January-2007
04-11-2007, 12:20 PM
January-2007's September ADRs +Free Dining+
Free Dining was offered and we took the bait. With a little change here and an upgrade to preferred there we are off and running. Staying 11 nights, longest trip to Walt Disney World for either of us. Trip consists of me, 23 (by time of trip), and DH, 23.
Here are our dining plans:
Day 1: 6:40PM- Le Cellier. Arrival day. Thought we should start off with a bang. Think this will do?
Day 2: 6:10PM- 50's Prime Time Cafe. I went here a few years ago, didn't have the best time, but am hoping since I won't be flying solo we'll enjoy ourselves. Love the theming. Hope we get seated at one of the "kitchen tables" with the tv and all that jazz. Last time they put me in the hallway. It was so sad.
Day 3: 6PM Tony's Town Square. I know this restaurant doesn't get a lot of rave reviews, but we'll be there for 11 nights. Had to pick some hit or miss places. DH loves Italian food, and really isn't picky, so I am hoping this will turn out well. He's excited I got it just for him. The theme here seems cool too, Lady and the Tramp. I heard it's loud, where should we try to get seated?
Day 4: 6:05PM Kona Cafe. I am so cheap, we didn't end up going here on our Honeymoon. We're going now, and hope it's fabulous. We loved the Grand Floridian Cafe on our Honeymoon but that's closed while we're here since they're having the 1900 Park Fare meals in that restaurant during the refurb. Hope this is nice like that was. (Yeah, I know it's not the same at all.. but still)
Day 5: 7:40PM Coral Reef. We are both really excited to go here. All those ABC TGIF moments in this restaurant! I think it's going to be loud here, too, but at least we have later reservations, so maybe some of the kids will have gone to sleep all ready? Or maybe they'll just be that much louder. Since it's 1TS and Free Dining... But hopefully we'll have a good time. Another love it/hate it restaurant that we would never go to out of pocket, so hopefully we'll be on the "love it" side of the spectrum.
Day 6: 6PM Hollywood Brown Derby. This just seems like such a nice restaurant. It's 2TS, and since it's free, it's all good. Old Hollywood is fun, and I know it's in the middle of a themepark and people are going to be wearing tank tops, but I'm hoping for a very pleasant experience here.
Day 7: 8PM Le Cellier. It's so freaking poplular here. This was actually going to be our first night dinner for the dates I had originally planned on going, and then since I had to switch the dates to get Free Dining I just kept the rest of the ADRs I had made for the remainder of the trip. If we want a break from restaurants, we can cancel this in the morning and make somebody's day. Or we'll go for the second time and live it up. If it's as good as everyone says we'll probably be thrilled to go here twice.
Day 8: 6PM Concourse Steakhouse. Holy cow, literally, that's a lot of steak we're going to be eating! I used to want to eat at Chef Mickey's, but decided since we're a little older (23 counts as older, right?) we would appreciate this restaurant more. Surprisingly enough, I'm not as into the characters as I was when I was younger. Who would have thought? This place seems to have a love it/hate it thing going on too, but I think we'll be fine. Just watching the monorail overhead and knowing everything is free is very relaxing. Oh yes, and all the noise from Chef Mickey's that we'll be hearing, I'm quite aware of that. Hopefully we will once again have a "love it" experience here.
Day 9: 6:15PM Biergarten. Almost every trip I have ever gone to Walt Disney World has included a meal at the Biergarten, and DH absolutely loves it, so it's on our list. It'll be nice to go some place familiar after going to all these new restaurants.
Day 10: 6PM Libery Tree Tavern. Our one character meal of the trip. I like that they bring the meal to you as opposed to a buffet line where everybody runs into each other in the crazy frenzy that is a character meal during Free Dining. I think it's cool that we'll get to see the characters in different clothes, too, and I've always wanted to dine here. We love Thanksgiving, too, so that helps!
Day 11: 6:10PM Trails End. Yeah, it's the cheapest of all the restaurants so it's not the best use of a TS credit, but if you'll notice, we have overbooked by one TS credit by going to the Brown Derby, so it will all work out in the end. If we decide to cancel one of our meals we have this one to fall back on to use our credit up with, and if we do go to all our meals we can just pay out of pocket for this one, since it's the least expensive of them all. I love how that worked out. We usually eat here more than once a trip, and go for lunch, but are trying it for dinner this time. It's our last night, and I hope there's a good movie at the campfire!
So there you have it, January-2007's September ADRs +Free Dining+ I hope it hasn't been too boring of a read. Please do tell me what you think, things we should order, where we can get cool drinks included in the plan, etc. etc. Have a great day! Only 5 months until this trip, and 1 1/2 until we're back in the World.
