Back from week on DP

[sweetheart2576]

Just back from our free week of dining. We ate at chef mickeys(dinner), le cellier (dinner), Ohana(dinner)Donalds (bfast), Wolfgang puck cafe, and 1900 park fare,whispering canyon. Cancelled ressie for crystal palace. DS (11) we paid out of pocket for 2 times because he ordered off the kids menues (lecellier and WPC) and thought we would use his credits elsewhere. At checkout we still had 2 TS, 7 CS and 9 snacks. We used CS for breakfast, snacks in the store (lollipops,cookies, trail mix, candy)TS we used at earl of sandwich and got the xtra snacks rather than pins or poster just to use them up before we got to the airport. CS we ate at POR,(b 2 tmes, dinner 1) peco's bill's, epcot(forgot name), i have to look at receipts to remember if there were any others. Snacks we used for water, pretzels, chips, nothing what i thought i would spend it on. The dining plan was nice especially since it was free, and didn't have to worry about what we were spending on food, but I am not sure it is for us. It took a large chunk out of our day with the TS and felt rushed trying to get the parks done. ANd WAYYYY too much food. It was nice though.

 

[WI_DisneyFan]

The dining plan was nice especially since it was free ... but I am not sure it is for us. It took a large chunk out of our day with the TS and felt rushed trying to get the parks done.

I've heard/read this a couple times now, and I find it interesting. I can certainly see where you are coming from, but we actually enjoyed this aspect of the DP because it FORCED us to sit down, relax, and eat a good meal once a day. Otherwise we would probably have just skipped dinner and ended up grazing all day on candy and other snacks, probably stopping for a hot dog at a CS resturant once in a while. But I certainly agree on the "too much food" aspect of it. I gained 5 pounds on my honeymoon because of the dining plan. Which is really saying something when you consider all of the exercise (walking, swimming, etc) you get while you are there.