immachesnut
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
I really hope that some of you will chime in & help me with this tough decision. We are going to Disney in a month - it will be my hubby, myself and our almost 4 year old twins. Currently we are on the Basic Dining Plan. I do admit I have a character meal booked everyday - I know it seems like overkill but I'm not sure how long it will be before we go back with the state of the economy (hubby is in auto industry) plus I really want my kids to enjoy it while they're still at the age of adoring the characters.
Okay that said - I don't really want to change or cut any of our reservations at this point. I totally realize I may regret it & I'm okay with that. To put it simply to upgrade to the Deluxe Plan, it would be an additional $588. I just crunched some numbers & our OOP expenses after our TS credits run out will be $519. If the DDP does indeed include resort refillable mugs (which are a must for us) that would take it up to $575.66 so basically for $10 more we could go Deluxe.
Obviously I could change things around a little bit so that maybe we are not paying as much OOP but to be honest, I really do not want to spend a vacation adding up numbers & worrying about having enough $ for this or that. I don't really want to fool with dragging sandwiches and drinks in to the parks everyday. To me that just takes half the fun out of a vacation & I haven't had a vacation since about six months before my twins were born - so yeah four years, LOL! I've been warned it will take away park time - seriously though my kids are young, there isn't much they can ride and lets face it - Epcot isn't gonna do much for them. Granted they will like the other stuff but with 7 days I'm thinking eating a couple of sit down meals a day isn't going to really hurt much? I'm not going to fret if credits go to waste. I'd rather just not have to keep track of the darn things. LOL!
So any advice? Should I just take the plunge and upgrade? I think I know the answer, I guess I just want to be validated. We are kind of picky eaters but there are several places I'm sure that we would enjoy eating at more than once. My only concern I suppose is with it being 30 days out if we'd be able to actually secure any reservations of the non-character variety. We'd be more likely to stick to places like ESPN Club & the like than the fancier meals if that helps.
Sorry this is so long, I rambled on way longer than I intended to. I really would appreciate any advice, opinions, criticism, etc. I will post my current ressies if that helps:
Day 1 - Dinner at 1900 Park Fare
Day 2 - Breakfast at Cape May Cafe, Lunch at Hollywood & Vine
Day 3 - Breakfast at Tusker House
Day 4 - Breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table, Dinner at Crystal Palace
Day 5 - Breakfast at Ohana, Dinner Show at Mickey's Backyard BBQ
Day 6 - Breakfast at Chef Mickey's, Lunch at Sci Fi
Day 7 - Breakfast at Akershus
Day 8 - Breakfast at 1900 Park Fare (early before check-out) - now that I think about it, not sure this is allowed?
If you've made it this far - thank you for reading!
Okay that said - I don't really want to change or cut any of our reservations at this point. I totally realize I may regret it & I'm okay with that. To put it simply to upgrade to the Deluxe Plan, it would be an additional $588. I just crunched some numbers & our OOP expenses after our TS credits run out will be $519. If the DDP does indeed include resort refillable mugs (which are a must for us) that would take it up to $575.66 so basically for $10 more we could go Deluxe.
Obviously I could change things around a little bit so that maybe we are not paying as much OOP but to be honest, I really do not want to spend a vacation adding up numbers & worrying about having enough $ for this or that. I don't really want to fool with dragging sandwiches and drinks in to the parks everyday. To me that just takes half the fun out of a vacation & I haven't had a vacation since about six months before my twins were born - so yeah four years, LOL! I've been warned it will take away park time - seriously though my kids are young, there isn't much they can ride and lets face it - Epcot isn't gonna do much for them. Granted they will like the other stuff but with 7 days I'm thinking eating a couple of sit down meals a day isn't going to really hurt much? I'm not going to fret if credits go to waste. I'd rather just not have to keep track of the darn things. LOL!
So any advice? Should I just take the plunge and upgrade? I think I know the answer, I guess I just want to be validated. We are kind of picky eaters but there are several places I'm sure that we would enjoy eating at more than once. My only concern I suppose is with it being 30 days out if we'd be able to actually secure any reservations of the non-character variety. We'd be more likely to stick to places like ESPN Club & the like than the fancier meals if that helps.
Sorry this is so long, I rambled on way longer than I intended to. I really would appreciate any advice, opinions, criticism, etc. I will post my current ressies if that helps:
Day 1 - Dinner at 1900 Park Fare
Day 2 - Breakfast at Cape May Cafe, Lunch at Hollywood & Vine
Day 3 - Breakfast at Tusker House
Day 4 - Breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table, Dinner at Crystal Palace
Day 5 - Breakfast at Ohana, Dinner Show at Mickey's Backyard BBQ
Day 6 - Breakfast at Chef Mickey's, Lunch at Sci Fi
Day 7 - Breakfast at Akershus
Day 8 - Breakfast at 1900 Park Fare (early before check-out) - now that I think about it, not sure this is allowed?
If you've made it this far - thank you for reading!