cuteinnocent
Mouseketeer
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- Jun 13, 2010
What are good options for food if you don't mobile order where lines are reasonable? How is Plaza Inn?
Wait, you HAVE to mobile order? There's literally no "walk up" for any of the dining options?
We were able to order walk-up / standby food at Tropical hideaway yesterday, which I believe was the only place doing Dole Whips yesterday (Tiki room stand was closed). The line took about 45 minutes though and was miserable. It seemed to me like they just mixed the walk-ups in the same line as the people with the "your order is ready" notification on their phone. The whole system is a mess, but we were able to get dole whips and Baos from Tropical hideaway as walk-ups (mobile orders were all sold out).
During the time my wife was in line, I mobile ordered Bengal BBQ. Got a time for 10 minutes from when i ordered. Shopped for 5 minutes, then was able to say "i'm here prepare my food" 5 minutes early as it lets you do that. Unlike some places, Bengal BBQ wouldn't let me get in the "my order is ready" line until I actually got the 2nd notification, so i waited around 5 minutes until I got that notice. I then got in the "my order is ready" line and waited about 10 minutes to get my food. Took about 20 minutes altogether, so still much much faster than the tropical Hideaway, but still a mess with all the various steps.
Note that at other locations (Cozy cones, Sonoma terrace, Pym bar being the ones we tried), we basically mobile ordered as we walked over for a "now" time slot, immediately got in the "your order is ready" line despite not having gotten that notice, by the time we got to the front of the line, our order was now ready, and then we went and got our drinks. The system is truly silly, as in all cases they don't really make your food/drinks when "your order is ready", they do that when you get up to the counter, so the whole "wait until your order window, hit I'm here then wait until it says your order is ready, then wait in another line to get to the counter" is all just crowd management to keep the lines from getting too long. Truly a mess.
Most likely all the times are gone by now. Although it’s kind of chilly, so I’m not sure? But they’re often gone by lunchtime.Tropical Hideaway isn't showing up on the Mobile Order app and wasn't yesterday (at least the times I checked.)
Is it a case of the system getting overwhelmed? I was worried it might be closd.
Oh, interesting. I understand why they’d pull mobile order from AC (I actually feel like it would be better NOT to offer it at all in that land - would alleviate a lot of the confusion about timing), but why would they get rid of it somewhere like Stage Door? Worked great for us there.Things appear to be changing rapidly based on factors we can't see... Several places now say, "No mobile order offered at this location today, please place your order in person", including Tropical Hideaway and the Little Red Wagon, and Stage Door but I had just looked for times at Red Wagon and they had been available 5 minutes prior?? 3 weeks until I get to navigate the system and I'm hoping for more restaurants to spread people around, at least Rancho and Hungry Bear...
Oh I wish I had realized I could have done standby at the Tropical Hideaway Saturday. I thought since it wasn't on the mobile order list anymore towards the end of the day, i was out of luck getting a dole whip.Tropical Hideaway went standby only at some point yesterday (Sunday) - I was there around 4 or 5 and it was open for standby. So if it’s not in mobile order today, maybe it’s open for standby.
Both Shawarma carts were standby only all weekend. The “Too” cart had much a shorter line.
Last night around 6-7 Flos was doing standby and mobile order. There were lots of mobile order slots open and for whatever reason it wasn’t crowded at all. I mobile ordered but saw them taking a few standby orders as well.
Disney seems to be experimenting with mobile order vs standby, so things could possibly change daily as they see what works best for various locations.
I can assure you the chimichanga ride and the corn dog ride were open and delicious!Can anyone verify that the chimichanga/corn carts are still closed? It’s all my husband talks about so I’d like to prepare him in advance.
Chimichanga was walk up. Corn dog was mobile order.I can assure you the chimichanga ride and the corn dog ride were open and delicious!