Posts from ‘June, 2009’

This blog post will be short and none too sweet.  I’m all for fast, cheap food–but only if it’s fast, cheap, and food.  I find most of Disney’s counter service restaurants to be overpriced, with mediocre food.  This trip only reinforced that opinion. One day during my May trip to Disney World, I was [...]

No trip to Disney World is complete without a visit to the Boardwalk.  Which is why I didn’t feel that my 2005 trip was complete, because I never made it to the Boardwalk!  I had seven nights on this trip to rectify that error, and spent not just one, but two nights hanging out there.  [...]

I am heartbroken upon reading today’s Burlington Free Press article stating that this weekend’s 24th Green Mountain Chew Chew Festival will be the last. The Chew Chew has long been my favorite Burlington Festival. Tons of great food in a beautiful setting on the Burlington waterfront in the summertime–what’s not to love? [...]

Could there possibly be a more unfortunately named restaurant than Animal Kingdom’s Yak & Yeti?  I mean, seriously, would you ever open a restaurant and deliberately associate it with the word “yak”?  Despite the unfortunate moniker, this table service restaurant is actually quite a treat. Animal Kingdom was badly in need of [...]

There are far more positives to traveling solo than negatives, in my opinion, but one of the downsides of traveling solo is that quite often, my travel photos are missing a key ingredient:  Me.  Tens of thousands of solo travelers have compensated for this limitation by perfecting what is known as the “arm stretch method”–holding [...]

Before my recent trip to Disney World, I was asked what I was most looking forward to. The answer was spending an evening at the Polynesian Resort.  I had spent a brief period of time here one afternoon during my last trip four years ago.  That’s all it took to fall head over heels for [...]

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of dining in Epcot’s Coral Reef restaurant, located in the Living Seas section of Future World.  I chose to have lunch there for two reasons: The underwater aquarium view and a particular item on the menu that doesn’t appear to be served anywhere else on [...]

So far, all my reviews from my trip to Disney World have been pretty positive.  But as we all know, nothing is perfect, not even Disney.  So I thought it was about time I examined something I found less than perfect on my trip.  I have mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I discovered two favorite new restaurants during my recent Disney World trip, Sanaa at Kidani Village and Todd English’s Bluezoo at the Dolphin on the Boardwalk.  This post reviews my experience at Bluezoo.
Before I left on my trip, I was interacting with other Disney travelers on the DIS [...]

I had some amazing dining experiences during my recent trip to Disney World.  This time around, I booked a lot of table service meals, since I found during my last trip that I wasn’t all that fond of Disney’s counter service restaurants.  (Disney does many things very well, but counter service food just isn’t one [...]