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DH and I will be going to WDW from Sept 17th to Sept 20th to celebrate our 1yr Anniversary. We have the DxDP.
I am thinking about giving up Kona Cafe AND Yak & Yeti for Flying Fish Cafe.
I don't know if this is a good decision or not. I REALLY want to try all of them and giving up two for the price of one, is a REALLY hard decision.
If we did this then we would have Breakfast at Olivia's in the morning and then just use snack credit or pay OOP if we get hungry around mid day, go back to the resort for some "us" time, then have dinner at Flying Fish before heading over to Magic Kingdom for MNSSHP. This would be a AK day.
We could still do the above and after lunch at Yak & Yeti's we could go back to the resort and then have "us" time and then go to dinner at Kona's before going to MNSSHP.
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I'm sorry I won't be much help since I'm having sort of the same issue. You may want to see what some people posted when I asked about giving up FF to add Y&Y. Let me know what you decide. Good luck.
Sometimes, it is better to pay OOP for the signature because it is ultimately less money than the combined two meals. You would have to check the menus and guesstimate a bit. Also, since you are on the deluxe plan, you could pay OOP but pehaps scale back a bit and split app/dessert to keep costs done. We do love Kona and I think it is a great little gem so I vote to try to keep that one and pay OOP....the sticky wings are nice portion and enough to share!
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Are the "Sticky Wings" the same kinda wings you get at Ohana?? I think my bigger issue is the amount of food!! We are doing Cali Grill on the 19th (our actual anniversary date) so will be using 2 credits for that. When we had 3 meals a day on our last trip we were miserably full the entire day and I just want to make sure that Yak & Yeti AND Kona are worth it or should we just stick to Flying Fish.
I think Flying Fish is amazing and not to be missed! Kona is also delicious but the chef at Flying fish is phenomenal! Everything we had there was incredible! My MIL even ordered an extra crab cake appetizer because she loved hers so much and she never does that!
We ate at three signature restaurants when we went and none of them disappointed I think you should do it and if you want pay OOP and just get some apps for lunch.
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I agree to stick with Flying Fish! Kona's great for a quick lunch while touring MK.
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Loved Kona, didn't love Y&Y, never been to FF. But in all honesty, I would do whatever worked better for my overall plans for the day. Olivia's, AK, FF then the MNSSHP seems like a lot of bouncing around in a day -JMO.
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Well this is what we decided. (really it was me!!) We will keep our ADR at Kona for 5pm on our MNSSHP night. (Thanks planning board!!) We will not do Yak & Yeti for lunch that day because of the being so full deal. This will leave us with two credits not used for an ADR and we will just use them for a CS meal either on our AK day or our MGM day. I know that is wasting the credits on the DxDP but I do not want to be so miserable like we were on the last trip because of all of the food.
We WILL do Yak & Yeti and the Flying Fish on our Holiday trip.
This all is really my DH's fault, he just HAS to do Ohana for Breakfast AND Dinner for our trip!! (Not that I am complaining, it is AWESOME!!!)
That sounds like a great plan! Especially since you can spread out the ones you wish to do over a few trips. It keeps each trip unique and everyone leaves happy.
On your holiday trip, try the pesto mussels at FFC. They are a meal in themselves. Totally delicious!
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