Hi Kailynn!
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Ooooooh, Kailynn!! You'll be at Walt's Original Theme Park SO soon! Is # Mickey Monday a thing yet, because if not you could for sure start it. I agree with you that the price range listed on
buffet and family-style dining location landing pages is confusing. However, prices fluctuate during the year depending on the season, so it's easier to leave the range listed so guests who are planning a meal six months from now as well as those visiting this week can both have similar information. For the
Minnie & Friends - Breakfast in the Park, at the time of this writing, you should expect to pay about *$41 per person for those ages 10 and up, and *$24 for children between the ages of 3-9 yEARs. *Prices are known to change without prior notice or warning, so you can ask for sure at the check-in desk. If you decide to change your mind right then and there, you shouldn't be charged for a no-show fee. (Because technically you did show up.) However, if you'd like to cancel ahead of time, you have up until 24 hours before your meal to do so.
As for socially distanced
character dining, at this location one of our favorite friends is stationed outside of the restaurant with some kind of obvious low barrier between you and them. In this case I think there are flower pots. However, you can get really well positioned selfies or group shots in this area. Minnie is usually stationed at this post outside, but sometimes she's inside making the rounds and dancing with all of the friends who are already seated. When this happens there's usually a replacement greeter on patrol; this happened to me once and it was Chip & Dale. You can certainly go back outside later on in the meal when she's returned to say hello and take your turn snapping pictures.
Inside the
Plaza Inn, characters currently dance around the restaurant and pause a few feet away from your table to be in the background of your photos while your party remains seated. Photos here can also be selfie style or you posing everyone just right. The biggest pro tip I can offer is take note of where your family is seated and then save the seats nearest to the aisle for your little ones. (Or the not-so-little ones who want their pictures taken with all of the characters in the background.) This
Character Meal actually has the most famous friends who stop by to say hello; on a recent visit with my son we saw, inside the restaurant, Minnie, Chip & Dale, Pooh and Eeyore, The Fairy Godmother, and some friends from Pinocchio who's names I do not know but we waved to them anyway. I can't guarantee who you'll see aside from Minnie as some of the characters I just mentioned have other places to be. (Honey isn't going to get itself out of those honey pots, and The Fairy Godmother has more pumpkins to turn into carriages.) But I know no matter who also attends your breakfast that you'll have a wonderful time.
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~Kristen N.