Mel P.
Yelp
We did one of our character dinings here for breakfast during our recent trip to Disney World (last week).
We had reservations but still waited about five minutes. They had to separate our party of 9 for some reason, but at least they placed our two tables next to each other...so no big deal.
The buffet was out of this world! They had the standard eggs, bacon, sausage, Mickey waffles, bagels, fruit (whole and chopped), cold cereal choices, and oatmeal with fixings. They also had a made-to-order omelet station, Eggs Benedict, red velvet pancakes, corned beef hash, multiple other different egg and potato dishes, lox with capers and onions, cheese blintzes, and MORE! Something for everyone, and it was all SO delicious!
In addition to orange and apple juice, they have POG (Hawaiian passion-orange-guava) juice! Milk and coffee, too, of course.
(Note: The juice is served in TINY glasses. You'll understand why that's relevant shortly.)
The character meetings, as with all the others we did, were amazing. We were visited by Mary Poppins, Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Winnie the Pooh; and Tigger had a photo set-up in the back room. The cast members were nice, and even brought the Mad Hatter back to our table a second time because someone didn't get to meet him the first time. He was VERY funny, and even remembered my daughter's name!
Two complaints:
First, VERY loud carnival music plays at times -- infrequently, but it happened to play when we entered, which was a little off-putting. Even one of the cast members agreed it was obnoxious.
Second, our older female waitress was terrible. She was probably the only "cast member" of our entire week-long trip about whom I have anything negative to say. She was not very friendly, lacked personality, and most importantly, she completely abandoned us after bringing us our beverages. When I chased her down (literally -- she kept ignoring us, so I finally got up and went to her) for more juice and water, she seemed annoyed. I asked nicely... Sorry, but we haven't seen you AT ALL in the last 20 minutes and now we are all parched, having eaten our entire meal with nothing to wash it down! Not up to Disney standards by any means.
Anyway, the experience overall was positive and memorable. It's a shame the best breakfast has to lose a star for poor service, especially in such a high-end resort. We didn't let it ruin our time, either way!