The Crystal Palace

The food selection was fine for a buffet but we paid quite a bit of money for the convenience of meeting the characters without waiting in long lines. All of Pooh’s friends came around fairly quickly and we enjoyed the interactions. Pooh started meeting with tables, but never made it to ours. My husband went to ask a cast member if we could see Pooh since we had finished eating and it had already been an hour since we arrived. We were told Pooh was about to go on break and be out in 10 or so minutes. No big deal. Pooh came back out and began seeing tables that had just been seated and we waited an additional 20 minutes before my husband asked again. The cast member told him we would be seen shortly. After 1.5 hours he asked again and they finally took my kids to go see him. Waiting 1.5 hours to see Pooh after paying a premium price is not acceptable. It was a very disappointing experience. I don’t recommend this restaurant.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

great historic location with character dining but ... the quality of the food isn't good. comparing to other dinner restaurants inside the parks and at disney hotels. i stayed 10 days and tried a couple of places. this place is great and maybe magic but the quality of the food is at other places also with disney characters better.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

this truly is one of the best buffet style disney restaurants, character dining usually isn’t all that great but this one is the best IMO

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Greeters at front door are incredibly rude! Food and Disney characters was good.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

Horrible food, inedible, chicken legs were raw, bread was old, options are so little not worth the cost per person. Desert has no taste. Only good thing was the ice cream. Not recommended to waste your money for a limited and inedible food options.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 5

Our best overall dining experience of the trip. Food was very good and expansive for a buffet. Service was great. Characters came around to every table. Would definitely recommend for families.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Came for the character dining during dinner time, and will come back next trip!

We booked the dinner buffet here because we wanted to experience some character dining experience. Here you will meet the 100 Acre Woods characters - Tigger, Eyore, and Piglet walk around the restaurant, where Pooh was stationed at the very front for customers to come up to him instead.

We went earlier than regular dinner time and it was nice and quiet and had ample time with each of the characters. Even Pooh didn't have a line unlike when we had left around 6.

The food here was actually really good. It has your standard buffet style items like breads and salads. They also have a great selection of meats as well. I truly enjoyed the rainbow carrots and broccoli - seriously, I was in desperate need of some veggies from all the sweet snacks we had been eating. The salmon was also something I truly enjoyed.

We were pretty full but I could never say no to a cookie and I spotted these cookies on the dessert table so I grabbed one. I was actually blown away - it was like a churro style cookie and blew my expectations out of the water! It was so good I went back up to grab a plate of just 4 more cookie. So so good! Not sure if they are available all year round, but they were some of the best cookies I had on Disney property without paying 6$ a cookie.

I had such a great time here with the characters and the food was really good that I will definitely be coming back here on my future Disney World trips.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Do not by any chance reserve this overpriced buffet that serves Golden Corral food . I had a reservation made us wait 30
Minutes.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Rude and bad quality of service! Disappointing! Not recommended

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The bathrooms looked amazing which I was in there for about ten minutes because of the ambiance. The food was amazing and the characters added to the Disney experience. I loved his place so darn much that I have come here every year since 1998!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This was one of the most cute experiences I've been to.
The whole cast was amazing, the food was delicious, I ended up having indigestion from all the food I ate and I forced myself to try because there was so delicious 🤤.
Was it expensive? Yes, of course.
Was it a buffet type? Yes, it was and it was amazing 😍.
Was it all worth it? Every second was, I have no complains about the price, the food, the staff, the cast members.
I'll 100% go back and do it again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food with great assortment

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

One of my favorites

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Of all our Disney dining experiences this was by far the worse. The food was gross. The kids only options were chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese with pizza. Even the adult choices were sub par. We do not recommend this experience. You’re better off eating some greasy undercooked street food. Not to mention the price of the food does not match the quality of the food. Whoever created this menu is delusional.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 4

Way over price for basic cold food with water down coke. Family of 4 over $300,

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 2