Just how crowded is Disney World during spring break weeks?

Novelisto
Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:30:20 +0000

Very useful website:

[Disney Dining & Reservations | Walt Disney World Resort](http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/dining/)

Make dining plans as soon as your dates are finalized for any restaurant that you feel impelled to visit. They have improved their food tremendously as that was one complaint many people had in the '80s. If the website tells you the place is full, call 407-939-3463 (WDW-DINE) as they don’t release the full seating to any one method. You can also show up 30 minutes before you’d like to eat. You’ll wait a bit but they can usually work you in as people make plans and then change their minds.

Our favorites include Liberty Tree in MK for lunch (character dining at night), anything Japanese in Epcot, Le Cellier in Epcot (almost impossible to get into but you never know), and Yak and Yeti in AK (just don’t order anything that says ‘crispy’…it never is). At Hollywood Studios (no longer MGM), we haven’t found anything all that good to eat but the theming in the restaurants is great. Try Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater. You sit two in a row in an old car and watch weird 50’s trailers for bad old sci-fi movies…not recommended for small children but unlike anything else.

But the best Theme-Park restaurant hands-down – and not just my opinion but that of travel-writers galore – is Mythos in Islands of Adventure. Def. eat inside.

Haven’t been to Harry Potter yet…from what I understand Universal undersized the capacity of the ‘sights’ with the result that it is always crowded. When you can only fit a dozen or so people in a shop at a time, there will be lines. I was down there when they were working on it so saw stuff from the outside; they’ve done a remarkable job on the ‘look’ but I think they misjudged capacity badly.

In answer to HP, Disney is revamping and adding to FantasyLand. There will be a new castle and a whole section devoted to Beauty and the Beast. Opening scheduled for Mid 2013. They are also adding quite a lot of interactive activities to the lines – go through Winnie the Pooh for an example.

Toon Town will close Feb. 12th for this refurbishment so it will be a little harder to find the Mouse and friends. They will increase their ‘round-the-parks’ appearances.

Finally — I told you I’m a Fiend for this stuff – with people over 16 in your party, you might consider a behind the scenes tour. You can get to the information on tours at the website above. Backstage sights include the famous Utili-dors, the corridors that run everywhere under the park. Most people do not realize that the Disney Parks are merely (!) the top floor of a vast complex. The tours are pricey, and some are lengthy, but you see things others do not. Last time, we took the Segway tour/training around Fort Wilderness and really enjoyed that, though it wasn’t exactly a ‘backstage’ experience.