Dining Plan or Disney Dining Experience

[meesterjonez]

What would be a better discount, the Disney Dining Experience or the Dining Plan? The DDE offers a 20% discount including alcohol I believe. We tend to eat table service meals, with drinks. Anyone ever compare the two?

 

[Allison]

You need to compare the two based on your specific plans.

It could be different from family to family based on eating plans so there really isn't a generic answer.

Good luck.

 

[jpmom]

We have the DDE card -- and for our next trip in June we plan to do the meal plan.

However -- we will be using our DDE card for any charges during our meals that are not included in the Dining plan -- ie: cocktails, desserts for the kids if they want to order off of the adult menu etc.

According to a reply to a recent post of mine, the CM gives you a separate check anyway for drinks, so the DDE card will be applied to that check.

Hope this helps.

That being said -- if you really, really want to eat at the restaurants that require 2 vouchers, I would go the DDE route (Jiko, Cal Grill, Yachtsman, Artist Point, etc.)

After we broke even on the card, it has saved us well over $200 on our last 3 trips.