Any recommendations on our thanksgiving week plan?

thoughts on the below working Thanksgiving week schedule?

Arrive Friday 11.50pm. Overnight at an airport Hyatt using points.

Sat: Sleep in, Arrive Boardwalk . Llate arrival Epcot, 11-8-ish. Lunch: QS Yorkshire F&C. Dinner: TS 6.30 Space 220 lounge.

Sun: MK rope drop till 4-ish. Dinner: 6.45 Raglan Road with Orlando-based family.

Mon: HS rope drop to 2.30-ish, mid-day pool / R&R time, late night (EEH) at Epcot. QS Backlot lunch, and QS La Cantina dinner

Tues: Sleep in. AM downtime, monorail xmas decoration resort hopping, then Beak and Barrel at 2.30pm followed by MK Xmas party to midnight.

Wed: sleep in. Bfast Sanaa QS. AKL exploration. Late start AK to EEH close (1-8pm). Satuli QS dinner

Thursday: sleep in, late start HS with F! Dining package at 50’s Diner at 4.45pm for Thanksgiving dinner.

Friday: sleep in. late start EP World Showcase (holiday thing) with Processional Concert vis Biergarten dining package (hopefully).

Saturday: sleep in 11.45AM WAT.

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Sounds awesome! You have chosen some of my favorite locations to eat.

Thx. I have been on the fence about all the extra’s (mmvmcp, f! dining, WAT, the processional dining pkg)- on top of my planned heavy use of llmp/sp…)

…but I dialed back on TS, and did no signature dining or character bfasts, and kept us in a studio (vs one bedroom) as a trade off.

my Orlando family wants to join us for dinner again on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend… but I’m having a hard time landing on a place that won’t break the bank (we are already hosting them at raglan road at the beginning of the trip).

I’d like to give us easy access to MK as we are going to try to see the nighttime parade on our last night.

Their APs are blocked so we can’t eat in the parks.

I’d do Polite Pig, but messing with Disney springs that night would be overwhelming I think.

Toledo is too pricey for a party of our size.

Nobody seems jazzed about Steakhouse 71, although super convenient to MK.

the GF Cafe has an appealing menu but with the lobby down, not sure the ambience is the same.

I thought about the casual TS restaurant at the Poly, and even Primo Piatti or the pool bar at the Riveria (we can hop on the skyliner from BW).

Or, maybe the Wilderness lodge with the skillets (although I think it might be way too noisy for my Mim).

Any thoughts here?

I’m not sure whether the GF Cafe would be affected much by the lobby work, to be honest.

That’s good input. I had crossed off the GF from my itinerary, since they won’t have the ginger bread house, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid it altogether.

wWYD, knowing we are staying at BWV, and will be coming from an afternoon at AK (WAT) and hoping to catch the new nighttime parade at MK on our last night.

Fwiw: If we weren’t meeting them I’d likely just eat at Yak n Yeti or Satuli in AK or Skippers in MK.

They just can’t do that.

Options:

GF Cafe

Steakhouse 71

Kona Cafe

Whispering Cafe

Bar Riva

Ale and Compass

Beaches and Cream

Ale and Compass is a favorite amongst liners and is very close to where you are staying. I’ve never been to any of these places.

If it were me, I would check the pricing and the menus for A&C and GF Cafe and choose which of the two checks the most boxes for the people in the party. I think GF Cafe and Kona Cafe are good locations.

Are they adventurous eaters…Boma or Sanaa?

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I considered saana but I honestly have no idea if that is appealing - and it might be too soon to eat after our WAT lunch.

. My cousin is a pastry chef by trade and actually worlks at Gideon’s (not in their retail store).

I think I’ll choose from Ale and Compass and GF Cafe.

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