Today we tackle the one thing that can truly strike fear into
heart of any Disney planner, the price of a meal at Disney.
So while we all love a bit of Pixie dust, but we prefer it
didn't cost us our life savings to get us a decent lunch.
So tonight we're helping you eat big and spend small.
We're ranking the best family quick service restaurants at
Disney World to make sure you're getting the biggest portions of
the best possible price. So if you're watching live, get
ready to drop your go to value spot in the chat.
Where is the one place you go when you're absolutely famished
without breaking the budget? Welcome to the great British
Mickey Waffle live. Hello, everybody.
Happy Wednesday. So welcome for everyone joining
us today. We always appreciate that if
this is the first time you've joined our show or this is your
100th show, we'd love for you to join us in the chat.
So I'm very much looking forward to talking about food as it's
one of our favorite topics. So first joining us now how we
have Becca. Hello, how are you doing this
week? I'm good.
I apologise to her. You're moving tight.
It's been a long week and it's only and it's only Wednesday.
Also Jordan. So we've got Claire.
Hi, Claire, How are you? I'm fine if I remember to turn
my microphone on. I can't believe you're.
This is exciting stuff we're talking about.
I know, but I've been you're. So.
Viewers will notice notice that I've been yawning for the past
half an hour off screen so. Wake you up so they love it
going live all. Right, thank you for a lunch now
and again like. Like, yeah, come on, you're.
Asleep at the table or anything ridiculous like that.
I've done that. Before you've done that, it
wouldn't be the first time I. Think we've all been on that
travel day once he gets into it, you get some food.
I think you're following us with a bowl of chicken tenders.
Yeah, I've been mocks of van the sticks.
But yeah, that was a that was a long day story for another day.
But we also got John. How are you, John?
I can't quite believe it's only Wednesday.
I mean, I, I, I really do wish it was Friday, I must admit.
So yeah, it's one of them weeks. I don't know.
I'm like I said, I. Can hear and drink being bored
I'm. Sure, yeah, I'm making sure it's
a decent 1, you see. So they got me my cup.
My cup is now full rather than half empty and on 9% special
brewing. I actually I can't drink
anything like that. Simon No.
One should drink anything. No, it's just no, no, it just
mints. It absolutely minces my tongue
and it basically just I just can't.
I actually physically can't drink the stuff.
It's, it's really weird for someone who likes and used to
like sort of quite strong beers and things like that.
I, I can't go, but I get to about 5 now 6% and that's it.
I'm. You can't go wrong with a land
schnocker along board. Yeah, exactly, Exactly.
Yeah, Maybe you should do that one week, isn't it?
Yeah, best beers. Oh no, let's do that as a show.
Well, let's go. Yeah, let's go.
Drinking. I like the idea.
That's it. Write that down, John.
Ring it. That I'll put on the 1st.
I'm sorry, Ron Gordon, Big wave. Posted Don't say Yeah, that's
it. Beers.
Beers around the world. And Los Angeles, we have both
Simon and Robin. Hello.
Hello, all good. Yeah, I'm excited for tonight's
show actually. We have a trip at the end of the
year with family who are staying in Disney with a quick service
dining plan. So I'm really excited to hear
where we can get them the best bang for their buck in Disney.
There's there's a lot of choice, yeah.
I think we've had every styling plan couple of times, times
we've been with family as well and it's just.
Pages of notes, right? All of my notes.
There you. Go research as well, but mainly
because I was researching for the trip tenders really.
I mean, there's lots of places to get tenders there are, but I
was researching for later in the year.
So I I'd actually already started a list and where's the,
where's some of the best places and some of the worst places to
use your quick servings dining credits so.
Sure, I think now is probably the time to probably get in to
talk about food because I know she's probably a good time for
anyone in the chat to go and grab a snack.
I think this food isn't going to make you hungry, so I've.
Probably got about 8 seconds. To be fair, I might have to grab
a snack. Plenty of time to discuss the
news because I think it's quite a bit that's out this week.
And first on, first up on the news item is happy birthday
Animal Kingdom. So it is Earth Day today, 22nd
of April. It's back in 1998.
Matt. Mr. Trickler.
What we should have been talking about and.
You think we did that last? Yeah, probably the and the year
before that. The Halloween and Christmas
every year, yeah. You normally Florida.
The annual the annual tribute to Joe Rody.
I think that probably be more more of the case of yeah, I is
it just me? I actually think more should be
made of Earth Day. And actually, you know, they
used to do that thing a few years ago.
They told everyone turn the turn the lights out for an hour on a
on a Saturday and things up. Nobody tells you to do anything
like that anymore. You know, octopus energy do do
Johnny Fish do they? Yeah.
So I'm not, I'm not with them. I, I pay, I pay pay more money
up here like. You.
Know, because if if anyone is on octopus and you know, it's
absolutely crazy today what we were we had electricity for
free. It was paying us because we're
on like one of their agile rates.
So if you're not on a smart tariff, you can save some money.
If anyone from this energy is listening and what's?
The. Sponsor.
Yeah, feel free. Yeah, feel free.
In the chat. We're very cheap or or any other
any other. Energy, yeah.
I've just done. Unexploded.
In the in the light of it being Earth Day and actually thinking
about the show that we've recorded for the 1st of May,
which seems ages away but it's actually only just over a week
away, I went and dug out my animal Kingdom Imagineering.
I. Have all four of them on the
deskinates to me. But interestingly, this has got
all sorts about Camp Minnie Mickey, and it's still got, you
know, all of the original Dinoland USA.
It is fascinating. So I did go back and this this
version is from 2007. So it's nine years into the
existence of Animal Kingdom, my version of it.
I don't know if people are the older or the original 1.
But yeah, it was really cool to go back and read that earlier
today. Just thinking about what's
changed at Animal Kingdom in 28 years, quite a lot.
Yeah, and and thinking what's changing sort of in the future.
No more Dino land. I wonder whether a new bits
might be ready for the 30th anniversary.
Is that what we're aiming for? Makes sense?
Yeah, that's true. Would be good.
Yeah, I'm looking forward if I'd.
Open them before then so they're there.
I hope an emergency guy. I don't know I don't know
whether Dizzy do things for like big anniversaries this OK or
will will be cupcakes. Yeah.
I don't think one goes specifically for an attraction.
I think they'll get it open for when it's when it's ready.
We'll see. Yeah, it would be it would be
quite good to have another another focus on when when
things are opening. But as we're talking about
electricity a minute ago, this next top, it goes straight in
with Earth Day. Seamless.
It's. Completely all the fun topic
night. Walt Disney World and El Caco
have been operated 100% by solar power.
I mean, that's impressive, isn't it?
Yeah, that's really yeah. When you think about that, it's
capable. But is it?
My guess is no. Crank up, crank up that diesel
generator out in the back of Magic Kingdom that you know.
They might be quite grateful for that at the moment, with the
cost of fuel so suddenly, suddenly solar power has been
turned on. I did.
I did notice though there is a little reference in there about
the fact that it's it's the resource daytime energy on a
sunny day. So there is a caviar.
It's a little. May it works so well or just any
day between like April and September.
Yeah, yeah. But it does, yeah.
It is quite a big solar farm they've built.
It's nearly 500 acres of of solar, so it's not a wonder it's
like 7 nearly 75,000 kilowatts, which is quite a quite a lot of
energy that that's kicking out so.
It's amazing to think how much energy Disney probably used on
an average day when you think about it.
Yeah, I mean that AC is not cheap.
I mean, they have turned it down from what it used to be, but it
still can't be cheap. They're trying to save some
energy and. All this talk of energy we'll
have Ellen. I'll be back again.
Oh no. No.
Ellen's going to be back. That's it.
That's I'm done. I'm finished.
I'm out of here. That's one attraction.
Carry yourself lucky. Yeah, it.
Was cool now. It was good.
It was a good show. Yeah.
Connie I just thought it was amazing, the fact the whole
theatre. Moved.
It was super cool, yeah. OK, so also yesterday Disney
announced and it's quite a new, but a new constant one new
concept picture of Disney's Dateshore Lodge which is opening
summer next year with. Yeah, and they announced the
date. Didn't they say summer?
That was the first time they've said summer next year since.
Summer 27 it was also interested.
There's no other detail was mentioned.
So it was everything else was coming soon.
So it just seemed it seemed a bit out of the blue to me.
It was like I said, dining will there will announce at a later
date and then they'll still the rooms at a later date.
But it's good to know. But I'm just more with planning
to go next May. So whether that covers Disney's
social summer, but I doubt it. But is that?
DVC. Yeah, it's DVC, It's 983 rooms.
That's quite a lot. Yeah, yeah.
Wow, I'd read. I'd read a different number.
There's 960. 7 there's 900 and so something I wonder whether
that I wonder whether 900 rooms, I wonder whether that.
