Dining Plan Strategy

[MrVargas]

First time Disney World visitor here. I am married with 2 kids (ages 6 and 8 by the time the trip starts). I purchased the regular Disney Dining plan. So my family would get on average 4 quick service credits and 4 table service credits per day. My plan was to do the following:

Breakfast: 2 quick service credits at our resort for an adult breakfast for my wife and my self. I would pay out of pocket for my kid's breakfast since.

Lunch: We would split 2 quick service credits on 2 adult meals. We do this right now at our local amusement park and it is almost always enough (depending on what we order).

Dinner: Nice sit down meal.

Snacks: Besides a mid-day Nap we plan to be in the park from rope drop to closing so I figure we will use our snacks sporadically for treats here and there.

Thoughts? Will they give me a hard time about only buying adult quick service meals? PS - At dinner I will have my kids order off the kids menu.

 

[Aliceacc]

Here's how we tend to do it:

We place an order with Garden Grocer to have stuff in the rooms--- 2 cases of water (5 of us for a week in July), juice boxes (not so much now, but when they were your kids' ages) fruit, park snacks, some breakfast stuff-- donuts, bagels...

Breakfast is either stuff in the room or a snack credit. (we're at the Beach Club, so I go down to the Marketplace while the kids and husband are changing)

Lunch: Counter Service

Dinner: Mostly Table Service.

That leaves us lots of snack credits for Dole Whips and Mickey Bars. My 18 year old daughter is currently compiling a list of all the snacks she wants to try this trip, lol.

We do the afternoon break from about 1 until our dinner ADR at about 6 pm.

 

[momto3pirates]

Dining credits are per night of the reservation. A lot of people miscalculate their credits.

 

[sharonabe]

Thoughts? Will they give me a hard time about only buying adult quick service meals?

Nope. They won't even know that's what you're doing. QS meals can be used for either child or adult. Your plan will work as long as you can find lunch meals big enough to share. You may need to use a snack credit or two at lunch to get some extra fries or something to help stretch those credits.

 

[Rich M]

I think you will be good with your strategy but you could also use a snack credit at breakfast also to grab a muffin or danish for the kids. Then you can avoid paying OOP for the kids meal.