CRT - pay out of pocket or use dining plan?

[4Beans]

We are planning to have breakfast at CRT, is it a better value to use 2 dining credits per person or pay out of pocket? I hate to use the 2 credits, it feels like its not worth it.

 

[Skywise]

We are planning to have breakfast at CRT, is it a better value to use 2 dining credits per person or pay out of pocket? I hate to use the 2 credits, it feels like its not worth it.

That's hard to say - I paid about $45 per adult after tax for breakfast so I'm not sure how that equates to the dining plan prices.

It might be better to spend the 2 dining credits there then have table service at another restaurant (Like Liberty Tree Tavern) to balance the costs?

 

[purple figment]

It depends on where else you will be using TS credits. The average TS credit is worth $37.50 so you can take a look at menus to see how much your meals will cost if paid OOP.

Prices for CRT and other fixed price meals can be found here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3108466

Menus:
http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/dining/diningmain.cfm

 

[KaLyn]

You really have to do your math homework, everyone is different...

Before we added CRT, I lined up all of our estimated TS costs from most expensive to least. The most expensive 6 (since we are staying 6 nights) are our DDP meals and the rest are OOP. However now that I just snagged a CRT ressie, I need to reevaluate what to do. CRT will cost approx $178 for us, so in order to get a good value I need to remove 2 TS meals from my original DDP list that will total less than $178. But with where we are eating, I can't find 2 that will cost below $178 combined. So, for us, CRT will be out of pocket!

 

[jcjen519]

we paid cash for it but our visit to crt is not until June so i can't say what its worth. I think if its a long trip I may use the credits. We only have the dining plan for 4 nights in June and looking at where else we plan to dine paying cash made sense.

when we go in december i do plan to use the credits. we'll be there 9 nights.

 

[sharonabe]

For adults, I would pay OOP. If you have Disney kids, I'd use the credits for them and pay OOP at an a la carte place for them.

 

[scard192]

we used the DP. Got to our resort around 2PM on arrival day and used a CS credit for dinner so had an "extra" TS credit from that day so we were not short any credits for the other days in our trip.