We had decided to go to the Florida Mall for Labour Day sales (not that there was much!) so went to the iHOP near Sand Lake road on the way for breakfast. I didn't like the atmosphere here as much as the other one and it was bigger and busier. There was a group of British (Scottish) people a few tables away and one of them was really loud all the time we were eating.
I ordered the French Toast Combo again.
They had a juice drink I'd noticed the other day that looked nice called Paradise juice or something similar so I ordered that and coffee. This was nice but very sweet.
Marie got the Waffle Combo which came with eggs and she got bacon over sausage.
This was a bit more expensive today at $29 and we left $35.
We went to US later but decided against re-activating our Coke Freestyle mugs. Another error in judgement as a drink was nearly $4 and we needed to buy another with lunch
. I had a packet of Lays with the drink as I was hungry but Marie wasn't. After doing just one ride Marie decided she was hungry after all. We were close to Louie's so popped in there and got a pizza combo each. I got pepperoni as Marie took the last cheese! This came with a Caesar salad and breadstick.
The pizza was fine but the salad soggy and the breadstick stale. Why do I never learn about Universal QS? This cost $27.25.
Mid-afternoon we wanted a Butterbeer ice cream plus Butterbeer. You can get this at the Hopping Pot at Diagon Alley but it was heaving so we got the Hogwarts Express and went to the Three Broomsticks. Which was even busier. Another epic fail! Despite being 2.45pm everyone seemed to be having late lunches or early dinners! Anyway we eventually got our ice cream and Butterbeer and were able to sit inside and have it so that was a bonus. This cost us $24.
Dinner was the Toothsome Chocolate Emporium. We'd never managed this last year and seen on a few dining reports that it was really good so wanted to give it a try.
I thought these were cool!
We were seated upstairs after only a few minutes wait next to the screen that shows the "factory". To drink I ordered a pink lemonade and Marie got a diet coke and chocolate beer.
Marie ordered the Croque Monsieur. Unbelievably she said this was too cheesy! I didn't think anything could be too cheesy for Marie!
I ordered the meatloaf which I enjoyed but it wasn't as nice as the one Wolfgang Pucks Express do. This came with onion strings and mashed potato.
We ordered chocolate almond bread but it didn't arrive and since we already had our mains we didn't say anything until we saw it on the bill. It was quickly taken off after an offer to give us it to go which we declined. We thought this was reasonably priced and paid $41 which we charged to the room again.
We didn't go for dessert as nothing took our fancy. The milkshakes look far too sickly for me. I did get a Smores Truffle Cake from the shop downstairs which cost $9.99
. I decided I was on holiday though!
This was such an unbelievable waste of money. It was absolutely all about the presentation. The mallow top was, I'm not sure how to describe but not great and the cake part was just rubbish. I cannot overstate how overpriced this was. What a huge disappointment and a rubbish way to end the day.