MissKIA
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2006
Welcome to my first ever Disney Dining Report! (I guess at this point this is technically a PRE Disney Dining Report) I have done a couple of trip reports in the past, but never for a Disney Vacation. I find that I don’t tend to take a ton of pictures on vacation because I’m too busy enjoying myself and I just forget to take pictures of everything. For this reason I thought that maybe doing a dining report with a few other bits here and there about our vacation in general. I will try to remember to take pictures of all of our food! Reading dining reports, and especially seeing pictures of meals, helped me immensely when it came to choosing our ADRs – and we have a lot of them. 8 Days of the Disney Deluxe plan and they are ALL table service restaurants with the exception of Be Our Guest breakfast.
This vacation will be a Mother (me), Daughter, Grandmother trip to celebrate my daughter’s 21st birthday! She is already of legal drinking age where we live in Canada (it is 18 here, some other provinces are 19). Most “kids” around here either go to Vegas or just cross the border for a quick weekend trip to celebrate being legal everywhere. Not my daughter! She would only accept Disney World - and The World Showcase to be more precise - as her only option.
My Mom has never been to WDW. She has been to Disneyland a couple of times with us – we spent a day there before taking a Hawaiian Cruise out of LA a few years ago, and we also spent 5 days there last May along with my Husband, Daughter, Son and Niece. She really enjoyed it and when we told her we were planning on going on a Mother/Daughter trip to WDW to celebrate Carly’s 21st birthday, she seemed really interested so we invited her along, and she was more than happy to accept!
We (well I, the planner) had originally planned on staying at Port Orleans Riverside and then switched over to French Quarter as I thought we might appreciate the smaller resort. I was secretly hoping for an awesome sale to come along so I could upgrade us to the resort I have always wanted to stay at. So, once the Summer Deals came out, I immediately checked to see what kind of a deal I could get for Animal Kingdom Lodge and low and behold, I was able to book us in a Standard Room for only peanuts above the cost of POFQ. So, I booked it!!! I was finally getting to stay at AKL! I don’t even care that it’s not in a Savanna room, I mean that would be cool of course, but it’s A LOT more money for an 8 night stay and with our Canadian dollar being so poor right now, it’s just not an option. We are already splurging with the Deluxe Dining Plan AND now a Deluxe Resort, I had to make some sacrifices. I did, however, eventually upgrade us to a pool view room. This way we will be close to both the pool and hopefully the Mara where it will be quick and easy to run down and get some coffee and a muffing or some other snack in the mornings that we are not doing breakfast.
So, there we have it. All of the details are below.
When – June 18-26, 2016
Who – Karen (me), Carly (My Daughter) and Nicki (My Mom)
Where – Animal Kingdom Lodge (oh yes, I forgot to add that Carly does not know about this, it will be a surprise!)
Like most people, our plans changed around many many times before we finally come to a final decision on where, what and when we would do everything. This is the final tally of our dining reservations:
ADRs
Breakfasts
Be Our Guest
Kona
Boma
Garden Grill
Narcoossee’s Waterfront Brunch
Lunches
Liberty Tree Tavern
Tusker House
50’s Prime Time
Via Napoli
Yak & Yeti
Dinners
Whispering Canyon Cafe
Jiko
Narcoossee’s
Sanaa
Le Cellier
Ohana
California Grill
Yachstman Steakhouse
The only repeats we have, that Carly and I have been to before are Boma (but we went for dinner, this time will be for breakfast), 50’s Prime Time (we love it and I think my Mom will get a kick out of the décor), Liberty Tree Tavern (but it was for dinner, this time will be lunch) and Ohana. Everything else is new to us, so we are very excited about trying all of these new places out! Since my husband and my Mom’s SO are not going to be with us we are free to choose restaurants that we would not choose if they were with us since they are pickier and would not enjoy them. So we are pretty excited about that as well.
I may do some live reporting while we are there, but I will definitely be back here when we return to continue with this report.
