Cannot_Wait_4Disney
The Colombo of Cippolini.
- Joined
- May 18, 2005
We came to this meal as a result of much changing. When we added MNSSHP for this day, we had to move spoodles out and PF in. But then that presented two problems.
1. Too many buffets in the front end of things
2. Our PF ressie ended up a bit too late at the dinner hour. So we cancelled that and added this breakfast. We scheduled it late because we were going to Disneyquest on this day rather than one of the main parks.
A word of warning if you're driving. The Parking lot is in Valdosta, Georgia. You'll have to walk in from there or use Valet. If you're going to use Valet service, this is definitely the place to do it. From the monorail, it's easy to step into the building and go down one level. The Grand Floridian's main room is really nice. Park Faire is off to the left right near the entrance if you're walking in.
We allowed plenty of time so we arrived at the podium about 8:50. We got our pager and got into line for Mary Poppins who was in the lobby. One word of warning. Don't take your picture straight on here. Reflections off the background will trip up your camera. Our pager went off in the line for Marry Poppins. The hostess at the podium just handed us a piece of paper to give to the hostess at the door. Park Faire consists of a main center room with two smaller rooms on either side. The room would be a typical convention ballroom. It's decorated with caroussel figures. We got the big room with the high ceilings. I think that's the better room. The other rooms were a bit cramped. Park Faire is overall a bit smaller than CM's or CP.
We were seated and we asked which direction the characters would come from. The hostess merely said they had their rotation and would come when they come. It's very convenient to know where they come from so you don't get up and miss them and you can know when it's your turn. Anyway, I watched and figured it out. They didn't do one room at a time. The big room is wider than the other two. They did the far group of tables in the big room, then they did one of the small rooms, then came all the way up through the middle, then the other room, then the near side.
The food.
This was a very good breakfast. There isn't quite the selection here as there is at Crystal Palace, but it was very good nonetheless. They had bacon, scrambled eggs, an omelet station, sausage, plus they had southwestern eggs. Yummmy!!! They had southern style hashed browns (square) and I like to put the biscuit gravy on them. They also had hash but instead of shredded corned beaf, it was thinly slized. This was really good. They also had mickey waffles with a toppings bar. Oh and a bonus. They had bread pudding with vanilla sauce.
OH BOY, BREAD PUDDING!!!!!! Good bread pudding = kudos. Bad Bread pudding= get ripped in another review It was really good Far better than that at BOMA. The omelet maker cooked the mushrooms and such and then threw the egg in rather than doing the egg, then filling it. I like em done that way. All in all this was a great breakfast. I missed the Breakfast Lasagne a bit but the bread pudding made up for it.
The characters. We had Alice and the mad hatter. The other two were Pooh and Tigger. The character interaction was very good. The mad hatter was a kook!!! Everyone had a good time. Alice was great too. She had some kids across from us that hate the princesses (that age.) They hid under the table, but Alice found them. HEHE. Alice played on the floor with em awhile. She was really good. As we didn't have a booth, there was nowhere for ours to hide.
Service was good other than the non-help of where the characters came from. Everything was to temperature and replenished. They even had some crisp bacon and some not so crsp. I liked that. Everyone gets the kind they want. I'm a non-crisp.
Value for the credit or money.
This is more than a bit down on price vs everywhere we ate. Nevertheless, I thought it a good value for a credit because we were so far over on price in total, being a bit under here didn't matter. And I thought it important to break up all the dinner buffets with a breakfast. if you're paying out of pocket, we thought it very valuable for the money. If your purpose is to get in a character meal and you don't really care which meal, these will save you some cash.
We loved it and will return. It gets a high recommend. It's hard to compare a breakfast to the other meals we ate, but we came away happy.
1. Too many buffets in the front end of things
2. Our PF ressie ended up a bit too late at the dinner hour. So we cancelled that and added this breakfast. We scheduled it late because we were going to Disneyquest on this day rather than one of the main parks.
A word of warning if you're driving. The Parking lot is in Valdosta, Georgia. You'll have to walk in from there or use Valet. If you're going to use Valet service, this is definitely the place to do it. From the monorail, it's easy to step into the building and go down one level. The Grand Floridian's main room is really nice. Park Faire is off to the left right near the entrance if you're walking in.
We allowed plenty of time so we arrived at the podium about 8:50. We got our pager and got into line for Mary Poppins who was in the lobby. One word of warning. Don't take your picture straight on here. Reflections off the background will trip up your camera. Our pager went off in the line for Marry Poppins. The hostess at the podium just handed us a piece of paper to give to the hostess at the door. Park Faire consists of a main center room with two smaller rooms on either side. The room would be a typical convention ballroom. It's decorated with caroussel figures. We got the big room with the high ceilings. I think that's the better room. The other rooms were a bit cramped. Park Faire is overall a bit smaller than CM's or CP.
We were seated and we asked which direction the characters would come from. The hostess merely said they had their rotation and would come when they come. It's very convenient to know where they come from so you don't get up and miss them and you can know when it's your turn. Anyway, I watched and figured it out. They didn't do one room at a time. The big room is wider than the other two. They did the far group of tables in the big room, then they did one of the small rooms, then came all the way up through the middle, then the other room, then the near side.
The food.
This was a very good breakfast. There isn't quite the selection here as there is at Crystal Palace, but it was very good nonetheless. They had bacon, scrambled eggs, an omelet station, sausage, plus they had southwestern eggs. Yummmy!!! They had southern style hashed browns (square) and I like to put the biscuit gravy on them. They also had hash but instead of shredded corned beaf, it was thinly slized. This was really good. They also had mickey waffles with a toppings bar. Oh and a bonus. They had bread pudding with vanilla sauce.
OH BOY, BREAD PUDDING!!!!!! Good bread pudding = kudos. Bad Bread pudding= get ripped in another review It was really good Far better than that at BOMA. The omelet maker cooked the mushrooms and such and then threw the egg in rather than doing the egg, then filling it. I like em done that way. All in all this was a great breakfast. I missed the Breakfast Lasagne a bit but the bread pudding made up for it.
The characters. We had Alice and the mad hatter. The other two were Pooh and Tigger. The character interaction was very good. The mad hatter was a kook!!! Everyone had a good time. Alice was great too. She had some kids across from us that hate the princesses (that age.) They hid under the table, but Alice found them. HEHE. Alice played on the floor with em awhile. She was really good. As we didn't have a booth, there was nowhere for ours to hide.
Service was good other than the non-help of where the characters came from. Everything was to temperature and replenished. They even had some crisp bacon and some not so crsp. I liked that. Everyone gets the kind they want. I'm a non-crisp.
Value for the credit or money.
This is more than a bit down on price vs everywhere we ate. Nevertheless, I thought it a good value for a credit because we were so far over on price in total, being a bit under here didn't matter. And I thought it important to break up all the dinner buffets with a breakfast. if you're paying out of pocket, we thought it very valuable for the money. If your purpose is to get in a character meal and you don't really care which meal, these will save you some cash.
We loved it and will return. It gets a high recommend. It's hard to compare a breakfast to the other meals we ate, but we came away happy.
