Hi everyone,

Another update from our California trip for you all.

Last year we ate at the Stitch and friends Aloha Breakfast at the PCH Grill, at Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel. Overall a pleasant and enjoyable experience, with some fun characters and good food.

This year we were aware that the characters had been given some new outfits, and so we decided to head over there to check them out. The new experience is called Mickey and Friends Surfs Up Breakfast.

We actually were a bit lapse minded as we rather stupidly assumed the menu would still be the same, or close to it.

We became immediately aware though of the lack of menu, as in they have now removed the menu options, and only offer the buffet (which was also an option before, as well as full menu). We went with it though, and decided to dine anyway. The characters were fun as always, and Mickey and Minnie had cool new beach outfits. Stitch, Pluto and Goofy were also present. The buffet had slightly improved, but essentially was still a breakfast buffet.

The biggest shock came at the end when we had to pay. The breakfast buffet for two adults came to just over $75! Yes, seventy five! That includes an automatic tip of 15%, even though it is a buffet! If you bought their overpriced photo that they take for you at the start, you are looking at around $105 total for two people for breakfast.

I will actually be making a complaint to Disney about this, and will see how they justify that kind of money.

The buffet really is no different to the Minnie and Friends one in the Park, or any other buffet really. Getting rid of the cheaper menu options as to force people to pay more is one thing, but also bumping the price is extortion. People already pay good money to stay and play at Disney, let along overpriced meals!

Unless you have a bottomless wallet, I would avoid the PCH Grill, and eat at Minnie and Friends instead - it offers the same sort of food, it is in the Park itself (which means if you eat before park open, you essentially are in there already for park open before the crowds hit), and also there are generally more characters and a wider variety of characters at the Minnie Breakfast.

Dan.