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We have our departure day breakfast at 'Ohana. (note that we're not on the dining plan, so it's not like we have to have one). The flight doesn't leave until 4 pm, so I know we'll have to be at resort check-in at 1. But will that be too much stress to have a 9:40 breakfast?
I'm thinking of changing it to Saturday instead of Sunday so we can tie up loose ends and maybe have a few hours in the park instead, without the stress of worrying about the last-minute details. What do you all think?
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It is a tradition for us to have breakfast at CP on the last day. We usually have a 10 am ressie. I find it helps us get up and get done and out before it is a drawn out departure. We then spend a few hours in MK and head home. Of course, we usually drive which really helps, but we have done this with flying as well.
I think it really depends on your mind set and how your family functions.
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Personally, we would not do the breakfast on the last day. With a late afternoon departure, I'd be going to a park for the morning and getting in a last hurrah there.
We have done last day breakfast before but on a late afternoon departure we prefer to do lunch. I would rather get filled up on a decent lunch at WDW than pay a fortune for bad airport food.
We just did this about two weeks ago. Our reservation was at 7:45 and DME didn't pick us up until 5 that night.
But, it was totally worth it in my opinion! We got a great breakfast, the kids got to see some characters during a meal, and it was the start of our last day at MK.
I think it really helped us transition from vacation mode to "we have to leave mode."
We have done a breakfast ADR when our flight left later in the day. We weren't using DME though. We had a rental car and left when we needed to rather than waiting.
'Ohana is a great choice for that last blast of Disney if you aren't going to the parks.
we usually do DTD on our last day
or if we have a late flight out then we would do a half day in the park with breakfest if not we always have a rental car so we also could eat off property too
We like to have an early morning ADR for breakfast the day of departure. I like to pick one that is close to the park we want to go to, so we have a few last 2-3 hours in the park.
Our choice is always MK, and last trip we did Ohana. It was great and it's in our tentative plans for the next trip...which isn't until 2015!
Several times we've done a departure day breakfast at CP. It was a little rushed in the morning because we opted for an 8:30 ADR both times, but it was a magical last day being in MK early in the morning with no one else around. Then a yummy breakfast with Pooh and friends and a few more hours wandering around MK. By that time we'd already done everything we wanted to do, so didn't need to run here or there for FPs. Just enjoyed walking around MK and soaking up the magic.
Our last day tradition has become get the earliest ADR at Whispering Canyon and then either:
1) if we have a park pass, we go to the MK for a last stroll and a Mickey Bar
2) if we don't have a park pass, we go to Downtown Disney for a last shopping spree and a Mickey Bar. We will also grab something at Earl's of Sandwich to take on the plane with us.
Our flight back to Denver is usually at 3 or 3:30 and this gives us plenty of time to wind down before leaving the bubble.
I'd go ahead and do it. On one of my trips I had a late flight out, unfortunately I haven't been able to do that on my ones since and had enough time to spend part of the day at Epcot and ended up having lunch at Le Cellier as a walk up.
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