Be Our Guest or Artist Point Character Dining

[sparker]

Which would you choose...

We will be in WDW for Valentines Day 2019. Currently we are booked at Be Our Guest for Valentines Dinner, but I have heard mixed food reviews. I am wondering if the Artist Point Snow White character dining experience might be the better option..We have never been to Disney and my children have no preference over Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. So it comes down to food and ambiance...( As we are NOT on the DDP)

Which would you choose and why??

 

[DisneyJoe]

Which would you choose...

We will be in WDW for Valentines Day 2019. Currently we are booked at Be Our Guest for Valentines Dinner, but I have heard mixed food reviews. I am wondering if the Artist Point Snow White character dining experience might be the better option..We have never been to Disney and my children have no preference over Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. So it comes down to food and ambiance...( As we are NOT on the DDP)

Which would you choose and why??

First - good luck getting into Snow White - it has filled up FAST. If you do try for it - call dining instead of trying online. (online may have cleared up some, there were many glitches earlier today)

Second, we ate at BoG in mid August for dinner and loved it - the food and service were excellent. We had an early seating for dinner, and we were treated like royalty, and besides my 15yo trying French Onion soup for his first time and not liking it, we loved everything.

 

[Schneewittchen]

I've only been to BOG for lunch back when it first opened. It was okay. It's very nicely themed, but felt a little crowded.

Artist Point in it's current state is my favorite WDW restaurant, so I'm a bit heartbroken. I think the Northwest inspired menu was awesome - charcuterie, lovely little salads, steaks, seafood, berry desserts, good domestic wines....

On to your question - I'm a big fan of character meals for my kids, so for a memorable experience I'd go with Artist Point. It looks to be a very similar experience to Cinderella's Royal Table without the $80 per adult price tag.

 

[Dave B]

First - good luck getting into Snow White - it has filled up FAST. If you do try for it - call dining instead of trying online. (online may have cleared up some, there were many glitches earlier today)

Second, we ate at BoG in mid August for dinner and loved it - the food and service were excellent. We had an early seating for dinner, and we were treated like royalty, and besides my 15yo trying French Onion soup for his first time and not liking it, we loved everything.

So I just went to Disney site and there are a TON of reservations open for Valentines day, go and reserve now, you can cancel up to 24 hours prior with no penalty, have fun, I would try the new experience at Artist Pointe, I also checked BoG and there were NO reservations, so you have a valuable one at BoG right now, you can have two reservations at the same time

 

[TARDIS]

We love BoG and always have ,it’s the one repeat restaurant we have every trip. I’ve learned not to trust reviews totally because everyone has a opinion and diff taste in food. There are plenty of restaurants people tote as great that we didn’t like.
I would look at the be our guest offerings and the Artist point offerings for the new dinner and pick based on your family’s preferences... or just try both in one trip!

 

[DisneyJoe]

So I just went to Disney site and there are a TON of reservations open for Valentines day, go and reserve now, you can cancel up to 24 hours prior with no penalty, have fun, I would try the new experience at Artist Pointe, I also checked BoG and there were NO reservations, so you have a valuable one at BoG right now, you can have two reservations at the same time

Yes, now there are - at first the system was botched up and there was nothing thru April 2 at all for a party of 2. They must have cleared the systems - and we were having more luck on the phone.

 

[Marianm]

I just struggled with this dilemma... I loved BoG when I went last year. But since then the menu has changed and I'm not sure I can justify the cost of doing it again.
We got a reso at Artis Point for dinner instead so we're trying it.

Side note- we're going 3/18 and I had NO difficulty reserving it. There were multiple time slots

 

[Marianm]

I've only been to BOG for lunch back when it first opened. It was okay. It's very nicely themed, but felt a little crowded.

Artist Point in it's current state is my favorite WDW restaurant, so I'm a bit heartbroken. I think the Northwest inspired menu was awesome - charcuterie, lovely little salads, steaks, seafood, berry desserts, good domestic wines....

On to your question - I'm a big fan of character meals for my kids, so for a memorable experience I'd go with Artist Point. It looks to be a very similar experience to Cinderella's Royal Table without the $80 per adult price tag.

I was so underwhelmed by CRT for dinner last year.

 

[Schneewittchen]

I was so underwhelmed by CRT for dinner last year.

Maybe it was just the whole evening, but we had a wonderful time.
Yes, it's stupid expensive, but made for a beautiful night.

We had a fairly late seating, 7:30ish. DH and I had the salads with the bacon, OMG love that bacon, got steaks and shrimp.... a few glasses of wine. We finished dinner right before the fireworks started, they let us out the back side of the castle to watch from there. It was so amazing.

Never going to watch MK fireworks from Main Street again, I'll just stand by the carousel and get ash in eyes. Just like heaven.

I expect the new Artist Point to have good quality prix fixe meals, nice character interactions in a cozy space, etc.

 

[slappy magoo]

We enjoyed our meal in August at BoG with the new menu, and we were on the fence about keeping those ADRs. But it isn't exactly a character meal, though there's almost always photo ops with the Beast in a private room. And while the theme of the restaurant is well done...it is LOUD.

I've been to AP years ago, before kids, and my wife and I really enjoyed it, but as it's now a character meal I've no idea how much noisier or uncomfortable it is/will be.

 

[MotherofaPrincessLover]

BOG isn't technically a character meal. No characters are going to walk around and come to your table. The restaurant is beautiful and you do feel like you're in the movie. Artist Point is going to be an actual character meal where the characters come to your table and interact with you. Next trip I'm doing BOG for lunch (we've already met the beast so the only thing I care about is eating in the castle) and Artist Point for supper one night.

 

[thomas998]

Which would you choose...

We will be in WDW for Valentines Day 2019. Currently we are booked at Be Our Guest for Valentines Dinner, but I have heard mixed food reviews. I am wondering if the Artist Point Snow White character dining experience might be the better option..We have never been to Disney and my children have no preference over Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. So it comes down to food and ambiance...( As we are NOT on the DDP)

Which would you choose and why??

Would not do BOG, it has ambiance out the wazoo, but the service is iffy, the noise level is very high at dinner time and honestly the food is only a bit above average at best for dinner.

Given that Artist Point with Snow White won't officially open until December 16th of this year, who knows what the food will really be like, although the sneaks I've seen of the menu look good but who knows.