I’ve got 32 days to figure out my ADRs. I’ve been looking at menus and I have to say I’m trying hard not to be disappointed. I fully understand limiting offerings to best sellers helps cut costs and eliminate possible food waste but some of the dishes I had wanted to try are no longer being offered. (Did you hear my voice pitch up to a childish whine? I sure did.) One good thing is the Sunday Gospel Brunch is not happening at HoB so their brunch now falls within our budget and so bottomless bloody Mary’s are in my husband’s future.
Current dining plans:
5/7, Friday, arrival day: Probably eat in our room, might do Dahlia lounge.
5/8, Mama Melrose for lunch, Oga’s later in the day.
5/9, House of Blues brunch.
5/10, Skipper Canteen! I love puns.
5/11, Epcot, no res, try all the food booths.
5/12, Dahlia lounge if not done on arrival.
5/13, Yak and Yeti
... and I’ve made myself hungry making this list. Lol
My voice probably pitched up also when I found out months ago that Chefs de France wasnt serving my favorite flatbread and my beloved Tiki Terrace is closed and my beloved Hollywood Brown Derby lounge isnt serving food, just drinks. So you are not alone. We will adapt hopefully.....I can also use the diminished experience to get my hubby to agree to yet another trip next year or in 2023 when hopefully the new coasters will be open and maybe After Hours parties are back.
Our ADR’s are in 34 days. Its always a challenge to try to juggle big dinners with our desire to just eat small bites in the lounges or leave days open to do whatever. Here is my list so far:
5/9 lunch is grazing at Epcot food booths, dinner at Tutto Italia
5/10 lunch at Baseline Taphouse and dinner at Hollywood Brown Derby
5/11 lunch at Nomad lounge, rest of day open but shooting for Enchanted Rose bar for bites and drinks(no adr‘s for either needed of course)
5/12 open for lunch, dinner at California Grill
5/13 totally open day, Disney Springs in afternoon maybe
5/14 Nomad lounge or Satuli canteen for lunch, Sanaa for dinner
5/15 lunch at Skippers Canteen, dinner at Enchanted Rose again if we liked it the 1st time, or hop to Epcot for more grazing
5/16 lunch open, dinner at Teppan Edo or grazing or Disney Springs
5/17 Nomad lounge for lunch(yes we love it enough for 3 visits, unless the menu is too limited in which case we will do something else like for the other two days like Satuli Canteen
and leaving dinner open.
5/18 we leave at 6pm but will just graze in MK before we leave for the airport.
Of course this will probably change weekly until March 10. We intend to hop a lot but hesitate to make too many dinner reservations for a park we are hopping to. Epcot is probably a safe bet and the park we will most likely hop to in the afternoon besides MK( since we are staying at CR, its easy to run over there)
It’s so maddening though because the park hours when they come out will make a later dinner seem like you arent missing much park time......then they will probably extend the hours 2 weeks out making me wish i made an early dinner and more rides at close...............ugh!!
) $178 each!!!
. I was so excited to go for my birthday 
things improve by may but I’m not holding out hope.
