Dining with the Princesses

Everyone who goes to Disney has a dream or wish that they would like to eat in Cinderella's Castle and dine with the princesses.  It is a fun magical experience, but also not a cheap one.  If you are on the dining plan it requires 2 of your table service credits.  The first time we ate at Cinderella's Royal Table was on our first trip to WDW and it was a truly magical experience and we enjoyed every minute of it.  We did not use our table service credits- we did a breakfast and paid out of pocket (2 adults and 1 child our youngest was only 7 months old) and we paid about $95.  I know that is an expensive breakfast, but keep in mind you are paying for the experience and we calculated that paying for it made more sense than giving up 2 table service credits each.  We have dined here several other times, but have also tried the Princess Storybook Breakfast at Akershus in Norway at Epcot and have found we enjoy the food here better and the Princess interaction is the same (the one downside is Cinderella may or may not be here).  The breakfast at Akershus is only one table service credit which is one reason we tried it.  You get a free photo package with both meals at Cinderella's Royal Table it is always with Cinderella and Akershus it seems to usually be Belle but I have also heard that sometimes it is Princess Aurora.  Both of these restaraunts also do lunch and dinner with the princesses if you are not interested in breakfast.  We prefer to do breakfast it just seems to fit with our schedule better.  The girls get dressesed in the princess attire we head to breakfast then when they get tired of wearing the dresses we go and change into the change of clothes I brought them and hang the dresses in a bag on our stroller.

My girls with Cinderella at Cinderella's Royal Table

My girls with Belle at the Princess Storybook breakfast at Akershus

the photos above are the pictures that were taken by the Disney Photopass photographer and included with the price of our meal


they take the photo on your way to your table and then towards the end of the meal they bring your photo package to you at your table you will receive a 6x8 and 4 4x6 of the photo that Disney decides looked the best

if you are still trying to decide if you want to do this experience or which restaurant to choose click here to read another bloggers review of their experience at Cinderella's Royal Table