Compass Club breakfast+teatime snacks - enough food for the day?

[PhDisney]

Hi all,

Considering upgrading our booking to Compass Club (without half board), so just with breakfast and tea-time snacks (4pm-6pm) included. Has anyone had any experience of pretty much living on just this food?

Our thoughts would be to have a very big breakfast, and to (sneakily if it's discouraged) take a few breadbuns and bits and pieces to the park with us to have as lunch at around 1-2pm. Then, at 4-6, have the tea-time snack as an evening meal.

We don't mind spending the odd bit on a hotdog or chips in the park if we're hungry, but what we wouldn't want is to be buying an evening meal every night if we're in the Compass Club, as it'd outweigh the benefits of having the snacks available IMO.

Any tips welcome! Oh - and I should mention, it is two adults and an (almost) 3 year old.

[dav220588]

The evening snacks are not enough to replace a meal, unless you can make a meal out of little cakes.

[Jaybeez]

As above, you couldn't make a meal out of the evening offerings. We stayed at Golden Forest and it was mainly cakes and sweets, with some fruit and a few savoury items.

[Gill H]

People taking food out of the breakfast buffet for later is the reason DLP stopped including breakfast in the hotel price. Not suggesting you were going to do this, OP, but people regularly made up picnics at the breakfast table and took them away for later (to the horror of my chef hubby - ham and cheese which have been hanging round at room temp for several hours = high chance of food poisoning!)

There are so many great restaurants at DLP it would be a shame not to try at least a few.

[Em4owen]

We're staying in a golden forest room at Sequoia Lodge which I believe includes a fridge so have considered getting our own bits to make sandwiches for some days in addition to the cakes at club level. We will be having some meals in the parks too.

[lulu bear]

We are just back from a 4 night stay at the Sequoia in a Golden forest room. The afternoon tea offerings were pear tart, profiterole, madelines, mini muffins, brownies, marshmallows. Then there were a few savoury canapes. Certainly not enough to replace a main meal but a nice addition and break from the parks. It is served between 4 and 6 each afternoon. If you fill up on breakfast then you can probably get away with a snack for lunch but you will need dinner. Take plenty of pennies!

[arielrocks]

Originally Posted by Em4owen

We're staying in a golden forest room at Sequoia Lodge which I believe includes a fridge so have considered getting our own bits to make sandwiches for some days in addition to the cakes at club level. We will be having some meals in the parks too.

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We stayed in a GFSL room in Feb but there was no fridge.

[lulu bear]

Originally Posted by arielrocks

We stayed in a GFSL room in Feb but there was no fridge.

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The fridge should have been under the sink just outside the bathroom. It is behind a cupboard door.

[arielrocks]

Originally Posted by lulu bear

The fridge should have been under the sink just outside the bathroom. It is behind a cupboard door.

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Defo didn’t have one! It was one of the reasons we wanted a GF room as travelled with a 1 year old and wanted to keep milk cold. Our room was the one that has the balcony! When you look at the SL from the front there’s a row running down the middle of the building that have balconies, and that was ours. As it was freezing cold we just left stuff out on the table, it was so cold that the drinks actually froze overnight.

[arielrocks]

Cupboards were there, but empty so maybe it was being fixed? Didn’t bother asking as we used the balcony 😂