Advantages: You can eat all you like Disadvantages: Dont eat too much if you are going to a Theme Park (for obvious reasons)
As there was a Ponderosa Steakhouse restaurant just over the road from our hotel on International Drive, Orlando, we usually found overselves heading in that direction in the morning for our usual breakfast fix, before the usually mad day ahead of us. There are about five of these restaurants in the Disney vicinity, two on International Drive and three in nearby Kissimmee.
You can come out of there full to the brim for as little as $3.99 and with the high exchange rate (when we went it was about $1.90 to the pound) that works out at approximately just over £2.00.
They do a breakfast buffet, and a lunch and dinner buffet for $8.99 for a steak buffet. If you choose a different item, either chicken, fish, pork or a larger steak, the price may vary up to approx $15.00. The food is plentiful and you can go back again and again to ...
Ponderosa is extremely good value for money, the it is all buffet style but you can if you wish order from the menu if you wish, but, to be honey there is no need to unless you are wanting a steak, there is everything you can think of in the buffet.
You can go for breakfast, dinner or tea.
Breakfast is around $4.99, and all you have to pay for is the drinks on top of this, the children go free under 12
The choices are good : - Breakfast ? you can have cereal (lots of different ones), sausages (these are like hot dog style), bacon (this is a bit crispy), yoghurts, cakes ? Madeira cake mainly - the cakes were all fresh and lovely and soft. You also got a rack of toast and jam on your arrival to your table, and when leaving you got a plate full of mints.
Dinner was $5.99 to $6.99 depending on what time and what you wanted ...
Advantages: Cheap, under 5's eat free and lots to choose from Disadvantages: Some may feel the food is 'cheap'
I went to Florida just over a year ago now with work and on one of our free evenings a group of us chose to go to Ponderosa for an evening meal on the recommendation from one of the group who had been before. I honestly couldn't tell you which one on International Drive it was as there is two but, as they all operate on the scale and order process it will still give you an idea what to expect when you eat at one of them.
The chain:
Ponderosa has five restaurants in Orlando. Two are on International Drive, two in Kissimee and one at Lake Beuna Vista. They are all named Ponderosa Steakhouses. They operate a meal policy where by diners can order a meal to be served to them and then still eat from the 'all you can eat' buffet.
The style:
They all pretty much follow the same theme too with a cream decor and diners order ...
