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Old 06-29-2015, 03:36 PM   #1
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Universal quick service dining

We will spend one full day between IoA and US. Do you recommend the quick service plan/Freestyle plan? We don't plan on table service and will be eating lunch and dinner there. Thanks for your help.
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Personally I don't recommend any of the food in the US parks. I found the burgers at Mel's Diner to be basically a crappy cheeseburger. The pizza the the Monster restaurant was mediocre at best. However, DS did enjoy the Pteradatyl legs in the Jurassic section.

That being said...there are several tasty restaurants in City Walk between the two parks, but they are sit down.

Guess we are spoiled by the food at Disney.
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We haven't bought the QS dining plans before, but if you work it right, you can save money. The nice thing is you don't have to buy it beforehand. Of it looks like it will save you money, you can purchase it right at the QS restaurant when you order.

We like The Three Broomsticks at Hogsmeade.

Mostly we do TS meals at Universsl so I haven't tried enough other QS to give much advice. Finnegans and Mythos have been good.

We actually thought Monsters Cafe was alright. I agree that Mel's is terrible, as is the Simpsons food court.
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We've never done a dining plan there. And other than eating once at Three Broomsticks, we do TS meals in the parks. There's tons of really good QS and TS places to pick from at City Walk.
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Thanks guys; we will stay away from Mel's! Ds has already chosen the Monster's Cafe and we weren't too impressed with The Three Broomsticks, so we need to decide on one more place. If we were to walk all the way back to Citywalk for a TS meal, I know DH would push for Margaritaville again and I say no thank you to that. There are so many other choices. So, to save money and park time we will see what we can find in the park. If we go with a meal plan, I will give a review.
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We did the QS meal plan once several years back. Honestly, I did not care for the food at all. We ate at Louie's...yuck...Mel's...yuck...the choices of restaurants were quite limited, too.

I also did not feel we got good value for our money. I'm sure it can be done more effectively. I had done QS dining plan at WDW, and at the time I felt it was a much better value, with much better food options.

We are going to US/IOA again next summer, and I am planning to eat our larger meals at City Walk. Then again, there will only be two of us, and it will be our primary vacation destination. Plus, we'll be there several days.

If you want something quirky, you might look into the Green Eggs and Ham Cafe, in the Seuss Landing area of IOA. It's just a walk-up window, but the Green Eggs and Ham sandwich was cute.
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