Includes the amount the cabins that are on because there's
maybe red side cabins. Maybe go and camp.
I'm Simon. Yeah, build a job for me next
time on that. Yeah, no, it'd be good.
It'd be interesting to see how that.
I'm guessing it'll be an additional place to get boats
and Magic Kingdom and buses to the other parks.
Interesting how Magic Kingdom will cope with an additional
boat stop. Well, presumably they'll share
the same boat as. Yeah.
Wilderness. Wilderness Lodge, Yeah.
You would think so, wouldn't? You and for wilderness.
Stop. They don't all go to Fort
Wilderness. No, you've got some, they're
doing something, and then you've got the contemporary, so you
might as well. So.
I'll be intention. See.
Yeah, looking forward to that because it's the rooms are like
Bambi themed. There's sort of that sort of
wooden. It's a Bambi.
Bambi, Brother Bear and Pocahontas, so that kind of.
It's not often you seen Brother Bear referenced anywhere.
Is it so? That's quite quite.
Can't you look straws? Yeah.
That's yeah. One of our friends worked on
Brother Bear SO. No, I'm not.
I'm not suggesting it was a bad movie, I'm just saying that as a
theme for a hotel that wouldn't be my first.
Thought no, no no, no comment and quality but.
He's never seen it's not. Hopefully it's not too character
heavy. It's a film I've not seen
subtle. Touches would be Have you seen
Banner? Yes, yes.
Once was enough. I don't know that once was
enough. And last but not least on the
news, there's a new Imagineering series on YouTube which has
shared some behind the construction rules at Markets
Rock and Roller Coaster and Big Thunder Mountain, and a few
clips of Lakeshore Lodge as well, so you can check that out
on Disney's YouTube channel. And anyone who listened to the
show last week will know how accurate we were in predicting
some of the songs that were going to be on The Muppets.
How many did you get right, John?
1 And that was the one that was the one that was on.
Your nose. Yeah, actually.
What do we think of the songs? It's the first one we've
probably mentioned, yeah. I'll wait and see.
No idea what. I'm.
I'm walking on sunshine. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm just going
to. I'm going to hold council until
I heard it. That's it.
Yeah, pussy. Let's have Muppet versions of
the song, so I'll be I'm interested to see what they do
and whether I can improve Walking on Sunshine.
I don't think anybody will beat the Jack and Black entry in High
Fidelity when he comes in singing, Walking on Sunshine, so
that that will always be mine. I want to say quite hello to
everybody in the chat. So first in for us, who do we
have? We had Karen in first.
Yeah. I'm looking forward to tonight's
talk about food. I need we need to start writing
a list for it's going to be next.
Year. I'll drop my papers through your
door for you. Yeah, go for it.
We also got Colton. Hi, Colton, we've got Jack.
Jenna and we've got Jacob as well, just a few others when
you're watching, say hello, We're going to fight.
I just like Jack's comment of like you had to take a nap
yourself again early for bookings of 20270.
Yeah. I think we're all, yeah, there's
lots of offers out there from various places.
You're going to do some comparisons, I think.
Yeah, I saw some quite good deals on.
Was it attraction tickets? Well, yeah, it depends on where
where you're staying staying. The more you're spending, the
more you're saving, but also some of those booking conditions
and things are worth checking out before you press the
buttons, yeah. So that's a really good call,
Claire, do do. Your research and then make a
decision when you've got all your information.
Yeah, it was quite a quite a few things posted and I keep seeing
people. Didn't you share a lot about the
Polynesian and because there were discounts on one thing I
did find out was an attraction tickets website when you clicked
on a room and it would show you where there was a different type
of room type that the offer wasn't available on as a good
way to work out actually what is included in dining and what,
what is it. And also all the DVC resorts are
not have won't have availability to the 11 months out.
So they'll still have the offer, but it will be available at a
later date. So if you're thinking for next
summer and you want to stay at Oakley W, you're not going to be
able to look at the price of that till the autumn like
September time. So because their DDC resorts,
they don't have that availability showing at the
moment. So just bear that in mind
because actually they will have lower priced room categories
available at 11 months out than other places changed because
they do like to change the deal after if you booked before a
certain date. Oh yeah, totally.
It's normally but. If it's second of July, I think
it is, it's on the first week of July.
It then changes to then then it's before November.
Yeah, but you know what? A one bedroom at Old Key West is
all over. You know, a room at Coronado
Springs or Caribbean Beach? Yeah.
So just just saying, if you're thinking of ADBC Resort, it
might be worth bidding your time, yeah, anyway.
Yeah, but I think it's Joe something I'm just going to pick
up on something because something cropped up last night
because I was looking on Vivo for this summer.
Have you not got somewhere to stay?
Yeah, yeah, but I was. Just looking to see if we.
Can find anywhere better but yeah because.
Because actually, yeah, I had a hotel, I saved $50 on a hotel
that we've got when we arrive for the first night.
So again, it's again going back to that same thing.
Go back and revisit what you've already booked.
But what's actually happening, some of the places on Verbo,
whereas previously what I've previously always seen is you
were able to cancel up to about two weeks before.
Some of the places are now going for a six week cancellation
prior to you actually arriving at the accommodation.
And it's much that for me was the my take away from just
dipping my toe into the water last night.
But it really is. People are getting a little bit
canny as to people like me. Locking you in.
Yeah. And actually just again, just be
wary of of just exactly what you're you're booking and and
stuff like that because. Actually, the cancellation
policies because, yeah, a lot of them are changing and it just
depends on what you book on on the day, because I like the
flexibility of being able to change.
And it goes for whether you're looking at hotels.
Yeah, car hire. There's deals out there just.
Compared before you before you press the button.
Yeah, OK. There's also some relation to
Jacob as well in the chat. Yeah.
Thank you. Yeah, there's not often I
comment and stuff and someone comes back to me.
That's a psyche. So we're.
Yeah, No, I appreciate it. And yeah, and now we need to go
back and see what I've commented on to see exactly.
Hopefully it was a nice comment. Because I'm usually really
rubbish and stuff like that. So yeah, I do apologize, Jacob.
Like putting 2, it's putting two and two things together.
I can't, I can't deal with people's names being totally
different in different places and stuff like that.
So yeah, I will go back and have a look.
And Surf Point, Surf Bums joined us as well.
So hello, John. Hello, John.
Thank you as always. Should we talk food?
I'm ready. I want to I.
Want to just leave it to Claire? She's got all the notes.
She's got, I think to be honest with you, I think we should go
park by park. So the way I've, the way I've
organised my notes is for parks and then Disney Springs and then
resorts. OK, just saying we could do it
that way. Yep, that's OK, Claire, I think.
Let's start in the Magic Kingdom.
That's what I've got on the top. Amazing like you.
I can. It's like I can see your notes
from here. Right.
And. Interestingly, when I, I have to
say when I looked at the research for tonight and I, I
didn't spend hours, but I did have a quick look and I was
looking at cost of individual items because I, I never get the
dining plan. I didn't actually think about
having the. Dining plan per SE.
I was looking at what are the possibly the best value items on
the menu and also which restaurants seem significantly
more expensive generally than other ones when you're looking
at quick service locations? Because there are some that are
starkly more expensive than others, which I was quite
surprised by. When you start looking at the
cost of not just individual items, but actually look at the
whole menu. Go hang on a minute.
The whole menu is like 20% more expensive than everywhere else
in that location. Why is that so?
Is it worth it? So yeah, it was quite
interesting to look at the look at the, the, the individual cost
of things. But I did look at snacks and
quick service meals and breakfast, lunch and dinner.
It's not for everything. Just as a general across the
board, what would I pick if I was looking for the best value?
Yeah. Then starts.
Off OK, so I'm going to start off with, I think that if we're
going to go Magic Kingdom, Casey's Corner, you know, it's
my favorite place. I was going to say.
It's not my favorite. Place at all and I am going to
say that the BBQ loaded fries which count as a snack credit.
Actually they're quite a big portion.
They've got BBQ. I think it's BBQ people, pork on
the top and BBQ sauce and cheese.
They come in at 8:29 and you can get them for a snack credit.
Now that's a pretty healthy use of a snack credit, I think, and
it's probably. Ocean as well.
That would do me as a. Meal, I think with a drink, you
know the free free water and and some BBQ loaded fries.
That's probably sufficient on a hot day I would have thought,
but that was a surprise. You won't.
Go for a hot dog closure cases. I draw the line.
Reconstituted. Bend those.
Butts depressing. Like everything, everything's
going to spark clear into a meltdown.
Like I say, I. Just can't put it in my mind
it's I didn't have a tipping. There is something I just can't.
I just can't awful things. I don't want a good value.
Either no, I just. I've never ever had the hot
dogs, no. I've had the corn dogs, but the
corn dog Nuggets, but they're quite expensive.
