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Moving on with the current of the years.
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It's time to move on and move forward.
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I was just looking over our ADR list and realized we have FIVE character meals booked in a weeklong stay. That wouldn't be so scary if it weren't for the fact that we've 'Ohana breakfast and 1900 PF dinner on one day.
I guess we like character meals a lot more than I thought.
We really must shake them up a bit eventually since all but one, Trattoria al Forno, are old faves.
If we manage to get BOG dinner, that will be SIX!!
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Good for you!!Last year we had two park days. We managed 5 character meals: Akershus Princess Lunch, Tusker House dinner, Chef Mickey's breakfast, Crystal Palace lunch and 1900 Park Fare for dinner. I had 4 high school seniors with me. We had at least 6 hours between each reservation. It was worth every penny - the kids ate like it was their last meal, it was hot, so we appreciated the air conditioning and the character interactions were priceless.
Sadly, when I travel in November, we haven't been able to get too many character breakfasts (my favorite) due to our party size of 9.
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We absolutely love character meals and until this next trip it will have been an all adult group many times and we never fail to have a great experience. I say embrace it and go for #6!
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We are adults and because of food allergies we have to do pretty much all 3 meals a day at TS but we space them out and are fine. We usually do nice breakfasts including 3 character when they open at 7:30 am or 8 am. We have never done the ones you mention but love CP, Cape May, and TH. Even Chef Mickey's if we are staying close to there. We then do lunch around 11:30 am or 12 pm but tend to eat lighter and then have dinner at 4:30 pm or 5 pm. BOG is one of our favorite dinners.
We have never done the ones you mention but love CP, Cape May, and TH. Even Chef Mickey's if we are staying close to there. We then do lunch around 11:30 am or 12 pm but tend to eat lighter and then have dinner at 4:30 pm or 5 pm. BOG is one of our favorite dinners.
We weren't impressed by Chef Mickey's although perhaps should try it again because it's been a looooong time since we tried it. Food was so-so (a big deal for us) and worse still, it was infernally noisy even pretty early in the day as popular as that one is for families with young kids.
Otherwise, we eat TS at similar times to yours and for the food sensitivities reason as well as DH's using a powerchair.
QS on the whole just doesn't offer the foodstuffs we prefer anyway. Not interested in going to WDW to eat fast food-type things when there are so many great TS.
Mostly, we're simply lazy enough we enjoy sitting and eating while we wait for characters to come meet US. From our standpoint, that sure beats queuing up in the hot sun or using an FP for a standard Meet-Greet.
P.S. DO try 1900 PF dinner. The characters are a laugh riot...well, The Wickeds are, I should say, as Cindy and her prince are almost boring compared with Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters. Egg on The Wickeds as we do, and you'll have a fabulous time.
The food at 1900 PF is a bit better than other character meals, too, IMO.
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-- many are new to us - so excited! Good luck on getting number 6!
we enjoy sitting and eating while we wait for characters to come meet US. From our standpoint, that sure beats queuing up in the hot sun or using an FP for a standard Meet-Greet.
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