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As I was reading your TR I realized that we have always had slow service at Kona as well. It always seems to take them forever to come back to us. The food is usually very good but in general I think they need to look at the wait staff there.
Wow I can't get enough of your vacation (I can't plan anymore of mine, its as planned as its going to get!)
Bad service can dampen a day, but you guys seem to have gotten plenty done even with all the waiting for food!
Sounds like a great day.............other than the service @ Kona...........has me re-thinking my breakfast ADR there...........I really can't stand slow service like that, it drives me CRAZY!!! Hmmmm..........gonna have to think about that one!
keep it coming!!!
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Great day! Sorry about the slow service at Kona. Other TRs recently have mentioned service being on the poor side at several of the restaurants on property. Wonder what's up with that?
I'm not sure what's going on but I hope they find a solution! We only had 2 ADR's on this trip and we also had a little bit of a heartburn situation with our other one as well (more to come on that later!!!) I'd hate for them to turn diners off from the great restaurants at WDW simply because of poor service.
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Originally Posted by lazanya
Sorry about the service at Kona.
Sounded like you had a great day though!
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Originally Posted by chezp
Sorry about the service at Kona - that's a shame, especially as you were looking forward to it.
The food was still great and we got to sit down and unwind for awhile (slightly longer than expected ) so overall it was still good!
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Originally Posted by ilovedisney247
Sorry you had poor service at Kona, we've encountered that before. All in all it sounds like it was a very good day!
I'm so sad to hear others have had slow service here too...the food is so good and the location is great.
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Sounds like a great day, other than the service at Kona! More please!
I promise more is coming...stupid real life getting in the way of updating my TR... ...
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Originally Posted by OCEANGRLLG
Sorry the service at Kona was not what yall were hoppin for Although yall got alot done and sounded like an AWESOME day!
Overall it was a GREAT day! Since we usually travel as a party of 2 I feel like we get tons of stuff done!
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Originally Posted by southerngirl1014
As I was reading your TR I realized that we have always had slow service at Kona as well. It always seems to take them forever to come back to us. The food is usually very good but in general I think they need to look at the wait staff there.
That's so sad! They've got such a great place that I hope they fix the issue and don't ruin their restaurant's reputation!
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Originally Posted by tibe
I love that cheesecake...so cool! Sounds like you guys had a great day.....
The tie-dyed chessecake is AMAZING! If you've never tried it I would HIGHLY recommend it...the "crust" layer is actually a thin layer of RED VELVET CAKE...it's EPIC!
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Originally Posted by ErikaandAdam
Wow I can't get enough of your vacation (I can't plan anymore of mine, its as planned as its going to get!)
Bad service can dampen a day, but you guys seem to have gotten plenty done even with all the waiting for food!
Thanks for getting your vacation fix from our TR!
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Just got all caught up on your PTR and TR! The Florida Aquarium looks really neat, I love visiting aquariums.
Sorry the service at Kona wasn't up to par. Can't wait for more!
Thanks for finding us! I definitely recommend the Florida Aquarium, it was beautiful!
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Originally Posted by lfredsbo
Sounds like a great day.............other than the service @ Kona...........has me re-thinking my breakfast ADR there...........I really can't stand slow service like that, it drives me CRAZY!!! Hmmmm..........gonna have to think about that one!
keep it coming!!!
We've had breakfast at Kona several times and have always had decent service during breakfast (and the food was excellent!) so that's why we were so shocked at the slow service during dinner. I'm hoping for everyone's sake that ours was a fairly isolated incident!
I'm off to finish the next actual update now...I promise!
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We got it posted!!! Everyone should say a BIG thank you to Ryan for typing most of this out Thanks sweetie! On with the show... Day 4 - Monday 5/9/11
After a relatively early turn in the night before we decided that we would hit rope drop at Animal Kingdom so we got up early and grabbed breakfast from Everything POP (can’t recall the specifics) and then got into the car and headed to Animal Kingdom. We arrived at Butterfly parking lot at 8:53 and made our way to the front gate, after passing through the turnstile we headed back to Africa and grabbed FP for Kilmanjaro Safaris. Since it was so close to park opening our FP we good at 9:30 so to kill a few minutes we hit up the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail. While on the trail we got a great view of Lilly the baby gorilla and she seems to be doing great!!!
After we got through the trail we headed over to grab a FP for Expedition Everest and then headed back to Africa and hopped on our safari. We love to hit the safari early in the day as the animals seem to more active!!! When we got to the elephant watering hole we were treated to another surprise--Luna the almost 1 year old (she was born May 20th 2010).
After we caught the poachers it was just after 10:00 so as a suggestion we found here on the boards we head to the Conservation Station in hopes to see some sort of animal procedure/exam going on and to our surprise we had finally come at the right time. Today they were doing a Quarantine Exam on nine White Throated Bee Eaters. These little birds had just arrived at AK and were in Quarantine so they were doing their exams to make sure they were healthy so they could release them into the aviary in a few weeks.
After we were done exploring the Conservation Station we head back on the Wildlife Express and made out way to Asia. On our way to Asia we decided that it was time to grab some lunch so our staple for Animal Kingdom is Flame Tree BBQ as we can always share. We got the chicken and this was no disappointment. After lunch we headed to Expedition as it was time for our FP. After Expedition we hit up the Maharajah Jungle Trek. Since it is Central Florida and Animal Kingdom always seems 10 degrees warmer than the other parks we decided to seek some shelter from the sun and catch Festival of the Lion King. Ryan absolutely loves this show because this is his favorite Disney animated film. We bought the soundtrack for Festival this trip too and have been listening to it almost non-stop since we got home!!! Since the plan called for a late night at MK we decided to head back to the hotel and take a rest.
The time has come to hit up Magic Kingdom for some serious touring. We arrived at the MK Donald parking lot at 5:30 and arrived at the turnstile at 6:10, as we were walking past Exposition Hall Ryan noticed that the wait time to meet Mickey and Minnie said 5 min so we decided to check it out and see it that was the actual time or if it was a misprint. As we headed inside the line was almost non existent so we got in line about 5 min later were in Mickey’s rehearsal room, the imagineers did a great job with the theme in this new room.
After this is where our memory gets a little foggy but we hit these attractions in this order Pirates, Carousel of Progress, TTA, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Buzz Lightyear (Ryan score 54,200 Shena 23,800), Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise (this was around 11:00 as it was one of the last for the night), Pirates and finally Big Thunder Mountain. Somewhere in all that madness we grabbed dinner at Pecos Bills and we left the park around midnight. Not sure if I mentioned this or not but all the time in the park was also spent making notes of things we “thought” may be helpful on the scavenger hunt that was coming later in the trip. We tried to ride the rides that we thought may be more difficult to fit into the hunt...just in case. Up next… Cocoa Beach Day!
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Whata great day, you got so much done. Wefind also that by midday we are done at the AK, sometimes we find the two mornings work better as it just gets so hot.
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Flame Tree! I'd eat there every time if I could...but others in may family aren't as into BBQ as I am.
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