dining plan and mug, doesn't make sense

[llb]

We are getting the free dining quick service, it comes with the mug. We upgraded to basic by paying $13 more per person. We loose the mug. Seems to me, if they are giving you free dining you should get all the benefits, if you choose to upgrade you should not loose the benefits of the plan they gave you, you are just enhancing not loosing the original plan. Has anyone questioned Disney on this?

 

[brymolmom]

Sorry but this makes sense to me. You are opting to take the VALUE of what they are offering you for free and use that to offset your price to upgrade to a different option that you instead want to have. You are opting against the free thing they want to give you. Since you're using that $30 per night (or similar) to instead buy a bigger/better option, you are not using it to pay for the quick service plan nor the mug that comes with it.

Using that logic you would end up with 1 TS, 1 CS 1 snack per day PLUS what is given on the quick service plan of an additional 2 CS 2 snacks per day. ANd that doesn't make sense.

 

[patsal]

You opted to switch your plan to one that included a table service. In addition to losing the mug you are also losing a snack...based on what you are saying you should have everything included in your original pkg plus the ts meal...if you want that you need to upgrade to the DxDDP.
Just like deciding if a meal plan is something that you will enjoy or find value in the level of dining plan is important. You asked to change the components of your free dining package and were accomadated, you knew what your components were and what the other offered so you made a choice to give up the mug and snack in favor of paying $13 per person per day for a TS. There is nothing to question it is personal value, which one will be most beneficial to you and your family. If you want the mug and snack go back to the original plan or upgrade further to the DXDDP.

 

[TDC Nala]

It makes absolute sense. You no longer have the quick service plan, you now have the basic plan, so yes, you ARE losing the original plan. The basic plan doesn't include a mug. Just because you upgraded, the elements of the quick plan don't carry over to the basic plan.

If you want to state that it doesn't make sense that the regular plan doesn't include a mug, then maybe that's arguable.

 

[llb]

Sorry but this makes sense to me. You are opting to take the VALUE of what they are offering you for free and use that to offset your price to upgrade to a different option that you instead want to have. You are opting against the free thing they want to give you. Since you're using that $30 per night (or similar) to instead buy a bigger/better option, you are not using it to pay for the quick service plan nor the mug that comes with it.

Using that logic you would end up with 1 TS, 1 CS 1 snack per day PLUS what is given on the quick service plan of an additional 2 CS 2 snacks per day. ANd that doesn't make sense.

I should be more clear, I wasn't looking for all the meals of both plans, that would be like having two plans for each person. Just thought the mug should carryover.

 

[maxiesmom]

I should be more clear, I wasn't looking for all the meals of both plans, that would be like having two plans for each person. Just thought the mug should carryover.

I think it would be nice if it did too. It would get confusing though for those people who just out and out get the regular dining plan, and don't upgrade from Quick Service.

You have to think of them as 2 seperate plans, not as an upgrade.

 

[brymolmom]

I should be more clear, I wasn't looking for all the meals of both plans, that would be like having two plans for each person. Just thought the mug should carryover.

I got that (you were clear)...but what I'm saying is that following your logic of being 'allowed' to keep one part of the plan that you opted against...then you could also want the rest of the plan that you opted against. Since you opted against it - to me it makes sense that you don't get any of the plan that was offered to you for free.

 

[Allison]

You aren't enhancing, you are replacing.

 

[mmwalker]

I have always thought it strange that the regular dining plan is the only plan does not include the mugs.

If you are coffee/soda pop drinkers, it can be worth the extra $$$ depending on the length of your stay.

 

[catne]

I have always thought it strange that the regular dining plan is the only plan does not include the mugs.

If you are coffee/soda pop drinkers, it can be worth the extra $$$ depending on the length of your stay.

the regular dining plan is the current version of the original dining plan, and as such, it has never included the refillable mug. It is by far the most popular plan Disney offers, and they have no trouble selling it as it is. In other words, no need for them to offer any extra incentives like a refillable mug.

On the other hand, both the QSDP and the Deluxe were "new" plans...and to appear to justify the cost, Disney offered the incentive of the refillable mug to make these plans more appealing.

From a business standpoint, it's a good deal for Disney...we have never seen the value of the QSDP...if costs almost as much as the regular plan, but no expensive table service meals included (the extra snack does not come close to off-setting the value.) And we have done the Deluxe plan a number of times and rarely use the refillable mug because we're usually full from the meals & snacks included...so the mug is just really a "souvenir" for us, not a consumable part of the plan.

 

[llb]

Another poster suggested the freed ining plan of QSDP be offered to value resort, the basic to moderate resorts and the Deluxe to deluxe resorts, when paying rack rate.

 

[DaniB]

It would be nice if Disney let you keep the mugs when upgrading to the DDP. Even better, just give those on the DDP the mugs.

However, I would rather not get the mugs than lose the opportunity to upgrade to the DDP.

 

[llb]

It would be nice if Disney let you keep the mugs when upgrading to the DDP. Even better, just give those on the DDP the mugs.

However, I would rather not get the mugs than lose the opportunity to upgrade to the DDP.

Me too!

 

[TDC Nala]

There's a rumor based on some British publications that Disney may be going to include mugs with the regular dining plan starting in 2012. But it could be incorrect information or a misprint, nothing is certain yet.

Another poster suggested the freed ining plan of QSDP be offered to value resort, the basic to moderate resorts and the Deluxe to deluxe resorts, when paying rack rate.

Disney's never offered the deluxe plan free to anyone, regardless of the level of resort, so I'd bet that would never happen.

 

[avic77]

I never understood why QSDP came with the mug and DDP did not.

 

[cluvsdisney]

I never understood why QSDP came with the mug and DDP did not.

I always thought it was because Disney needed to offer something in the qsdp that would make it appealing to guests but still meet their profit margins. Even with the mug, the qsdp doesn't have the saving potential of the other plans.

 

[acpalmer]

There's a rumor based on some British publications that Disney may be going to include mugs with the regular dining plan starting in 2012. But it could be incorrect information or a misprint, nothing is certain yet.

Isn't that the same publication that printed that there would be no dessert with counter service meals last year? And yet, they still are included...

I'm not holding my breath.