What is The Best Character Meal???

[Snoopygirl]

We are going in Sept. and I'm trying to decide which character meal to go to while we are there. My daughter LOVES all the princesses!! I don't know if I want to do CRT.....daughters are 6 & 2 and they won't eat much for breakfast and I can't see using 2TS credits each for that. What other character meals are there and which do you think is the best and most fun?

TIA!!

 

[NC State]

I think the Crystal Palace, they have Character lunch and dinner with lots of choices in food. Your daughters will love to parade around with the Characters too! I think they do that every 30 mintues.

 

[Dizzy4Dizney]

My daughter, 5 , loves Chef Mickeys. She's a picky eater as well, and the buffets offer a wide variety of food. The Crystal Palace is fun too, we haven't been there for a while, the food was just OK, but the atmospher is great.

 

[dbenlee]

My first choice would be for Crystal Palace. We had breakast there last year and absolutely loved it. The character interaction was great (DS 6 and I both really love Tigger) and the food was very good.

My second would be Chef Mickey. We had a great time there as well and DS 6 loved the dessert bar.

 

[beth_cam]

We ABSOLUTELY LOVED 1900 park fare. Crystal palace was great too but...We ate at 1900 park fare the day we got there. We didnt do the park at all. We checked in to the hotel, checked it out, then got My DD all done up in a new 'Cinderella' (really just a fancy dress 2nd hand, some soft blue shoes from walmart, and a new cinderella tiarra). Cought the bus and then rode a trip around on the monorail to the Grand Floridian. It was all pretty magical and a great beginning to our vacation. The food was absolutely awesome and pleased everyone. When we went in we saw The Fairy Godmother and Minnie Mouse in the Lobby while waiting for our table. It was a great distraction. Although we didnt have to wait long the kids were quite anxious. Then inside was the queen of princesses Cinderella who came to our table with Prince CHarming. Prince charming kissed my dd and called her his princess making cinderella huff a little lol. My dd turned so red and said she was his princess now. The kids loved even Perla and Suzy. We also did Akershus. Food wasnt great but it was all you can eat so everyone kind of ate several servings of one thing. And we got to see 5 different princesses at one time. They do lunch and Ariel comes then but I didnt like the look of the menu. We did like crystal palace but it wasnt princesses and we just arent much pooh people. Yet I do have it scheduled again this year since it is great food and convienent.

 

[mommystieg]

For non-Princess meals we LOVE Crystal Palace and Chef Mickey's. We didn't have a very memorable meal the time we tried CRT so for our Princess-lover we do the Princess Storybook Breakfast. If you need a Cinderella fix then the dinner at 1900 Park Fare is good.

 

[Cass]

We really liked our first breakfast at CRT, I mean, come on - it's CINDERELLA! That would be my fav.

Breakfastsaurus at DAK was the most fun meal, because the waiters were a hoot. Pluto, Donald, Goofy & Mickey were there.

Chef Mickey's had some tasty food and we all enjoyed it, it was fun to see Donald all grumpy in the lobby. That duck has attitude

Years ago we did Park Fare and the food was atrocious, glad to hear it has improved. That was a villains dinner and it did not go over well with my DD who, well... HATED the characters so it was a bit of hipocracy for her to pose and smile with them when she wanted to slug them.

I hear the food is really good at Cape May, that might be an option, or the Liberty Tree.

We also did Pooh at the Crystal Palace and got to bounce with Tigger

Eeyore was so cute and sad

I think if you go in hungry and happy to see characters it doesn't matter which meal you do. Sometimes we snacked too much and didn't really enjoy the meal because we weren't hungry enough and then basically we had drinks and waited for our turn with the characters. I learned a lesson which is to starve so you go in good and ready to eat.

 

[RCBlackburn]

Just a quick thought - after seeing all of the horrible reviews of breakfast meals where they bring the food to your table, I'd suggest sticking to those with buffets where you can choose what to eat.

Our all time favorite is Chef Mickeys - very cute and VERY LOUD so you really don't care if your kids are being loud!