Do you always plan at least one sit down meal at your resort?

[sbkline]

I have a rule for our family, that anytime we stay at a resort, I want to plan at least one sit down meal at that resort. Since we have only stayed at POR and Coronado Springs, and plan for Carribbean Beach next time, we haven't yet encountered the scenario of staying at a resort for the second time, after having already eaten at the restaraunt there, and thus deciding if it is a "must" do do that restaraunt again. So, hypothetically, if we were to go back to POR, I don't know if I would feel compelled to eat at my "home resort" on that trip or not, since I have already eaten at Boatwrights. But I can definitely say that if I stay at a resort and it has a restaraunt that I haven't tried yet, it is a definite "must" to eat at the resort at least once for that trip. Just curious to see what others' preferences are.

Just to elaborate a bit more, we ate at Artist Point in 2008, so if we were to stay at WL, I would definitely plan a supper at Whispering Canyon as our dinner at "home" so to speak. Staying at CBR next year, I definitely plan to eat at Shutters one night, even though I haven't heard great things about it. But if I were to stay at Coronado again, would I feel compelled to stay "at home" one night and eat at Maya Grill, after having eaten there already? I'm not sure. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. LOL

 

[zurgandfriend]

We do, we always have at least one breakfast at our resort and we also do one dinner as well. We usually do a water park on day then go back to our resort, rest clean-up have dinner there then decide what we want to do for the evening. DW usually says she wants to stay in and relax, DS and I usually hit a park.

 

[sbkline]

We do, we always have at least one breakfast at our resort and we also do one dinner as well. We usually do a water park on day then go back to our resort, rest clean-up have dinner there then decide what we want to do for the evening. DW usually says she wants to stay in and relax, DS and I usually hit a park.

Ya, I'm kind of like your wife in that regard. Since I'm paying for that resort, I hate to spend so much time in the parks that I don't get to really experience the resort as well. So I like to plan at least one evening meal at our home resort, and at least one evening (may be the same evening or a different evening) where we just stay at the resort for the evening, hit the pool/playground area, maybe do a surrey bike ride, and get back to our room early and just lay in the bed and watch some TV before going to sleep.

 

[lilclerk]

I guess it would depend on if I liked the restaurant or not :shrug:

 

[Mouse Man]

We normally have at least one dinner at our resort. Now when Boatrights was open for Breakfast at PORS we could not get enough of eating breakfast there everyday. They used to have Strawberries and Cream, Bakery Bucket, Stuffed French Toast and so on. It was such an awsome good tasting breakfast.

 

[Tomi-Rocket]

In the past I haven't really made it a priority to eat at our hotel but we always have, sometimes out of neccessity. I think from now on, however, I may make it a point to eat at least one meal at at least one restaurant in the hotel we're staying in. Like next year, I know for a fact we're going to the Kona Cafe because we all enjoyed our meals we had there last year for lunch. We're also most likey going to hit O'hana, too, because I've checked out the menus and it looks like a place we'd like to try. And finally, we have always ended up picking up something from the QS places in every hotel, too.

 

[EvilQueen-T]

for us it's not a priority. it mainly depends on where we're staying. we've eaten at narcoossee's and citricos multiple times but don't always stay at the gf. we plan our meals more around what park we're in that day or what's between two parks we're hopping between. if we're at mk we do a resort on the monorail loop or inside mk. if we're in epcot we try to do something in there etc... we do love flying fish on the boardwalk so it's usually on a day we do dhs or when the parks close early in the winter.

 

[Phonedave]

It depends on the resort

Most of the time I end up eating there on the last day. On my last day I like to book a later flight. I put my bags in RAC and bell services in the AM. Then I hit a park for a while, come back to the resort, swim, read, relax. Then eat a early dinner and take DME to the plane. So I end up eating at the resort. Sometimes it is QS and other times sit down. It depends on the time of the flight and what is open. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not. Sometime I will schedule a specific dinner at the resort if I like the restaurant.

-dave

 

[tigsmom]

we eat where we want; if it happens to be in the hotel we are staying then so be it, but we won't die if it doesn't work out that way.

 

[me_stitch]

I've seen on here where people talk about using the DDP at CS but how come none of their restaurants are listed on the DDP website?

 

[LowesChevy]

No it is not a must for us. If you happen to enjoy a restaurant at your resort it is great, but if the dining location's menu is not appealing I do not make plans to eat there. It is nice to be able to grab a meal at the resort for an earlier evening or resort day, but only if it fits into your schedule.

We do enjoy dining at the resort restaurants when it is convenient. Normally we stay at the Polynesian, so we grab breakfast at the Kona Cafe or Captain Cooks, but we do not dine at O'hana. At BLT, I image will will try the Wave and the Contempo Cafe, but have no plans to dine at Chef Mickey's of California Grill.

 

[Irishprincess]

As we stay at the Beach club we always have a few meals in cape may and the captins grill!
Always on the first morning we would eat in cape may because we are tired from a nine hour flight from the privous day so we dont have to walk far. Plus it opens early at 7 and we would already be awake due to a five hour time difference!

 

[sshindel]

I agree that it depends on where you are staying.

I'm not going to go out of my way this trip to make sure that I hit the "World Premiere Food Court" at the All Star Movies this time. If it happens, it happens.

Now, if I were to step up to a Moderate / Deluxe resort, I'd most likely make a reservation at one of the resort eateries. For the time being, I'm making ADR plans for eating at the resort I WISH I was staying at. We have ADR plans for The Wave this trip!

 

[wm49rs]

The past few Moderate/Deluxe resorts we stayed at found us having one meal at the local restaurant, but perhaps not because we were staying there. When we stayed at the FW Cabins, we had breakfast at Trail's End simply because it worked out that way with the timing of our daughter's horseback ride. Another time we stopped by Beaches and Cream because our room wasn't ready and we had already spent time in the parks that day.

Other times we'll definitely plan a meal at the resort either before or after a day at one of the water parks, or DtD, to give us a break from the park regimin we had been under. It all depends on what we really feel like doing sometimes, which is one of the great things about being on vacation at WDW.

 

[janoimagine]

Always have to eat at Artist Point at least once per trip. The mushroom soup is stellar.

 

[sbkline]

Wow, an overwhelming majority so far have voted that they don't care one way or the other about dining at their resort restaraunt. I was just curious what other's thought and I guess I found out. LOL

Like I said, speaking for myself, after having only stayed at two different resorts so far, it is a way of trying a new restaraunt each trip, that I wouldn't necessarily have tried otherwise. I probably wouldn't pick Maya Grill, for example, if I were staying anywhere else, but since it was right there on property on our last trip, then why not? Same with CBR next year. I haven't heard such high reviews of Shutters that I would feel the urge to go there if I weren't staying at CBR, but since it is right there at my hotel, it's a good excuse to try a restaraunt that I wouldn't have tried otherwise. Of course, once I stay at CBR, that will be all the moderates for us (except French Quarter), so unless we upgrade, then we'll be repeating a resort after that on future trips, which will leave me having to decide if I want to make a point at eating at those restaraunts which I will have already eaten at by that point. I may still decide that enjoying at evening "at home", including the resort restaraunt, is part of the experience that I am looking for, or I may feel like re-visiting a mediocre restaraunt just isn't worth it no matter what.

Of course, if we decide we can afford to upgrade to the Deluxes, which have more than one TS restaraunt, then there would be many opportunities to try a new restaraunt at my home resort for that particular trip.