They're like 1314 dollars. Yeah, yeah, they're easily.
Shareable though. But I don't think they're.
The best value? I think they're. $11.00 The corn
dog Nuggets. It's that with fries?
With fries or a Mandarin. And I'm.
Trying to make a Mandarin Kitty instead of the fries.
Yeah, that's an expensive. Mandarin, though, it really is
embarrassing. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I on the other. Hand would eat with the the
plant based dogs there. I think I've had like the
Chicago style ones. I don't usually go for like the
plain plant based ones, but when they've usually got the special
ones with all the toppings on which they've always got
something on rotation at cases like you, I don't necessarily
think it's the best value. I think there's other things
that are probably more filling than because I don't.
You always feel a bit short. Changed on the French fries
volume you get when you've got it in the same tray and you
think it's quite when you're bread as well.
Yeah, you know, I think, I think you're paying a lot for a bread
roll, really. Which is the fit?
I can't eat so the. So the chili.
So the chili chips are actually my go my go to because they're
actually rather pleasant. But yeah.
I think chili the. Chili cheese fries are even
cheaper though aren't they? They're like nearly a dollar
cheaper. Yeah, I think the the BBQ loaded
ones are like 88829. Yeah, yeah.
Well, the. Chili cheese fries are 750, so
it's an interesting. Mad thing that.
Is a snack. Credit buy 820-9850.
Yeah, it's like, I mean, that's a good.
Use of a snack credit I remember when we.
First started the show several years ago that when we looked at
like the price of what we would pay for a nice and good value
for using a SNAP credit, it would just say about $5 and yeah
over. 5 1/2 times where now it's probably about. 76 or $7.00 so
it's quite good to see those snacks that's still quite
pricey, but also good value to put the dining.
I think that's. Where you can get some of the
best value at the dining time to be honest with you.
If you're thinking about breakfast, Magic Kingdom on
cinnamon roll, definitely. 7. 99 That is huge in.
I would say a family of. Four could share that probably.
Make sure you get the extra icing, not this family.
Of four, it's just there's no way it's you don't have a whole
1. Would you eat a whole one each?
Yeah. Yeah, I could.
Oh my. Life.
Oh, they're lovely, You. Don't want?
I'm still in day, you know, but. The thing is we went if we did
that, we wouldn't eat until the evening.
Yeah, I'm not, I'm not the off. That's the offset for us.
It becomes, it becomes a very cheap way of actually park.
And if we're, if we're in the park late, that would do as you
know, doing like rope drop to, to fireworks.
That would be mid morning after rope drop, generally about
11:00, but it would then see us right the way through my again
might just get some chili chips about 7:00 or something like
that. But we just kind of graze and
that's and that really is where quick service actually suits us.
It certainly suits me because it's not that whole sit down
Palava and things like that, which becomes a bit of an issue,
but it also is very reasonable. And going back to Casey's, what
I would say about that is, you know, and, and again, going
against where you're at Claire, because I know that you're not
it's greatest fan, but it does what it says on the tin
basically, doesn't it? It's consistent.
Yeah, but but if you. And if that's what you're
looking for, it's probably, it's probably the same thing as going
to a McDonald's or something like that.
You know what, you know what it's going to provide.
You know that maybe the kids are going to be quite happy with it.
You know, you're going to come back out of there thinking, all
right, that was fun. It wasn't it wasn't exceptional,
but it was fine. It did the job.
Let's go, let's go and do something else.
It's, it's one of them and it's usually you're usually through
there quite quickly as well and. Gaston's is never usually that
busy. No, it's.
Not you can normally get a table even inside session in the
morning. Anytime in the morning,
everyone's, everyone's too busy going on rides or like John's,
like you've said, you've we've been in there to do like the
sort of early entry in the first couple hours of the park and go
and grab some food. Everyone else is in different
parts of the park. Moments focus on having
breakfast or getting food at that time.
So generally it's quite quiet, Yeah.
I think if you're in. Gaston's as well.
Just bear in mind that I think we did mention this in the 1st
of the month podcast as well. The toilets that are at the back
of the are actually some of the least used toilets in Magic
Kingdom, and So what you tend to find is they're actually quite a
they're quite a pleasant experience no matter what time
of the day. If you haven't listened to the
1st of the month podcast, you're now going to have to go and
listen to it to actually. Understand.
What on earth I'm talking about? And the other.
Thing they have a Gaston's which I've tried I don't know if
anyone else has tried is the Creme Brulee Crosser which is
basically. And.
That's the thing, it's really good.
It's so sweet. I couldn't eat all of it.
I shared it with all the other people.
Because I could eat more. Than one I have one because
they're not quite big. They're they're so am I.
They're not as big as they once were and they're not as filled
as they once were. OK, I'm just, I'm looking at my
hands. I'm thinking they're probably
like hand size, aren't they? If you were just a square, a
square and a coaster, a lot, a lot of coaster bigger than that.
I reckon they're like 4 1/2 inches square.
They're they're quite a sizeable and they've, you know, they've
got nice crepe. You know, it's creme brulee on
the top. So it's got that crusty sugary
topping. And then inside it's got cold
custard or fren on Glaze is probably the right way to cook.
But it it's it's cold custard. If you like a custard slice,
that's, you know, it's kind of like that.
They're really good. They're really good.
And they're not expensive. They're 649, you know that?
That is breakfast with a coffee. That's.
That's good value, but Robin Robin's having three.
I mean it's. Just because I think they
they're that good, it's not because I need them because I'm
still hungry. I just want to eat them because
they're so good. They are.
They are delicious. They are delicious.
Really good. So yeah, somewhere I had on my
list that I thought was actually remarkably expensive when I
looked at the whole menu and it's somewhere that I do go.
But I was slightly disappointed when I looked at the cost of the
quick service meal entree options compared to other
places. I think Columbia Harbour House,
the prices have really pushed up.
You're looking at 18 to $21.00 for an entree and a lot of
items. And the only thing I thought was
I thought you've seen them that high.
I was just, I was just on. I've all got the, so mainly 16
to 20, something like that, I think.
But lobster roll is $19.00 and that's the most expensive, but
not that. Is only like 11 is it?
Oh, OK. Maybe I was taking some jokes
and French fries is. Is $11.00, but if you're on the.
Dining plan Go and have a lobster roll because what a
great what a great use of your credit credit dining credit.
And if you're. If you want to do a similar
flavour but you're cash buyer then buy the plant based roll.
Because it's only. It's.
Only 13? Yeah, it's only 13.
Get the sugar maker instead. You're buying pash.
Get the kids grilled salmon which comes with two sides and a
drink for 899. No, that's good.
That's not good about you. I wonder if the price of fish
over the open states has gone off.
Or just everything well. Yeah, but everything.
'S gone different in the price of the chicken strips to the
price of the. I think generally the chicken
strips are the standard price across all locations pretty much
and you can buy 5K bag of them in cost connections for like 5-5
bucks a frozen bag of them. We did that, but they are not
expensive to buy. So yeah, I think that the
chicken strips are pretty much 1199 everywhere, yeah.
Because they have this, don't they?
James is in the. Chat, I've just seen your
comment behind my house nice to have you here Mark, we've.
Missed you. Yeah, we are.
Actually, that's a really good comment, Mark, I'd agree with
that. And I'm actually, I will
probably we compare that with probably the majority of places
at Walt Disney World where where the quality has declined as the
prices have gone up. That's.
Disney all over, I think. Yeah, I got.
I got. Into trouble last time I said
that, so it's. All right, That's why I'm.
Here I can get in trouble for you.
I did see some other. Good use of a snack credit which
is a golden oak outpost. The beignets.
So the standard beignets which had got honey and a kilo of
powdered sugar are 729. But for 899 and it's still a
snack credit, you can get the banana caramel beignets.
Oh that sounds nice. Banoffee is your thing and you
know, $9 you get 3 beignets and all the sugar.
So that and those beignets from there are really, really good.
I'm actually, no, don't do overly sweet things.
Actually, Millie and I shared them.
I had one, she had two. They're really, really good.
And they're hot and they're fresh because there's a quick
turnover. So I would, I would say that
that's a, that's an exceptional use of a snack credit.
Or if you're going to pay out of pocket, I would happily pay $8
for that, Yeah. It's Sleepy Hollow on your list.
It's not on my list, no some. Of we always used to go and we
can't remember what the prices. Are all the knife but we we had.
We usually go for the waffle. Great waffle for breakfast.
Yeah, or the chicken one for lunch last time we had it.
It was a lot smaller than previous, so it was a lot less
than a Mickey. Waffle now No rather than no.
They changed. It back.
Have they changed it? Do they?
What it was it was like a round book.
Yeah, it was like a an. Actual waffle, Yeah.
So it's quite. Thick and with their last August
and it's gone back from the Mickey one to round, but it's
half the thickness, most so stiffing you up.
