Review my Rough Draft

[Colleen27]

One "real" adult, two young adults (DS & his SO), one teen, and one nine-year-old that I'm upgrading to an adult. Deluxe dining plan. Five nights/six days. That's 75 meal credits and 50 snacks. No park hoppers. We will have a car but I don't plan to use it; except for the one early morning breakfast, we'll be using Disney transportation for everything.

We're staying at CBR but not planning to eat at the resort due to the construction, and since only the 9yo and I will do early mornings I'm not planning many breakfasts. Snacks or leftovers will do until we all meet up for lunch.

This is what I have so far.

Sunday: arriving mid-morning, no park
L: California Grill, 12pm (10)
D: Raglan Road, 7pm (5)

Monday: Epcot
B: Cape May Cafe, 7:30am (me & DD9 - 2) (Uber to get to this one)
L: snacks @ Flower & Garden booths
D: Rose & Crown, 8pm (DS & SO - 2)
Spice Road Table, 8pm (me & DDs - 3)

Tuesday: Studios
B: snacks
L: 50s Prime Time, 11am (5)
D: Sci-Fi Dine In, 8:30pm (5)

Wednesday: Magic Kingdom (the one exception to my no-early-mornings planning)
B: Be Our Guest??, 8am (5? or share?)
L: snacks? shared lunch somewhere?
D: Narcoosees, 5pm (10)

Thursday: Animal Kingdom
B: snacks
L: Yak & Yeti, 11:30 (5)
D: Yachtsman Steakhouse, 9pm (10)

Friday: swim/resort, departing late afternoon
B: snacks
L: Ohana, 3:30pm (5)

Total credits planned: 67/75

I'm not sure about my MK plan at this point. I kind of want a PPO breakfast since we're going to be packing a lot into this day, but I don't love any of the breakfast options. I'm guessing at park hours of 9am to 10pm, including EMH, though Touring Plans is predicting an 11pm close, and I want dinner to be on the early side so we can enjoy the later evening hours.

Thoughts? Advice?

 

[JerseyJanice]

I'm not sure I would plan an ADR for California Grill that close to my arrival time, but beyond that, I think your plan looks good.

 

[Mickey92]

I'm not sure about my MK plan at this point. I kind of want a PPO breakfast since we're going to be packing a lot into this day,

I’ve done PPO BOG. Recently, they have been allowing you to ride SDMT before the park opens. There is, of course, no guarantee, but it seems to be happening on a regular bases from what I hear. Your other plans look good. Lots of great restaurants! Have fun!

 

[Colleen27]

I'm not sure I would plan an ADR for California Grill that close to my arrival time, but beyond that, I think your plan looks good.

We're spending Saturday on the Gulf Coast, so we won't have far to come on our Disney arrival day. It is just about an hour and a half drive from the place we're spending Saturday night to the main gate of Disney World.

 

[Maggie Marrero]

This Plan looks good and you have some wiggle room. My only suggestion would be on the day you and DD9 are doing the early morning Cape May Cafe, why don't you switch that to a Garden Grill in Epcot? They have a good breakfast, the restaraunt rotates, and it's got characters. Plus you would be at the land Pavillion so you could catch Soarin right at park open.

 

[Colleen27]

I’ve done PPO BOG. Recently, they have been allowing you to ride SDMT before the park opens. There is, of course, no guarantee, but it seems to be happening on a regular bases from what I hear. Your other plans look good. Lots of great restaurants! Have fun!

I saw that on EasyWDW and it sounds wonderful! We did BoG for breakfast once before, when it first opened, but not PPO. The food didn't wow us so I'm not super excited to go back, but it seems like it would be worth it with the new rope drop process.

 

[Colleen27]

This Plan looks good and you have some wiggle room. My only suggestion would be on the day you and DD9 are doing the early morning Cape May Cafe, why don't you switch that to a Garden Grill in Epcot? They have a good breakfast, the restaraunt rotates, and it's got characters. Plus you would be at the land Pavillion so you could catch Soarin right at park open.

I thought about that. We liked Garden Grill when we went for dinner but the breakfast menu is rather unappealing to me, and we've never tried Cape May. Plus DD is getting to the point where she's less interested in characters but she still wants to see Donald. So I'm thinking that we'll make that ADR as early as possible with the goal of hitting the IG rope drop. She'll be excited to see the new Soarin' before the big kids (I'm planning an afternoon FP for that one for the whole group), and then we can hit some of her favorites that annoy the older kids (our Figment record is 8 rides in a day! )