Captain Kidd's All-You-Can-Keep-Down $8.99 Buffet COUPON?!?!?

[captain_slinky]

As I was obsessive-compulsively dream-planning our next trip to Disneyland (end of January, fingers crossed!!!), I found myself internet-tripping over to the Captain Kidd's All-You-Can-Eat $8.99 Buffet website.

If you are not familiar with Captain Kidd's Buffet, congratulations! Strategically located *directly* across from the S. Harbor Main Gate Entrance to Disneyland, their giant 2-story "ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR $8.99" sign draws in frugal tourists who were weary of the $12 cheeseburgers found inside the park. For the price of a half-cup of crushed ice inside Disneyland (approximate cost), you can feed the whole family!

Yeah, but you get to feed your family *this*:


It's like all the people who were ever fired from working at a school cafeteria or in a prison kitchen all said "FINE! Take your high standards and your moral superiority and your unwilling-to-use-horse-meat ways and SHOVE THEM! We're opening a buffet at DISNEYLAND!"

We ate there once - ONCE. From the slightly-above-room-temperature Sushi to the dollar-store breaded "Chick'n" patties (not to be associated in any way with actual CHICKEN per legal notification from the USDA), it was just terrible. That night and the following morning I experienced some of the most perilous bowel movements of my entire life - and that's saying quite a lot!

So anywho, back to the reason I originally decided to make this post. As I was looking at the Captain Kidd's All-You-Can-Eat $8.99 Buffet Website, I noticed a link for COUPONS!

Despite the giant $8.99 sign outside, they actually have different prices for different times of the day. Breakfast is actually $8.69, "Lunch" till 4pm is $9.29 and then after 4pm is $10.29... but with the COUPON, you can get BREAKFAST for just $7.99!!!

Not sure who was behind that, which tourists they polled to come to the conclusion that what would really improve the public view of their slop is a 70-cent discount - "Well sure the Noodles With Slices Of American Cheese Melted On Top looks good, and the idea of eating as much Jello as I like for breakfast sounds like heaven, and I do love me some stale baked french fries with fish sticks... but isn't 8 bucks kind of pricey? Now, if there was a coupon that made it, say... $7.50 instead of 8 bucks? NOW we're TALKIN'!"

Comments

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

That makes Casa Bonita look like five star gourmet.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Casa Bonita?

*pulls up chair*

DO PLEASE go onnnnn....

[aurora77]

Back in December, we stayed at the Best Western next door and got the Captain Kidd's breakfast buffet free with our room. It actually wasn't that bad. Of course, my expectations were pretty low. We felt okay after eating there each day, but toward the end, we skipped it for breakfast at the Carnation Cafe. There were some baked goods, bread for toast, eggs, cereal, fruit, yogurt, juice, milk, breakfast potatoes, and pancakes. They seemed to alternate between having sausage and ham. The coffee was pretty terrible, but the other stuff was at least edible, and sometimes it was decent. Note: This was all upstairs in the hotel-specific section, not the section open to the general public.

If I were choosing a place to go eat, this wouldn't be my first choice by a long shot, but it filled me up quickly in the mornings so we could go have fun.

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I can't eat at a normal buffet because I worked restaurant for too long and know what happens with buffets back of house…but this, THIS is a whole new level of hell.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when you see the word "Buffet" in the title you HAVE to go in with some pretty low standards, but this... THIS was just... ugh.