Dining Experience 8/13 - 8/18

[shondad]

My family and I returned from our second trip to Disney and second time using the Dining Plan. Our experiences were as follows: 1900 PF dinner, Teppanyaki dinner, Maya Grill dinner, Crystal Palace breakfast, Concourse Steakhouse dinner, and Boma dinner. Sunshine Seasons breakfast and lunch, Yorkshire Fish and chips lunch, Liberty Inn lunch, Outpost refreshments (I think that was the name), Tusker House, Wolfgang Puck Express.

I am overjoyed our dining was free, as I did not really enjoy any of our choices this time {and would have hated to have paid for all of them (did pay OOP for CP)}, only Boma and that was the very one I was most concerned about and worried that I would not like. I loved it, we all did. Last year's selections were so much better though, overall, except Shutters.

Last year we did WCC dinner, CM brkfst, Ohana dinner, Shutters dinner, and Donald's, and counterservice, Cosmic Ray's lunch, ABC Commisary lunch, Flame Tree lunch, Sports brkst, Earl of Sandwich dinner.

If anyone has questions, I'll try to answer them and I certainly can be more detailed if there's any interest.

My dining reviews from August 2006 trip:

Boma (dinner): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1203987

Concourse Steakhouse (dinner): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1203961

Crystal Palace (brkfst): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1203936

Maya Grill (dinner): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1203936

Teppanyaki (dinner): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1202908

1900 Park Faire (dinner): http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1202889

Upcoming: Counter Service and snacks

 

[The Sweetness]

Sorry you didnt enjoy your dining exp. MAybe after you have had a day or 2 to unwind, you wouldnt mind reviewing the restaurants where you ate. Let us know what dissapointed you, please. That info can help alot of us who havent made our upcomming ADRs yet

 

[chobie]

What places did you like the least and why? And I'm glad you liked Boma, its our favorite too, both breakfast and dinner.

 

[shondad]

Sorry you didnt enjoy your dining exp. MAybe after you have had a day or 2 to unwind, you wouldnt mind reviewing the restaurants where you ate. Let us know what dissapointed you, please. That info can help alot of us who havent made our upcomming ADRs yet

I'll try to post my reviews this evening, or at least some, as I have had to hit the ground running, I am back to work now, after getting in from the drive yesterday at 5pm.

 

[katebeth]

How was your experience at 1900 Park for Dinner? We are going there for the first time in Oct...Looking forward to it. Hope it was good

Thanks

 

[shondad]

What places did you like the least and why? And I'm glad you liked Boma, its our favorite too, both breakfast and dinner.

Boma was awesome.

I think I can safely group the rest of them together in my opinion as not very good, of course there was good at each place. I just don't think I'd be eagerly returning for some time to any of them, except Boma that is. I will be more specific after work.

 

[shondad]

How was your experience at 1900 Park for Dinner? We are going there for the first time in Oct...Looking forward to it. Hope it was good

Thanks

Not quite what I had in mind for a buffet, my Dh and I both agreed that there just wasn't much variety. I recall, only a few main entrees, most of which did not appeal to me. I don't have an exotic palate, but I can appreciate good food, I simply did not find it here.

Will post more later.

 

[Minniespal]

Thanx for sharing.

 

[bluejasmine]

How were the crowds in the parks and did you have to wait long to be seated at your ADRs? TIA!

 

[shondad]

How were the crowds in the parks and did you have to wait long to be seated at your ADRs? TIA!

The parks were, in my opinion, overwhelmingly crowded, each of the four.

We did not have a long wait, even with getting there either at the exact time or 5mins late, which we were for PF. Except for CP, we got there at 1030 for our 1030 ADR, we got seated around 30 mins later. We went to AKL earlier than expected since our AK day was a wash and checked in after walking around a bit and were seated within 5 mins at 520pm, even though our ADR was for 620pm, and it was busy.

 

[shondad]

Well for those that are interested, I just completed our dining reviews, counter, table service and snacks. I hope it provides some assistance to someone. I listed each table service separately and the counterservice and snacks collectively. The links for the table service restaurants are listed in the original post. Thanks.

Enjoy

 

[trvlr4301r]

I can't read your reviews....when I click on the link all I get is an error. I was looking forward to reading them....anyone else have this problem?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Try these (or search for posts by shondad):

1900 Park Faire dinner 8/13/06 http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=14141522&postcount=1
Boma dinner 8/17/06 http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=14158370&postcount=1

Crystal Palace Breakfast 8/16/06 http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=14157607&postcount=1

Maya Grill 8/15/06 http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=14151014&postcount=1

Concourse Steakhouse dinner 8/16/06 http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=14158069&postcount=1

Counter Service - Snack reviews 8/13 - 8/18 Dining Plan http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1204183

 

[shondad]

I can't read your reviews....when I click on the link all I get is an error. I was looking forward to reading them....anyone else have this problem?

I apologize for taking so long to respond, I was out of town, but, kaytieeldr did list the links, I don't know what happened and why the threads can't be accessed from the links I listed. I'll try to correct the list. Thanks for letting me know there was a problem, and I hope that you were ultimately able to view them.

Thanks also kaytieeldr.

 

[trvlr4301r]

Thanks...I can get them now and have enjoyed reading them. We are going to be trying the Park Fare dinner so I was interested in your review of that. Thanks for posting.