What time for breakfast for ADR w/ kids?

[DisFam95]

I'm trying to make some ADR's for Chef Mickey's and Crystal Palace. We have 2 kids age 2 and 5 and I'm all of a sudden blank on figuring out what time is just right.

We're staying at VWL so a boat over to each one.

Seems like it takes maybe an hour for all of us to get ready? I don't know? I forget?

I'm thinking 8:30-9:00 ish.

This seems like a stupid ? but I'm blanking. We don't do a lot of ADR's esp breakfast so this is new to me.

Thanks

 

[SGMCO]

Because we live where it's 2 hour time difference (8:00 am is like 6:00 am) I make my ADRs for breakfast accordingly. My poor DH wants to sleep in whenever we go on Vacation so if I make ADRs for Breakfast I ususally get
the later times between 10:30 am and 11:00am (depending on when the restaurant changes over to Lunch menu). I have found if you go for a later Character Meal the characters seam to not be as rushed. You know your family better than anyone and you are on Vacation (so using that information you can make ADRs that everyone can live with). Some mornings my DS and I got dressed and sneek out (leaving DH sleep) and went and ate breakfast at the CS restaurant at our Disney REsort, sometime that is the easiest because you don't have to have ADRs. We would then make ADRs for latter in the Day (Early Dinner). Have a Fun Trip! Don't let making
ADRs stress you out!

 

[mom2aredhead]

For Crystal Palace, I would try to ge the first ADR they have in the morning on a day that the park does not have EMH. We did this last month, and there really is something very fun about having Main Street all to yourself. We had an 8:05 ADR, got there at about 7:45, and we were able to take pictures on Main Street and by the castle without another soul in the background...we ended up using them for our Christmas cards. We were done with breakfast and by the rope to get into Fantasyland just as it opened, so we had our pick of which ride to do first with NO LINE.

I'm also one of those anti-alarm clock people on vacation, but for 1 day, it was so worth it to have those pictures and be in the parks that early. The food there was also terrific...the best of all the character breakfasts we've been to.

For Chef Mickey's (or Hollywood and Vine in MGM if you go there) I take the opposite approach. I book a later ADR, closer to lunch time. We have a snack in the room while we're getting ready, go to the park hit some of the attractions, then go to breakfast at like 10:45-11:00, so it's almost like a brunch. Generally its enough to hold us over until dinner time. I've done this a few times and never had an issue with cold/old food.