Eating offsite whats your schedule?

[wishing]

Hi

This is our first time off site and we are looking forward to trying at lot of the offsite places recommended on the DIBB such as Bahama Breeze, Longhorns etc.

Here's my planning dilemma what time do you all eat offsite for dinner/evening meal? As our usual onsite schedule would usually be to eat our evening meal at the park we are visiting that night or near to it. But if say we plan to eat at Bahama Breeze at 7pm then by the time we get to most parks after the meal there wont be much time left to enjoy the park with most closing between 9 -10pm?

Would love to know your evening schedules and how you plan your evening meal in! Do you eat early/late/ before the park visit/after park visit?

Thanks

[BevS97]

We probably wouldn't eat offsite if we were planning on returning to a park that evening. It would be just a meal, and then back to our room.

If we are spending the evening in a park, then we'd probably eat in the park (more than likely quick service in the park)

[KarenG]

I'd echo what Bev says - if we leave to eat tea at 7 or so I don't think we'd make it back to the parks.

[Nimbus]

What Bev said.

If we had an early start at a park, we'd leave early and eat offsite at, say, 7:30pm and once finished just go back to our hotel room.

[kateh134]

Same as Bev. We no longer spend all day in the parks so would either do a park in the morning and have lunch there (QS or a snack) and then return to the villa for the afternoon. We then have a meal out and go back to the villa. If we visit a park for the latter part of the day, we have lunch out and then go to a park for the afternoon and evening and have a snack if we're hungry.

[MarkJ]

Can you not still eat in or near the parks, enjoy the parks afterwards and then go back to your Villa/hotel at the end of the evening?

[champagnegirl26]

We hit the parks for rope drop, leave after lunch, have a rest and swim at the villa then dine off site early around 5 then return to the parks we have young children so early dining suits us.

[webbletuk]

We hit the parks at rope drop, leave at about 2pm then we generally go to eat when it's quieter (and cheaper). We then go back to villa and chill, swim etc and then maybe just snack on snacks really. Not all days follow this pattern but the majority do.

[jo williams]

On the days we return to the parks we choose restaurants not to far out from disney and eat about 5 ,we usually incorporate evening returns with days off or shopping days.

[felixo]

Our offsite eating at say Texas Roadhouse, Logan's Bahama Breeze and the likes work in two ways. If it's been an early park day for us then we'll have had breakfast in the Vila in the morning then we'll have a light snack for early lunch and after a full day park stomping we'll leave around 4pm for our offsite meal. Home for a quick shower and change of clothes(don't sit down or you may not feel like getting up again! ) and then have dinner about 6pm.
The other side of the equation for eating out is to make it on pool days where we have had a late rise, maybe breakfast and then not much else other than maybe some fruit or crisps, something like that and then go out for an earlier "dinner" maybe like 4pm and then we can go to a park for the evening entertainment and fireworks or night parades. If you eat later than this offsite, its really a bit of a rush to catch some of the parks evening entertainment - Epcot for example, fireworks spectacular is at 9pm and the park closes immediately afterwards with the rides/ attractions/shops closing even before the fireworks begin.