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Hi all, as the time gets closer, I'm coming up with a few questions for the board.
First, for those of you who have gone to Whispering Canyon for dinner with the new menu changes, I noticed that you get to choose three choices of meats from 5 choices with the all you care to enjoy skillet. There will be 7 of us eating there and we all will get that meal. Does that mean that we all have to agree on the SAME three entrees? For instance, I love the ribs, chicken and beef loin but my DD LOVES the fish and sausage. So if the entire table has to decide on jus thtree entrees there might be bloodshed LOL!!
Secondly, can someone tell me where the nearest photopass kiosk is closest to the entrance to the Magic Kingdom? I want to my photopass plus card ASAP before we do anything lese in the park.
I'm sure there will be more questions beofre we leave. Thanks a bunch!!
Can you get the photopass plus at the camera place in the building with the princesses and mickey/minnie meet and greet?
I would think you could.
I haven't eaten at WCC since they've made the changes but I was reading that you can pick 3 entrees and have all 3 be different each time you get a skillet refill.
Would all 7 of you be sharing one skillet? I don't see how that would work well. How about getting 2 skillets - one with the ribs/chicken/beef and the other skillet have fish/sausage and whatever else others like.
I know when we got the skillet, there wasn't enough on it for the 4 of us. My husband and son emptied it out before my DD and I got anything and we had to get the refill right away which still meant we had a 20 minutes wait before my DD and I got something to eat.
I was not happy with my husband about that one. I felt like they should have waited until all of us had something on our plate before being food hogs. LOL
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I was not happy with my husband about that one. I felt like they should have waited until all of us had something on our plate before being food hogs. LOL
Well, yeah!! My son & hubby would've been emptying part of their meals onto everyone else's plate immediately...at knifepoint if necessary! You showed great restraint, I think.
Interesting question would like to see what the answer is about the meat choice. We are not going until Aug. but we may try to do WC because we will be at WLV if we are brave enough. We will be doing counter service for the most part. Have done WC before and really enjoyed the meal not so much the racket that goes on though but that is part of WC.
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According to Allears's menu, it's a family platter you all share. I wonder if they would do one for like 4 people, and another for the other 3. We are also doing WCC with 7 people...two families. I wonder of our family can have one, and the other family have their own....so we can do the meats we want.
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Well, yeah!! My son & hubby would've been emptying part of their meals onto everyone else's plate immediately...at knifepoint if necessary! You showed great restraint, I think.
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I probably wouldn't remember that so clearly except that whole day was not a good one family behavior wise.
I remember being so fed up after dinner that I left (we were staying at WL) and went to MK by myself for the evening.
That was my first time being solo at Disney and I loved it.
I remembered where I read about being able to have different meats on refills than what you ordered originally - it was on the Magical Kingdoms Dining message board.
Since you will be ordering 7 skillet meals, I would think you could each get whatever meats you wanted for your meal. There's no way they could put enough food for everyone on one platter/skillet/whatever they serve it on, so they should be able to give you what you want on a couple of different platters/skillets/whatever.
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