Question about La Hacienda de San Angel

[luvgoing2disney]

We've not eaten here, but the reviews seem to be good. Is the music piped in if you eat during Illuminations? How is the view, even if not seated by a window?

 

[Robo]

We've not eaten here, but the reviews seem to be good.

1. Is the music piped in if you eat during Illuminations?
2. How is the view,
3. even if not seated by a window?

1. Yes.
2. If you can see out of the windows, good.
3. If you can't see out of the windows, no views.
No guarantee of where you'll be seated.

 

[Praying Colonel]

^Yep. We've eaten there several times and always had OK-to-great Illuminations seating. Except for our last trip, where they stuck us way back in a corner where we could see nothing. We ordered the quickest apps we could get and got out of there so we could actually see Illuminations. It happens.

 

[NuJoy]

The music is piped during Illuminations. We've been dining here during the Illuminations show every year since the restaurant opened. View is very limited imo. Even getting a window seat does not guarantee you a good view. To add, very nicely requesting a window seat and saying you are willing to wait for one has been met with a pretty snotty attitude from the outside hostess podium every single time. The treatment is so off-putting for my husband that he really hates eating here now. He does so for me because I love/crave mexican food and like their food pretty well; I really love their rose margarita; and even without a perfect view, you still get the ambiance of the show. (We stopped asking for any particular view in the last year or two.) In addition, right before it opened, we had dined with an imagineer who worked on the the lighting for this restaurant so we were very interested and had a great appreciation for the decor after that. Keep in mind also, that when La Hacienda was built, the reviews of San Angel Inn were terrible so there just wasn't another higher end mexican restaurant in Epcot to choose from for those who really craved it. With the recent rave reviews for San Angel Inn, we are opting to try them out again in September and will be supplementing La Cava as well for their excellent avocado margaritas.

 

[purple figment]

We've not eaten here, but the reviews seem to be good. Is the music piped in if you eat during Illuminations? How is the view, even if not seated by a window?

La Hacienda has tables with an excellent view of IllumiNations, tables with an okay to obstructed view and tables with no view at all. While some have been able to ask for and wait for a table with a good view, others like Nujoy have posted that the castmembers at the check in podium will not allow you to wait and you will have to take the next table for your size group. If seeing IllumiNations is important it would be better to make a reservation early enough so if you have a table without a good view you will have time to finish and find a spot around the lagoon.