Staying at Royal Pacific...Affordable food options??

melbiel

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Feb 19, 2008
Hoping people can recommend places to eat outside of the hotel. With two adults and five kids, and it's incredibly expensive to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Royal Pacific. This is our first time staying on site, so I really have no idea. Thanks so much!
 
Do you have a car? Lots of places within a few miles to choose from that don't cost a lot. We also found the the Walgreens had a great selection of to-go sandwichs and salads and trays available.

Citywalk has Moe's and Burger King if you want to go that route.

Red Oven Pizza in Citywalk might work for you too.

Bula Bar at the pool isn't too awfully expensive if you share a few meals between you.
 
Jake's Americain Bar, Bayliner Diner (CBBR), The Bread Box, Moes
If anyone has an AP or AAA you will discounts are pretty much all the restaurants.
 
For breakfast we pack a bunch of items from home that we like (breakfast bars, oatmeal, cereal, etc.), then can make a quick stop at a grocery store before arriving at the hotel. There are small refrigerators in each room. Plus, we generally fly Southwest so that extra bag is free.
 


We bring a cooler with all our breakfast items. For lunch we choose bula poolside or food court in citywalk. Then we will have a reasonable dinner in citywalk or the parks. We don't travel offsite as the time it takes you away from the whole resort is not worth the little savings.

We also bring tons of snacks too.
 
Ugh...we are already at the hotel so too late to bring food and snacks! No car so I guess we will check out CityWalk. We ate at Jake's last night and it cost us $150! Breakfast this morning in the hotel was another $80. we usually stay in a condo, where I can make breakfast every day, and sometimes lunch, so I guess I am just getting sticker shock. LOL
 
Ugh...we are already at the hotel so too late to bring food and snacks! No car so I guess we will check out CityWalk. We ate at Jake's last night and it cost us $150! Breakfast this morning in the hotel was another $80. we usually stay in a condo, where I can make breakfast every day, and sometimes lunch, so I guess I am just getting sticker shock. LOL

If you want take a taxi cab to get to a store. Or you can go over to PBH and walk over to a Walgreens and pick up some food.
 


Are you in a newly refurbished room with a refrigerator?
Great if you are, if not get a styrofoam cooler when a couple of you take a cab to the grocery store to pick up some breakfast foods and snacks. It will be worth the few dollars you spend on doing that to not have to shell out to the restaurants every time you want something to eat while there.
 
Also as mentioned above, walking over to Cabana Bay and eating in their food court area might be a solution to a meal or two.
 
Ugh...we are already at the hotel so too late to bring food and snacks! No car so I guess we will check out CityWalk. We ate at Jake's last night and it cost us $150! Breakfast this morning in the hotel was another $80. we usually stay in a condo, where I can make breakfast every day, and sometimes lunch, so I guess I am just getting sticker shock. LOL


for 7 people to feed, i don't see the prices you listed bad at all.

food, tax, tip = $80 for breakfast sounds like a good price.

there is a walgreens near pbh and is walkable from rpr.
have done it myself a few times.
walgreens is at a litte strip mall where you can pick up some items.

if you buy a case of water and other things too heavy to carry back to your hotel, take a taxi.

when i did that last year, cab ride was $5 for me


what i would think you would be upset over is having to go with two rooms for the 7 of you.
that would be really expensive !!
 
For breakfast, you can probably do better by going to Croissant Moon Bakery. They have very good muffins-my kids loved the french toast muffin (muffins are $3 I think). They also have a breakfast burrito (about $4) that is pretty good. They have a meal that about $6 bucks I think-muffin, fruit cup and breakfast drink. The fruit cups are big enough to share with 2 maybe 3 people and depending how old your kids are-1 muffin is big enough to share as well. But assuming the 2 adults get the meal and each kid gets a muffin or burrito-you are looking at about $40 instead of $80--if everyone got the meal deal it would be $42+tax (if your kids are small you would have left over fruit and muffins).

One morning you could even just go get pink big donuts--3 or 4 of them would feed 7 people--at $5 each-that is $20 plus drinks. And these are very good donuts.

One night we ate at the pool bar area and ordered the nachos with meat (which is enormous), and I think a kids hot dog meal and then we had the waiter get 2 appetizers from Jakes for us-the Wings and Calamari. I have 3 kids, so the 5 of us ate and were stuffed-and we had a ton of leftovers from that meal-could have easily fed 2 more younger kids. I think it was about $60 in total. And it was just a nice and relaxing sitting out there in the evening.

The one disappointing thing about the food at most of the restaurants at Universal is the kids meals. A bowl of pasta for $8 bucks is just ridiculous to me--and in most of the places the bowl of pasta was very very small. Same with the mac and cheese. We have 2 kids who order kids meals so it is such a waste when they both get mac and cheese--$16 bucks for about enough mac and cheese that costs about a buck--so at some places it is much better to get a big appetizer that the kids can share--like at Margaritaville-the nachos there are enormous also-it is a meal that can feed at least 2 kids (most likely it can feed 3 or 4 kids-depending on age and appetite)--and they get some protein vs the mac and cheese meals.

Another dinner option is to order pizza for delivery-Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, etc had some good deals locally, much cheaper than the pizza places in Universal-and for some people it is better pizza as well.

One thing that adds up in cost if you buy them all day are drinks. We actually had waters and Gatorade's because we drove and stopped at the store. But with 5 kids, getting 2 or 3 coke freestyle cups is probably a good value--first day is $12each, but to re-active them each day is $6 each--and you can fill the cup every 10 minutes. $18 bucks a day for 3 cups to share. If you buy a drink at each meal for each person you will spend about $60/day just on drinks with 7 people. And the freestyle machine's have lemonade and powerade also-so it does not have to be soda all day. And if you have your own cup-you can get cold water from the machines for free. And because we had the freestyle cups when we did sit down meals the kids got water in most cases-because they were getting enough sugar with the freestyle cups throughout the rest of the day! My kids loved mixing different flavors up.
 
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Some have but we do not. We have done take out at Bula grill and sals back to the room.
 
If you weren't already there I was going to suggest club level-would have paid for itself in breakfast alone-not to mention afternoon happy hour (with hot food/appetizer foods) and evening dessert:) The $100/day/room upgrade totally worth it for our family of 5 our recent trip
 
Pizza is always a good option. Sharing a whole pizza or two saves a lot of money. I also would suggest Croissant Moon for breakfast, the food is very good.

This is why I decided to try club level for our upcoming trip. With three boys that pretty much can eat their weight, I think that club level food is going to be well worth it.
 
Hoping people can recommend places to eat outside of the hotel. With two adults and five kids, and it's incredibly expensive to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Royal Pacific. This is our first time staying on site, so I really have no idea. Thanks so much!

We found Bula Bar to be the best value for food at RPR. The small order of chicken fingers is big enough for dinner for an adult. We also like their nachos platter. The Cinnabon at Citywalk (outside the park) has $4 sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Hotdog Hall of Fame at Citywalk, KrustyBurger inside US, Burger King and Panda Express are all relatively inexpensive (nothing is cheap at a tourist spot) places to grab a meal. Club level is an idea, though with 7 family members, I'm not sure if it can be done as the CL rooms are standard sized as far as I know.
 
OP, what have you ended up doing for meals and snacks?
 

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