Watch Out "WORLD" the Scrappers are coming - Thanksgiving 2013!

[BernardandMissBianca]

bummer...can't you come down on the 7th? we usually take the 6pm flight out

sounds like a fun weekend get away for you two!

We are headed down 11/8 not 12/8. Bummer!!!

 

[mommy2mrb]

We are headed down 11/8 not 12/8. Bummer!!!

big bummer

 

[mommy2mrb]

hello ladies!

sent PM's out to a few of you who are still planning on coming down in Nov to see if you are wanting to join in on the Thanksgiving lunch! Shawna's DH Bruce is needing some more concrete numbers to figure out a place to hold us all!

please let me know ASAP...getting the first page updated too!

 

[mommy2mrb]

I've heard back from everyone but jacksmomma...and updated the first post to who is going and joining in for lunch on thanksgiving!
will let Bruce know what we have for now and hopefully we well have some places to choose from soon!

 

[JJ&JHsmom]

Looks like quite a crew for Thanksgiving lunch!

Julia is still debating her birthday dinner, she is too funny. Doesn't want to get up early on her birthday, not sure what she wants to do at all.

 

[mommy2mrb]

Looks like quite a crew for Thanksgiving lunch!

Julia is still debating her birthday dinner, she is too funny. Doesn't want to get up early on her birthday, not sure what she wants to do at all.

it is! will be fun to spend lunch together though was FB with Bruce last night and he will start working on finding a place soon, been busy with work!

Julia will figure it out! I want my bday dinner at BoG heck every meal we will have will be my bday meal

 

[JJ&JHsmom]

it is! will be fun to spend lunch together though was FB with Bruce last night and he will start working on finding a place soon, been busy with work!

Julia will figure it out! I want my bday dinner at BoG heck every meal we will have will be my bday meal

I agree that every meal should be a birthday meal!

 

[mommy2mrb]

I agree that every meal should be a birthday meal!

I am planning on wearing my birthday pin every day too!

 

[morgansmom2000]

My birthday is in August, but every meal will be a birthday meal for me too!

 

[mommy2mrb]

My birthday is in August, but every meal will be a birthday meal for me too!

mine is Sept...lets celebrate together! we will be close enough right

 

[JJ&JHsmom]

Both are close enough for me! I wish it was November, I need a vacation!

 

[mommy2mrb]

Both are close enough for me! I wish it was November, I need a vacation!

I hear ya Cassey....so thankful we have our dlr trips coming up, in need of a disney fix BAD!

 

[makewifehappy]

Good evening, one and all!

A long time since I've followed up, call it the start of a busy year, along with a busy work schedule, busy schedules for the kids, busy everything.

The Disney bug is starting to hit me again. I know this because I'm watching Disney resort videos on YouTube while I'm working, since I work from home. Oh, to dream of the day that our family stays at the Polynesian at some point; waking up in the environment there would be great to do.

We made our reservations already for Thanksgiving 2013, so we'll be there and not be square like a lot of people. Saratoga Springs was good this past Thanksgiving, but going back to our home resort for this week will be just fine by me. I was surprised... no... SHOCKED... at how well the crowds were during Thanksgiving. Oh sure, busy at times; I figured that, but overall, easy to get around. Hoping the same for Thanksgiving 2013.

So, at one point, while the family was away doing other stuff at our last visit at WDW, I spoke to someone about large reservations. They confirmed the same thing to me that was confirmed before via email, so I'll recap here:

• Chef Mickey's at Disney's Contemporary Resort - maximum is 24 guests

• 'Ohana at Disney's Polynesian Resort - maximum is 30 guests

• 1900 Park Fare at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa - 31 guests possible

• Cape May Cafe at Disney's Beach Club Resort - 31 guests possible

• Whispering Canyon Cafe at Disney's Wilderness Lodge - 31 guests possible

• Boma - Flavors of Africa at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge - 17 guests possible

• Trail's End at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground - 21 guests possible

• Disney's Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show - can accommodate up to 38

• Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue - can accommodate up to 38

For each situation, reservations would need to be made by someone calling in to Disney to reserve; tables this big aren't available online.

Reservations at Chef Mickey's and 'Ohana's can possibly be done in one table, depending on availability for the night we are looking to eat.

The other seven would be multiple tables, and I'd need two people to go in to make the reservation. (One phone call, two credit cards to hold the table reservation) On top of that, there is no guarantee right now that we'd all be able to sit near each other.

