Time for Ohana

[baivasps]

What time are the kids activities at O'hana (races, etc.)? I have a choice between a 5:10 and 6:40 reservation for June.

 

[Laketravis]

About every 30 minutes, so you'll be fine with either of those.

 

[parkedgourmet]

Generally we enjoy the interactive events of Disney restaurants, but make sure that you really really really enjoy pineapple in everything before going. I have never been to a restaurant that my family left the bread and the dessert. I could not eat pineapple for months after the experience.

 

[bdcp]

Generally we enjoy the interactive events of Disney restaurants, but make sure that you really really really enjoy pineapple in everything before going. I have never been to a restaurant that my family left the bread and the dessert. I could not eat pineapple for months after the experience.

Seriously? Exxagerate much? Ohana has to have some of the best food we've eaten at WDW. We eat there every trip. The bread and bread pudding are delicious. The Pineapple is not in "everything". There's no pinepapple in the salad, or the wings, the potstickers, or the meats, so, how can you say it's in everything?

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Generally we enjoy the interactive events of Disney restaurants, but make sure that you really really really enjoy pineapple in everything before going. I have never been to a restaurant that my family left the bread and the dessert. I could not eat pineapple for months after the experience.

I DETEST pineapple and I left 'Ohana thinking it was one of the greatest dinners I've ever had in WDW! Why did you leave the dessert? Isn't it a banana sauce on it? Not pineapple. Either way, we asked for our dessert without the sauce and just enjoyed our plain bread pudding with ice cream.

OP: I think you'll be fine with either time.

 

[sumsmommy03]

I would go with the earlier time in case there's a wait to be seated. I love Ohana!
We ate there in November and I don't remember tasting anything with pineapple! The dessert was a bread pudding with a sauce...maybe bananas no pineapple though.

 

[crostorfer]

I think the poster that mentioned the "pineapple" thing must be confusing Ohana with the Luau. The Luau menu I think had some pineapple options on there, and we had pineapple at Ohana for breakfast, but not one bit of it for dinner.

We had an 8:40 reservation and the activities for us started right after the MK fireworks finished. It was wonderful, we can't wait to go back!!!

 

[bdcp]

I think the poster that mentioned the "pineapple" thing must be confusing Ohana with the Luau. The Luau menu I think had some pineapple options on there, and we had pineapple at Ohana for breakfast, but not one bit of it for dinner.

We had an 8:40 reservation and the activities for us started right after the MK fireworks finished. It was wonderful, we can't wait to go back!!!

Even at the luau, not everything has pineapple, although there is pineapple in things. I can't remember entirely because we did that in 2005.

 

[disneyfan4ivie]

This is continuous al night. Take which ever reservation you want.

 

[C&B Young]

I would go with the earlier time in case there's a wait to be seated.

This. We've eaten at 'Ohana 3 times now, and our shortest wait was 20 mins. after our ADR time, longest was 45 minutes. We've never been seated on time there.

 

[cymbaldiva]

Generally we enjoy the interactive events of Disney restaurants, but make sure that you really really really enjoy pineapple in everything before going. I have never been to a restaurant that my family left the bread and the dessert. I could not eat pineapple for months after the experience.

I agree with previous posters.

I didn't eat the bread at Ohana - nut allergy. I don't think pineapple is even in any of the other dishes though... perhaps you have this restaurant confused with someplace else?

OP - either time will work out for you...the kid events are scheduled pretty closely together - you won't miss them.

 

[DisneyFamily123]

I don't usually speak negatively about restaurants, but Ohana was terrible. If you really have to waste your time on this place, I suggest you arrive an HOUR before your reservation time.

Ohana has some really tacky kids activities... about 30 seconds of pushing a coconut with a broom and that's about it. And you might have to wait 2 hours (even with a reservation) just to sit down... how enjoyable is that for children? Go to Spirit of Aloha or Hoop Dee Doo instead... at least beer and wine is included..... Aloha is also a little tacky but the fire juggler at the end is great. DS4 laughed non stop at Hoop Dee Doo.

Last week at Ohana was a nightmare... arrived right on time for a 5:10pm ADR... was a line just to checkin... by the time I got through that line, it was 5:30, then the person checking us in said their computer stopped working, waited 10 more minutes, then got a pager. Had to wait another HOUR to get seated.... Management didn't care... acted like they were doing us a favor since we supposedly checked in late... even though we were there on time! The manager was quick to be defensive and try to blame us for being late (when we were NOT) and also quick to quote restaurant "policy".

While trying to rush through our meal, we asked to take our dessert to go... (we were now late for the Christmas party at Magic Kingdom), our wonderful server checked with the manager/chef and we were told they don't do that.

Dined at over 50 other restaurants at WDW, never had problems like this. When we finally left Ohana, the line JUST TO CHECK IN, was about 5 times as long stretching all the way past Kona Cafe toward the monorail...

And the HOUR wait to sit down would have been longer if I had not complained repeatedly. Yet, Ohana was still taking walk-ins! The people sitting next to us outside the restaurant said they were walk-ins and given a pager, and quoted up to 2 hour wait... so what was the point of me making the Ohana ADR 6 months in advance?

Folks, the food just isn't that good when there are so many other nicer places to eat.....

Try Flying Fish Cafe, Narcoosees, Citricos, Yak and Yeti, Coral Reef.... just to name a few....

 

[*pixie*dust*]

Generally we enjoy the interactive events of Disney restaurants, but make sure that you really really really enjoy pineapple in everything before going. I have never been to a restaurant that my family left the bread and the dessert. I could not eat pineapple for months after the experience.

The bread is coconut bread. The dessert is bread pudding with banana foster sauce. In the old days pineapple with caramel was the dessert.

 

[verticalchaos]

The bread is coconut bread. The dessert is bread pudding with banana foster sauce. In the old days pineapple with caramel was the dessert.

Is the bread in the bread pudding coconut too? I have a feeling I'm not going to be a happy camper... (Well, depending on what happens when I call them and have a coconut allergy added onto the reservation...)

 

[cymbaldiva]

Is the bread in the bread pudding coconut too? I have a feeling I'm not going to be a happy camper... (Well, depending on what happens when I call them and have a coconut allergy added onto the reservation...)

No, its not. I am not a fan of coconut - not allergic, just not a fan. When we ate at Ohanas, it wasn't part of the desert.

Just out of curiosity, are you actually allergic to coconut? Your post isn't clear about that....

 

[FourHunters]

I love Ohana too!
Me, my son, my daught, my dad, my mon will all go!

 

[verticalchaos]

No, its not. I am not a fan of coconut - not allergic, just not a fan. When we ate at Ohanas, it wasn't part of the desert.

Just out of curiosity, are you actually allergic to coconut? Your post isn't clear about that....

Not anaphylactic allergic. But my stomach reacts in a way that's not magical to anyone within eyeshot if I eat it. My doctor's said it's another form of allergy.