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Pleased to know I wasn't the only first-time food-reporter with photo fails!
Saturday 27th May
After an early start (and a VERY through security screening), we made it into Terminal 2.
Very little on offer at Manchester Airport T2. We decided to eat at The Cabin Bar (like usual). To be honest, the only reason we ever go here is because we like to see all the planes out the window.
It's overpriced and generally poor quality - that's food and service!
Me and DD had a glass of orange juice. DH had a cappuccino and a pint of San Miguel - we were on holiday after all
I wasn't sure what I wanted - I'm not really a breakfast person (this is generally a theme throughout the holiday).
In the end I went for the vegetarian breakfast - poached eggs, beans, tater tots, grilled tomato and a toasted muffin.
I'll let you all come to your own conclusion of what my eggs looked like, but it was off-putting to say the least. Apart from the beans and toasted muffin, the whole thing turned my stomach.
DD had a toasted muffin with jam and a rasher of bacon. They forgot to send her jam out with her muffin so DH had to go back up to ask for that!
DH had eggs benedict with a sausage. Strange I know. He declared his as "okay".
The whole lot set us back £44.20 - not a great start.
Flight out was fine - I always enjoy the outbound flight. Excitement gets the better of me I think.
We were a little delayed departing and had been on the plane for over an hour before we took off - an issue moving the containers in the cargo hold.
Cabin crew handed out water and juice and turned the entertainment system on, so to be honest the wait wasn't too bad.
Once we were in the air, first up was a drink service and pretzels.
I had a vodka and cranberry, DD had an orange juice and DH had white wine. The pretzels are always my favourite.
Menu was handed out and lunch wasn't long after:
(and drink menu if anyone was interested!)
I had the pesto pasta - which was surprisingly nice. I enjoyed everything on the tray (even the salady thing), but that little GU pudding pot thing was even too sweet to me.
DD and DH had the chicken - they both said they enjoyed it and ate the lot. (Apart from the pudding again. Too rich for DD and DH doesn't each sweet stuff!).
Obligatory Fab lolly photo!
Mozzarella, pesto, tomato and rocket roll (minus two bites
) – I actually quite enjoyed this, but DH wasn’t quite as keen. He did also have a BLT sandwich from Boots as well though. DD had a tuna mayo sandwich from Boots too. The scone wasn’t great, but overall we were well fed and watered so can’t complain.
We were lucky to land when we did – as we were late taking off, the second Manchester flight was only 5 minutes behind us, as well as a Gatwick flight meant there were soon to be some 1000+ people in the immigration hall. We were off the plane reasonably quick and through immigration in an hour (could have been worse). Looking back at the queue behind us, I wouldn’t have been surprised if I heard they were waiting 3 hours!
We got the Magical Express to our resort this time – not done this before as would’ve usually hired a car. Having priced up all of the trips we’d need where we couldn’t use Disney transport on Uber and Lyft, we came to the conclusion it would be cheaper for us not to hire one. I loved the freedom it gave me also – and the cocktails it meant I could drink!
When we checked-in at Saratoga, I was told that we would be checking into a 2-bedroom villa and had been given a complimentary upgrade from Mickey! A tear or two definitely escaped from my eyes. Things like this just never happen to us!
We had got FP’s for FoP for the evening, but (since we already had them for 3 other occasions also) we cancelled them and decided to unpack, have a walk round the resort and hang around in our room(s) instead.
Couldn’t work out whether we were hungry or not – maybe just tired. So we just grabbed a quick bite in Artist Palette.
Lobster Club for me and DH – Lobster salad, smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato and lemon mayonnaise served with house made chips. It was packed full of lobster and was really fresh.
DD had the hot ham and cheese sandwich – black forest ham, smoked gouda cheese and Dijon mustard with Quattro Formaggi cheese spread served with house made chips. She only managed half of this, but really enjoyed it. The mustard was quite strong, but she’s used to it and didn’t mind at all. It had so much ham in it that she had to take some out so she could fit it in her mouth!
We had our refillable mugs, so didn’t need drinks with these. Instead we got some grapes, strawberries and apple slices with caramel dip. We ate a few with the meal, but the idea was to put them in our fridge for breakfast in the morning!
Not food, but before we went back to the room, we stopped for a quick drink in the Turf Club Bar.
DH just had a Bud which I don’t think I got a picture of (but we all know what a Bud looks like!).
I had a Pina CoLava – Bacardi Razz Rum blended with Pina Colada mix and raspberry puree. It was so delicious. It is really thick and coconutty. It’s like a blended frozen type drink. Quite heavy on the stomach though!
DD had her favourite – a Watermelon Lemonade. Odwalla Lemonade and watermelon syrup topped with a lemon and lime foam. Although, this time, she was given the wildberry foam which is served on the All-Natural Lemonade. Don’t know why, but she enjoyed it all the same.
Next up is Artist Palette (Breakfast), Cosmic Rays Starlight Café (Lunch) and ‘Ohanas (Dinner).