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30 Sep 19, 09:41 PM |
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Where have you "beignet" all my life? QSDP Sept 2019. COMPLETE
Ok now I'm back I'm going to get these reports written! I'm going to attempt a simultaneous dining and trip report posting so we'll see. Normally I just link to the dining part each day as it's less work so if you want to read the rest of the trip report it's here.
The pre trip report is here but for anyone who doesn't want to read, my sister and me are spinster aunts in our 40's who like to go to Disney and prefer an onsite stay with some kind of dining plan. This was our first year at Coronado Springs and our first time on Quick Service dining plan. Pre-travel & travel day I've combined these as pre travel day was boring. We stayed at the Holiday Inn, Glasgow Airport as usual and arrived about 8pm. We got settled in and had a cup of tea with a couple of kit kats I’d grabbed from the fridge before we left home! We’d also brought what little milk we had left. We had decided at check in to pre book breakfast at the hotel as you could save £3. So instead of £15 it cost £12 each. We headed down around 8ish and it wasn’t too busy. It’s a buffet of both hot breakfast items and continental. My stomach was a bit excited so I eased myself in with a small plate of continental breakfast. I managed some hot items but definitely didn’t get my £12 worth. Marie was annoyed there was no potato scone. We had booked the Upper Deck Lounge for about 10.30am so headed there next. Since I wanted to check in so early I thought it would be best to book a lounge for comfort. It was quite quiet when we arrived and it looked like breakfast was just finishing up. There were still some bacon rolls out so we had one each. Probably not a good idea as they were a bit cold and stale and it meant we weren’t particularly hungry when lunch was brought out. Being Scotland they had tablet and macaroon in wee bowls on the counter so I had some of that too. When lunch was brought out it was 3 types of sandwich – cheese & onion, tuna & sweetcorn and ham. There was also soup – tomato and cream of chicken. I also noticed cheese and crackers. There was a bar, a fridge with cans of fizzy juice, coolers with different fruit juices, a coffee machine and a hot water dispenser. I loved being able to pop up and get a drink or a snack any time I wanted, even if it wasn’t a huge selection. After enjoying some quiet time in our window seats it started to get a bit busy and a couple sat in the seats next to us. I personally felt it got a bit too busy but it probably didn’t help that our flight was delayed an hour so we stayed for our full 3 hours. While waiting I had half a tuna and half a ham sandwich. I then went up and got some chicken soup. No picture for some reason but this was nice. Our flight was delayed and we took off an hour and 20 mins late at 3pm. Dinner was served soon. It was chicken in a mushroom sauce, pancetta mac and cheese and paneer & cauliflower makhani. Marie had the mac n cheese and I had the chicken. The salad was “Japanese Cucumber Salad mixed leaves”. Translate that to “tasteless leaves”. Pudding was a Gu Pot as usual which as usual was bitter chocolate. Marie didn’t eat either as normal and even I, who will usually eat eveyrthing on the tray, couldn’t finish either the salad or pudding. The chicken was ok and Marie said the mac n cheese was fine. Normally I’m ok with airline food but this was below par. about 1 ½ hours from landing they served afternoon tea. This was a pesto & mozzarella roll and a scone with clotted cream and jam. The roll was just ok but I’m not a pesto fan. When we arrived at the terminal building I checked MDE and could see our QSDP credits. So excited! We arrived at CSR about 9ish and were hungry so as soon as we got to our room we headed across to El Mercado de Coronado for some food and our refillable mugs. By now it was 9.50pm (or 2.50am!) so Marie got chicken nuggets (not advertised as adult portions but you can get if you ask) and I got a burger. We subbed the drink for snacks (never a problem here by the way) but there wasn’t much left so we both got cake. This was all fine but you could tell it was close to closing time. We collected our mugs, Marie getting a Halloween themed one and me a Buzz Lightyear one. As we left El Centro we popped into Café Rix to see if they had any breakfast pastries but it was just the same selection as El Mercado. I was re-reading this to cheer myself up during lockdown and realised I never included the picture of our first night dinner . Here they are Edited at 04:43 PM. |
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30 Sep 19, 09:58 PM |
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You're back! That seems to have gone quickly. Really looking forward to reading along and heating how you got on with the QSDP
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30 Sep 19, 10:11 PM |
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30 Sep 19, 10:04 PM |
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Sounds like a good start. Looking forward to reading both trip reports.
