No more characters at Liberty Tree Tavern??

[SoccerMickey]

Just out of curiosity (and for those who can articulate opinions without being rude), what is it that makes people hate character dining? I guess the way I see it, if you want to eat somewhere, but not see characters, it's your prerogative. When a character approaches your table, you politely wave and smile and then go back to eating your food, conversing, etc... and the character gets the hint and moves on. I guess the biggest issue that I can see is that prices of the food most likely went up once these restaurants were converted to character dining- I'm not sure though? Not looking for an argument, just really wondering what the reasoning was

I personally do not mind character dining, however I do not like the prices that come with them. Sometimes I like to throw in a character meal just for fun, especially if its a character I don't particularly see too often, (except the Playhouse Disney one, I don't know who any of those characters are). But for me the real star of Disney dining has been the restaurants themselves. They're always beautiful and at one point each menu had such unique offerings they were almost like a Disney attraction themselves! Face it, eating in Cinderella Castle is cool enough without seeing Cinderella there.
Character dining made it virtually impossible to just be able to eat in the castle and the dining plan made it almost unaffordable as well.

So I would not like to see character dining completely disappear, I would just like Disney to make a sincere effort to make the restaurants on property more accessible to locals who decide on a whim to head over to Disney for dinner or lunch. I guess changing the window for dining reservations from 180 days to 90 days helps but I think more can be done.

 

[Escarabaja06]

No Way! Aww.

I loved dining at LTT with the characters and eating Thanksgiving Day dinner! Man, I'm so bummed right now.

 

[WDWFanatic]

Personally I would like to have a meal where characters are not walking around. I need a break, thats why i go to the table service locations. They overdid it with all the character dining. It should be available at certain times and not all day long. LTT didnt start out like that.

 

[hansel1]

Now can they please take the characters out of Royal Table and make it a normal restaurant again? Please!


It's what this guest wants, for sure.

I have to agree with you. Liberty tree is really not set up for characters. It's pretty cramped in there as it is. I say, keep them at the buffets where people can come and go.

 

[Jasper Dale]

we ate at the LTT the third week of December, and it was by far the worst meal we had at WDW during our trip.

i did not mind so much eating sub standard food because we did have fun with the characters and had a fun time.

i cannot imagine EVER going back there to eat at LTT for dinner as long as they have the same menu. the worst food ever.