This was wrote on 5/21/2017 from our trip. I need to post one from our November 2018 trip soon!!
Just finished up our family vacation at WDW!
Stayed at Caribbean Beach & loved it (even with construction!) we requested a ground floor near transportation & got both! We were not in the rooms enough to notice the construction & ate at the parks so we didn't try the buffet's that CBR & food trucks they are using right now. However, they say the buffet is good!! It is huge and spread out! We were at Trinadad North! There is a bus that runs just around CBR.
We started our trip at the AK & we didn't do park hoppers for the first time ever & really took our time at each park which turned out good! At the AK our girls loved meeting characters that aren't found at other parks (Rafiki, Pocahontas, etc...). We also took the train to Rafiki's Planet Watch which we never paid attention to before & the girls loved that! We did leave the park to go to Boma & eat dinner which was amazing! 😍 we are usually not fans of buffet's at all but this food is great! We ate at the Quick service yak & yeti for lunch. The Kobe hotdog & burger was okay but the kids loved the snack fried rice and it pretty much is a meal!
We went to the Magic Kingdom on day 2 & did dinner at CRT which was good food. We used the Disney Dining Plan (2 credits for this). The girls LOVED the princess interaction! My youngest LOVES princesses! I cant wait to post pics for you to see! We had a great time here however since our reservation was at 7:10 when we got done they had everything roped off for the new night show & we couldn't see the castle hardly at all. Everyone was packed like sardines inside the white lines everywhere & cast members were directing people through stores towards the exit. We ended up just going and doing the picture near Rapunzel's towel with the lanterns because the line was short & the girls couldn't see anything. We were sad to miss Happily Ever After and then they did another show later that night but the girls were asleep by then. We also did both girls a haircut (including the baby's 1st haircut) at Harmony Barber shop & got "Pixie Dust" for both girls (which is free) and they enjoyed that a lot! We highly recommend this as well. The Magic Kingdom is a lot to do in one day (impossible really with toddlers 😉). But we got a lot done! We did not have cash & at the barber shop you cannot tip on the magic band receipt 😫. Also at CRT the waiter wouldn't let us tip. The receipt didn't print an option so he made out like since it was 2 TS's credit's he didnt take tips (which I found out is true, they include tip in the price). He was great!! He also gave my youngest (2 years old) a whole meal without charging us for it!
At Epcot we bought the passports for our girls to get stamped in the 11 countries which they loved!! We also did pick a pearl in Japan which is super cute! We ordered charms online on an Etsy shop another mom recommended while we were in line because the selection was slim there. We ate at Teppan Edo for supper which was fun! We also had several snacks during the Flower & Garden festival. The Pineapple Promenade has a spicy hotdog that has dried pineapple & a violet frozen dessert lemonade that is to die for! Both are snack credit's. The Fish & Chips in the UK was great last year but this year it almost tasted as though the grease was old they were cooked in. We also ate snacks at the French bakery which was delicious.
Finally, we went to Hollywood Studios yesterday which was super packed (weekends always are more busy!) and our oldest signed up for Jedi training and at 4 years old she was terrified & didn't finish it. But also, she is not really Familiar with Star Wars so that doesn't help matters but it's free & with memory maker there are tons of pictures they take for you of this. We had ABC Commissary for lunch which was packed but this super sweet cast member named Hope that was working there helped this mama tote our trays to the table (which my husband was holding for us while we waited in line). She then proceeded to bring us 2 Mickey straws back to the table for the girls despite the business of the crowd there. We watched some shows and rode Toy Story Mania. But by this day the girls were exhausted and it was the hottest day. Fantasmic is our favorite night show but we opted to let them nap in the stroller while we walked around and then we headed to Disney Springs vs fighting the night time park crowd that we would face leaving after Fantasmic! Hollywood Studio's is not our favorite park & I was hoping it would be better this year since My oldest (4 years old) acted scared of rides and all this year but with the crowds & heat we didn't do much other than Aerial, Beauty & the Beast, Disney Jr Live, Meet & Greet with Doc McStuffins, toy story mania, and My husband rode the Star Wars ride which My oldest was signed up for but she was asleep and would have been scared he said.
At Disney Springs we went to T-Rex build-a-bear & let the girls build a dinosaur which they loved. Then went to the big Disney store & Goofy's candy shop and used some snack credits on cupcakes & mickey shaped rice krispies. I also had been told to try the Sriracha Kettle Corn which isnt a snack credit but I should have bought more! It's addicting! So good!! We then ate af Chef Art's Homecoming which was okay. Everyone in reviews loves it but the fried chicken was not my favorite. Which being in middle Georgia we have lots of good fried chicken so Im not sure why I ordered that 😬. My husband had the shrimp & grits which he enjoyed & the mashed potatoes with gravy was good. We also had the Jasper Tray appetizer which was okay! The Pimento Cheese and homemade crackers was good! I definitely wish we would have tried the Polite Pig (also highly recommended and quick service) instead.
Overall, we had a great trip! I highly recommend Kingdom Strollers for stroller rentals if you need one as well!
