We were at Disney World from 9/7 to 9/15 and stayed at AS Movies for 3 nights with free dining. Then moved to the BCV for 5 nights and paid for the dining plan. We had free dining last year and it is really a good deal. We paid $489 for the DDP at Beach Club, but over the 8 nights total, we ate (or brought home) about $1800 worth of food!
Each year we do the dining plan, I notice something else I'd change in my planning to make it work better for us. Next year we will do more TS lunches to free up our evenings to spend time being spontaneous, be at the parks when it's cooler out and also eat later if we are still full from lunch.
Also, next year we will have early lunches and late dinners so we can take advantage of all of the good snacks offered now. We were honestly too full to snack most of the time. And there were so many things I wanted to try. Oh well, next year!
One more thing, when we do a TS dinner at the parks, I will always get the last ADR. I hated feeling like our day ended at 6:30 at MGM because I knew the park would be closed by the time we got out of the restaurant. The DDP was great again, no problems at all, the service was all fine. We were seated right away almost everywhere and even changed some ADR's mid trip with no problems. The restaurants didn't appear to be crowded while we were there.
My group consisted of:
Me 33, planned my ADR's at 180 days out
DH: 35, along for the ride and loves Disney World
DD: 7, will try anything once
DS: 5, look up picky in the dictionary, you can see what he looks like!
Day 1
Wolfgang Puck's Cafe 4TS used $148 total
Our ADR was at 6:30, but we were starving so we checked in at 5:30 and were seated right away. The waiter was really nice and helpful. The restaurant was pretty and not very crowded. It was a fun atmosphere. We all ordered soft drinks, the kids were not offered appetizers here, the bread and oil was really good!
DH: spinach cheese dip: OMG! So good! We all ate this right up!
black angus filet: very good
chocolate fondue: served with strawberries, brownies, poundcake
and the chocolate was so good!
Me: caesar salad: very good
salmon: one of the best salmon dishes I've ever had!
chocolate raspberry cake: kind of dry, I ate the icing
DD: kids mini burgers: good
artist palette sundae: they had fun with this!
DS: chicken tenders: good
artist palette sundae: lots of fun!
Overall, we loved this place. We'll probably go back next year!
Coming up Cosmic Rays and AS Movies food court!
Each year we do the dining plan, I notice something else I'd change in my planning to make it work better for us. Next year we will do more TS lunches to free up our evenings to spend time being spontaneous, be at the parks when it's cooler out and also eat later if we are still full from lunch.
Also, next year we will have early lunches and late dinners so we can take advantage of all of the good snacks offered now. We were honestly too full to snack most of the time. And there were so many things I wanted to try. Oh well, next year!
One more thing, when we do a TS dinner at the parks, I will always get the last ADR. I hated feeling like our day ended at 6:30 at MGM because I knew the park would be closed by the time we got out of the restaurant. The DDP was great again, no problems at all, the service was all fine. We were seated right away almost everywhere and even changed some ADR's mid trip with no problems. The restaurants didn't appear to be crowded while we were there.
My group consisted of:
Me 33, planned my ADR's at 180 days out
DH: 35, along for the ride and loves Disney World
DD: 7, will try anything once
DS: 5, look up picky in the dictionary, you can see what he looks like!
Day 1
Wolfgang Puck's Cafe 4TS used $148 total
Our ADR was at 6:30, but we were starving so we checked in at 5:30 and were seated right away. The waiter was really nice and helpful. The restaurant was pretty and not very crowded. It was a fun atmosphere. We all ordered soft drinks, the kids were not offered appetizers here, the bread and oil was really good!
DH: spinach cheese dip: OMG! So good! We all ate this right up!
black angus filet: very good
chocolate fondue: served with strawberries, brownies, poundcake
and the chocolate was so good!
Me: caesar salad: very good
salmon: one of the best salmon dishes I've ever had!
chocolate raspberry cake: kind of dry, I ate the icing
DD: kids mini burgers: good
artist palette sundae: they had fun with this!
DS: chicken tenders: good
artist palette sundae: lots of fun!
Overall, we loved this place. We'll probably go back next year!
Coming up Cosmic Rays and AS Movies food court!