Yeah. And the price is more expensive.
I think it was about like in 99. OK, they used.
To be like 8-9 dollars I, I, you know, it's still a healthy sized
breakfast. I think we we.
Yeah, it just made sense for us in the morning.
Just you get, I'm getting your tail on there.
Yeah, pile of pro, Yeah. So it's slightly healthy, it's
got. Pro on it?
It's 185 a day interacted by the waffles and and.
Hey, whatever. Works.
I'd much rather. Have the Gaston cinnamon roll.
I think it's a bit of a value. Fills you up more.
No. If you if you're, you think is
that all of the ones you've got mentioned in in Magic Kingdom?
Because I think I think there was any others.
There was another snack credit that I put down, which is at
Westwood home. So not a snack, not a not a
quick service location. It's one of the cards out in
Frontierland, the Mickey Bacon Pecan Caramel cinnamon Roll.
So that's one of the big Mickey cinnamon rolls that and it's got
caramel with pecans and caramelised bacon on the top
that it comes in at 8:49. So another good snack with it
and it's huge and I've heard nothing but good things if
that's you, if you actually jam, and if you are.
If. You're on the.
Dining plan, it's the best thing we we always use them on a quick
service was when we every time we went into Starbucks, you know
I have a stuff in there that's on the snap credit that's higher
price and obviously the drinks so.
You know that in Starbucks they offer tall, Grande and venti if
you ask. Them.
They will often do your trenta, which is the next size up that
they don't have advertised, but you can still use a snack credit
for a trenta. Didn't know that.
Yeah. I mean, it is like like one of
those big slur here's that's your lines from Wawa.
You know, it's like a gallon, I think.
It's amazing. Hi.
But don't. Don't buy one there.
Before don't buy one there before you join the queue for
anything, you'll get at least listen.
To the show about restrooms first.
But they we've. Done that many times actually,
and you know, like the refreshers or the the outside
refresher and stuff. You can get a trenta because
most of that's just water. You know, it's a little bit of
syrup and mainly water and they they not all locations will have
the trend to cuts, but most place to do they do ask, but
still mourn the. Loss of the pineapple fruit
refresher that was so. Good.
And the lime one that they do in the UK, they don't do over there
anymore. They only do dragon fruit and
strawberry SI, which is bad because the lime one's really
good. Yeah, I'll.
I whenever I think of the naming of drinks cups at Starbucks I
always think of Paul Rudd to rant in what I think it was Role
Models where he had a rant about the naming of the sizes of
coffee. Cups, yeah, it's brilliant,
yeah. And the fact that you can
actually. You can fit a venti drink into a
Le Grande cup just so. Yeah, I.
Didn't know that. Didn't know that either.
I'm not a Starbucks drinker. You can tell, can't you?
I know it's we've not been quick to pick up cosmic rays as a
place that any of us want. Now that is the best the.
Best for anything that is just avoiding it, it's.
So disappointing because it it was a standard, you know, you
were getting a burger or chicken tender and it was OK, but they
really have shrink flationed. The burger buns now are the what
used to be the kids sized ones and they're just the general
sized ones now. I mean, I think the less you
have to be if that stuff is better, to be honest with you.
It's the experience. Of the Twitch, Yeah, the
experience. Wasn't that good either.
I ordered. I never realized any paint from
the ceiling. I'm sorry, I never realized.
The the. Whole contraption came out of
the ceiling and then went back up again.
I don't know if anyone else realized that.
Maybe it's just a meeting around and they're long enough to be
fair. Yeah, I've only watched video
book sandwich Poor pork burger in there and they've got the
poor book. I just mourn the loss of the
salad bar because it's never been.
It's never been the same since that one.
You get a second meal just in a salad bar, right?
Tortilla salad in Pekko spills and then absolutely.
Pimp it that. Was the best pink pimp?
Pink my salad. All right, peas salad.
Bars isn't salad bars. Yeah, COVID.
Yeah. They blame a lot on.
That don't they? But it took.
Sweet Tomatoes from us as well, so yeah, isn't.
There one that's like, yes, there is Sweet Tomatoes.
Yeah. Anyway, should we hop on the
monorail or go to Epcot? Yeah, why not?
Imagine there's a lot in Epcot. We could be here a while.
Yeah, that's on my. My list.
I've got. Staff with connections, Yeah,
because actually last year we just pretty much everything we
ordered there was its menu, but it was so big.
Kids pizza. Seal, kids.
SEAL is amazing. Yeah, two sides.
We had two sides of and a drink. And a.
Drink which you can go and refill as much as you like.
Huge piece of pizza. It's only cheese pizza, so you
have to suck up the fact it's just a cheese.
It's just a basic slice. Oh, it's a good quality.
It's a good quality pizza. It's nice two sides double up
your chips or you can get get your mandarins if that's your
thing. It was a.
Bit. Vinegar and a drink which is in
a refillable cup. Just saying. 829, you can't eat
that. You just can't.
It's a meal, you don't need to order anything else.
Though I did see. Recently someone post that the
pizzas are smaller. It's a different what they used
to. Be what they used to be.
I think they're smaller than they used to be.
They were a bit surprised they just hang off the edge of the
plate in quite the same way as they used to, so maybe they got
smaller plates. I've got SO.
Many things I could say at this moment in time.
The other. Thing that's quite.
Good value at Connections eatery is actually the general soy
chicken salad. They also do a tofu version.
That bowl is huge. If you were to go to like
Wagamamas in the UK that that it's a ramen bowl size.
It's huge and the salad is plentiful.
It's really good value. And there's four or five chicken
tenders in there with Mandarin segments and great general soy
sauce and lots of sesame seeds and stuff.
It's really, really flavourful. And I say they do do a tofu
version that comes in at 12:49 and I think that's quite a good.
Quite a good buy actually. I think it's it's it's a really
nice option if you want a salad that doesn't feel too healthy
that. Is probably why I'd go for on
that menu, though I'm not. I'm often not a big pizza eater,
so I'd go for the one with the tofu on it.
I've had that and it's. It's excellent and I think it.
Replaced something that was pretty mediocre before.
It's probably like a black bean burger or something.
That was a bit. They did have the.
Vegan pizza originally, which was like a vegan tikka pizza
that was like, it had. Yeah, it was really good.
Yeah. It had like fried onions, plant
based cheese and a plant based like tikka protein that was
really good. And peas, it was really, really
good. But they got rid of it after
about a year. I don't quite know, Maybe it
just wasn't selling, but yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, well, welcome anything that tastes good.
Yeah, Mark's. Gone to Mark's, gone to
Hollywood to use. We'll catch you up, Mark.
We'll be there shortly, yeah. Wait for us in baseline.
We'll be there in a minute. Yeah, you're on the beers, Mark.
That's it I think. The best quick service value for
money if you're using a dialling credit in Epcot is probably
Regal Eagle because I think those from memory, I have to
look it up, but I think those meals were quite expensive to
buy. But if you're on a on the dining
plan, it's not too bad and the food's really nice.
They did quite a few sort. Of different platters of
different type, different sorts of BBQ.
So it's, I think we've been a couple of times.
Depth. Oh yeah, Just just looking out.
How would you not? I quite like.
No, I don't know what it is about it, but let's just.
Find it a bit. Lacking somewhere OK.
I enjoyed it but you. Can get a good beer.
As your drink if you're on a quick Service plan, if you have
an alcohol that's good value. Options there as well.
Which is always worth remembering.
Yeah, they're they're they're BBQ platters 1849.
So expensive if you're paying cash, but cheap if you're on the
dining plan. It is also shareable.
It's a. Huge.
Portion because I think that was the thing we first time we were
we both ordered or separately and wasn't sure what we were
ordering and then we did realise how much food we had to eat
between the two of us as you could have been between four of
us, but I. Think even.
I think the burger and sandwich options I think are still better
there than they're no more expensive than I think like the
average Angus, like third of a pound burgers, but they are a
bit better than that. I think they taste better.
I mean garlic toast. They're the same price as
Cosmic. Rays, but a world apart, right?
I'd go to regularly go for cosmic rays any day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could not.
Be more. Different definitely.
I think if you are looking at the best value if you're not on
a dining plan. Then I would.
Go paying out of pocket. I would go for the kids teriyaki
chicken and katsura grill which comes with rice.
It comes with broccoli. It comes with a cookie and a
drink for $8.50 which I focus on the broccoli.
Just like you have. Actually, you know what, it is
quite a sizeable option for a normal human being, but the the
adult stuff isn't actually not that much more in size, but it's
quite a lot more expensive. So if you are thinking that
you're hungry but not massively hungry, actually the kids
teriyaki chicken is such a good option.
And obviously on the dining plan there's no difference between an
adult an adult quick service meal and a child quick service
meal, other than you might struggle to get a beer with the
kids meal. You can't.
