robinsa88
Mouseketeer
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- Apr 13, 2010
September 21st – Day 6 – Crystal Palace Dinner
After a long day at Magic Kingdom, we were very hot and bothered by the time dinner rolled around. Neither Peta and I were particularly enthused by tonight’s choice but we had agreed to go on Clint and Steph’s suggestion and I was at least excited to get pictures with our friends from the Hundred Acre Woods!
I do love the grandiose nature of the Crystal Palace, it does feel like a world apart, and is, in general well themed.
We were seated straight away almost, and our server here was disappointingly slack. She brought me the wrong drink then neglected to correct it, and never gave us any refills despite Clint and Steph asking at least once each.
We headed over to the buffet straight away upon the servers advice as the characters were on the other side.
Most the food that we had was just OK, not a lot of flavour and it was definitely lacking in exciting choices. The usual options of meat, veg and salad were there but they felt much more mass produced that the other buffets we had been to (and would go to). Several things I picked up were cold and I don’t even recall going back for seconds. Even Trent didn’t eat much.
Peta’s choices here seemed limited to plain veggies and a few salad options and she was definitely disappointed as well.
Unfortunately, the server was wrong, and the characters had re-emerged very quickly towards our table – and seemed to swamp us all at a time.
Tigger especially seemed irritated at having to wait for Trent and I to come back over, although I didn’t see the reason for this as Clint and Steph were only just finishing photos with him and Reuben. At least being a non-face character, you can’t tell
Ellie was having, erm, some digestive upset which unfortunately left her soiled. Subsequently the meal was somewhat cut short but not before we snagged some nice snaps at least.
I couldn’t help but feel that all the characters here were rushed, and Piglet also seemed somewhat put off by the fact that we wanted photos separate from Clint and Steph. This is unfortunately what we have experienced here in the past. It is, and remains based on this visit, our least favourite character meal.
And so, the score card:
Food: 1/5 – Cold and Bland
Service: 1/5 – Gave wrong advice, didn’t refill and brought me the wrong drink
Experience: 1/5 – Even the characters and nice décor could not save this L
After a long day at Magic Kingdom, we were very hot and bothered by the time dinner rolled around. Neither Peta and I were particularly enthused by tonight’s choice but we had agreed to go on Clint and Steph’s suggestion and I was at least excited to get pictures with our friends from the Hundred Acre Woods!
I do love the grandiose nature of the Crystal Palace, it does feel like a world apart, and is, in general well themed.
We were seated straight away almost, and our server here was disappointingly slack. She brought me the wrong drink then neglected to correct it, and never gave us any refills despite Clint and Steph asking at least once each.
We headed over to the buffet straight away upon the servers advice as the characters were on the other side.
Most the food that we had was just OK, not a lot of flavour and it was definitely lacking in exciting choices. The usual options of meat, veg and salad were there but they felt much more mass produced that the other buffets we had been to (and would go to). Several things I picked up were cold and I don’t even recall going back for seconds. Even Trent didn’t eat much.
Peta’s choices here seemed limited to plain veggies and a few salad options and she was definitely disappointed as well.
Unfortunately, the server was wrong, and the characters had re-emerged very quickly towards our table – and seemed to swamp us all at a time.
Tigger especially seemed irritated at having to wait for Trent and I to come back over, although I didn’t see the reason for this as Clint and Steph were only just finishing photos with him and Reuben. At least being a non-face character, you can’t tell
Ellie was having, erm, some digestive upset which unfortunately left her soiled. Subsequently the meal was somewhat cut short but not before we snagged some nice snaps at least.
I couldn’t help but feel that all the characters here were rushed, and Piglet also seemed somewhat put off by the fact that we wanted photos separate from Clint and Steph. This is unfortunately what we have experienced here in the past. It is, and remains based on this visit, our least favourite character meal.
And so, the score card:
Food: 1/5 – Cold and Bland
Service: 1/5 – Gave wrong advice, didn’t refill and brought me the wrong drink
Experience: 1/5 – Even the characters and nice décor could not save this L