How many times do you ladies let your husband pick the restaurants? It seems to me like it has gotten to be a lot more since we had kids. My husband and I have totally different tastes in food; that is, in favorite cuisine types, but generally we can find something on a menu when the other person picks the restaurant. So I said to my husband before we went to Walt Disney World "one night you pick a restaurant."
Surprisingly enough he picked a no-so-very-popular dining location, Trail's End at Disney's Ft. Wilderness. Don't get me wrong, it's good food, I think the main reason that it's not as popular as some of the other restaurants on Walt Disney World property is that there aren't any characters, and the main reason: location.
Disney's Ft. Wilderness is a great resort, if you and your family are campers (which I am not) you can book a campsite there for your trailer, camper, or even pitch a tent! There's also the cabins at Disney's Ft. Wilderness, which are a little more up my ally. They have a bedroom with a double bed and bunk beds, a bathroom, a kitchen, and living room area that has a pull down bed as well and it can comfortably sleep a family of six.
Trail's End is an all-you-care-to-eat barbeque buffet with menu items including fried and oven-roasted chicken, ribs, spit roasted carve-to-order prime rib, corn, mashed potatoes, salad bar, macaroni and cheese, other vegetables, a dessert buffet, and then a children's buffet as well with pizza, chicken fingers, and other kid-friendly items. Also the buffet price comes with a non-alcoholic beverage.
Sounds good, right? The food is great! But keep in mind if this is a dining location that interests you and you are coming from one of the theme parks that day (and not staying at Ft. Wilderness), or from a different resort to leave yourselves a little extra travel time to get there. If you've been to the dinner show the Hoop De Doo Revue before, you'll be able to find Trail's End just fine, it's right next door. You would have to take a bus to Ft. Wilderness and then take another "resort bus" to get to where the restaurant is located. This can add about an extra 15-20 minutes of travel time depending on how long you wait for buses. Coming from the Magic Kingdom, or in our case from the Wilderness Lodge we could take a bus or a boat straight to Ft. Wilderness and it wasn't a long travel time at all.
The other thing that occurred that I wanted to tell you about that particular night was that it was the only night we were there that it rained... cats and dogs. I mean it poured. The bus from the Wilderness Lodge to Ft. Wilderness took almost no time to bring us there at all. Do you know how long we waited for the bus back??? About 20 minutes. Must have been the weather, but imagine everyone who just got out of the 5pm Hoop de Doo Revue show and all of us running in the rain from the door to the restaurants to the bus stop that's covered and hovering underneath it.. about 50 people I would guess. LOL. It was an experience.
When weighed out, my husband made a good choice, the food was nice and hot and comforting on a cold, rainy night and it was pretty convenient all in all. If only the kids had sat still a little while longer at dinner I might have gone up for thirds. :)
Me and my hubby are planning for a family vacation in Disney World, they offer their best deals at this time, the only thing people have to worry is the numbers of people that actually plans on going here too, yet there's no better place for a summer fun. Got to try Trail's End buffet myself=)
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