T-Rex

[oreoparris]

Planning a spring break trip with the kids for the first time but are not getting park hopper passes. We are currently scheduled to eat lunch at the T-Rex at 1 pm in downtown Disney on the day we are in Epcot. I had a friend suggest that this would end up being a big time waste. Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[Robo]

It WILL take up a lot of time.
Just getting between Epcot & DS and parking will take a substantial portion.

Epcot has so many good restaurants, I'd book one in the park that day, instead.
Such as... Garden Grill (The Land, Disney character meal) or San Angel Inn (Mexico, no characters.)

 

[oreoparris]

It WILL take up a lot of time.

We are suppose to take a bus for transportation. How much time are we talking?

 

[subtchr]

I also think it would be a large chunk out of your day. Our family loves Epcot and would never leave for hours to have lunch at DS. Especially since there are so many terrific places to eat in Epcot.

 

[subtchr]

We are suppose to take a bus for transportation. How much time are we talking?

There are no buses directly from the parks to Disney Springs. So you would have to get to a resort, then a bus to DS, then the opposite on the way back. You could walk out the IG to Beach Club to get the bus, but you should give yourselves an hour to get there. Then an hour and a half or so to eat, then another hour to get back to Epcot. Could be quicker if the bus comes right away, but mid-day buses at DS can be inconsistent.

 

[Robo]

We are suppose to take a bus for transportation. How much time are we talking?

Figure it will take 45 min.+ to get to DS, and and hour to get back to Epcot.
You can't take a bus directly from/to a theme park from/to DS, so you'd have to walk to, say, Beach Club, and grab a bus to DS from there. Returning would be a similar effort.

Dining, likely 75-95 minutes, plus walking to/from the restaurant.

Time KILLER!

 

[oreoparris]

Figure it will take 45 min.+ to get to DS, and and hour to get back to Epcot.
You can't take a bus directly from/to a theme park from/to DS, so you'd have to walk to, say, Beach Club, and grab a bus to DS from there. Returning would be a similar effort.

Dining, likely 75-95 minutes, plus walking to/from the restaurant.

Time KILLER!

Thank you guys!!!

 

[Robo]

to the DISboards, oreoparris!

 

[oreoparris]

to the DISboards, oreoparris!

Thanks!!! I am getting so excited, I think more than the kids. Lol

 

[Alesia]

We are suppose to take a bus for transportation. How much time are we talking?

I would count on 4 hours.

 

[UmmYeahOk]

Do you have a half day or something? Last year, we ate at T-Rex for lunch the day we landed. Spent the rest of the day there shopping and playing. This year, only time we have for T-Rex is lunch and Downtown Disney is the day we leave. And it will be tight =(

 

[oreoparris]

Do you have a half day or something? Last year, we ate at T-Rex for lunch the day we landed. Spent the rest of the day there shopping and playing. This year, only time we have for T-Rex is lunch and Downtown Disney is the day we leave. And it will be tight =(

We are planning on going the day we land. So from airport (land at 12:20) need to drop off bags at AoA hotel and then we're thinking of going to T-Rex at DS but have a fast pass in Magic Kingdom at 3. I'm thinking we don't have enough time for all that, do we?

 

[Alesia]

We are planning on going the day we land. So from airport (land at 12:20) need to drop off bags at AoA hotel and then we're thinking of going to T-Rex at DS but have a fast pass in Magic Kingdom at 3. I'm thinking we don't have enough time for all that, do we?

If you go directly to MK, you won't get there until close to 3:30. You absolutely don't have time to go to DS.

 

[minnie mum]

We are planning on going the day we land. So from airport (land at 12:20) need to drop off bags at AoA hotel and then we're thinking of going to T-Rex at DS but have a fast pass in Magic Kingdom at 3. I'm thinking we don't have enough time for all that, do we?

You will never make that FP. You won't get to AOL much before 1:45 if you take ME. If you pick up your own bags and use a taxi or car service, you might get there by 1:15 (if your flight is on time). With transportation time to DS from your resort, and assuming no wait to be seated at TRex (do you have an ADR? ), you will likely finish eating around 3:30 at the very earliest. Then you have to get to MK, which you can't get to directly from DS- you would have to catch a bus to a resort and then to the park. Figure at least another hour. Is TRex really that important to your trip?

 

[UmmYeahOk]

You definitely want an reservation. If you go on a weekend, expect a two hour wait time or worse, no matter how bad the weather is. If going on a weekday, lunch isn't as bad, but evenings may get worse since Animal Kingdom closes early, so a lot of people head on out there.

 

[Alesia]

You definitely want an reservation. If you go on a weekend, expect a two hour wait time or worse, no matter how bad the weather is. If going on a weekday, lunch isn't as bad, but evenings may get worse since Animal Kingdom closes early, so a lot of people head on out there.

If you join the Landry's Select Club you get priority seating without an ADR.

 

[tinawv]

We schedule TRex for dinner on a day when we visit AK. Since the park closes earlier than the other parks, we don't feel cheated on park time.

 

[oreoparris]

We have an ADR for that day as of right now. We can also move our first fast pass (3 pm) down to later in the day. I think it's really our only time to do the T-Rex as we are not going for that long and the boys seem to really want to go. I think our next fast pass is at 4:30. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for all the info. We might just be scrapping the T-Rex :-(

 

[NYHeel]

I don't question any of your time estimates for travel, but my goodness how does lunch take so long. 75-95 minutes to eat lunch?! What are they serving there?

I also have a much different approach to eating while at WDW. We eat out of necessity, since it's needed to live and all that. But eating is a just a means to get back out to the parks and have fun. I'll have plenty of time to eat at nice restaurants at home.

 

[UmmYeahOk]

I also have a much different approach to eating while at WDW. We eat out of necessity, since it's needed to live and all that. But eating is a just a means to get back out to the parks and have fun. I'll have plenty of time to eat at nice restaurants at home.

Yeah, but there's no T-Rex there. You're lucky if you even have a Rainforest Café. These are themed restaurants, so you're going for the atmosphere, the attraction. It may not be a ride, but it's something cool to look at, and a memorable experience, not to mention a break from walking. We always eat at one restaurant at MGM and EPCOT, but at MK, I totally get you. Time is way too important. There's so much to do, and so little time. This is why we only eat at counter service places. But that's the only park where I have this rule.

This year I got an ADR at Rainforest Café at the AK location right as the park closes. It didn't make sense for me to make an ADR at the downtown Disney location since T-Rex for that day was already full. The strange thing is, I've eaten at the location many times, and yet there's a local one 20 minutes from me! Been there since 1998! ...But no T-Rex. We waited so long to get in last year, that by the time we ordered, my daughter fell asleep. She missed out on all the dinosaurs. But at least she got to spend two hours digging for dino fossils