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Sounds like some great plans and FPs for your day in Epcot! I'm guessing you'll be doing some sampling at the Outdoor Kitchens in WS this day as well? Hope you luck out with the patio seating at Rose & Crown as I've heard it's an incredible view for Illuminations!
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Wonderful plans! Fingers crossed for patio seating at Rose and Crown!
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Hope you get patio seating. Judy and I have been able to get it one time in all of the times we have gone. It is a great view.
We've been lucky at least three times to get patio seating, but we've also been there that many times without patio seating. So I'd say our chances are 50-50.
Hope you are able to get a patio table at Rose and Crown. We've done it twice now, and there really is nothing like it! I've found if you tell them you'd be willing to wait a bit for a patio table they try to accommodate you.
We've mentioned that before, too, and it does seem to help.
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I love AK out of the 4 Parks. I am very excited to read your review of the Dining Package for ROL. Our ADR will be May 15th, so I have plenty of time to read your TR ( And see all your beautiful pictures too!!) before our final decisions. Frozen Ever After and the new Soaring are the 2 rides I am really looking forward to in Epcot. We really stopped doing to many TS because of the GD and GS, but we will be going on a MiMi and Paw Paw trip soon, so I am interested in all TS.
I'm not sure how much of my TR is posted before you all leave for your trip because we won't get back until the evening of May 7, and it will take a while to edit my photos and write the posts. But I'll try to do a mini update while we are still on the trip.
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We're really looking forward to our dinner at the Rose & Crown with you and Luke! We'll be in the MK that day but since it's extra magic hours at Epcot that night, we're hoping we can do a few things together!
Surely, we'll be able to do a few attractions during EMH because that would be really fun.
Sounds like some great plans and FPs for your day in Epcot! I'm guessing you'll be doing some sampling at the Outdoor Kitchens in WS this day as well? Hope you luck out with the patio seating at Rose & Crown as I've heard it's an incredible view for Illuminations!
I should have mentioned that we hope to eat our the food booths for lunch.
I was in WS in 2014 at about the time Disney began the show kitchens. I didn't indulge on my two days in Epcot as I had dinner at V&A's on one day (didn't want to spoil my appetite) and the other day was an early lunch at Teppan Edo on my departure day! Hope to do these one day but then again I have finally experienced the F&W Fest! with so much great cuisine
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I'm guessing you've booked your flights already, but if you haven't there is something very important you need to consider. Flights can be higher and the airport very busy around Derby time in Louisville. We normally go to WDW right after Derby and wait several days until the prices go down.
Sounds like some great plans and FPs for your day in Epcot! I'm guessing you'll be doing some sampling at the Outdoor Kitchens in WS this day as well? Hope you luck out with the patio seating at Rose & Crown as I've heard it's an incredible view for Illuminations!
Even if you have inside seating at Rose & Crown they have a special outside viewing area for Illuminations that they take you to.
I was in WS in 2014 at about the time Disney began the show kitchens. I didn't indulge on my two days in Epcot as I had dinner at V&A's on one day (didn't want to spoil my appetite) and the other day was an early lunch at Teppan Edo on my departure day! Hope to do these one day but then again I have finally experienced the F&W Fest! with so much great cuisine
I like that the food booths for the F&GF are different from the F&WF as it gives us interesting choices twice a year.
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All of your plans sound great! I really hope they do a soft opening while you're there.
I'm sure hoping we luck out. Poor Luke I think checks almost daily for anything new.
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I'm guessing you've booked your flights already, but if you haven't there is something very important you need to consider. Flights can be higher and the airport very busy around Derby time in Louisville. We normally go to WDW right after Derby and wait several days until the prices go down.
We booked flights quite a while back and chose to go with SWA out of Nashville this time. It's nice to have a couple of airport options.
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Even if you have inside seating at Rose & Crown they have a special outside viewing area for Illuminations that they take you to.
I figure that outside viewing area will be Plan B if we don't get a patio table. We've done this once before and it's a nice area, too.
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Sounds like another wonderful day of plans for Epcot.
Magic Kingdom is on the agenda for today. We have made FastPasses for today, but we may alter these depending on what we were able to accomplish with our additional FP+ way back on Friday. Keeping that in mind, we did select rides that are sometimes difficult to get as additional FP+ rides. We’ll start the morning with Peter Pan at 9:25, followed by Seven Dwarf’s Mine Train at 10:55, and finishing with Jungle Cruise at 12:05. At this point in our trip, our plans seem to be more and more nebulous. It’ll be a surprise what follows our final scheduled FP+. We don’t have any specific plans for lunch, but there are quite a few QS places that we really like, Pecos Bill’s, Cosmic Ray’s, Pinocchio Village Haus to name a few. We do have dinner planned at Planet Hollywood Observatory for 7:45 PM. We’ve discussed doing Characters in Flight this trip, so today might be a good time to leave a park early and take a hot air balloon ride, surveying ten miles of prime Disney property. Once we finish dinner and dependent on how tired we are, we may wander more of Disney Springs as there is still so much for us to explore and learn here.
Plans look good for the day and seems that they are pretty flexible! I had no luck with getting a FP+ for 7DMT last October and hope I'm able to score this Fall as I want to experience it for the first time!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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I'm guessing you'll be doing some sampling at the Outdoor Kitchens in WS this day as well? Hope you luck out with the patio seating at Rose & Crown as I've heard it's an incredible view for Illuminations! 
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