Character Dining at Disney World 2026: Every Character Meal, Price and How Hard It Is to Book

Thirteen restaurants at Walt Disney World serve a meal where characters come to you. That is Disney's own count, and it is shorter than some older lists, which still include meals that have ended.

The chart below has every one of them: who Disney says you will meet, which meals have characters and which do not, and what each costs since the October 2026 price rise. Then comes the part other lists don't have. PixieWire tracks dining availability all day, so for each meal we can say how many of the next 59 days actually had a table open, and how long a table lasts when one comes back.

Sections on this page

• Every character meal at Disney World: comparison chart
• Which meals have no characters
• Character breakfast: prices from cheapest to dearest
• The hardest character meals to book
• Character meals you can still book
• How far ahead to book
• Character dining without a park ticket
• Dining Plan credits, cancelling and autographs
• What changed in 2026
• How this page was checked

Every character meal at Disney World: comparison chart

Prices are per adult and per child (ages 3 to 9), before tax and gratuity, from Disney's menu pages on November 10, 2026. "Characters" is who Disney's page names. Disney marks almost every lineup as subject to change.

Three notes on reading it:

• Disney names fewer characters than you will probably see. Where Disney says "and friends", other sites report the usual lineup: Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore at The Crystal Palace; Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and Donald at Chef Mickey's; Daisy and Goofy at Tusker House; Ariel, Belle, Aurora, Jasmine and Snow White among the princesses. None of that is promised.
• Topolino's Terrace does not show a per-person price on Disney's breakfast menu, only a range. The $59 and $39 figures are from BlogMickey and WDW Prep School, both published after the October increase.
• Ravello is the odd one out. It is at a non-Disney hotel, Disney's own page disagrees with itself about which days it runs, and we could not confirm the price on an official page. Call before you plan around it.

Which meals have no characters

This is where people lose a morning of their trip. A character restaurant is not a character restaurant at every meal.

• 'Ohana dinner has no characters. Disney's page says so in those words. Lilo and Stitch are at breakfast.
• Topolino's Terrace dinner has no characters. It is a signature dinner with a dress code. Mickey and friends are at breakfast.
• Cape May Cafe dinner has no characters. Minnie is at breakfast only.
• Story Book Dining at Artist Point is dinner only. There is no breakfast or lunch.
• Chef Mickey's and 1900 Park Fare do not serve lunch.
• Be Our Guest is not a character meal. Disney does not list it under character dining and its page names no character. Other sites report that the Beast walks through the rooms without stopping at tables.
• Trattoria al Forno no longer has one. Disney's page reads: "Character Dining is currently not available at this location." The Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast that older guides describe is not running.
• Hollywood & Vine breakfast is no longer Disney Junior. All three meals are now Minnie's seasonal dining. The Disney Junior breakfast ended in October 2025.

Character breakfast: prices from cheapest to dearest

Breakfast is the cheapest character meal at every restaurant that serves more than one. It is also the hardest to book, which the next section shows.

Hollywood & Vine and Tusker House are the value answer: among the cheapest breakfasts on the list, and open nearly every day. Garden Grill costs the same as Hollywood & Vine and is five times harder to get for two people.

The hardest character meals to book

For each meal we counted how many days between November 11 and January 8 had at least one reservation time open when we checked on November 10. Then we took every time that newly appeared in the six days before and measured how long it stayed. The last column is the median.

Topolino's Terrace breakfast is in a class of its own. In six days, 121 new times appeared for dates in the next six weeks. Every one was gone again. Seventy-four of them, 61%, were gone within ten minutes, and the typical one lasted five. Someone refreshing the app a few times a day will not see it.

Cinderella's Royal Table is hard at every meal, not only breakfast. Across its three meals, 173 new times appeared in six days and 61% were gone inside an hour. It is noticeably easier for four than for two: lunch had a time open on 11 days for four and 3 for two.

Party size cuts both ways. Garden Grill breakfast was open on 12 days for two and 32 for four. 'Ohana breakfast was the reverse, 22 days for two and 14 for four. If your group could book as two tables or one, check both.

The same restaurant can be easy and hard on the same day. The Crystal Palace had breakfast open on 20 of 59 days for two, and lunch and dinner open on 56. Pooh and friends are at all three.

One caution about the Cinderella's Royal Table dinner numbers: on Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party nights, dinner from 4:00 PM is for party ticket holders, and those times are counted separately. Our Christmas party guide covers them.

Character meals you can still book

These had a time open on nearly every day of the next 59.

If the goal is Mickey at the table and the date is close, Chef Mickey's dinner and Tusker House are where to look first. If it is Cinderella you want, 1900 Park Fare dinner lists her among its characters, is far easier than Cinderella's Royal Table, and does not need a park ticket.

