Disney Princess Breakfast Prices One Household Practically $1,000—and It’s Not Even the Most Costly Brunch in SoCal

The expertise features a meet-and-greet with a number of Disney princess performers.

A Disneyland breakfast costing almost a thousand {dollars} has gone viral after one Dad posted to X he almost “spit out his espresso” upon receiving the invoice. 

Together with tax and tip, he paid $937.65 for his household of 5 to have their morning meal. It could be straightforward to learn a publish like that and conclude the household leisure firm had misplaced the plot, however it wasn’t simply your regular resort breakfast. 

The household attended the Disney Princess Breakfast Adventure at Disney’s Grand Californian Resort & Spa, which comes with a price ticket of $142 earlier than tax and tip for adults and youngsters aged three and older. On their web site, Disney mentions that prebooking is strongly inspired, so it’s unlikely there was any confusion previous to reserving concerning the per-person price. 

The expertise features a meet-and-greet with a number of Disney princess performers and a photograph on a “lovely non-public patio.” The web site additionally tells would-be attendees that they “could participate in storytime with Belle or be taught some fierce warrior poses with Mulan.” The meal itself is a three-course prix fixe with menu gadgets together with a three-tier tower of appetizers, and kid-friendly foremost programs like rooster and Mickey waffles. 

Adults can select from foremost dishes like scrambled eggs, maple turkey sausage with caramelized pears and figs, breakfast deviled eggs, braised quick ribs with balsamic cipollini onions, truffle mac and cheese, and roasted rainbow carrots in a parsnip and celery root puree. Dessert choices embody cake pops, cream puffs, or pistachio macarons. 

Disney has lengthy promoted character breakfasts and different particular occasion eating as a part of the expertise in its parks and at its resort resorts. It’s additionally value noting that the experiences come at a wide range of worth factors, so not each household of 5 might want to price range fairly as a lot because the household within the viral publish. Contained in the park, there’s the Minnie & Friends – Breakfast in the Park, an all-you-can-eat buffet with characters beginning at $50 per grownup and $30 per youngster. Each the Disneyland Resort and Disney’s Grand Californian Resort & Spa additionally provide character breakfasts at an identical worth level. 

Disney’s parks have come below fireplace in recent times for skyrocketing ticket costs—as a lot as $254 for one-day parkhopper ticket (N.B. per-day ticket pricing decreases with the acquisition of multi-day passes) to the corporate’s Orlando theme parks. In 1990, a one-day grownup ticket to Disneyland price $31. Adjusted for inflation, that park ticket could be $77.59 immediately, however single-day, single-park admission could be greater than double that quantity, ranging between $104 and $179. 

It’s additionally value noting that the Disney Princess Breakfast Journey isn’t the costliest prix-fixe brunch in Southern California. On the Beverly Hills Hotel, it’ll set you again $160 per particular person earlier than tax and tip, though an vital distinction is that the value consists of an alcoholic beverage. At Gucci Osteria in Beverly Hills, it’s only a few {dollars} greater than the Princess Breakfast Journey, however that’s 4 programs as an alternative of three. 

Many brunches provide mounted, slightly than à la carte pricing, in an effort to permit diners to issue their all-in prices up entrance, though tax and tip for a bigger occasion could be substantial. The receipt from the viral X publish indicated the diner finally tipped simply over 20%, or $150. 

As for the unique poster expressing sticker shock upon receiving the invoice, he added later feedback indicating that each he and his household finally loved the expertise. “Children loved it, so I believe it was value it. The children positively discovered some new phrases once I opened the invoice although.”