The Light at the end of the tunnel to the Caribbean Beat Trip Report Sept 18 to Sept 29 - **Updated 3/31** COMPLETE!! - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I cant believe that we are going to be in Disney in just two weeks I cant wait. It is going to be a little stressful since we our closing the Ice Cream shop on Sept 15th. We are leaving for Disney on Sept 18, we will probably be leaving for the airport between 4:00 to 4:30 am on Tuesday morning. So Sunday Sept 16th we will be packing I have to work until 2:00 on Sunday but that is the last day for 2 & 1/2 weeks. We are also going to take our dog (Zeus) to my friends house. They have generously offer to keep him so that we won' t have to pay the kennel a ton of money to keep him. This way he is with people all the time like he is at home. Sept 17th we have to run up to the grocery store & stock up for my grandma while we are gone. We are taking her Blazer b/c it is the only thing that all of luggage fits in. Believe it or not we have 12 pieces of luggage going. Remember early I said that I love to shop I wasn't kidding.
This is my loving dog: Zeus
Okay so lets eat!! We got the fork & knives so we can pound them on the table. FOOD FOOD FOOD & it's FREE, what more could you ask for !!!! We are doing some new ones & some oldies but oh so goodies. So we had our dining plan out before we added the two extra days. So that meant two more meals for us to plan. My mom is a picky eater but she loves steak so if the place has steak than we are good. My dad doesn't put a whole lot of input in so we let him choose one of the two meals. I gave him the list of restuarants on the DDP. He then told me the ones he thought about & I printed out menus for him from ALLEARS. Orginally our first night we were suppose to go to the HDDR for dinner at 7:30. We did this last year & absolutely love it. Well since it was already booked & paid for for Thurday we decided that we didn't want to change it. My dad now had the decision of the first night.
Well here is what we decided:
Sept 18: Cape May @ 6:30pm. This is a first for us, we have never been over to the Epcot resort area. We are hoping to (you guessed it) shop of course at the Boardwalk & walk around a little.
Sept 19: Chef Mickey's @ 6:20pm. We have never done this for dinner. We always do it for breakfast. I am hoping that we will make it back to MK for Wishes if not we always have another night.
Sept 20: Rain Forest Cafe for lunch at AK (OOP). We have never eaten there so this is my parents treat for us to try for lunch! That night we are at the HDDR @ 7:15 show. We did this last year for the first time & will probably do it every year we LOVED it. We are (OOP) for this because we wanted to be in Category 1.
Sept 21: Whipering Canyon @ 5:40pm. Another first for us & we wanted to stay here. So we that we explore around here. We are also doing the MNSSHP this night so we are going to change in the restroom. We are going as the Mickey Mouse club! Last year we did the full gear costumes, this year we are down sizing!
This was our last year MNSSHP costumes!
Sept 22: Le Cellier @ 7:00pm. This is my mom favorite & we all loved it.
Sept 23: Kona Cafe @ 5:30pm. First time here. My dad would like to stay at the Poly. The first time he ever went he stayed here. So we thought we would check it out!
Sept 24: Planet Hollywood @ 7:30pm. This is one of my favorites. I love the atmosphere. The food was awesome when we went last year. YUMMMMYYYY!!!
Sept 25: 50's Prime time @ 5:00pm My mom always wanted to try this. Last year we had some bus problem getting to the horseback riding & didn't make it in time so we ended going to 50's for lunch. We had a really good time & decided to try dinner here.
Sept 26: Planet Hollywood @ 5:00pm. I told you that we love this place & we are planning a (you guessed it) shopping day!!!!
Sept 27: Hollywood & Vine @ 5:30pm for the Fantasmic package. We have not seen the Fantasmic show & this is one of the restuarant we could agree on. No one likes Italian food except for me so Mama Melrose was out. We didn't want to use two credits for the Brown Derby. So this is where we chose.
Sept 28: Breakfastsaurus @10:00am. We ate there last year & loved it. Since there is not a whole lot of sit down places at AK we decided to do this again.
Sept 29: Chef Mickey's @10:10. This is kinda tradition for the last day. We found out that last year this was a great time b/c most of the breakfast rush is over & it is laid back.
So now that our tummies are going be full to the limit & we will probably have to add a notch to our belts. We will have hopeful have had wonderful food. They really do treat you like royalty at WDW.
This is my grandma that we work with. She will be 82 in Jan.
UP NEXT: The Schedule that my dad says he can't understand!! Let's see what you think about our schedule!
Your dining choices sound great. H&V isn't bad, lots of choices in the buffet, all were very good. They have some sort of sweet potato dish that was excellent. The dessert choices were just as varied and all (yes, I tried them all!) were soooo yummy! We did that for the Fantasmic Package and it's totally worth it.
Looking forward to seeing your schedule....
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Thanks we put alot of time & effort into our ADR's but we also want to try some new ones too.
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sounds like a great plan so far!!! we are gonna try Cape May on our next trip...cant wait to hear your reveiw!!!!
I will let you know how it is. This was my dad's choice!
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Your dining choices sound great. H&V isn't bad, lots of choices in the buffet, all were very good. They have some sort of sweet potato dish that was excellent. The dessert choices were just as varied and all (yes, I tried them all!) were soooo yummy! We did that for the Fantasmic Package and it's totally worth it.
Looking forward to seeing your schedule....
We ate there in a bind in 2005. I thought that it was good!
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Your ADR's look yummy. We haven't tried the HDDR yet but hope to soon. Kona is great though.
I it last year. We had a bad day last year kinda felt like the Griswald's so this made the day feel so much better! We even got to see some of Wishes on the boat on the way back to MK.
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You've got some great meals planned. Have a wonderful trip.
I will so to do a review when we get back of all of our food!
BTW we got a call from WDW about three weeks ago. It actually was the Contemporary. They were telling us we have two Chef Mickey's schedule & if we didn't call back by 9:00 that they were going to cancel one of them. Yes we do have two Chef Mickey's one is for breakfast & the other for dinner at different days. When we called back they didn't understand why anybody would call. I don't know if it was really crazy there or someone doesn't know what they are doing! That was a little odd. So we called & confirmed all of our ADR's last week. Everything was good! The lady that confirm our ADR's was born 20 minutes away from where we live. She is coming back in October for a visit. See it really is a Small World after All!
I can't see your photos, but your ADRs look great!! Weird phone call about your Chef Mickey ADRs....glad you were able to get that squared away!! Won't be long now!!
I am not quite sure why we got that call as long as the food still there & we can eat. That is all that matters.
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I can't see your photos, but your ADRs look great!! Weird phone call about your Chef Mickey ADRs....glad you were able to get that squared away!! Won't be long now!!
I am not sure what happen to my pictures I reloaded them. I feel so unorganized for this trip. I haven't got hardly anything ready.
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I'm just catching up, Amy. You've made a great start .
Loving you pretrip. We will be there the same time as you, we are staying at POP. Also will be at MNSSHP your night also. We will keep an eye out for you!
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it last year. We had a bad day last year kinda felt like the Griswald's so this made the day feel so much better! We even got to see some of Wishes on the boat on the way back to MK. 
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