The experience includes a meet-and-greet with several Disney princess performers.
A Disneyland breakfast costing nearly a thousand dollars has gone viral after one Dad posted to X he nearly “spit out his coffee” upon receiving the bill.
Including tax and tip, he paid $937.65 for his family of five to have their morning meal. It might be easy to read a post like that and conclude the family entertainment company had lost the plot, but it wasn’t just your normal hotel breakfast.
The family attended the Disney Princess Breakfast Adventure at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, which comes with a price tag of $142 before tax and tip for adults and children aged three and older. On their website, Disney mentions that prebooking is strongly encouraged, so it’s unlikely there was any confusion prior to booking about the per-person cost.
The experience includes a meet-and-greet with several Disney princess performers and a photo on a “beautiful private patio.” The website also tells would-be attendees that they “may take part in storytime with Belle or learn some fierce warrior poses with Mulan.” The meal itself is a three-course prix fixe with menu items including a three-tier tower of appetizers, and kid-friendly main courses like chicken and Mickey waffles.
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Adults can choose from main dishes like scrambled eggs, maple turkey sausage with caramelized pears and figs, breakfast deviled eggs, braised short ribs with balsamic cipollini onions, truffle mac and cheese, and roasted rainbow carrots in a parsnip and celery root puree. Dessert options include cake pops, cream puffs, or pistachio macarons.
“Princess Breakfast” at Disneyland with my kids. Almost spit out my coffee pic.twitter.com/05iO8AeCJ2
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Disney has long promoted character breakfasts and other special event dining as part of the experience in its parks and at its resort hotels. It’s also worth noting that the experiences come at a variety of price points, so not every family of five will need to budget quite as much as the family in the viral post. Inside the park, there’s the Minnie & Friends – Breakfast in the Park, an all-you-can-eat buffet with characters starting at $50 per adult and $30 per child. Both the Disneyland Hotel and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa also offer character breakfasts at a similar price point.
Disney’s parks have come under fire in recent years for skyrocketing ticket prices—as much as $254 for one-day parkhopper ticket (N.B. per-day ticket pricing decreases with the purchase of multi-day passes) to the company’s Orlando theme parks. In 1990, a one-day adult ticket to Disneyland cost $31. Adjusted for inflation, that park ticket would be $77.59 today, but single-day, single-park admission can be more than double that amount, ranging between $104 and $179.
It’s also worth noting that the Disney Princess Breakfast Adventure isn’t the most expensive prix-fixe brunch in Southern California. At the Beverly Hills Hotel, it’ll set you back $160 per person before tax and tip, although an important difference is that the price includes an alcoholic beverage. At Gucci Osteria in Beverly Hills, it’s just a few dollars more than the Princess Breakfast Adventure, but that’s four courses instead of three.
Many brunches offer fixed, rather than à la carte pricing, in an effort to allow diners to factor their all-in costs up front, although tax and tip for a larger party can be substantial. The receipt from the viral X post indicated the diner ultimately tipped just over 20%, or $150.
As for the original poster expressing sticker shock upon receiving the bill, he added later comments indicating that both he and his family ultimately enjoyed the experience. “Kids enjoyed it, so I think it was worth it. The kids definitely learned some new words when I opened the bill though.”