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I've booked a Cape May Character Breakfast as our one and only TS meal and only Character experience. It will be myself and my DS6. I'm now having second thoughts in favor of Ohana.
Have you been to both of these? If so, could you compare them?
It looks like the food is about the same. I don't do scrambled eggs or sugar, so I'll be eating mostly meats, non-sweet breads, fruit, and waffles (hopefully they aren't too sweet without syrup). DS will eat or not. I don't think the food at either will be a deal breaker.
We don't care about Lilo and Stitch too much, but both of us love the original Disney crew. Goofy is a fave, but not a deal-breaker.
The thing about Ohana that is attracting me is the parade for little ones. Doesn't look like Cape May does any organized activity for kids, just at-table interaction. Am I right?
Seeing as this will be our only TS experience, which offers more MAGIC potential?
I would do Cape May based on your character preference and food preferences, more options on the buffet! Both meals are only so-so to me based on my last experiences, but previously I have had great breakfasts at Cape May!
My family has done both. We loved each. The food is very comparable.
The characters are different. O'Hana has Lilo and Stitch as well as Mickey, Pluto, and some others.
The atmospheres are VERY different. Cape May is much more subdued (but not boring). While O'Hana is loud and fast paced.
O'Hana has organized dancing around the restaurant with the characters. And table meets.
While Cape May did only at the table meetings.
I would stick with Cape May. It's a buffet where you get up and choose what you want to eat. The character interaction is very good. Ohana is a family style meal with eggs being one of the main parts of the meal. They do have Mickey waffles, but they are not on the family style plate that is served. Servers come around and hand them out. It's been a while since I've been to Ohana, but I remember having to hunt down a server for those waffles. I wasn't too fond of that. I think you're better served at Cape May.
I don't do scrambled eggs or sugar, so I'll be eating mostly meats, non-sweet breads, fruit, and waffles (hopefully they aren't too sweet without syrup).
Based on this, I would go for Cape May because it's a buffet - you pick what you want and how much. Ohana is family style and last time we were there, it was eggs, home fries (potatoes) and bacon (I believe, it could have been sausage though) so there's really not a lot of meat for you. I agree with the waffles too. It's like they hoard them and even if you get a server to give them to you (we've been there and not gotten a single waffle before) you might get two when you ask for more. The one time (out of three) that we got the waffles, they were only giving them out one at a time
Here are the menus from Allears.net so you can compare them
Oh man....This is hard. See, the food isn't going to be the main thing for me. There's a Waffle House right next to our off-site if that's what I really care about...! So the organized dancing is appealing.... That said, I don't want to have to threaten to cut somebody to get a waffle...!
How much time is devoted to the organized dancing stuff at Ohana?
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We've been to both and prefer Cape May Cafe. Last time we were sitting forever after our meal was done and still hadn't had a visit from Mickey. Finally had to have a wait person snag him for us on our way out as we were bored to death waiting for him to come to our table. We will be doing Cape May Cafe again this trip.
We've have done both as well. Good food at both but I liked the character interaction a little better at Cape May Buffet plus the characters are in their swim/beachwear which is vety cute. Goofy is at CM and not at Ohana and when we did O'hana they do the little parade but it's really just a walk around the restaurant and not too much of a big thing. Plus Cape May us a buffet and O'hana is family style so you can pick and choose a little more there. My DD(5) can be a picky eater when she wants to be so she likes the options at CM from anything from eggs to cereal to yogurt or fruit.
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Thanks everyone for their replies. I would have stuck with CM, EXCEPT....
DH has decided to come at the end of our trip to do some resort-hopping. This caused me to change my whole daily plan. The day I had planned CM is now a park day, and the next day, a no park day, is a DH day. He simply would not enjoying coming along. Our other no park day is only day 2 in the WDW area, and it seemed like too much. So....I've decided to do Crystal Palace on our "relaxed" Day 2 at MK. I had planned to return to our off-site at 1:30 for a rest, now I've booked ADRs for lunch at CP for 2:05. This is actually the only Character meal I've ever been to, when I was 21. It was nice then and I know I will like it now. I love the white on glass atmosphere of this place. I'm going to keep it a secret from DS till it's lunch time.
BEFORE:
Park
Park
No park (free morning)
Park
No park (character breakfast)
Park
Park
AFTER
Park
No Park (free morning)
Park
Park (Crystal Palace, Lunch)
Park
No Park (Up and at-em resort hopping with Mr. Cheapskate supreme)
Park
What ever you choose, where ever you go, your whole family will love it!!!
Any choice of something offered by and at a Disney property will always be a great choice!!!
Have a blast, and remember to be a kid again!!!!!!!!!!
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