Okay first I love your thread, but second how did you save so much???? Was it they were running the free promo and discounted the deluxe dining then? Currently we have the standard dining but really considering upgrading to deluxe we are a family of 6 2 adults and 4 children and we figure although TS is time consuming, QS will be just as long for our size of family and lets face it the QS is pretty gross.. any advice?
Well, we did upgrade from FREE quick Service dining to Deluxe Dining.
And I know a lot of people don't eat the way the deluxe dining plan makes you eat, we don't even when we are not in The World. In fact, we are usually so consumed by price that we don't usually eat what we really want...we settle. So on vacation, the deluxe dining is exactly how we like to eat.
So it really depends on how you look at it.
Some people would say there is no way they would have spent $1541.21 for three people to eat for six nights...and one of the people was a child. But I'll bet, even out of pocket at counter service venues we would have spent at least $500.00 on meals and that is without snacks or extra drinks or mucs for refills at the hotel (which we actually do use). So After all of that, we probably paid for the deluxe dining plan about what we would have paid for what we would have eaten without a dining plan so everything else is just gravy!
And with 4 kids under 10, you would probably get even more benefit from the dining plan.
And I though the same thing about time. By the time you pick the counter service venue you want to eat at, stand in line, order, find a table, retrieve any utencils or condiments you may need, then eat and clean up after yourself, you probably could have been seated in a climate controlled room and been waited on with better food!!! the difference ends up being minimal I think.
I am having a hard time thinking about a trip without the Deluxe Dining plan!!!
