Originally Posted By DisneyfanUK Hi At Ariel's Grotto In DCA, The character meals, do you have to book in advance ? I know the princess character meals at WDW at very hard to get into, but wondered if the same was said for DCA. Thanks Mike
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I called about a month in advance and got reservations, I mean priority seatings, for the time I wanted. I've never seen the place full, actually. Just call the Disney Dining number and ask.
Originally Posted By Rivkah86 Well, usually if you go into the park early enough on the day you are there, you can put your name down and they'll probably have plenty of room. You can make a P.S. if you want to, but I don't think it's necessary.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess Only thing is, I called about 5 weeks in advance for reservations (for late August), and the only place they could put us was outside. If you want indoor reservations, you might call well in advance.
Originally Posted By dlandfans I would definitely make PS arrangements before or early on in your trip. When we were there at the end of June, we stopped in early in the day (right as they opened) to make PS arrangements and were told that they were full for the day and to come back at 5:40. We thought that this meant that we could be put on a list at that time. We were wrong. When we arrived we were told to come back at 6:10. Evidently, they seat only at certain times and the "walk-ins" are only seated if people don't show up in time for the PS. Anyway, long story, but we ended up just waiting at the restaurant the entire time. During this time, we saw tons of people turned away and told to come back at other prescribed times. Maybe since we stuck it out, they finally seated us at 6:30 or so. (The wierd thing was that there were several other tables available/empty.) Anyway, to cut down on your wait and frustration, I would make early arranagements.
Originally Posted By happyingilbert We made P.S. for our end of May/beginning of June trip about a month ahead of time. MomofPrincess--They also told us that we would be outside and ended up sitting inside, so you never know. It was pretty full but we were seated at an eight person table and since we were only 2 adults and four kids we had lots of room to spread out. It was great and the food was wonderful. The chocolate cake was yummy!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh! Us Cauldron girls ate there in May and plan to do it again in September! We just LOVE the princesses--along with the chicken pot pie they serve! ORGOCH: Speak fer yerself, blubber brains! I don't like NO place that don't got 'nuff sense ta serve frog legs over all that other #$%& they has ta feed ya! As fer them dang prissy princesses, I'd just as soon thrown 'em all in the water as look at their phony faces with all their phony frills 'n frocks! ORDDU: (Ahem!) Well, that's one little grumpy sister's opinion, I suppose. But I, myself, have to agree with Orwen. Everyone else in our party had a splendid time dining with royalty and meeting all the lovely ladies in their finery. The only problem we had was when we tried to add more guests to our reservation--only to be told they were completely booked. Then, when we actually arrived, there were so many empty tables scattered here and there that it made us wonder why we were ever told the place was sold out for priority seatings. It came across to us as though we'd been lied to. None-the-less we had a good time.
