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Looks good! We are from Eastern Mass. too (15 min. north of Boston).
I have 3 1/2 more weeks to go! I am trying some new ones and included some favorites:
Beaches and Cream for dinner (this has become a "must" for us)
California Grill Brunch (new for us)
Sci fi dine-in for dinner
Star Wars Dessert party (new for us - did the MK dessert party in past)
Bon Voyage Breakfast (new for us at Boardwalk)
Afternoon Tea at Grand Floridian (one of our favs)
Planet Hollywood for dinner (new for us)
Las Ventanas (at Coronado) for breakfast (new for us)
Chefs de France for dinner
Be Our Guest for breakfast (new for us - amazed we even got a reservation)
Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner (new for us)
I hope some of the "new" ones are good choices.
I think you have some good choices. We like B&C but this year we switched it to Trails End (another favorite). We haven't done the Star Wars party but we did the Frozen one twice and enjoyed it. Bon Voyage doesn't have enough choices we'd eat otherwise we would have tried for that one. Be Our Guest for breakfast we did for the first time last year and we enjoyed it. It is pricey but if you have QS dining credits, it's a good way to use them IMO.
My "Disney Device" is so enjoyable that I used it yesterday to get our Garden Grill for lunch at 11:30, just when I wanted it. Today, I thought SWA was going to release the new dates (they didn't - they put it off until next week ) so I was on my computer and just went to the Disney website to get Trails End Buffet on Lenny's birthday at 4:30 .
The only thing I have left to book is the Tomorrowland dessert party which doesn't look like it will be opened any time soon (when I looked it was only open until the end of May but not past Memorial Day). I have all the rest of our dining choices for when and where we want. I will be really shocked if I change any of them. They're all places we've really enjoyed and have looked forward for two years to getting back to them.
I think you have some good choices. We like B&C but this year we switched it to Trails End (another favorite). We haven't done the Star Wars party but we did the Frozen one twice and enjoyed it. Bon Voyage doesn't have enough choices we'd eat otherwise we would have tried for that one. Be Our Guest for breakfast we did for the first time last year and we enjoyed it. It is pricey but if you have QS dining credits, it's a good way to use them IMO.
March dates opened for Frozen Ever After Dessert party which I really wanted but we are only going to Epcot once (not doing park hopping) and dessert party doesn't happen on that date...darn! I would literally have to rearrange my entire schedule (fast passes and dining) and not enough time to do that three weeks out of our trip. Oh well (sigh)
We chose the Bon Voyage breakfast since it's at our hotel, and we were planning on doing a little lounging in the morning by the pool and poking around the shops on the Boardwalk before we venture off for the day.
March dates opened for Frozen Ever After Dessert party which I really wanted but we are only going to Epcot once (not doing park hopping) and dessert party doesn't happen on that date...darn! I would literally have to rearrange my entire schedule (fast passes and dining) and not enough time to do that three weeks out of our trip. Oh well (sigh)
We chose the Bon Voyage breakfast since it's at our hotel, and we were planning on doing a little lounging in the morning by the pool and poking around the shops on the Boardwalk before we venture off for the day.
I forgot Epcot has a dessert party. We did the Frozen one at the Studios which would be similar to the Star Wars one. The Frozen Ever After didn't interest us as at the time it seemed expensive for not much of a party
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