Recent content by Littlebit

I know the big deal about getting a haircut on Main Street is, well, getting a haircut on MAIN STREET (wink). However if you just want to get a haircut (or any other beauty/grooming service) at WDW, remember that several of the higher-end WDW Resort Hotels have barbers and beauticians at your...

If you plan to see Fantasmic on that first night, make sure to plan time for a nap...you've got a 3-hour time change 8pm PST will be 11pm EST to your jet-lagged bodies...after waking up EARLY that morning, traveling, etc...you're going to be TIRED. Give yourself time to walk around DTD, which...

We enjoy Portobello's Yacht Club for Northern Italian. Definitely steer clear of Tony's Town Square and Mama Melrose if you want more "authentic" Italian cuisine.

Yeah...what he said! I also tip my hat to Ramona from OKW's Gurgling Suitcase....she's a former long-time AdvClub server (grin).

My husband and I stayed at the Grand Californian concierge level in January. Granted, that's not the DL hotel, but since they'e both owned by Disney, I'd suspect that they they have thing set up are very similar. Anyway, the Concierge room was available from early morning until around 11pm...

Actually, the monorail runs through the Grand Californian property, but not exactly in the same way that the WDW monorail goes through the Contemporary. When we stayed in a Concierge room @ the GC in January, the monorail track was almost directly below us, a few floors down. The only stops...

We like Publix. Not that we have much of a choice...our local Kash & Karry closed 2 years ago. Then our local Winn-Dixie closed last year. That leaves us with Super Target (OK for 'stuff' but I don't like their grocery dep't), Walmart (I refuse to give them my business), Albertson's (not clean...

I'm going to be 40 in 2 weeks and have no problem getting a kids' menu at any WDW-owned restaurant (I'm a local so don't have the opportunity to do any special vacation dining plans). Sometimes Mickey mac & cheese really hits the spot...(grin)

We've been Disney Dining Experience members since (literally) the day after we moved to Florida (until recently, it ws only available to Florida residents). The 20% discount is VERY nice and since we live in Orlando, we more than make up for the price of the card every year. Their "special"...

THAT is NOT authentic Japanese (grin). It might be what Benihana wants us to think as "real" Japanese, but it's about as authentic as fortune cookies are authentic Chinese (wink).

A few other thoughts to ponder about the 3 restaurants: I have yet to have a good meal at Bongo's. I've eaten there 4 times since it opened, each time with spaces of roughly 6 months to a year apart and I've had to deal with long waits after we've ordered, fatty meats and and cold entrees...

I'm not so sure that they don't hire Equity performers. I know that MANY of their "face" performers at WDW (AdvClub, CWH, Streetmo, Belle @ B&TB, the main characters in the old HBOND show, etc) are/were Equity. Also, why else would they separate our Equity vs non-Equity in their casting?

They do it because they can. It's true that after 9/11, profits went down and one way they tried to save money was to make cost-cutting measures...decrease the number of people who kept the parks clean, decrease the number of maintenance people (which meant longer waits for things that needed...

We stopped relying on Disney to give us renewal notices years ago <G>. We know when our APs and DDE expire and do what we need to do when we need to do it. And yes, DVC members can park for free at the theme parks. They can also valet park for free at resort hotels that contain DVC...

The Smashmouth show you saw on cable was probably from New Year's Eve at Pleasure Island and yes, the NYE celebration is a hard ticket event that includes food, drink, access to the Clubs and B and C level entertainment on their stages (other PI NYE entertainment has included Cyndi Lauper...