Than you did much better than we did this year... I agree it is a TON of food. I actually think it can work out OK if you do a signature every night and then one other meal during the day. But again, you end up ordering so much more than you probably would otherwise. I, for one, don't always love eating dessert immediately after a big dinner and I can't tell you how many delicious looking desserts I didn't like as much as I might have had I not been SO full.
We have never let a credit behind, paid for or free dining. I make it a mission to use them all up!
We did just what you suggested. We had a lunch planned every day as early as they would open up and then a late(ish) dinner. But after a few days we got so tired of having to be at a restaurant every midday, eating 3 courses and not being hungry when we went out to dinner.
There were a lot of snacks I would have loved to try, but we were too full to even attempt an ice-cream!
Oh well.. we left credits on the table. Terrible!
I'm with you... I think when we go back we'll probably do the regular DDP, or none at all. Portions are so big and there are so many snacks and treats around I could see Mark and I sharing a fair amount of CS. To be honest, a number of the one credit TS places just didn't do it for me this time and don't seem worth the time and money.
When we use our TiW we share a lot of things. So we get to try a lot of new things. And with the portion size you will be even stuffed on two appetizers!
We have a few "old favourites" that we tend to do every trip, but you are right not many TS are as good as they used to be!
And I'm with Nicki on Via Napoli. I was SO disappointed. I was expecting the pizza to be so delicious, based on Nicki's first round of reviews and your first reviews, but the crust wasn't crisp and we didn't find the CMs to be that great, either. I felt like we had a much better meal at Tutto the year before. Plus, we get truly great pizza up here in the Northeast, which is the part of the country most Italians immigrated to when they first came here. Then again, it was our last meal of the trip and I'm finding that by that last meal, I'm DONE with restaurant food of any kind!
The pizza WAS delicious when we first went there a few days after it opened. Very similar to the pizza we get when we go to Italy.
This year we had a reservation, but after Nicki told us about it, we dropped it. Don't know if we will be back in the summer.
Columbia Harbour House looks great, especially that shrimp! I also love a good tuna sandwich. I'm definitely on the look out for good CS places for our next trip!
You will love CHH! They have some pretty good salads as well!
And yes...by all means...get a move on that February TR...
Hmm...maybe that means I should, too!