I also wanted to borrow a page from another poster here a couple of months ago and invite you all to add me to snap chat if you would like to "join us" on our vacation! I plan on doing a lot of snap chatting so feel free to add me! Here is my snap code:
This vacation will be a Mother (me), Daughter, Grandmother trip to celebrate my daughter’s 21st birthday! She is already of legal drinking age where we live in Canada (it is 18 here, some other provinces are 19). Most “kids” around here either go to Vegas or just cross the border for a quick weekend trip to celebrate being legal everywhere. Not my daughter! She would only accept Disney World - and The World Showcase to be more precise - as her only option.
My Mom has never been to WDW. She has been to Disneyland a couple of times with us – we spent a day there before taking a Hawaiian Cruise out of LA a few years ago, and we also spent 5 days there last May along with my Husband, Daughter, Son and Niece. She really enjoyed it and when we told her we were planning on going on a Mother/Daughter trip to WDW to celebrate Carly’s 21st birthday, she seemed really interested so we invited her along, and she was more than happy to accept!
We (well I, the planner) had originally planned on staying at Port Orleans Riverside and then switched over to French Quarter as I thought we might appreciate the smaller resort. I was secretly hoping for an awesome sale to come along so I could upgrade us to the resort I have always wanted to stay at. So, once the Summer Deals came out, I immediately checked to see what kind of a deal I could get for Animal Kingdom Lodge and low and behold, I was able to book us in a Standard Room for only peanuts above the cost of POFQ. So, I booked it!!! I was finally getting to stay at AKL! I don’t even care that it’s not in a Savanna room, I mean that would be cool of course, but it’s A LOT more money for an 8 night stay and with our Canadian dollar being so poor right now, it’s just not an option. We are already splurging with the Deluxe Dining Plan AND now a Deluxe Resort, I had to make some sacrifices. I did, however, eventually upgrade us to a pool view room. This way we will be close to both the pool and hopefully the Mara where it will be quick and easy to run down and get some coffee and a muffing or some other snack in the mornings that we are not doing breakfast.
So, there we have it. All of the details are below.
When – June 18-26, 2016
Who – Karen (me), Carly (My Daughter) and Nicki (My Mom)
Where – Animal Kingdom Lodge (oh yes, I forgot to add that Carly does not know about this, it will be a surprise!)
Like most people, our plans changed around many many times before we finally come to a final decision on where, what and when we would do everything. This is the final tally of our dining reservations:
ADRs
Breakfasts
Be Our Guest
Kona
Boma
Garden Grill
Narcoossee’s Waterfront Brunch
Lunches
Liberty Tree Tavern
Tusker House
50’s Prime Time
Via Napoli
Yak & Yeti
Dinners
Whispering Canyon Cafe
Jiko
Narcoossee’s
Sanaa
Le Cellier
Ohana
California Grill
Yachstman Steakhouse
The only repeats we have, that Carly and I have been to before are Boma (but we went for dinner, this time will be for breakfast), 50’s Prime Time (we love it and I think my Mom will get a kick out of the décor), Liberty Tree Tavern (but it was for dinner, this time will be lunch) and Ohana. Everything else is new to us, so we are very excited about trying all of these new places out! Since my husband and my Mom’s SO are not going to be with us we are free to choose restaurants that we would not choose if they were with us since they are pickier and would not enjoy them. So we are pretty excited about that as well.
I may do some live reporting while we are there, but I will definitely be back here when we return to continue with this report.
I also wanted to borrow a page from another poster here a couple of months ago and invite you all to add me to snap chat if you would like to "join us" on our vacation! I plan on doing a lot of snap chatting so feel free to add me! Here is my snap code:
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I can't wait!!
People always ask why I don't go in the winter when I go on vacation (if it's not in the winter of course). I don't really care about getting away from the cold, I just want to get away any time!
I started that sucker at well over a year in advance, so that is very exciting to see! I'm mostly packed, I've exchanged my money to US 
& grocery shopped for the guys that we're leaving behind. (they can live on tv dinner and frozen pizza for a week right? 
How FUN!
We've eaten at 14 restaurants on your list for the same meal you're doing and then a couple others for a different meal. I'll be eagerly awaiting your reviews!
Sometimes I don't know if I enjoy the planning or the actual trip more!
). Thanks for following along!
Sometimes I get bored at work (I'm usually all alone) and use snap chat to entertain myself. 
