Best Use of Meal Plan and restaurants?

[Agrajag]

Howdy all. We're going to try something different (for us) and spend Thanksgiving this year at Disneyworld. We've been to several of the restaurants on past trips but have a LONG way to go before we've eaten at most of them. We'll be staying at AKL for the duration.

We got the middle meal plan that has a snack, a counter meal and a full sit down meal each day. I'd like to get some plan started so that we don't have any surprises when we get there. I noticed that some have mentioned meals that eat up two full sit-down meals and such. Can someone provide some insight on when this would happen?

My current thinking is as follows. We get in on Tuesday night before Thanksgiving (So that night is out but the day is included in the plan) and then we fly out on Wednesday the following week (and I think that day is also included so I believe we have essentially two extra full sit-down meals in there).

We were thinking about spending Thanksgiving at Chef Mickey. We wanted one of the largest buffets possible as we did this skiing one year in Maine and the buffet approach was great. All the restaurants seem to have different prices for the meal so I don't know how the plan factors that in.

Past favorites that we'd like to revisit:

Chef Mickey
The steak place in Canada
The upstairs French restaurant in France

We've also eaten at Italy, England, the 50's diner at DHS/MGM and a few more. The restaurant at The Sea looks interesting as I love seafood.

What gems should we look at and how do we not wipe out the plan prematurely? We may go for a single sit-down breakfast and we want to try Boma's breakfast (I think that's considered counter service?) once but the rest we think we want to hold for dinners.

Thanks.

[tndisneyfan]

Howdy all. We're going to try something different (for us) and spend Thanksgiving this year at Disneyworld. We've been to several of the restaurants on past trips but have a LONG way to go before we've eaten at most of them. We'll be staying at AKL for the duration.

We got the middle meal plan that has a snack, a counter meal and a full sit down meal each day. I'd like to get some plan started so that we don't have any surprises when we get there. I noticed that some have mentioned meals that eat up two full sit-down meals and such. Can someone provide some insight on when this would happen?

My current thinking is as follows. We get in on Tuesday night before Thanksgiving (So that night is out but the day is included in the plan) and then we fly out on Wednesday the following week (and I think that day is also included so I believe we have essentially two extra full sit-down meals in there).

We were thinking about spending Thanksgiving at Chef Mickey. We wanted one of the largest buffets possible as we did this skiing one year in Maine and the buffet approach was great. All the restaurants seem to have different prices for the meal so I don't know how the plan factors that in.

Past favorites that we'd like to revisit:

Chef Mickey
The steak place in Canada
The upstairs French restaurant in France

We've also eaten at Italy, England, the 50's diner at DHS/MGM and a few more. The restaurant at The Sea looks interesting as I love seafood.

What gems should we look at and how do we not wipe out the plan prematurely? We may go for a single sit-down breakfast and we want to try Boma's breakfast (I think that's considered counter service?) once but the rest we think we want to hold for dinners.

Thanks.


The dining plan is based on the number of nights you are staying, not the number of days. If I counted right you are staying eight nights, so each person in your party will have 8 table service credits, 8 counter service credits, and 8 snack credits.

Some restaurants require two credits. These are considered signature restaurants, they include California Grill, Brown Derby, and several others, sorry I just can't think of them right now. No sure about the upstairs in France but Chef Mickey's and LeCellier are both just one credit.

Boma is considered a TS, even for breakfast. Any table service restaurant is considered a TS, even for breakfast.

Check out the dining brochure on Disney's site, it has a list of all restaurants and if they are CS or TS.

[tinka-belle]

The Bistro de Paris upstairs in France does not take the DDP, only in-park restaurant I beleive that doesn't. Chefs du France downstairs does.

Brown Derby in DHS, and CRT in MK are the only in-park restaurants that take 2 TS credits. There are several "signature" dining restaurants in the various hotels that are 2 TS credits, check the Disney dining site. Dinner shows (Hoop-de-Doo, Mickey's Backyard BBQ, Spirit of Aloha Luau) are 2 TS credits also.

[daisygirl902]

For more detailed info go here:
http://allears.net/pl/packages09a.htm

You can also look at all of the menus here:
http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm