I have questions about Festival of Food:
- do the vendors accept Disney Gift Cards or are they cash/credit only?
- are they throughout DCA only, or elsewhere in DTD?
- will there be a list of vendors set out before we arrive or will it be an insert in the DCA map?
- if you've seen them in prior years, can you give me an idea of the types of food?
Just made some reservations for Minnies for breakfast on the 28 and dinner at PCH and dinner at Goofys on the 29.
Makes me feel like we are almost there once I make reservations.
We are doing breakfast at Plaza the 28th too!
Maybe we'll see you and @mpadilla89 there too! Our time is at 8:40.
That's the hard part - I have a 13 year-old who wants to sleep her day away, a DH who wants to sleep in on his holidays, a DD11 who is up at 7am no matter what... except when we're at DLR, and then me - who wants to get up and out by 6:30 every morning!
Scheduling breakfasts so that we're not ravenous by the time we get going, and yet leaving the hotel at a reasonable time... it seems everyone in my family moves extra slowly on holidays.
Still waiting for them to fill in the schedule for Dec. 3rd through 8th. Trying to figure out what day we want to see Fantasmic and world of Color. They are so slow this year releasing details!
Dec 3 thru 8 is out there. The schedule is there thru the 11th right now.
Maybe we'll see you and @mpadilla89 there too! Our time is at 8:40.
That's the hard part - I have a 13 year-old who wants to sleep her day away, a DH who wants to sleep in on his holidays, a DD11 who is up at 7am no matter what... except when we're at DLR, and then me - who wants to get up and out by 6:30 every morning!
Scheduling breakfasts so that we're not ravenous by the time we get going, and yet leaving the hotel at a reasonable time... it seems everyone in my family moves extra slowly on holidays.
Good plan! I told my family our MM will be the first day. We waited til our last day last time and it was not worth it - they wasted 30 minutes and we didn't get PPF at all. So this time, we'll do it while we're 'fresh' and then I'll tell them for the rest of the week that I'll meet them at the park if they take longer than 15 minutes after I'm ready. We only have two breakfasts anyway, so it shouldn't be that much of a hardship for them to get up before 10 twice.
My kids are up super early too, so I know I won't have to pry anyone out of bed. We plan to grab breakfast to go on our way to the parks. Might as well take advantage of the first hour in the park.Ohhhhh my kids are up at the crack of dawn and we will be in a time zone two hours behind our normal lol. Our reservation is right at 7am. Gonna use it on our non magic morning day.
That is what i tell my family i will leave at a certain time and i do because if i wait at the hotel they for some reason take longer. The minute they see me grab my stuff and open the door they are magically ready. DD9 is always right behind me but DH can literally take forever to do nothing.
Right. I usually plan the day well i think. So they always think it goes smoothly, but they don't understand that there is a method to this madness. If I am traveling with other family members i tell them the day before what time i will be down stairs. By now they know that i will leave them lol and they are sometimes even downstairs before me.My DH got the same memo I think, LOL. I understand the desire to sleep in on holidays, but when I'm at DLR, there's no such thing! If I say I'll meet them I get the, "no, we should go as a family" so then I have to delay for them. I'll have to figure out how to work out the timings because they don't understand how busy it can get after rope drop.
I have questions about Festival of Food:
- do the vendors accept Disney Gift Cards or are they cash/credit only?
- are they throughout DCA only, or elsewhere in DTD?
- will there be a list of vendors set out before we arrive or will it be an insert in the DCA map?
- if you've seen them in prior years, can you give me an idea of the types of food?
I’ve had our rezzies booked since mid summer and things were tight even then! This was once the premium time to come as Thanksgiving crowds were over and the park was virtually empty...that was 8-10/years ago.We will be going that week as well! There is some sort of weightlifting championship going on Nov. 28-30. I'm not sure if that would have an effect of the availability or not!
I am wondering if there is another convention going on as well!
Ooooooooooo I wanna see it! Wonder if it's available online anywhere..Have been seeing holiday time Disneyworld commercials for a few weeks. Just saw the Disneyland one twice this morning. Guess they must have just started airing it today. Commercial is played to the song "It's the most wonderful time of the year". Seeing the commercial really starts upping the anticipation of the holiday season .