Free Dining was offered and we took the bait. With a little change here and an upgrade to preferred there we are off and running. Staying 11 nights, longest trip to Walt Disney World for either of us. Trip consists of me, 23 (by time of trip), and DH, 23.
Here are our dining plans:
Day 1: 6:40PM- Le Cellier. Arrival day. Thought we should start off with a bang. Think this will do?
Day 2: 6:10PM- 50's Prime Time Cafe. I went here a few years ago, didn't have the best time, but am hoping since I won't be flying solo we'll enjoy ourselves. Love the theming. Hope we get seated at one of the "kitchen tables" with the tv and all that jazz. Last time they put me in the hallway. It was so sad.
Day 3: 6PM Tony's Town Square. I know this restaurant doesn't get a lot of rave reviews, but we'll be there for 11 nights. Had to pick some hit or miss places. DH loves Italian food, and really isn't picky, so I am hoping this will turn out well. He's excited I got it just for him. The theme here seems cool too, Lady and the Tramp. I heard it's loud, where should we try to get seated?
Day 4: 6:05PM Kona Cafe. I am so cheap, we didn't end up going here on our Honeymoon. We're going now, and hope it's fabulous. We loved the Grand Floridian Cafe on our Honeymoon but that's closed while we're here since they're having the 1900 Park Fare meals in that restaurant during the refurb. Hope this is nice like that was. (Yeah, I know it's not the same at all.. but still)
Day 5: 7:40PM Coral Reef. We are both really excited to go here. All those ABC TGIF moments in this restaurant! I think it's going to be loud here, too, but at least we have later reservations, so maybe some of the kids will have gone to sleep all ready? Or maybe they'll just be that much louder. Since it's 1TS and Free Dining... But hopefully we'll have a good time. Another love it/hate it restaurant that we would never go to out of pocket, so hopefully we'll be on the "love it" side of the spectrum.
Day 6: 6PM Hollywood Brown Derby. This just seems like such a nice restaurant. It's 2TS, and since it's free, it's all good. Old Hollywood is fun, and I know it's in the middle of a themepark and people are going to be wearing tank tops, but I'm hoping for a very pleasant experience here.
Day 7: 8PM Le Cellier. It's so freaking poplular here. This was actually going to be our first night dinner for the dates I had originally planned on going, and then since I had to switch the dates to get Free Dining I just kept the rest of the ADRs I had made for the remainder of the trip. If we want a break from restaurants, we can cancel this in the morning and make somebody's day. Or we'll go for the second time and live it up. If it's as good as everyone says we'll probably be thrilled to go here twice.
Day 8: 6PM Concourse Steakhouse. Holy cow, literally, that's a lot of steak we're going to be eating! I used to want to eat at Chef Mickey's, but decided since we're a little older (23 counts as older, right?) we would appreciate this restaurant more. Surprisingly enough, I'm not as into the characters as I was when I was younger. Who would have thought? This place seems to have a love it/hate it thing going on too, but I think we'll be fine. Just watching the monorail overhead and knowing everything is free is very relaxing. Oh yes, and all the noise from Chef Mickey's that we'll be hearing, I'm quite aware of that. Hopefully we will once again have a "love it" experience here.
Day 9: 6:15PM Biergarten. Almost every trip I have ever gone to Walt Disney World has included a meal at the Biergarten, and DH absolutely loves it, so it's on our list. It'll be nice to go some place familiar after going to all these new restaurants.
Day 10: 6PM Libery Tree Tavern. Our one character meal of the trip. I like that they bring the meal to you as opposed to a buffet line where everybody runs into each other in the crazy frenzy that is a character meal during Free Dining. I think it's cool that we'll get to see the characters in different clothes, too, and I've always wanted to dine here. We love Thanksgiving, too, so that helps!
Day 11: 6:10PM Trails End. Yeah, it's the cheapest of all the restaurants so it's not the best use of a TS credit, but if you'll notice, we have overbooked by one TS credit by going to the Brown Derby, so it will all work out in the end. If we decide to cancel one of our meals we have this one to fall back on to use our credit up with, and if we do go to all our meals we can just pay out of pocket for this one, since it's the least expensive of them all. I love how that worked out. We usually eat here more than once a trip, and go for lunch, but are trying it for dinner this time. It's our last night, and I hope there's a good movie at the campfire!
So there you have it, January-2007's September ADRs +Free Dining+ I hope it hasn't been too boring of a read. Please do tell me what you think, things we should order, where we can get cool drinks included in the plan, etc. etc. Have a great day! Only 5 months until this trip, and 1 1/2 until we're back in the World.