How far ahead to book

Disney opens dining reservations 60 days before the date, at about 6:00 AM. Staying at a Disney hotel does not give you an earlier start, but it does let you book your whole stay, up to 10 nights, 60 days before you arrive. That reaches the later days of a trip before anyone else can.

Here is what that head start is worth. These are days with a time open for a party of two or four, out of 14, in the next two weeks and at the far end of the window.

Three things come out of it:

• For 'Ohana and The Crystal Palace breakfast, booking at 60 days works. Every one of the last 14 days in the window had a time. Two weeks out, almost none did.
• Topolino's Terrace and Cinderella's Royal Table are scarce even at 60 days. Topolino's breakfast had a time on 5 of those 14 far-out days. Being first matters, and it still may not be enough.
• Chef Mickey's breakfast can be left later without much risk: 12 of the next 14 days still had a time.

Inside 60 days, the supply is mostly cancellations. Disney releases a cancelled time to everyone else immediately, and its cancellation deadline is 2 hours before the meal, so tables come back right up to the day.

Character dining without a park ticket

Six of the 13 are inside a park, and for those you need park admission as well as the reservation. Disney is explicit that a dining reservation does not guarantee you entry.

Park ticket required: Cinderella's Royal Table and The Crystal Palace (Magic Kingdom), Garden Grill and Akershus (EPCOT), Hollywood & Vine (Hollywood Studios), Tusker House (Animal Kingdom).

No park ticket needed: Chef Mickey's, 'Ohana, 1900 Park Fare, Topolino's Terrace, Cape May Cafe, Story Book Dining at Artist Point, and Ravello.

For an arrival day or a rest day, the resort meals are the ones to use. Chef Mickey's dinner and Story Book Dining were open almost every day in our count. 'Ohana and Topolino's Terrace breakfast are the resort meals that need planning.

Dining Plan credits, cancelling and autographs

Dining Plan. Most character meals take one table-service credit. Three take two: Cinderella's Royal Table, Story Book Dining at Artist Point, and Akershus at lunch and dinner. Akershus breakfast is not on Disney's two-credit list. Ravello does not take the plan. Our Dining Plan guide has the arithmetic.

Cancelling. At most restaurants Disney charges $10 per person if you cancel within 2 hours of the meal or do not show up. Cinderella's Royal Table is the exception among character meals: you pay the full price of the meal for each person, and Disney does not allow changes once it is booked. The cancellation policy guide lists every exception.

Will the characters come to my table? Disney does not promise it. Its answer to that exact question is that appearances vary by location, date and time. At Chef Mickey's it describes characters making "surprise appearances" in each dining room, and each table gets a signed card. Disney suggests allowing 60 to 90 minutes, and says 90 at The Crystal Palace if you want to see everyone.

Autographs and photos. Disney's pages for Cinderella's Royal Table, The Crystal Palace, 'Ohana, Cape May Cafe and Topolino's Terrace all mention photos and autographs. Ravello is different: no autographs or photos at the table, a photo with Goofy on arrival.

Allergies. Disney says many restaurants can prepare meals without the common allergens but cannot guarantee every request, and that buffets may be susceptible to cross-contact. Tell the cast member when you arrive.

What changed in 2026

• Prices went up in early October. Every price in this guide is the new one. A guide still quoting $74 for Cinderella's Royal Table breakfast is out of date; it is $79.
• Hollywood & Vine changes theme by season. Minnie's Holiday Dine runs to January 6, 2027, then Silver Screen Dine to March 10, Spring Dine to May 20, and Summer Dine from May 21.
• Ravello was reported to become bookable through Disney's site and app in August.
• Nothing new opened. Disney's list of character dining is the same 13 restaurants.

How this page was checked

• Characters, meals and prices were read from Disney's own page for each restaurant and its menu pages on November 10, 2026. Start from Disney's character dining page to see them yourself.
• Booking and cancellation rules are from Disney's advance reservations and cancellation pages.
• Availability comes from PixieWire's availability tracking, for parties of two and four, taken November 10 at 3:07 PM Eastern for November 11 through January 8. How we collect it is on our how we measure availability page.
• What we could not confirm: the Ravello breakfast's price and days, Topolino's Terrace's exact breakfast price, and any character Disney does not name. Each is marked as reported where it appears.

The counts are redone each month and whenever Disney changes prices.

If the meal you want is one of the hard ones

A table at Topolino's Terrace breakfast that lasts five minutes is not something a person catches by hand. That is the job our alerts do: you pick the restaurant, date, meal and party size, and we tell you by email and app notification when a time opens, with a link to book it on Disney's site yourself. One alert costs $4.99, can be moved to a different meal any time for a year, and does not renew. Start from our character dining page and open the restaurant you want.