Dining By Location

When considering any aspect of a vacation at Walt Disney World it is important to keep one very big fact in mind. This place is huge. It is forty-seven square miles. It’s twice the size of Manhattan.
So, how might this affect your decisions on dining?

Pack A Lunch
You may find that you are literally miles away and sometimes as much as one and a half hours away from the restaurant that you so innocently selected while planning your trip itinerary back home. So, unless you want to pack a lunch for the ride to lunch stop to consider exactly where the restaurant you selected is located within this mega resort and how you will get there.

You Can’t Get There From Here
Where you are very much matters in relationship to where you need to be. Disney’s celebrated transportation system, although highly efficient and dependable has an Achilles heel. It is designed around a spoke and hub system. In other words certain destinations can be accomplished by direct routes, while others will require that you go to a hub in order to transfer to another route that will take you to your ultimate destination.

Say That Again
Let’s say you are enjoying a morning in the Magic Kingdom but have planned for lunch at Epcot. You will first need to herd your troops to the front of the Magic Kingdom, then exit the park and load them onto the monorail. This monorail will take you to the Ticket and Transportation Center where you will have to disembark and exit that monorail line for the Epcot monorail. After catching the Epcot monorail you will travel the four miles to the front of Epcot. After passing through security and Epcot turnstiles you will then need to pass through Future World to World Showcase and finally to let’s say the German Pavilion. All I can say is that had better be some pretty good Sauerbraten.

Maybe Tomorrow
The point we are trying to make here is simple. If a little food and song at Germany’s Biergarten Restaurant and its perpetual Oktoberfest is a must on your vacation to do list, then, secure a priority seating for there on the same day you plan to visit Epcot.

So Do You Play Where You Eat or Eat Where You Play?
Now it may seem like a simple case of semantics, but that fact remains that you will need to plan one in order to consider the other. In our opinion you should first plan you day to day itineraries and then choose from among the restaurants located at or at least within easy access from that days activities.

A Little Planning, A Lot More Fun
A little fore thought and planning prior to leaving home will go a long way in making your vacation at Walt Disney World what it should be and that is fun. As we always say the more you know the more you will be able to see, do and in this case eat.