Most Recent Reviews
Review of Trail's End Restaurant
Reviewed by bosslady79 Review Date: 01/17/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
Dined here 11-19 for breakfast, the food was excellent, the pulled pork eggs benedict was awesome. Server was attentive filling drinks and clearing plates. Pecan syrup was tasty.
You get a 10% discount with the Disney Chase card!
Be sure to plan ahead it does take a while to travel here. Best way is to take the boat from MK!
Noticed they take walk ups and the place was not very full. But everything was great Two adults ate a buffet for around $36, which is super cheap for the world!
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Food, service, moonshine (juice), costCons:
noneReview of 'Ohana Dinner
Reviewed by bosslady79 Review Date: 01/17/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
Ate here for the first time on 11-18, food was excellent, the portions were just right. Pork, chicken and shrimp were great along with the dipping sauces. Steak was tough, but no problem, got extra pork. Bread pudding with sauce was amazing. Our server Eddie was great! Kept the food coming and drinks filled!
Make reservations ASAP of the 180 day booking, it fills fast!
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noneReview of Pop Century Resort (Value Resort)
Reviewed by KIL2814 Review Date: 01/16/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
I wanted to post a review since I just read several somewhat negative reviews and we had a wonderful experience there and would stay there again. We stayed at Pop from 12/22 to 12/28/13. It was our first trip to Disney as a family and we had a preferred room. The room was very clean and let's face it, you are not in the room that much. I thought the bus transportation was excellent. There was no bus sharing like with the All Star Resorts. Yes it was busy because we were there at Christmas but we took advantage of the extra magic hrs. and never had to wait more than a few minutes for a bus. The kids loved the pool and didn't seem to mind the food court. We did online check-in and had magic bands and check-in/out was a breeze. We arrived an hour or so before check-in and our room was ready for us. My only complaint, and it's not Disney's fault, were the rude people (other guests) in the food court. The refillable mugs were great but it was very annoying to be standing there filling your mug and someone else just shoves theirs in front of you. By the end of the trip I was glad to get away from crowds of rude people, but unfortunately, you are going to run into them everywhere.
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Clean, bus transportation was fine (no shared buses)Cons:
food court could use some updatingReview of Excursions
Reviewed by sasmmb Review Date: 01/16/2014
Rating: (7) Recommended
This is for the Watercraft Ski Adventure Single Rider "excursion".
I have never ridden a Jet Ski/Waverunner before. It definately took some getting used to. As such I was pretty timid and lagged behind the others in the group the majority of the time. What I was most suprised at though is there is a lead guide in front and trailing guide that is supposed to bring up the rear. There were several cases where the trailing guide was well in front of me and even in front of the guest in front of me! I have learned that this is not the activity for me. My husband would do it again in a heartbeat though.
Pros:
Fun - yet scary!Cons:
Guides didn't wait for me.Review of Olivia's Breakfast
Reviewed by slapps Review Date: 01/16/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
We ate here on December 24, 2013. We had a wonderful experience at Olivia's. We had a party of 14 and had almost everything on the menu. I had the loaded with everything omlet, it was great. Everyone in our group loved their food. I must also point out our servers were great. I would suggest this eatery to anyone and we will eat there again A+++±
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great food and not bad prices.Cons:
NoneReview of Mama Melrose's Lunch/Dinner
Reviewed by slapps Review Date: 01/16/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
My DW and DF's ate here on December 20th, 2013. We had lunch reservations for 3pm. At first we had the Fantasmik package but, opted out at the restaurant. It just seemed like it was an expensive venture and not really needed. I had the ckicken parm and it was great. My wife had spaghetti and meatballs and she loved the dish. Our whole group of 6 really enjoyed our meals. I had read that the service at this venue was slow. We did arrive early and we were seated about ten minutes late, not to bad. The service was prompt and our server was very attentive. I will eat here again.
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great food.Cons:
not much of anything.Reviewed by slapps Review Date: 01/15/2014
Rating: (8) Recommended
We once again stayed at Old Key West over the Christmas holiday. We checked into our Grand Villa, building 63 with our friends from up-state NY, on December 18th and left on December 26th. This trip started out bad at check-in with our new bands. I will not get into much detail here you can see my post about the bands on that site. As usual we loved our rooms and location. We were also very fortunate to have the staff we did helping us with our, what seemed like numerous problems. I must give a shout out to front line supervisor Kathy, Scott and especially the resort manager Rodney. They were all so wonderful. They made a trip that could have been a horrible, horrible vacation and made it enjoyable. As stated earlier we LOVE Old key West and will stay here again next year. This was our fourth time in the Villa's. If we had not had the problems we did with the bands I would once again rate it a 10 instead of an 8.
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Just love the location and decorCons:
Bad experience with the new magic bandsReview of Disney Dining Plan
Reviewed by kretzklan Review Date: 01/15/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
We love the dining plan. It saves us a decent amount of money (we figured it up and saved about 20%)...plus we wouldn't normally splurge for some of the meals we get to choose and certainly not dessert! It's the best time of day when we sit down for a meal and have a chance to talk about the day! Even quick service meals are wonderful. It just really takes a lot off our minds - not constantly price watching...it's prepaid!
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Allows us to have great family timeCons:
noneReview of Garden Grocer
Reviewed by kretzklan Review Date: 01/15/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
We would NOT go to Disney without Garden Grocer. Ever. We do the dining plan and therefore are one meal 'short' each day. We order all the breakfast items and eat in our room while getting ready for the day! They deliver fresh fruits and veggies and everything is exactly what they advertise. They even called us this time because they couldn't find the bananas with a little green left in them...they wanted to be sure we were ok with slightly more yellow in our bananas!
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being able to have breakfast in the roomCons:
noneReview of Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner
Reviewed by kretzklan Review Date: 01/15/2014
Rating: (8) Recommended
We loved the food here - all so good, fresh and hot. We ate until we nearly burst due to the all you can eat option! Service was a bit slow - but we probably noticed it more because we were trying to get outside to see the Electrical light parade (which is a tip to eat here and be able to get outside - great views of the parade). We didn't enjoy the dessert and that is one of the great things about Disney!