Can I? Can I just also point out as
well and? Get the extra beer and pay for
the kids. Yeah, that's.
Exactly it. And can I just point out as
well, and again, linking this to actually not being very British
and things like that, but if you go to America and you're
actually there for either the first time or 100th time, well,
it doesn't really matter. The kids meals are of the size,
which if you don't have a big appetite, you can make a massive
saving in your holiday budget. Don't don't be proud about it.
I think Ben, you mentioned it a couple of years ago when, you
know, when everything went sort of to mobile ordering.
It actually makes it even easier now.
You don't even have to pretend that you've got a child that's
waiting for a meal, right? You just mobile order and just
basically order whatever you want.
It's like a miles miles better way of saving money than an
Internet I order. A cocktail and surprise, I am
sorted. No one bats an eyelid.
You order exactly what you want and you know if it's a kids meal
and that's going to be enough, no one cares.
So you know you haven't. Same as Sharon, my ordering one
meal between two of you is in a sit down.
Restaurant. That's OK, yeah.
Once, once we I wasn't that particularly hungry.
We went with ADR booked for the set and what was that place
that's now closed in Hollywood Studios?
I've had appetizer because I wasn't hungry.
And. It was just like, to be honest,
the size of the advertiser was huge.
I was like, we didn't. Have no room for dessert.
You had a main instead of appetizer and it quite nice.
It wasn't uncomfortable during that.
There were, it was. It didn't feel like it was any
extra pressure. It just felt really just like,
yeah, that's what I want to order.
I meant to order something from the menu.
It is the land of. Half what you want, and that's
OK, yeah. Exactly.
That I feel like Epcot's great on the snack credit run $8, but
snack credit for an aloty actually shows a de Margarita.
You have to get the you have to get the blood orange Margarita
to go with it. Obviously that's.
That's. Sadly not a snack credit.
No, that isn't James in 50, I think.
Yeah, last time I was there. But yeah, that's that is my
first stop. World Showcase 11/11/15
something like that Blood orange Margarita, a Lottie that sets me
up for the day. I'm a happy girl.
I do have a ritual now that I have to go up onto the up the
steps to the Mexico pavilion. You know the little balcony that
runs around the outside of the pavilion, the pyramids.
I have to go up there away from everyone and face the plants to
eat the eloting because there is no delicate or definitely photos
of Claire eating. Nice way you'd be.
You'd be dimming well there, Robin.
I don't. Claire hate hates even eating in
front of people. And Robin did take.
A photo of. Me eating it and I.
There is no. Way of eating it in a pot,
there's no way of looking even it's delicate, you know, normal
eating it. I was going to say attractive.
Don't even you know, this thing is all over your face.
You just have to suck it up and go.
Do you know what? It's going to be on my face and
then I'm going to wipe it off. It's fine.
I'm talking about. I was going to say, I was going
to talk about corn. Corn, did you say?
Corn, yeah. Oh dear, Oh dear.
Yeah, I'll get you coke. That's it.
Another great place. To that credit, it's an Epcot is
in Germany or the caramel? Picture that Channel shop.
Is just amazing really is there's yeah what?
What's your favorite thing to order there?
The popcorn. Wow, it's like the.
Popcorn just because you want to bring it home.
I did that. One, not the.
Last day, yeah, I brought. It home for Simon, didn't I?
Yeah, but was the cookie as. Well, Oh yeah, caramel.
Apple. Oatmeal cookie.
They used to do a gin. They did a caramel gingerbread
one for Christmas. They did.
Yeah, Christmas that was. Caramel gingerbread sandwich.
Cookie Yeah, yes, yeah, that's good too if you if you're on a
cost. Saving thing as well just drink
water everywhere then nipping club cool and just sample.
I think he's been mentioned in that.
There we go. Beverly To be honest, right,
Beverly. Beverly's.
I'm not, I believe, repulsed by Beverly, and I could put that
with gin and it'd probably be. Quite, yeah.
The bar one from China. Is worse than Beverly?
Yeah, we might. Be we might be on to something
now. So smuggle.
Smuggle in a little, a little miniature agenda.
So you do not. We do not.
Condone that John the. Thing is, you can't get Beverly
anywhere. Then it doesn't exist in Italy.
It never has, No, it's obviously it's just, can you get it at the
Coca-Cola store and the bar? Yes.
Yeah. In the in the.
The train upstairs on the train. Yeah.
So you are. Crusher or Jin on the side?
There you go. Sorry.
And yeah, that Carol. Has a great tip.
You can also now order a camel kucha if the queue's too long.
Also some of the they're. Good snack credit, but if you're
paying out of pocket, they're not the best value.
And only if you know someone who's a pass holder or Disney
Vacation Club member because you get discount you do the.
Tiny little squares of caramel chocolate are about like $5.
Yeah, it's not the best use. Yeah, there are better.
Snacks in there that are that are better value, but not yeah,
you're right, there are there are some of them.
Just can we just go back to club?
Cool for a minute because I saw a video this week that excited
me very much and I shared it with Anna and my cousin Nikki
because apparently if you combine the bonbon on Glaze,
which is the one from I think it's like Dominican Republic and
Country Club, which is from Madagascar.
Although the other way, right, I can't remember.
It basically tastes like iron brew, so.
Now I. Have a challenge that I have to
undertake when I get there. So I watched a couple of video
they the algorithms and wonderful thing.
I watched one video and then another couple came up and yeah,
this this guy was like going OK, I've been told that if you can
find this one and this one and it looks, it looks like iron
brew and apparently it tastes like 1980s full sugar iron brew.
So give me a few weeks. I'll give it a go and I'll
record that. Please do.
I'll look forward to that.
Just the the conversation. About club cool is always worth
you know. Any more for any more?
No. There's not the other The other
great place for a snack credit is in France.
That's that's the. One I was about to mention
because. That is.
That is one of the greatest places in the whole of Epcot,
particularly, particularly sort of early on in the day if you're
looking for, if you're looking for that sort of breakfast
little bit or anything like that, nice little baguette.
Hold the GET 490. 5 just can't. Can't.
Be cooked. It's just absolutely superb.
I did see AI did see a video the other day of somebody that went
in. They were.
Like the greatest hat. The greatest hat.
Ever they they basically went in and bought a Turkey leg.
Oh, I saw. That I made a Turkey sandwich.
Yeah, but they they'd. Taken like a pack of ham in with
them and some cheese and they'd load it up with mustard sachets.
You get them at the. Rest you get them at any quick
service location. You get the butter with the
baguette, Yeah. Butter it Laura with mustard and
Mayo put you to I'm not buy. A cheese.
I mean, you could buy a cheese sandwich.
I've done a Chile, I've done cheese and bread in the airport,
taken it to the airport, picked it up on my way out of Epcot on
my way to the airport. And Anna and I did that.
We got a baguette, 2 cheese platters, shared them in the
airport lounge. I love that.
With a glass of free. Glass of.
Wine that went well I saw on TikTok was someone.
Walked into Epcot, picked up the baguette, walked out and then
got on the sky liner and they were eating it on the sky liner.
So be fair about the baguettes. Little baguettes are absolutely
brilliant and my French sister-in-law will go to Epcot
to pick up and she'll buy like 5 baguettes and then just leave
again. She says they are the best
baguettes outside of France she's ever had.
That's amazing. That's crazy.
David. It is crazy, definitely.
Yeah, and and even. The French cast members say
they're good. She had a conversation in
French. Wow.
So yeah. High praise.
So are we going to join Mark over in Hollywood Studios then?
You'll be half cut by now so probably best me.
To you'll probably be on the the circuitry board in that and the
frets. Yeah, isn't it?
I'll be I'll be going on the sky liner with my baguette.
So I'm going out on the 1 route. Beer in a baguette.
On the on the sky liner. What a great idea.
Absolutely. Food that.
Will travel. And we should.
Say all she does was. Always the weakest park for
quick service. Yeah, I think.
It still is. I, I, I think in food, food in
general in Hollywood shows is a bit weak.
If I'm on it and I think the, I think it might be Rosie's All
American Cafe. It's one of the quick service
locations up that end. They do chicken in a basket and
they do different types of chicken in a basket.
A chicken in a waffle cone. It's got Mashed potato in the
bottom of the waffle, though. Yeah, it's got it's, it's not a
waffle, it's just a waffle cone. It's an ice cream with one scoop
of Mashed potato and four chicken Nuggets, and it's really
expensive. That doesn't read.
It once because once. Because I fancied it and I was
really. I made that mistake once.
No, I was, yeah, not. I had the Buffalo Chicken 1, I
think. And I was like, no, I think that
not. That might be the one I had.
I forget. Or it might be Fairfax, but it's
Fairfax. Fair that you get it.
And. Yes, they do Korean barbecued
pork belly bowl, the Buffalo chicken bowl, the barbecued beef
brisket bowl, and they are all the same.
