StrwLady
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2000
This trip will be just me and my son so I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the Quick Service or the Regular Dining Plan.
I started running the numbers. For 9 night trip the regular plan is approximately $300 more than the quick service plan. One problem I face with the regular dining plan is finding restaurants that my son will eat off the adult menu. He's 14 and although he is getting more adventurous in his choices he still is a pizza and hot dog kind of kid So I went to the menus and picked the places we wouldn't want to miss. Ran to cost of what we would eat when not on the dining plan. Most places we would not get dessert. I picked what TSs we wanted and then crunched the numbers. By my calculations CM breakfast, Biergarten Lunch, Tutto Italia Dinner and LTT lunch would run us about $225. I could even add one more TS and stay at the $300 extra the regular plan would cost.
I decided this is the better way for us to go. First off I felt much more free in our planning. We will have a much more flexibility in our days not having to worry about making an ADR each day. I don't have to worry about how will I use all of our TS credits with the kid not eating off the adult menu all the time.
I know this will be a lot of food. I imagine we will end up not using all of our snack credits but this isn't a problem. It is fun to come home with Disney snacks. So on our last day I will use any snack credits left buying snacks from the gift shop.
I started running the numbers. For 9 night trip the regular plan is approximately $300 more than the quick service plan. One problem I face with the regular dining plan is finding restaurants that my son will eat off the adult menu. He's 14 and although he is getting more adventurous in his choices he still is a pizza and hot dog kind of kid So I went to the menus and picked the places we wouldn't want to miss. Ran to cost of what we would eat when not on the dining plan. Most places we would not get dessert. I picked what TSs we wanted and then crunched the numbers. By my calculations CM breakfast, Biergarten Lunch, Tutto Italia Dinner and LTT lunch would run us about $225. I could even add one more TS and stay at the $300 extra the regular plan would cost.
I decided this is the better way for us to go. First off I felt much more free in our planning. We will have a much more flexibility in our days not having to worry about making an ADR each day. I don't have to worry about how will I use all of our TS credits with the kid not eating off the adult menu all the time.
I know this will be a lot of food. I imagine we will end up not using all of our snack credits but this isn't a problem. It is fun to come home with Disney snacks. So on our last day I will use any snack credits left buying snacks from the gift shop.