Dear Disney:
Please, oh please, could you open another restaurant that revolves? Because if I have to go the Garden Grill AGAIN, I might just end up going spinny myself.
Thanks to FREE dining on our next trip, the plan allows for each of us to choose a dining location. We gave the kids the Dining Plan Brochure, and the Unofficial Guide and told them we'd guide them through the menus at AllEars to help them make their choices.
The eight-year-old immediately fixated on the Supercalifragilistic Breakfast at 1900 Park Fair. She remembers being there last trip, and practiced the name until she had it practically perfect.
We'd already told the kids that Garden Grill was off the list. It was Captain Planner's favourite restaurant, but the menu changed, and didn't appeal anymore. Except that last week, word got out that the menu has changed BACK, making the old menu the new menu, and the new menu the old new menu. Got that?
However, our dining plan was made, and none of us were prepared to give up our choices, even Captain Planner. (got his heart set on Le Cellier, a new one for us) But then the eight-year-old began to waver. The conversations since have gone something like this:
Child: I changed my mind. I want to go to the spinning restaurant.
Me: You can change your mind. How about the castle in Norway?
Child: No, I don't like princesses.
Me: How about the Biergarten? There are accordions.
Child: I HATE accordions. I want one with characters.
Me: We've already got two Character Meals. How about the Sci-Fi Dine In?
Child: What if I don't like the movie?
Me: How about sticking with Park Fair?
Child: No. Even though saying the name makes me quite precocious, you know.
Me: (trying not to laugh) Crystal Palace? You could see Winnie the Pooh!
Child: But Mom, it doesn't SPIN!
It's not that I dislike the Garden Grill. I just don't get all goony about it. We always end up with a booth, and the sides and back of the booths are very high. For short people like me, this is an issue. The kids sit on the edges so they can interact with the characters, which leaves me stuck in the middle of this semi-circle booth. I can't see OUT of the booth at all, and I always feel like there's this whole world going on out there in the rest of the restaurant and I'm missing it. Plus, with the seat back behind my head, I get a crick in my neck.
Plus also? We're already dining with Mickey and Chip and Dale twice that week. I'm all for character meals, but how about some different characters?
So, Dear Disney, a spinning restaurant with, say, Donald and Daisy, or maybe the gang from Peter Pan would be a good place to start. Heck, even accordions would probably be okay. Just as long as it SPINS.
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