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Great dining choices, Kelly! all on your own! We enjoy all of these. By the way, the lounge did not have food offerings before we left on the safari. We were taken downstairs before food was out.
I'm assuming you meant GG (Garden Grill). We've eaten there 3 times now, so this will be the 4th - we go every other trip. This was the dinner we had on Dylan's actual 1st birthday so I thought it appropriate to include it on this trip since his birthday is 2 weeks after Lukas'.
I did mean Garden Grill, baby brain. So with this being your 4th time going, I take that as a good sign. Plus a great celebration. Adding to the must try list for sure!
Great dining choices, Kelly! all on your own! We enjoy all of these. By the way, the lounge did not have food offerings before we left on the safari. We were taken downstairs before food was out.
I think they told us when we did it in June 2009 that coffee and juice was all that was available. I'll be sure to grab something extra the day before for Dylan to snack on.
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I did mean Garden Grill, baby brain. So with this being your 4th time going, I take that as a good sign. Plus a great celebration. Adding to the must try list for sure!
We do love it at GG. The character interaction has always been really good as well as the food. Hope you like it when you try it. (It is only available for dinner. We actually ate there on the last day they served lunch.)
we enjoyed garden grill on our last trip also. the character interaction was great. the only thing I didn't like was the $16.99 children's platter that was barely touched!
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Your dining choices look great, especially SciFi!!! Thanks to your review we tried it during our last trip & loved it!!! It's the only def dining choice on our list so far for our next trip.... Can't wait to hear more about your trip planning!
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we enjoyed garden grill on our last trip also. the character interaction was great. the only thing I didn't like was the $16.99 children's platter that was barely touched!
This will be the first time we've had to pay for Dylan - every other trip he was under 3. At least we're getting a 2-for-1.
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great food choices. That's always my fav part of planning!
Me too!
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Your dining choices look great, especially SciFi!!! Thanks to your review we tried it during our last trip & loved it!!! It's the only def dining choice on our list so far for our next trip.... Can't wait to hear more about your trip planning!
I'm so glad you liked Sci-Fi - and enough to return! I know it's just burgers & fries, but it's the atmosphere that gets us - we love it!
ya know its funny because every other restaurant we didn't have to pay for Sam because he was turning 3 at the end of that week, but at Garden Grill the menu said kids 9 and under $16.99 and they didn't let us opt out with him still being 2. They did change some of the food on the platter to suit him better but there was no getting out of paying. Most other restaurants list kids 3-9.
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all on your own! We enjoy all of these. By the way, the lounge did not have food offerings before we left on the safari. We were taken downstairs before food was out. 
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Teresa
great food choices. That's always my fav part of planning!
Can't wait to hear more about your trip planning!
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