Now Complete - 50 Shades of Beige - Disney Dining report Feb 2022

[theCMG]

DW and I on a 14 night trip + pre-travel day with nights at Wilderness Lodge, Animal Kingdom Lodge and Yacht Club.

List of restaurants for main meals and drinks with links to be added to the posts once we're back.

Pre-Travel and Travel Day
Tony Parkin at the Tudor Room (near Heathrow)
Estate Grill/BA ClubWorld/Roaring Fork

Wilderness Lodge & MK Area
Roaring Fork & Currito (Burrito) Vineland Mall
Outer Rim/Steakhouse 71 Lounge/Steakhouse 71
Cheshire Cat Cafe/Aloha Isle/Be our Guest
Territory Lounge/Whispering Canyon Cafe
Roaring Fork/Geyser Point
Trader Sam's Tiki Terrace/Enchanted Rose
Friars Nook/Adventureland Spring Roll Cart/Main Street Confectionery
Narcoossee's

Animal Kingdom Lodge, Disney Springs and Mall@Millenia
Chick Fil-A/Shake Shack/The Cheesecake Factory
Coca-Cola Rooftop Bar/Jock Lindsay's Hangar Bar/The Boathouse
The Mara
Wine Bar George/Enzo’s Hideaway/The Edison/Everglazed Donuts
Boma/Satu’li Canteen/Mr Kamal's
Sanaa Lounge/Sanaa
The Mara/Backlot Express
Ocean Prime
Homecomin’ (Rise and Shine Brunch)

Yacht Club & Boardwalk Area
Spice Road Table (Fireworks Package)
Ale & Compass Marketplace/Big River Grille & Brewing Works
Crew Cup Lounge
Grounds (Swan Reserve)/Tijuana Flats
Martha's Vineyard/Abracadabar/Shula’s
Rose and Crown/EPCOT Festival of the Arts
Ronto Roasters/Rosie's All American Cafe/Phin's/Todd English's Bluezoo

Travel Home
Wendy's/BA Lounge/ClubWorld (Travel Home Day)

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So, the best part of 3 years since DW and I last went away together...is a first world problem but I’m going to mention it anyway as justification for spending 14 nights in the Disney bubble split across the Wilderness Lodge, Animal Kingdom Lodge and the Yacht Club starting late January and into February. The emphasis will be on major relaxation after a hectic year..

There will be ridiculous food choices

The first two are new for us and at the top of my Disney resort bucket list and I’m very much looking forward to it. We’re trying to do without a car and go to the parks near each hotel. Let’s see how that goes but it just seems too pricey now with parking fees at the resorts on top of the other costs. Surely we’ll come out ahead after using a few taxis for the airport, Disney Springs and DW’s inevitable Vineland Mall trolley dash

What do you mean the Star Wars hotel isn’t open yet

As for Disney Genie+ hmm I’m on the fence about this one at the moment

Sadly there’s no DD this time, she is too sensible/focused on her upcoming GCSEs to risk travelling at Easter and we decided not to go to Florida in the summer as it was too hot for little Olaf last time, we’re going somewhere else in the Summer instead. This will be the first time we’ve been back to WDW since 2018 which you can catch up with via my Scream if you want to go Fatter! report if you want to get an idea of the sort of nonsense likely to occur (the actual food report starts about here).

So it’s a Winter trip for DW and I which allows for a few more drinks and a mix of shared and solo park days for me. The excessive food consumption will be unaffected although I’m glad the Deluxe Dining Plan is no longer a thing.

There will be drinks

Things got heated at the dining planning meeting





and as ever with one of our dining reports…

there will be Magic

There will be Fails

And with this being 50 Shades there will be added Disney sex appeal

Edit - I had a bit of time to kill this morning and ended up in a festive conversation with DF (played here by Samuel L Jackson) explaining about EPCOT's World Showcase and the joys of Drinking Around the World. Somehow we started out talking about drinks and ended up discussing cakes in a conversation I’m calling Gulp Fiction (click to play the video)

DF wishes he was this cool

Hope to see you there

[Sparksy72]

Looks fantastic- I can’t wait to see all your fantastic food choices! 😁 Not long now!

[tigger48]

Oh great stuff cant wait to read along 👍

[theCMG]

Originally Posted by Sparksy72

Looks fantastic- I can’t wait to see all your fantastic food choices! 😁 Not long now!

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Will be less than a month soon Thanks for reading!

Originally Posted by tigger48

Oh great stuff cant wait to read along 👍

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Cheers, hope you enjoy the report 😁

[PoohBears#1fan]

I look forward to reading it, see you there!

[theCMG]

Originally Posted by PoohBears#1fan

I look forward to reading it, see you there!

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thank you, I hope you like it

[saratogajan]

Looking forward to this. Great hotel choices! Have a great time

[theCMG]

Originally Posted by saratogajan

Looking forward to this. Great hotel choices! Have a great time

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thank you, fingers crossed we'll be able to go

[Loobylou_82]

I will be following along. Looking forward to it. Been missing the food reports, glad they are slowly starting to appear again.

[Pez01]

Hurrah! Can’t wait to follow along …. Fingers crossed M. Paul opens back up I miss that place!