They're very small. You get hardly anything in it.
It's not not worth the money at all.
They're at like 15 dollars, $15.29.
They're not good. They're not good.
No, I'd. Say though I've.
Roses all American. I've eaten the hearts of palm
roll there, which is like the palm based.
It's a bit like the the the roll, yeah, but it's better
because it's got celery and apple cubes in there as well.
And that's like $11.00. So I I think that is cheap if
you're paying cash. But probably not a good.
Option if you're going to use a credit, but if you're, if you're
vegan and that's your, that's your bag, then it's it's pretty
tasty. It's it's something I enjoy.
But for me, yeah, I, I find those a little bit like, but my
bit is I want to sit in some air conditioning when I'm eating
lunch. Yeah, that if.
There's no air con right there. No, it's not all.
Outdoors. So I like backlog.
Express because it's an and the teriyaki for me teriyaki tow
through a bowl at backlog Express is a decent portion for
like $13 so. Backlot Express is one of the
best. Yeah, I.
Think so too. There's so much.
Choice on the menu as well, namely just looking for snacks
as well. It's a dessert we have, like the
Wookiee cookie, and it is huge. It's easily shareable.
My favorite. Load of fries when I was in
there last night was so yeah, they're, they're good.
The the chicken. I think they've got loaded
chicken tenders in there at the moment as well.
Yeah. And I forget which flavour.
I know they've got different flavours around different
places. Yeah, I can't remember.
I'm just looking at now. Honey Buffalo Ranch sound good.
They sound great to me, so I might be giving those a go.
My favorite has always been ABC Commissary though, which I feel
like gets a bad rap but I feel like it might be off the list.
I always like their steak fries they've got.
I'm not a big fan of the Disney fries.
I feel like they're shoestring they can't have.
They don't stay hot for long if you ever get them hot now.
They're not my favorite, but in ABC Commissary they've always
done big steak fries until now. The portion.
Size sizes. They're usually used to be very,
very good as well. Refill your own.
Drinks so and and also. Refill if you take a refillable
mug, just saying, like it was used to be a place you could,
you'd get a free refill if you just if you happen to have a
refillable mug. But also, again, just one of
them places, the ribs that would certainly our kids used to have,
you could split it between two of them and they would have more
than enough to see him through. So again, just another place.
Just yeah, I don't like it in Hollywood studios.
I think I don't know why it is. It just doesn't do it.
And actually, I think there's more often than not, we end up,
if you're on a late night in the studios, we end up getting stuff
as we come out in the park, yeah.
On the way home, Yeah, yeah. That makes sense.
And I think we're there early for breakfast.
We've done Woody's lunch box a few times and then at lunchtime
as well. I find that a good family.
Yeah, I think. Good cheese.
And smart soups. Quite nice.
Yeah, a kids one. Yeah, no, I actually prefer the
adults and they are different. They have a different favorite.
They've got different cheeses. But you can get, I was going to
say you can get a kids breakfast bowl for 649, which is tochos.
It's like barrels, like you know, taste barrels, the country
gravy, eggs, spring onions and it comes with two sides and a
drink for 6:49. That's really an amazing price.
I mean, that's crazy money. I was like, I'm thinking the
comparison here before pounds. And, you know, you pay that for
a drink, you pay that for a bottle of Dasani.
So yeah, you know, if you're you want some breakfast and that's a
great option. And actually, Simon, I thought
of you when I saw this earlier that Woody's currently have a
seasonal lunchbox tart, which is Key Lime curd filled.
That was like, yeah, that that's going to get in.
We have gone there and had the lunch box tart with the
practice. Yeah, the top trays.
Yeah. But I mean the I think there's
lots of options. At the beginning of the show I
said there were some restaurants that I found were significantly
more expensive than others. And I want to just say in in
Hollywood studios when I was looking at the prices of the
variety of different places. Docking Bay 7 is consistently 15
to 20% more expensive than it all of the other quick service
locations. I can only assume you are paying
for the pleasure of being in Galaxy's Edge, but I think it is
I. Just think the.
The IT doesn't do it it the food is fine, but you're.
Paying. For the location and it is, it
is significantly noticeable. I've backed it up.
With having the Ronto wrap which is last time when there was
$2.00 small accessories, it's like 1399 now 15. 99.
So I remember when. It used to be 1199.
Well, I'd go for the oak and. Then I'd go for the overnight
oats at 699 because I'm cheap, but yeah.
And it was rising compared to and just, it just seems.
Galaxy's Edge. It's consistent with Ogre's
cantina. Everything you.
Buy in Galaxy's Edge is more expensive, so if you're if you
just want to fill up on food and you're not bothered about where
it is, don't. Eat in Galaxy.
'S edge. That's why unless you, unless
you've got a quick service dining plan and you're like, I
don't think the food quality I I tend to agree is we've had the
worst better. Our meal there was up there with
probably the worst Disney park food we've ever eaten.
Unfortunately. Yeah, it was, it was that bad.
We, it was kind of, I mean, it was pretty inedible.
We didn't really finish it. It was, it was just was bad all
over, unfortunately. And we all did different things
and we were like, OK, well, we're not.
I mean, I'm also giving something another go another
time, but we said we're not going back to docking Bay 7.
We went there once and I was like, yeah, we've done it once.
We've done it once, we prefer. To go round the corner and get a
ronto wrap if we're going to eat there.
Yeah, because it's cheaper. Than get the ronto wrap in in
dock by 7. Actually more expensive to buy
it at dock in Bay 7 than it is. Is it runters?
Roasters. No way.
That seems crazy. Yeah.
Well, I thought that was just
for the. That was just for the lunch one.
They didn't do the breakfast. They don't do the breakfast.
At dock in Bay 7, the lunch one. Was a couple of dollars more
expensive but how close that restaurant is to travel back
onto roasters so yeah I'm. Sure, it's 1399 if you get it
Ronto Roasters and 1599 if you get it in Docket Bay 7.
That seems immoral because they're both just quick service.
Ridiculous. I guess less than 100 yards from
each time. The amount of seating area.
Yeah, maybe. You.
Know what? The same kitchen, it's the same
food being turned out. I'm not, I'm not fast getting it
and walking into the sit to sit down.
Well, if you walk around outside that outside area of blocking
Bay 7 and when it is, if it's not open, just sit there.
Yeah, it's normally. Open like around breakfast time?
Because Doggy Bay 7 isn't open at that time.
You can sit. If you've got.
A. Go and get a breakfast or on
tape. I'll just sit there and just go
and sit there. But that's kind of all I.
Had on my list from Hollywood Studios, there wasn't a huge
amount. Animal Kingdom, I think there's
more, yeah. Yeah, Animal Kingdom.
And I would say that I would interestingly, I found that at
Zuri Sweet Shop, which is in the back of Africa, it's right
opposite like the outside market bit.
You can actually get quite a lot of the Werther's treats that you
can get in Germany, in case you didn't know.
But they have the, the massive, I'm like massive Mickey cookie,
chocolate chip Mickey cookie. Yeah.
And that's 729. I think that's a good use of the
SNAP credit and it's definitely shareable.
You've got a couple of kids, like 7-8 year old kids.
They could share that. I'll keep them quiet for about 4
minutes, right? About me.
Workers. So it's across a lot of bakeries
across all Disney World now. These are the main bakeries.
In the resorts. As well that they've just
they've just yeah. So it's not as much of exclusive
now to go to Germany. No, you could also.
You could also get somebody cool frozen drinks in in zuries so
they do different mixtures like pineapples.
Don't get them, they're terrible.
Oh, are they? I've not got them.
They're so bad. They just taste like fake E
numbers. I ended up throwing mine away.
I was. Oh, I didn't do that.
I've not had them. I mean, it's not something I
would necessarily buy. I thought they looked like a
good option, but they they I I thought, this is going to be
amazing. I really fancy one of these.
And it was like the cheapest icy slushy.
It tasted like it'd never seen a fruit before.
It was just sugar. Yeah.
It was so, so disappointing. And I actually threw it away,
which I'm not very keen on doing because I see it as a waste.
I think sure you were with me, maybe I probably would have
finished. It out to say I'm going to take
no yeah, because it was. Expensive.
No, Maybe. I was with Jackie and I think
Jackie, even Jackie was like, I can't drink that.
I'll just think to. US Fanta, an American, a cold,
cold American, Fanta wrote. Because.
Then you just. Sugar Bears.
Fruit in that, yeah. Yes, say nothing there.
And then the other place that I think that's good value,
particularly on snack credits is that Yak and Yeti quick service,
local food Cafe always. Chicken fried.
Rice. Is a great option and two.
Sizes. I always feel gutted.
Not not going in the main Yakin Yeti, though, That is like one
of my favorite restaurants that in the world All right, the last
time I. Went in there, it had been
absolutely Chucky down. I was so wet.
