Dining Plan Questions

[jandm]

With the regular dining plan (not the deluxe) you are allowed 1 table, 1 quick service and 1 snack, right? so if you eat quick serv for lunch and table serv for dinner, what do people do for breakfast? i'm assuming you just grab granola bars or something like that? the deluxe plan just seems like such a large amount of food that I'm afraid we'd end up wasting credits...thoughts?

 

[HunnyJar]

With the regular dining plan (not the deluxe) you are allowed 1 table, 1 quick service and 1 snack, right? so if you eat quick serv for lunch and table serv for dinner, what do people do for breakfast? i'm assuming you just grab granola bars or something like that? the deluxe plan just seems like such a large amount of food that I'm afraid we'd end up wasting credits...thoughts?

We always get the regular dining plan whether we pay for it or if we are lucky enough to go during free dining. We've done free dining twice and have paid for the dining plan every other visit to WDW. We normally will use our CS for our lunch and our TS for dinner, just like you pointed out. Now as far as breakfast normally we will either pay out of pocket for breakfast be it TS or CS or we will use a snack credit for breakfast. Our favorite "snack" for breakfast are the cinnamon rolls from Mainstreet Bakery. We will normally get a cinnamon roll or two and a cup of fruit.

 

[Kitikat]

If we don't use our TS for a breakfast ADR then we grab something in the room...we drive so we always have pop tarts or dry cereal or granola bars or something....we also carry snack in our back pack for when someone gets a lil hungry between meals....

 

[tinkerpea]

I dont know how big an eater your family is but since there is no diffrence between the QS child credit and the QS adult we always get an Adult QS meal for breakfast as you get 2 drinks at Breakfast at the resort or a drink and side and we Split the meal! we have 3 boys that we always split their QS lunch and breakfasts by always getting the adult meals,We even do this for ourselves as we find that eating a QS breakfast with the extra side, or the QS lunch is just too big for us, it at least fills us up more then getting just a muffin each!!!
Or if we are not going to use our snack credits for other stuff we will get a adult QS and use the Snack to get another side that tops up any of the meals without using everybodys snack credits, or by spending more money on meals, If we get hungry then we can always grab something else! but last yr out of the family of 3 adults and 3 kids we proberbly only actually paid out between us $50 extra for 3 wks sooooo nice to see all my money not go into my tummy

 

[SnipsNSnails]

We split CS meals some. For our upcoming trip there are 6 adults and 1 child. We do not plan on any CS the day we arrive or the day we leave due to flight times. So we have 6 adult CS and 1 child CS extra. Then my mom and I, and my grandparents plan on splitting our CS lunch or dinner each x 6 days so that is 12 adult CS + 6 adult CS = 18 CS which is enough to buy 3 CS breakfasts x 6 days. The bounty platters in the resort CS are plenty for us to split and we can always use a snack credit or two + the extra child CS we have for the kids for breakfast if we need more.

 

[squirrel]

I dont know how big an eater your family is but since there is no diffrence between the QS child credit and the QS adult we always get an Adult QS meal for breakfast as you get 2 drinks at Breakfast at the resort or a drink and side and we Split the meal! we have 3 boys that we always split their QS lunch and breakfasts by always getting the adult meals,We even do this for ourselves as we find that eating a QS breakfast with the extra side, or the QS lunch is just too big for us, it at least fills us up more then getting just a muffin each!!!
Or if we are not going to use our snack credits for other stuff we will get a adult QS and use the Snack to get another side that tops up any of the meals without using everybodys snack credits, or by spending more money on meals, If we get hungry then we can always grab something else! but last yr out of the family of 3 adults and 3 kids we proberbly only actually paid out between us $50 extra for 3 wks sooooo nice to see all my money not go into my tummy

The Dining Plan changed this year. If you use a CS credit for breakfast you get your entree and a drink. They dropped the second drink/dessert.

If you have children on the DDP and the CS has a child's menu then they are to order off the children's menu.

I always pack a box of Cheerios and we eat that for breakfast in the room. Saves time in the morning.

 

[tinkerpea]

The Dining Plan changed this year. If you use a CS credit for breakfast you get your entree and a drink. They dropped the second drink/dessert.

If you have children on the DDP and the CS has a child's menu then they are to order off the children's menu.

I always pack a box of Cheerios and we eat that for breakfast in the room. Saves time in the morning.

Are you sure as we only went a few months ago and it was exactly like i said with the xtra drink or the side??, and I know that at all TS you have to order off of the childs menu, but when it came to QS we could get a Adult meal!They told us that the computers have no way of telling the difference between the QS credits for Adult or Child!!! I really hope they havent changed this as that will suck majorly, i will probebly up grade my kids to the Adult DDP and they can still share their QS for breakfast lunch and dinner! im guessing that not all Servers at QS know the changes then? as like i said they was all doing a few months ago for the whole 3 wks we was there.

 

[Sandisw]

When we do the dining plan, we use our snack credit for our breakfast. We get a muffin, bagel, yogurt, etc. and have that. When we could, we also got fruit as our dessert with our CS meal and then saved it and at it with the snack credit the next day as part of the breakfast.

We have always found it is so much food that we really didn't need an extra snack since we most often took our dessert from our TS meals to go and brought it back to the room.

 

[squirrel]

Are you sure as we only went a few months ago and it was exactly like i said with the xtra drink or the side??, and I know that at all TS you have to order off of the childs menu, but when it came to QS we could get a Adult meal!They told us that the computers have no way of telling the difference between the QS credits for Adult or Child!!! I really hope they havent changed this as that will suck majorly, i will probebly up grade my kids to the Adult DDP and they can still share their QS for breakfast lunch and dinner! im guessing that not all Servers at QS know the changes then? as like i said they was all doing a few months ago for the whole 3 wks we was there.

What resort were you at? I hope Pop. From what I have read here is that they aren't suppose to allow the extra drink or dessert for breakfast. That would be great if they still allow it. Are you sure they didn't take off a snack credit along with the CS?

I know that the CS meals are pooled but the CM's are only suppose to let you get the # on your KTTW card so if it says 2A and 1C then that is the most you are allowed, you wouldn't be able to get 3A meals.

 

[dskib]

We usually bring bananas, granola bars, cereal etc. DH isn't big on breakfast, so we just have lunch around 11-11:30, and that usually holds us until dinner around 5-5:30. We just make sure DS has breakfast.

We also usually schedule at least 1 or 2 character breakfasts - usually buffets - which are so filling that a snack for lunch is just fine.

 

[mousegear]

As other OP, we split CS meals. For example, coming Sept trip is just me and DS 7. So breakfast, we would get one CS and share. For lunch we would get another CS and share. And for dinner we use our TS credits and get each dinner. I find that b/c the portion is so big at Disney, we have plenty to eat despite sharing.