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30 Sep 19, 10:05 PM |
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Relaxing at the Grand Floridian
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Looking forward to reading your report especially as you usually have the DDP.
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30 Sep 19, 10:10 PM |
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Thanks! Pre travel & travel day is now up but I'm back at work tomorrow so it'll be slow going now!
Thanks! It was interesting having QSDP. |
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30 Sep 19, 10:58 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Oct 11
Location: Dundee
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Welcome home!
That is a poor effort at a buffet breakfast! The plane food looks good, I suppose stumping up for Virgin flights may be in our future if we want to go direct again! |
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2 Oct 19, 09:46 PM |
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Day 1 - Kusafiri Bakery, Yak & Yeti, Woody's Lunch Box
Today was planned as EEMH at AK. We had thought about going to Café Rix for breakfast but it was close to time we planned to get the bus to AK so we just left. Breakfast was therefore in the park at Kusafiri Bakery. Last time we’d had coffee and a Colossal Cinnamon Roll however the coffee was pretty rank so we decided to see if the cappuccino was better. It was but was significantly smaller. Talking of which, the cinnamon roll didn’t seem quite as “colossal” as we had remembered. Next time I’m taking a ruler!
After a couple of hours we started getting peckish. We were close to Dino Bites where we had decided to stop for iced water. They sold Mickey Pretzels among other things as you can see. We decided on the pretzel with cheese sauce between us. I really enjoyed this, Marie thought it was fine and it filled a whole until lunch. We transferred the iced water to our refillable bottles. These were a great idea. We were able to refill them from various places with iced water knowing it would stay cold for hours. We’d done pretty much all we wanted to do by lunch time and had already decided we’d more than likely do Yak & Yeti table service for lunch today. We had 2 birthday rewards of $25 each and considered trying to use both but decided to just use mine and keep Marie’s for another day. Since we used the Landry card we were seated in 5 minutes without an ADR. As we had previously discovered the Wok Fried Green Beans we had to have these. Even though on previous visits we then didn’t manage our mains! These were fab and we enjoyed them more as we were hungry. To drink I had the Shanghai Lemonade, Passion Fruit flavour as usual. Marie had a Sprite. For mains I had Teriyaki Steak & Shrimp from the specials menu and Marie had the burger than she had previously declared the best burger she’d ever had. She enjoyed this again although the fries are a bit rubbish. Mine was nice but I find with sweet dishes I get fed up quickly so I didn’t finish. This cost $41.28 after the $25 reward and before tip. We had to go to reception about our gift card for opting out of housekeeping so while there got a twisted donut from Café Rix to have for breakfast the next day. We had a Be Our Guest breakfast booked so just got one between us. We chilled in the room with a cup of tea and tried the cake we had got from El Mercado the day before. It was a bit sweet and we didn’t get it again. Since we had decided we couldn’t wait to see Galaxy’s Edge we popped in to DHS for dinner. We were in Toy Story Land when we were hungry so decided Woody’s Lunch Box would be fine. We used mobile order after getting a table which was great. We hadn’t managed to eat here yet and weren’t sure about it but decided to go with the Totchos which are potato barrels (Tater Tots) with chilli, cheese and sour cream. These were really good! Much better than I expected and really filling. On the way out I popped into Municiberg for a Num Num Cookie. I decided to take this back to the hotel which was probably a mistake as it should really be eaten warm. I still ate it though! Credit used – 3 QS, 3 snacks. Total so far - 5 QS, 3 snacks OOP - $41.28 Edited at 09:48 PM. |
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1 Oct 19, 10:15 AM |
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Imagineer
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Following. Looking good so far.
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