Tentative Dining Plan-Comments??

[GrannyEv]

Well getting down to the crunch. I got the dining plan with my package and had a heck of a time picking which restaurants I would like to eat at. So following is my plan. Would love some comments.

We arrive on Sunday, October 22 and get in late, so will be eating at the resort. (ASM)

Monday, October 23

ANIMAL KINGDOM:

Breakfast at the resort OOP
Lunch at the Tusker House
Dinner at Sci-Fi Diner(MGM) my DD ate there 10 years ago when she was a teen, now she has a daughter of her own and wanted to eat there again.

Tuesday, October 24

EPCOT:

Breakfast at the resort OOP
Lunch at the Electric Umbrella-Future World
Dinner - Princess Storybook-Akershus, Norway

Wednesday, october 25

MAGIC KINGDOM:

Breakfast at the resort - OOP
Lunch at Cosmic Rays - Tomorrowland
Dinner - Chef Mickey's - Contemporary Resort

Thursday, October 26

MGM:

Breakfast - at the resort OOP
Lunch - Story Pizza Planet
Dinner - Fantasmic Dinner Pky - Hollywood & Vine

Friday, October 27/06

VARIOUS PARKS OR REST DAY:

Breakfast at Resort OOP
Lunch - Peco's Bills's MK-Frontierland
Dinner - Boma - Animal Kingdom Lodge

Saturday, October 28/06

VARIOUS PARKS OR REST DAY:

Breakfast at resort OOP
Lunch - Earl of Sandwhich DTD
Dinner - Wolfgang Pucks

We leave on Sunday the 29th.
So would like some comments as I've never used the dining plan before. I went and looked at all the menus and picked stuff that we liked to eat and went from there

Hugs
GrannyEv

Breakfast - at the resort

 

[NAB]

Sounds good to me. Don't really need to plan the lunch part though since is not a table service. So if you don't get there or change your mind your fine. It is nice to just go there and give a card. We went in Jan. and are going at the end of August again. We came home and added our bills we paid $600+ for our package and spend just over $1200. We went to places we would not if we had to pay. It is nice to have an appetizer, entree and dessert and non alcholic drink. We found ourselves spliting the lunch with the kids because there is way to much food. Also brought the dessert back from lunch and the kids at it for breakfeast or late snack in the room. When splitting you could save that credit to split breakfeast in the morning.

Alot of the time I switched with my 9 year old because he wanted off the adult menu or adult dessert. Sometimes, at Primetime they let him order the huge ice cream anyway. Just ask.

 

[Miandrea]

Your meals sound pretty good! You will have a great time. Let us know how your trip goes.

 

[GrannyEv]

Thanks for the tips. Yes, the lunch part is pretty open, but I was trying to pick different things for my grandaughter and eat at places she's enjoy. So that can be changed. I will be making ADR's for the dinners.

And I'll let you know how it turns out.

Hugs
GrannyEv

 

[pxlbarrel]

Where's Le Cellier????

Everytime I go to a steak restaurant now, I sigh heavily and think of Le Cellier.

 

[PrincessTrisha]

The only thing I would suggest is instead of the Electric Umbrella (which don't get me wrong, it's an okay counter service restaurant) to try Seasons at the land. It had a really good selection of both entrees and desserts.

Have a really great trip.

We'll be there the same time.

 

[GrannyEv]

Where's Le Cellier????

Everytime I go to a steak restaurant now, I sigh heavily and think of Le Cellier.

Oh darn!! Guess I will have to get that on my next trip!!

 

[GrannyEv]

The only thing I would suggest is instead of the Electric Umbrella (which don't get me wrong, it's an okay counter service restaurant) to try Seasons at the land. It had a really good selection of both entrees and desserts.

Have a really great trip.

We'll be there the same time.

Well thanks. I will check it out. My DGD loves salads. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Disney5Mom]

We did the Dining Plan last January and found it was tons of food!! We often took our dessert to go: put it in the fridge and had it for breakfast the next day. We were 5 adults including 2 early 20's males and we could not eat all the food included!! But we had a great time trying We agree with PrincessTrisha also loved the Seasons Food Court and highly recomend it. The Beet and goat cheese salad is yummy.

 

[mickeywho?]

We did Dining Plan for our last trip and found that there was often too much food for the kids to get through & my eldest always wanted to order off the adult menu at CS restaurants (the kid meals are often the same at each restaurant). We found after the first couple of days that we would order three CS adult lunches and split between the four of us. We could then use 1 CS for breakfast and pay oop for the rest or use snack credits (piece of fruit, cereal bars etc.) It kept our oop expenses to the minimum and we had more than enough food to get full value from the DP.
Your picks look like you have a good variety - we loved Tusker House, H&V was crazy busy (don't expect great service the poor wait staff are overworked) plus we waited 45 along with all the others who had the same ADR!. Our biggest surprise of the trip was Raglan Road at DTD - it was amazing!! Very different in quality from the other restaurants plus it's a great family pub with entertainment. At MGM for lunch we went to ABC Commissary - great food, great variety & much prefered over Toy Story.
Have fun on your trip - the DP really gets you eating around the world!!

 

[SplashMom]

Looks great--pretty similar to our list. It's hard to narrow it down with so many tasty choices! We are going for 14 days so we were able to add a few more locations. Can't wait for the dining plan and we leave in 3 days!!!