Totally agree..Everyone to their own when it comes to restaurants & people's love & hates....I remember before my first visit in 2004.I read so many poor reviews on Planet Hollywood at downtown, I thought,no way can it be that bad..
... I remember walking out and looking at the Terminator in the glass display and saying " Hasta La Vista Baby..I won't be back."
I agree with you. I believe that free dining has some what to do with this. If you have free dining you r mostly likely to look past something's. but if you are paying out of pocket u look at it differently I believe. I ate at tony's on free dining it was ok. But when I payed out of pocket I looked at it different.
Also agree with what you say..I think that if someone orders a cheeseburger that ain't that tasty,it's not a big deal.But when your spending $100 + it's got to be at least average..
Agreed! I've enjoyed quite a few restaurants that others have said were absolutely terrible. I'm glad to say that I've never had a terrible experience while dining at WDW.
That could definitely have an effect on some. I couldn't compare because I've never used any dining plan — free or not. I still don't think I'm as hard on some places as others are, though!
Totally agree on this too. Like I said we are easy to please and when it's free even if its not our favorite we will shrug and say, "oh well it was free!" There are several restaurants at WDW we've eaten at for free that we enjoyed, however at home we would never pay upwards of $100 for place like that. So I think you are spot on!
I know there has been a lot of dinning plan threads and I am one that likes it. I buy it just to have my food paid for but being a DVC member can not get it free. Disney can hike up the prices on the menu for free dining and ppl say look at this deal I got. Then they get people to come back like me lol. Free dining was what got me to go to the world the first time. Now I hate it. My first two visits had free dining not a bad meal. Now since I pay I see more bad meals.
If we didn't get it free we would probably buy the plan. Yes I know you can eat cheaper then the plan but it does feel nice to not worry about money as much during your stay. Kind of like an all inclusive type trip.
Yea I feel the same way I buy because I stress out at every meal trying to save money. I like to be stress free when I am at Disney so prepaid food helps. I also order stuff that I might not order at home because it is prepaid. I know when I got free dining I got the most expensive thing most of the time.
Now I've never dined at Tony's at MK. The main reason for this is the reviews.Few are good,lots are bad,and some are ugly..From poor service to lukewarm food,it seems a bit of a hit & miss..Interested from yourself's what your experience was like at Tony's...???
I wouldn't say it is the best place in the word but it is not terrible. And as for service, nothing but friendly and made our time special!! The first time we went was it was the only ADR we could get during MVMCP. This was in 2006. And we were celebrating our anniversary that trip so we tied in the whole lady in the tramp theme and I got the spaghetti. I mean, I make better spaghetti but this wasn't bad! And for dessert, they put a nice decal on the plate and sprinkled our table with Christmas confetti and hearts and gave us a lady and the tramp little card for our anniversary! Since we had a good experience, when we had the deluxe dining plan in June of 2009, we were leaving that day and had breakfast at CRT and had one more TS credit to use for lunch and since we were late to the party with ADR's, we went there b/c we could walk right in. Again, good food, great service. But you have noticed a trend with how we got there. We don't go in to the dining experiences saying "WOW! We MUST eat there!" Rather, its a good stand by and plan B. But they are not as terrible, in my opinion, as some have said it is.