A non-dining food option would be the Tomorrowland Terrace Fireworks Dessert Party, which can accommodate up to 50. For this option, I don't have a lot of information at this time, because I didn't even think of it until tonight. (brain fart) It's showing available, so there's a possibly I could get more info on that. Best thing about it; it would let everyone mingle.

Expense: Out of all of these, I believe Trail's End is the least expensive. ($$) Spirit of Aloha and Hoop-Dee-Doo are the most expensive. ($$$$) Everything else averages a ($$$) rating on Disney's website.

Last count from mommy2mrb that I had was around 20-22. I have no idea if that number has increased/decreased. If we could get a current count, it would help. I'll follow up with mommy2mrb at some point. Some separate communications might need to be done to determine any payment options/scheduling/resort info/other trivial discussions. I believe we can start making reservations for one of these options 180 days before the actual hotel reservation starts. (might be another call to Disney to verify how to do that for such a large group.) Thinking we need to finalize some things by the end of April.

Thoughts? Questions? Good jokes, clean or dirty?

 

[mommy2mrb]

Bruce, thank you so much for putting this all together!!!!

yes we are still at 20-22 people...haven't heard back from jacksmomma yet...

guess our next step is everyone voting on what they'd like to do! I think we had talked earlier about doing lunch...might have better options of getting in!

the wishes dessert party is very nice and lots of goodies!

so everyone, please add your input on the options and any other ideas/questions....than we can figure out who/when to make ressies - guess the first people checking it would give us a leg up on getting the ressie we want!

I agree that we need to get this nailed down by end of April...I can start making my ADR's on May 25th

 

[JJ&JHsmom]

Hi all,

We are checking in on November 21, I am willing to make the ressies if needed.

I have no preference about where we eat. I think Julia would be okay with all of the options as we have eaten at most.

Thank you Bruce and Lisa for all the leg work with this!

 

[morgansmom2000]

We won't know for sure when we're leaving until the airlines open up scheduling into November. If it's significantly less to fly on Thanksgiving Day, we probably won't be around for dinner, but could do an early lunch. I'll keep you posted.

 

[mommy2mrb]

Hi all,

We are checking in on November 21, I am willing to make the ressies if needed.

I have no preference about where we eat. I think Julia would be okay with all of the options as we have eaten at most.

Thank you Bruce and Lisa for all the leg work with this!

thanks for the offer Cassey! good to know Julia would be happy at any of the restaurants!
Bruce has done all the leg work, I'm just keeper of the thread

We won't know for sure when we're leaving until the airlines open up scheduling into November. If it's significantly less to fly on Thanksgiving Day, we probably won't be around for dinner, but could do an early lunch. I'll keep you posted.

that's right, you might be going home on thanksgiving! I think we are leaning towards lunch anyways!

 

[rlovew]

Just from experience- while I don't plan on being there Thanksgiving Day at the moment- plans may change depending on what we find out over the next couple of months.

We have done 3 big meals (all breakfasts) that I have been a part of- all of them before credit holds were done as well. I think our small grou0 was about 15. Here is my take on the experiences:
1. Cape May Breakfast was the best experience- you have to take the first or last seating with that large a group- we went with the first being it was a scrapping weekend. We were seated at the backside of the place at a row of tables. The character interaction with this was great and out waiters were very accommodating on using multiple checks/multi TIW cards and such. The way we were sitting it was easy to move a bit between the tables and have some time to visit with a variety of people within the group.

2. Ohana Breakfast- again I think we had to have first seating of the day. We were seated at a large table with about 20 of us. It was lots of fun and again the characters were good with the large group of us. It was nice but we could only talk to some of the people at the table as there were not extra seats to move a bit (the Cape May tables had a long booth on one side so there was an extra seat between each table to jump between for chatting).

3. 1900 Park Fair- This meal was good and we were seated at 2 large round tables. This made talking with anyone that wasn't seated directly beside us hard to do. We had fantastic character interaction as we had made a set of tags specifically themed for the characters as a make and take the day before so we had the piles of tags sitting at one spot for each character to sign and the face characters were really fun with that and their comments about it (especially the hatter).

So other than the food the thing to think about is the kind of interaction you want to have at the meal and the kind of tables available were you will be eating.

Rebecca

 

[mommy2mrb]

thanks for the input Rebecca! we will have close to half adults/half kids, so breaking up to the two tables might be a good option for us all!

 

[JJ&JHsmom]

Julia finally decided on her birthday meal! She wants Via napoli, Italian again this year! She has never been to Via Napoli so this will be new for her.