And I went inside and it was freezing cold.
This was the air con. Yeah.
And so that was like, the food was fine, but I was so cold.
I did not enjoy my experience so.
Oh yeah. There's nothing wrong with the
quick service outside. I think that's quite a they do
the mango. Pie, if you friends of the show
will know, I think it's the best dessert in Disney.
They do a mini one at the quick service.
OK, it doesn't come with cream on, but it is a snacks credit.
So it's a good value for a snack credit because it's 899.
I think that's good. Yeah.
They, I don't know them. They still do.
They used to do a breakfast there.
I think it might be seasonal. Well, yeah, I can, yeah.
See quick service. They.
Yeah, but it's it's fairly limited in menu.
I'm not sure. We, we we've looked at it
several times and gone. Nah, it's all right.
I feel like generally fries instead.
I feel that generally. About some of the quick service
breakfasts across Disney World they they can be a bit samey
right when it's the same slightly rubbery scrambled egg,
same bits of really overly crispy bacon and.
Sometimes a Mickey. Waffle on the side.
Sometimes it can be a bit yeah, I find them a bit disappointing.
So I'd always I'd probably always opt for like the cinnamon
roll type situation. I always think that is a better
using a snack credit for that rather than a quick service
credit for the breakfast is definitely is a.
Better use. Starbucks Yeah, Creature
Conference. But if we're talking about.
Good value for a quick service dining credit.
I feel like there are some good options in Animal Kingdom that
are again expensive restaurants but you get a a lot of food and
it would be normally more expense and more expensive cash.
But is Yakinieti? Is is Yakinieti local food?
Is that quick service That is a quick.
Service, some of that. Yeah.
But even like they've got shrimp I think on theirs and it's like
$18.00 as a as a quick service. So those are probably really
good use value if you've got quick service.
But otherwise, they're probably it's Julie Canteen.
As well Julie Canteen. I think they're consistently
everything is expensive. Yes, it's expensive.
That's why I bring it down. To 2D canteen.
Expensive is what it says on my piece of paper.
Yeah, Yeah, expensive. You're paying cash, but a ratio
range is not too bad. Yeah, and there's usually a
plan. But also.
Flametree BBQ, I feel like that's another one that's really
good value if you're on the dining plan because they've got
a ribs, chicken and pulled pork sampler for $19.00.
Comes with baked beans and coleslaw.
You can swap them out for fries. It's a great use and you can
easily split that between two people.
So if you want to make your dining credits go further or
just split a meal and save a bit of money, right, Great option.
Split a meal, then you have one dining credit for breakfast and
one for lunch. And then you cover all your
meals rather than just one, and you try to.
They used to do a. Loaded BBQ loaded fries for us a
snack. They do.
Yes they do BBQ loaded Mac and cheese as well.
They're not terribly priced. If memory serves, the Mac.
And. Cheese with pulled pork looks
like it comes under entree, so that will be a quick service
credit. Whereas the French fries with
pulled pork and cheese is snack credit at 899.
And I don't know whether they still do, but they used to do
the same Mac and cheese in a smaller portion as a snack
credit in one of the the laughing crocodile, I think it
was. Yeah, somewhere like that.
I don't know whether they still do it.
It's certainly still on the menu.
But yeah, it's one of those things that's not always open.
Yeah, and doesn't always take the quick service dining.
Anyone's going to pizza farming? No, no.
No. Last on the list I.
Know where I'd go? For pizza and it's quite good
value if you're paying out of pocket.
I think where we're going to go for that I think is the best
value if you're. Paying.
If you're paying out, publish it is the.
Best. Value from any quick service on
all of Walt Disney World property and that is Blaze Pizza
Pizza. You are build your own.
Pizza, which is standard base, as many toppings as you want to
add on. Unlimited, you have everything
and it is 1195, yeah, and you can get discount there as well.
BBC Around your past discount. And you can, it comes to the
box, you can get a box, you can take it with you.
I have never once finished one of those pizzas.
It comes. It's a like 10 inch pizza I
think. Wish we could say that.
Not the same people. We've shared them before, No.
Yeah, we've shared them. Great time.
But I've definitely also finished them.
Yeah, done that as well. I've taken it back with me to
the room and had it, you know, breakfast, the next whole pizza,
Right. He doesn't like that.
But when you get back in the parks late and you want to.
But yeah, 90 times, like I'm just thinking like, how much if
you were to buy a Domino's Pizza over here, I'm bearing in mind
that nowhere near in the same ballpark as being quality wise,
but a personal Domino's, which is like 7 inches is like £14.
Or at least. 11 on a deal, so you're already paying
significantly more, but definitely less.
And I think if you're on a budget and you want to share a
couple of pizzas between the family blazes, the perfect place
to do that. And then yes, it might not like
the queues log, but it moves very good.
It's also so. Accessible for everyone to have
what they want on their PC, right?
Yeah, yeah. It's, you know.
What tight angle is different for you can have right angle.
Even if it's wrong. Yeah.
I I just I actually, I actually do feel that as it stands alone
as one of those places that you, you know, when again, either
you've got people who that have certain dietary requirements.
They do a massive gluten free area as well.
They do they. Do they they?
They actually have hit the nail firmly on the head of how you
can actually feed a family very cheaply and actually everybody
gets exactly what they want. And I would also mention the
fact that my wife doesn't eat cheese.
Not for any allergy, but she just doesn't eat cheese so you
don't have to have. Cheese.
You don't have to have it. It's not that it doesn't come
prepackaged, the actual quality of pizza is is is actually
superb. I actually know.
Someone that doesn't eat tomato, so they always get a pizza.
Just bacon and cheese, no sauce at all.
Yeah, I think it's something about white sauce, I think.
Claire Yeah, yeah. I like the white sauce on and a
BBQ. I think there's something about
being able to see the ingredients as well as they
might going to Subway and get you a sandwich trade.
It's a broken pizza. And I think I'd say the same,
but I like to see what's going on with pizza.
I want to see, you know, what do those olives look like?
What does that pepper look like? What does you know, do I want
those herbs? Do I want the sort?
What does you know, which cheese do I have?
Oh, goat's cheese. That's quite nice today.
And actually, there's something about being able to actually
eyeball it. And yes, they do.
You can move. Quickly, but if you just.
Say, just give me a minute. They're fine.
They do a cauliflower crust. If you're keto and you just want
a cauliflower crust pizza with cheese and meat, you can do
that. And as John said, there's a
gluten free option. They also do a high rise, which
if you like a dairy pizza base, they'll do that too.
It costs a couple of dollars extra.
So I just think the options there are so good.
But I don't. Think there's anywhere else like
that on property, and certainly not for that sort of price.
I love it, but I want a pizza. You know, yeah, right.
I. Would go if someone said to me
if you could go somewhere to eat now, Glaze would be probably one
of those places I would. Also say Claire prior to that
polite Pig was very was is very, very good.
But what I've what I have found the queue for polite Pig has got
excessively long it's and actually when he's got a.
Queue. Yeah.
Yeah, it does move quickly though, a bit like Blaze, I find
it does move quickly, but I. I.
Personally feel Blaze Blaze actually just hits the hits the
mark just that little bit more. I think if you're paying.
Cash Blaze is the hands down winner, but if you're on the
dining plan I think Polite Pig is the the best way to use your
dining. Create a quick little bit on the
price. He likes burger as well.
When you think the price of those burgers compared to what
you get in a park and the quality of them is so much
better. And they do a lot of speciality
drinks as well, which she a part of the dining plan as well.
So it's hard to it's. Hard to beat the whiskey caramel
Brussels sprouts. And I I went dig.
For the weekend, looking at the reviews and even the polite big
website has reviews of individual venue items and
there's some that have got one or two reviews.
The Sprouts has got something like 15 reviews because I think
everybody buys the sprouts and go.
I've tried making these. I don't know what you do.
These aren't like. The sprouts I've ever tasted.
Are they better than the? Sprouts at summer house I've not
had. Those yet so.
Just hold that thought and then go to summer House and try the
ones at summer house because they are unbelievably good my
current. Baseline is lamplight lounge.
In this California adventure they did a Caesar, but instead
of regular lettuce it was sprouts.
Crispy sprouts. I feel like this is a.
Whole lot. Of I think we need to get out
of. The cycle of them only being
Christmas if we can. Make them OK.
Around available. Veggies rags are not just for.
Christmas. I only have to deal with sprouts
once a year. It's fine, I love them.
I. Would I love them and I can't
get to eat them because somebody doesn't like them?
Bacon. Why time and eat them?
All the time. Make them for yourself, yeah.
I'm. Glad sprouts for myself.
Just buy them at Summer House then.
Yeah, I'm looking at, I'm looking at the menu at Polite
Pig. And yeah, some of their menu
items like the seed of plank salmon is $26.
