This September we are going back to the World. Our initial plan was for the five of us (me, DW, DS9, DD6, DD2) to do a 7/6 at POR. We have gone 3 times before, staying at AS Movie and Pop Century. Plans changed about two weeks ago when we decided to invite my brothers (25 year old twins). We will pay roughly 75% of their portion of the trip, including getting them there. So.....we have downshifted back to Pop Century.
I will have several questions that I will eventually add on to this thread, but I want to start out with the obvious- ADRs. We are about 5 weeks out from our 180 mark. My brothers have not been to the World since 1993 and as a newly minted teenager I kinda went out of my way to ruin that one. So, with that in mind, I am tossing out my initial ADR preferences for this trip. The ones I cut were Boatwrights (for obvious reasons), BOG (no way could I put them thru that), and Kona Cafe. The reason we cut Kona was because we were going to do a late dinner and watch Hallowishes from the beach. Since we are bringing basic newbs we are going to do MNSSHP again.
So, with those deletions, I have a preliminary "wish-list" for the 180 days mark. Via Napoli, Biergarten, Sci-Fi, Fultons, Kouzzina. More background, we love Via Napoli and will keep this one come Hell or High Water. We also have a soft spot for Sci-Fi. The other places would be new to us (I tried Biergarten over 20 years ago). Last trip we did DtD for the first time and really liked it. We did a CS at Dublin and wanna try something new. We thought about Raglan, but I worry how my kids would do in an environment like that. We considered a CS, or OOP, at Earl of Sandwich. We typically consider 2 credits for 1 meal as a vacation no-no, but Fulton sound really good. We have never done Boardwalk, and want to try it out, especially considering that my brothers are coming with. So, I picked Kouzzina due to lack of knowledge more than anything.
Here, at long last, is my question. What would you recommend? Should I drop Fulton for another signature? Should I break it up into 2 single credit meals? What to do with Kouzzina? Really, the only ones I know I am keeping would be Via Napoli and Sci-Fi. What say you?
I will have several questions that I will eventually add on to this thread, but I want to start out with the obvious- ADRs. We are about 5 weeks out from our 180 mark. My brothers have not been to the World since 1993 and as a newly minted teenager I kinda went out of my way to ruin that one. So, with that in mind, I am tossing out my initial ADR preferences for this trip. The ones I cut were Boatwrights (for obvious reasons), BOG (no way could I put them thru that), and Kona Cafe. The reason we cut Kona was because we were going to do a late dinner and watch Hallowishes from the beach. Since we are bringing basic newbs we are going to do MNSSHP again.
So, with those deletions, I have a preliminary "wish-list" for the 180 days mark. Via Napoli, Biergarten, Sci-Fi, Fultons, Kouzzina. More background, we love Via Napoli and will keep this one come Hell or High Water. We also have a soft spot for Sci-Fi. The other places would be new to us (I tried Biergarten over 20 years ago). Last trip we did DtD for the first time and really liked it. We did a CS at Dublin and wanna try something new. We thought about Raglan, but I worry how my kids would do in an environment like that. We considered a CS, or OOP, at Earl of Sandwich. We typically consider 2 credits for 1 meal as a vacation no-no, but Fulton sound really good. We have never done Boardwalk, and want to try it out, especially considering that my brothers are coming with. So, I picked Kouzzina due to lack of knowledge more than anything.
Here, at long last, is my question. What would you recommend? Should I drop Fulton for another signature? Should I break it up into 2 single credit meals? What to do with Kouzzina? Really, the only ones I know I am keeping would be Via Napoli and Sci-Fi. What say you?
