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    Trip Report The ONE with the Bowl that was not so Super 🚽 2/5-2/9, 2021*COMPLETED*

    Well that's new. Can't say that I'm a fan--I prefer to keep my in-flight purchases of mini-vodka bottles anonymous, thank you very much. The only thing I could imagine being even more unnerving would be if this popped up on the next screen...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    (Pre) Trip Report Continued-February 11 “Night of the Living Dead—The Sequel (Blu-ray Extras)” One fun side-effect of having to be up at 3 AM twice in five days is that my internal clock is now a little off. This morning I found myself waking up at 3:30 for no apparent reason. Since I was wide...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Thanks for the nice compliment--so glad you've been enjoying and thanks for following along! We're geared up for this trip as well 😁😁😁
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Yes, I've been reading a lot of posts about people having problems with mobile ordering and QS (cold food, long waits to pick up, etc) so that was another factor in our making so many TS reservations, despite the extra cost. Our BOG time is for lunchtime (12:20), but it looks like the Lunch and...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    yeah, I've been diligently checking every day since to see if any openings have appeared (update to follow...lol). Hope springs eternal! 🤞🙂🤞
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Yes, I had signed up with TP right after we booked our trip in the fall, and I've got a current request to find a Chef M breakfast for us on either day. It's helpful to know there'll be an extra set of eyes keeping a lookout in case something opens up!
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Now, if you'll excuse me, I must return to the Disney app to continue my search for the elusive white whale...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Yeah, sure--it’s going to pack a wallop on the final bill for our trip, but I figured that we can just ration our food budget over the next 8 weeks to offset some of the cost. I hear that with a little seasoning, saltines and off-brand porridge can be quite delicious
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    That may seem a tad excessive ambitious, but as all of us on this forum can appreciate, excess goes hand in hand with a trip to Disney World
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    But all in all we were very fortunate to get almost all of the restaurants we had wanted. When the pixie dust finally settled the final tally was 21 table service meals over 9 days (including 2 at Disney Springs the night before our resort stay begins). Here’s the final picture of our family...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    I’d been forewarned from @fractal’s last trip report that the bill from that one meal alone would be the size of a car payment. But I deluded myself rationalized that the extra expense would be worth it since BaTB is the wife’s all-time favorite Disney movie (both versions), and darn it, there...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    But, as I was scanning down through the list of available restaurants to book our remaining meals on our final day, a single time slot for BOG suddenly appeared. It was kind of like finding the very last Cabbage Patch Doll on Black Friday— Instinct just took over in the moment and three...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    There was a silver lining later that morning—we had pretty much written off trying to book a meal at Be Our Guest since we knew it was one of the most sought after reservations in the park, and we were already solidly on track to spend a small fortune with all of the table service meals that we...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Since I was already up and knew I wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep anytime soon, I decided it’d be worth a shot to wait until the phone lines opened up at 4 AM to see if I might be able to score a table that way. Despite my best efforts to be caffeinated at that time in the morning, I may...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    I had planned ahead and had each morning queued up to search for multiple time slots first thing on both the desktop and the phone app, but despite my best efforts Chef Mickey was like I was able to book everything else that we wanted so it wasn't a total washout.
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    I wasn’t too worried about being able to grab our choices for our two days in the Magic Kingdom, since none of the restaurants we wanted were considered to be in high demand. I knew that my Holy Grail for this quest was going to be trying to snag a table for the character breakfast at Chef...
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    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    Having gone through this just a few days ago, I was pretty sure I had a good handle on things and at 2:59 I was primed and ready for action
  18. tommcp516

    Pre-Trip Eenie...Meenie...Miney...Dough: Booking (and re-booking...and re-booking) our April 2021 Trip ***COMPLETED***

    To avoid waking her up anyways with our obnoxiously loud alarm clock and my typical 20-minute snooze button whack-a-mole routine, I decided to power through and just stay up until 3 AM.
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