akershus, followed by lunch, and then dinner.

If the kids are a standard PB&J and Mac-n-Cheese crowd, Lunch and Dinner will not fill them up. If they are into eating different things, then they should love it. Funky cheese and salads - yummy! When the menu says "pasta and meatballs" I think that implies it's not spaghetti.

I heard they wanted to serve more standard fare for the kids, but where's the fun in that?

 

[vatchr]

Can't decide which meal to try for our upcoming trip, but have to do one for DD who will be disappointed that we are not doing CRT. Just can't justify the cost, and since we did it last year we want to try something different.

If anyone can tell me their experience here I would really appreciate it. What have you eaten that was good or outstanding, or bad? How is the atmosphere? What princesses have you seen there? Does the interaction or the meal feel rushed?

Thanks in advance.

We were there in June with my dd's 4 and 6. I had an ADR for lunch booked and then thought about the menu and my dd's are picky eaters. I changed it to a 10:20 breakfast ADR and was very happy that I did. We saw mulan, snow white, sleeping beauty, jazmine and belle. Cinderella is not at breakfast. The breakfast food was great. It was served family style and was the normal "american" breakfast fare. The interaction with the princesses was fantastic. A late breakfast ADR was good. We were able to get to the park, walk around a little, and then eat. By eating late, we could bypass lunch.

 

[scanne]

We just had lunch there on July 19th and it was one of the BEST meals of the trip! Don't be put off by the menu. There is a cold bar with fresh salad greens and cheeses, bread, macaroni salad, chicken salad and then some more tradition Norweigian dishes like beet salad and smoked salmon. The entrees were awesome. I had grilled chicken with pasta tossed in a pesto with sauteed veggies, my DH had the braised short ribs - yummy! and my mom had the open faced salmon sandwich with leek and cheese soup. SOOOOOOOO good! And dessert was amazing! Here are some pictures.

The kids menu had chicken fingers, mac and cheese, grilled cheese and spaghetti and meatballs. My kids shared the spaghetti and meatballs and I tasted it to see if it was "different," but it was very good. My DD ate it up!

 

[scraptoons]

I guess my family is Norwegian or something.

Those pics look like normal ol' stuff I serve around here, except the fancy salmon dish and fancy cheese.

I read someone a while back warn about the garlic on the pasta.

My reaction was YAHOO GARLIC!!!!

We're doing lunch there in December.

Already have breakfast at Chef Mickey's planned.

Didn't want too many big breakfast meals.

 

[Tam1067]

We just ate dinner there on July 14. I had salmon, DH had chicken with pasta (it had a pesto sauce--hardly Norweigian I think), the kids had pizza (the younger two) and pasta with marinara sauce and a meatball (the older). There was nothing "weird" about the food at all. The cold buffet does have some more traditional foods, but it's also got very basic and "normal" if you will green salads, potato salad, peel 'n' eat shrimp with cocktail sauce on the side, several types of bread, and other things. And the desserts were just really, really good.

Please don't avoid dinner or lunch because you're worried about the food being strange, especially for the kids!

 

[tripletots]

Bump. I have to show those pictures to my family. The food looked great! After reading mostly horrid reviews we were thinking of eating at the Garden Grill.

 

[gaelic grace]

We ate breakfast with three girls 4 and under in March. It was wonderful. We had our pictures taken with Belle and then Mary Poppins, Snow White, Jasmine, and Aurora came around to the table. The food was regular American fare and the kids ate it all and then some. The really neat thing was we saw Jasmine again that afternoon outside of Morocco and my best friends son was with us. Jasmine recognized the girls and asked him why he wasn't at breakfast. It made the girls trip that she remembered them.

 

[DJmommy]

Thanks for all your comments, and especially the pictures. We have a dinner ADR and I am really looking forward to it now. My DD will be thrilled, since last time she never got to meet Jasmine during our trip.

Thanks again all.

 

[gwcollins71]

We just had lunch there on July 19th and it was one of the BEST meals of the trip! Don't be put off by the menu. There is a cold bar with fresh salad greens and cheeses, bread, macaroni salad, chicken salad and then some more tradition Norweigian dishes like beet salad and smoked salmon. The entrees were awesome. I had grilled chicken with pasta tossed in a pesto with sauteed veggies, my DH had the braised short ribs - yummy! and my mom had the open faced salmon sandwich with leek and cheese soup. SOOOOOOOO good! And dessert was amazing! Here are some pictures.

The kids menu had chicken fingers, mac and cheese, grilled cheese and spaghetti and meatballs. My kids shared the spaghetti and meatballs and I tasted it to see if it was "different," but it was very good. My DD ate it up!

Thanks for sharing... this is the one meal we were worried about. We wanted breakfast, couldn't get it and got lunch instead. Your chicken with pasta looks great. I'll be having that.

Thanks for posting.

Gretchen

 

[bdb7607]

We were there in February for breakfast - kids loved it, each princess spent some time chatting with the kids, DS6 enjoyed the flirting he got from Jasmine - he wants to go back next trip! Also saw Mulan, Snow White, Aurora & Belle.

Food was very good, opened up with Cinnimmon Rolls & Fruit. Scrambled Eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits & awesome cheese potato "casserole" dish.