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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just spent 4 days at Disney.  Overpriced and very poor experience. It must be an absolute mess for families that don't want to shell out  for all the extras. Extras, which are slowly become necessities if you want to actually get on rides at the park. 
I told my kids for this kind of money we could have spent a week on my home country and lived like kings! 
Rant over [/quote]

My in laws live in Florida so there was an appeal to stop by. We just did a week there and the horrifically bad food and expenses and so I will not be back.[/quote]

Where did you eat? Disney has at least one Michelin star restaurant.[/quote]

It has exactly one, in the Grand Floridian hotel, and it is genuinely excellent. But apart from that, I have never had a good meal anywhere in Disney. I have had some overpriced mediocre meals, but nothing actually good. It’s ok because you don’t go for the food… but it’s just another thing that makes Disney less appealing to me personally.[/quote]

Some great meals I’ve had:

Topolino’s 
Yak and Yeti
Morimoto Asia
Steakhouse 71
California Grill
Jiko
Takumi-Tei 
Narcoosee’s

Most of them are at resorts and Epcot. MK generally has subpar food, and a lot of people who fail to do research eat at some quick serve place there and think it’s representative of the food overall.

Disney Food Blog has a ton of guidance about where to get excellent food: https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2022/05/21/10-best-disney-world-restaurants-for-dinner/[/quote]

Not only do you have to research but you have to wake up early 60 days before your trip to fight everyone else for a reservation. And good luck if you’re not staying at a Disney resort. Or you can pay a third party scraper bot app to ping you when a reservation opens up and hope that you’re near your phone to grab it.

I wonder if the competitive nature of doing Disney appeals to some people in a way?[/quote]

What do you mean “fight”?  For our last trip, I logged in exactly 60 days before and made 3 lunch reservations. Took me about 5 minutes total. No fighting necessary. [/quote]

When we went to Disney last fall, reservations for sought-after restaurants were snapped up immediately, it was like trying to get Beyoncé tickets. We ended up with a 2:30 reservation for a character lunch one day because that was all that was available. Of course we weren’t seated until closer to 3.

I understand that outside of Disney got reservations get snatched up quickly but it’s frustrating to have to do it for mediocre food. [/quote]

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