The prime brisket is $22.00, the ribs are $26.
Like if you're on the Diamond value, that is a great value
option. Really, really good options.
I mean, they have burgers and things that are a bit cheaper.
But I think if you if you're looking to get the best bang for
your buck on the on the quick service Diamond fan, I think
that is a a really good option. Definitely.
I'd agree with you. It's just generally.
Good food as well like it might even at the the cash price, it
might seem expensive batch way I I do think it is is is pretty
good. It's good barbecues.
I'm just looking at the. Prices of the deluxe burgers,
they're the same prices in the Disney parks.
I can't believe that because they are so different, they're
so, so much nicer. But it's they're the same sort
of price, $15, fourteen dollars, $13 Classic Cheeseburger 1250.
Don't think that's bad at all. We get a point in the middle.
Of the day if we're deciding to stop in the park, we want to go
for food or more easy go to do these groups or resorts because
it's better value than what you get in the parks I tend to end
up. Sitting at the bar at the
boathouse. If I do that, though, that's the
problem, yeah. End.
End of day. Sliders on a slight house.
What's wine sliders on this? Do they have a?
Happy hour at the Boathouse as well every.
Hour is happy hour at the boathouse.
No, they don't need to. It's like happy place.
Yeah. Yeah.
One place that I don't feel like gets talked about much, though,
in Disney Springs, is Eat. It's over, isn't it?
I've. Been it's.
Been there a couple of years now.
I thought I opened last year. No, it's not.
A couple of years too old, maybe three years, actually.
Yeah. Bangkok Express footprint, Yeah,
Christmas store. Their food is really nice.
If you like Indian food or Indian influenced food, it's
really, really good. They do have things like they've
got flatbreads and beer cheese flatbread.
So it doesn't, you don't have to have all the Indian stuff, but
the food is really, really nice. You could Uber Eats it, just so
you know you know that. Or can you?
Perhaps didn't. Perhaps Morgan and Josh might
have done an Uber Eats order from Eat to Flamingo Crossings.
Sounds like a great idea. I was.
Thinking you'd get one animal. Kingdom Lodge, you can do Uber
Eats, you can do DoorDash from there and they will do the same.
Just saying that is life changing news actually because
sometimes. I can't.
Be bothered to go to Disney Springs either please.
You don't need to someone else will do it for you that quick.
They'll go and get it for me. That sounds great.
Yeah, they've got they've their meals again are 16 lbs dollars.
Sorry upwards. So it's another great use if you
are on the quick service dining pan.
But they're they're Porsches. They've I have to say I've never
had one of the pizzas. I think you enjoy the naan bread
pizza. They're neaters, aren't they?
They're naan bread pizzas. Which I think is.
Great. I think some are Naan's and some
are flatbreads. They, they class them
differently, but their naan breads in there are just to die
for really, really nice. So it's a definitely a good spot
to to stop at. And again, they've got some
stuff that you, you, you can easily share their, their food
that it's such large portions, very shareable.
Maybe I'm just thinking maybe that's a different show we
should do is like our favorite places to order food in from.
I'm just saying. Off site or in a place and you
want to you want a broadcast one?
Mostly because I haven't done it before.
Yeah, I'm running some ideas. I love the Door Dash. 126123A
carbo was called 12. 6. Yeah, Panda Express, there's all
sorts of places you can do a Door Dash or a Uber Eats or, you
know, whatever it is that you want to use as your delivery
option in America. And maybe that's a show we
should cover. Yeah, John, get your posting
notes is there I'm. Writing it now I'm writing it
now quickly I. Think that I think.
That's a great idea. Yeah, once.
We ordered them. What was it, Dominoes.
We ordered dominoes one this. Was when we were saying.
Off site the Clarion in 2014 and it was just like it was 995 so.
Different sides I think. Sides.
It was just it's completely different to dominoes.
Here, but there's so niceness then yeah, it was quite nice
actually it's. Not as expensive.
As here, yeah, definitely cheese.
There's so many restaurants. There's so many restaurants that
you can order for delivery whether you go pick up or you
get them delivered. So I just wonder particularly if
you're staying off site and you, you know, you get home at the
end, you're on site, you can get back at like 7:00 PM and or
before you get up in the morning breakfast.
In the park, are you? DoorDash and Kikis.
To your room. I.
Haven't. I.
Haven't done, can you they are on it.
Yes, you can. I don't hear it's the best when
it's been doordashed. So I've been there probably 20
minutes later is great. Oh.
Yeah. You wait for a 12.
Inch pancake I've gone cold isn't.
It. Microwave, you warm it up.
No, not the same, but I have definitely ordered a Chick-fil-A
breakfast to the room. Gone down in my pyjamas.
No, my lady's. Breakfast DoorDash.
Can you? Not meet.
Me at reception, but I was staying in Kidani, so I've got
all the lifts all the way along. I'm like I'm in this lift,
please can you meet me here? That is shameful.
That is next level. I don't know it probably for
Adam Madani. In in September.
So are we going to do? There you go.
Can you still order food to be delivered to the resorts?
Is that still OK? Yes, like grocery orders you.
Can groceries orders and as. Long as it depends on we've
looked into it and you can, but some of them request you'll meet
them in the lobby. Oh yeah.
If. If alcohol or waitress, I would
anyway. Yeah, I'm going to get Bell
services to bring me up the pizza and charges.
For it. OK, that's a show we need to
cover then. Yeah, definitely.
How to order food? To your room, if you're in your
chat and you have done that or you would like to do that, tell
us what places that you like to order food from and we will
cover that in another show, yeah.
Any quick service that we would miss?
Obviously most no really done. Done the resorts, have we?
So I looked at resorts and I didn't come up with anywhere
that I really thought was brilliant.
There's a lot of. Similarities between the resorts
of they they do this particular like that was literally I.
Was going to say cat. Cat and Cooks is graver.
Toast is the best. There's not a lot.
Of value. To be added as well bar.
River and. Pia Primo Piato over at the
river over the Riviera are good. There's lots of plant based
scramble I have. I mean, that's another.
Loss that I'm Lord. I used to dream.
About the plant based breakfast at the Riviera.
So that was couldn't wait to get that in the morning.
Simon, we need to have a. Word.
You need to dream about better things than that.
By that I mean the vegetable Wellington at Steakhouse 71.
Oh, that's that's. That would keep I'm.
Nowhere. At.
All did. Nothing stand.
Out I can. Think I couldn't think of.
Anywhere that I would go, do you know what that is going to be
the place that I want to go and make the effort to get to?
If I'm there, fantastic. But you know, everything Pop,
all those standard breakfast things, whether they're a Pop or
Coronado Springs, you know, they are even the club, they're much
for much less. I kind of feel like the Mara is
at Animal Kingdom Lodge is the exception because it does more
African and Indian influenced options.
So yes, they have flatbreads and they have burgers, I believe and
tenders, but then they also have like African Stew, things like
that. So I think that's worth the
special mention if you're going to, if you're trying to look for
different things to spend your quick service credits on, I
think that's a good option. I think it can.
Become. Has.
Quite a few Sonal for breakfast has quite a few different
options that are that's quick service.
That's quick service, yeah. But.
I don't, I didn't think of anywhere that I was going to go,
right. That is definitely somewhere
that I need to mention and. There's been quite a lot of.
Changes to the quick to the resort menus.
So like places like, and it's sort of quick service, but Dalia
Lounge, they've taken the paprika chips off the menu, I
mean. I'm done.
Grandestina and I have. Fallen out.
Boycott. 3. Bridges because they took the.
Chicken Curry off the menu. So I just, I think there's a lot
of changes to menus recently that perhaps are for whatever
reason, not to my taste. So it's time to find some new
places. Or DoorDash them.
If you can't find right, that's going to be the Can you DoorDash
cake bake shop. I don't think so.
But it would be nice, yeah. Have a look at cake bake.
For August, we're only going to be No, it's very expensive.
Just get a. Drink no.
Just get a drink. No, but food's worth it.
The food's first try for a walk. Early in the morning because
we're staying at Beach Coast. Oh, totally.
Breakfast, I suppose just don't get go and get a drink.
Some lunch. I think they do discount DVC and
annual pass discount, but not at dinner.
Yeah, I just do it at lunch. I was dubious and Millie and I
got a drink after having went to Trattoria Ford.
I had breakfast, we went and got a drink and then on the way into
Epcot and on the way back out we stopped again same day.
It was so good. Yeah, maybe we'll go.
And grab a coffee. Yeah, I love that.
So. Yeah, that.
Is our list for today. There's a lot on there like
issue plenty of food for your next trip.
Also maybe a few ideas of how to stretch those holiday dollars
just a little bit further. Speaking of bookings, with free
dining now available, the big question is have you already got
your dates locked in for next year or are you still trying to
twist your partners on to book yet another trip?
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