Your Guide to L.E.T.S. (Leisure, Entertainment, Travel, and Savings)
After a long day of fun 😊. We hit the Plaza Restaurant for dinner. It’s a small restaurant near the castle in Magic Kingdom. The food is sandwiches and ice cream. This was probably the best value we have had in Disney. The French Dip was good with lots of meat and a tasty horseradish sauce.
The better half grabbed a turkey sandwich.
Both were very good. If your looking not to break the bank and get something good to eat stop by the Plaza Restaurant.
Is Disney hot in April, heck yes. So what are you to do. Stop at a number of ice cream shops that do the park and get something cool. A chocolate covered Mickey is always a treat.
Sunshine Tree Terrace is an example of those stops. We grabbed some soft serve while in the park to fight the heat.
As a reminder that although there are a lot of place that sell ice cream they do have differences. For example not so do soft serve.
After a fun day at Disney we decided to visit a restaurant at a nearby hotel. So to Todd English’s Bluezoo we tried.
We got a reservation and showed up a little early and stopped by the bar for a cocktail. The cockatiels were ok. The bar tender let the drinks set halfway through crafting to handle other customers which let the ice melt and water down the drinks. I normally take pictures of the drinks too share but the bar was too dark to take a good picture with out cameras. This brings up a point about the whole restaurant. The lights are turned down really low. It gives the impression that your eating in a cave or a restaurant that cannot pay their power bill.
For dinner we ordered an Angus steak and lobster pasta. Both were good but way over priced.
This is the $55 steak posts and mushrooms.
The food is good but the price to quality ratio is not here. Go somewhere else for food and drinks.
So to sum up Todd English’s Bluezoo, had good food but not worth the cost.
Just want to do a quick post on the room. It’s clean nice and comfortable. No complaints.
So got to the Yacht Club hotel and stopped in the Ale and Compass for dinner. It’s been a few years since we have been here but the magic needs some work. I guess like everywhere else the are having staffing issues because it took forever to get service.
We ordered some drinks and bread which did not show up before the entries. Yes that is correct we got the food b before the drinks. Not really acceptable.
I ordered the pasta with chicken
The chicken is was ok but the pasta itself was poorly cooked. It was clumped and stuck together. I wouldn’t buy this again. We also found out that the bread the waiter offered to bring which I didn’t take a picture of was $13 for five small roles.
The drinks that came were very good. I got a Purple Mariners the wife got a Manhattan. Both were excellent.
Overall I would eat dinner somewhere else.
We started our Disney trip by picking up our rental car, a Chevy Malibu. We then made the drive from NC to Disney. A eight to ten hour to ten hour trip. Well it ended up being nine hours since so many people keep having wrecks. Not the longest drive but it gave us plenty of time to wonder does anyone actually want to buy a Malibu? The handling was bad. The road noise was excessive, and the viability out of the car’s fit and finish was cheap. I think this car must only be made to be sold to car rental companies.
Any way we are now at Disney and are going the magic will start.
So my wife has been using a Fitbit for I can not remember for how long. No matter the fact that I am using a Garmin watch. She refuses to change. Well her Charge 4 finally gave up the ghost the other day. So we went looking for a new Fitbit. We looked a just about every model they make to see what would fit on her arm. I thought the Samsung Galaxy 4 looked pretty good, but she thought it was a little over priced for the battery life. Well I have to agree on that but we might be trying to get one for review down the road. Anyway we ended up on the Sense since the Versa 3 is a cut down Sense where you only save $60. Not really worth giving up all the possibilities. So the Sense joined the family.
We took a few picks of unboxing which are below and we will do a full review after a few weeks of use.
So we have been dealing with a horrible mattress for about a year now. Well I finally got tired of it so I went online and bought a new mattress. The mattress is from DreamCloud. Yes, I bought into one of those Best Mattress articles. Well actually I read like 10 or so and selected a mattress that appeared on most of them. So I ordered a DreamCloud Primer. It is their middle of the road mattress that is good for side sleepers. As an FYI I paid for this mattress myself and am no
Did a quick trip out around town. We finally ended up going to Pro’s Epicurean Market & Café. It’s a cool little restaurant around town. We have been waiting till Covid had settled down some. We are so glade we did. The staff was stuffing people in on top of one another just like pre-Covid.
For the food it was good but it is over priced for what you get. I keep thinking that I could actually make this at home. It might not look as good but what I cook would taste better. Her are some shots of what we got.
So it looked small but it weighed way more than it looked like it would. I really felt sorry for the delivery guy. Anyway getting it up the stairs was a struggle and took a lot of effort.
Oh I also mentioned that the we got sheets, pillows, and mattress cover. The pillows are king size
After a lot of work we finally ended up getting the mattress on the bed, sheets on the bed, and pillows in place.
The first night was so much better but we will be back in a few months to tell you how the mattress is standing up.
Just some last shots from the Luxor Hotel in Vegas. Really cool place that you should really visit.
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