Random Bursts of Tangential Thought: The Happiest Place on Earth

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Happiest Place on Earth

and also the fullest. Wow! We did the meal plan at Disneyworld, cause it was included in our vacation package for essentially free. Wow! Do they ever expect you to eat a lot! We stayed at the Caribbean Beach Resort right in Disneyworld. I think my husband has fallen on his head recently, but hey it got me in Disneyworld and then it got me an iPad, so who's complaining? Everywhere you go at Disneyworld, you go by bus, boat or monorail. For the four days and five nights we were there, the car never left the spot we initially parked it.

So back to the food. On the meal plan each person gets 1 snack, 1 walk-up meal and one sit down meal a day At first you might think that this is a little skimpy, but don't be fooled, its far, far from skimpy. What we ended up doing was only using 2 walk-up (quick-service) meals between the four of us. A quick service meal includes an entree, drink and dessert. At breakfast it becomes 2 drinks. The serving sizes were more than generous. This way we had our snacks left over to do with what we wanted. The sit down meals can't be split. The other thing to remember is book the sit down meals right away. Some restaurants are busier than others, but if you don't book ahead, you could wander around and spend your whole time waiting. Pick some restaurants and book em. You're at the park for a few days, book the restaurants and work out where you'll be around it. The food quality varies at the sit down restaurants, but there is always something that the kids will like on the menu. The restaurant at Animal Kingdom, Tusker House served an all you can eat with a north African flavour buffet. For the kids, a make your own PBJ station. How can you miss? The other highlight was the Artist Point restaurant at Disney's Wilderness Lodge. This one uses two sit down tickets per person, but was well worth it. We're lucky, our kids will eat almost anything, so we ordered a variety of meals and add-ons and everyone got to try. It was really good!