dining plan

[vfb2girls]

After reading through some posts about how some of the restaraunts on the dining plan were limiting some of the food choices do you think this may be due to the free dining? I ask this because we are planning our vacation at the World next March and I decided to go ahead and purchase a package with the dining plan, with the understanding that we would be able to chose from whatever we wanted on the participating restaraunts. Do you think that the choices will be less limited being that there will probably be no way that Disney would offer free dining during spring break? Just looking for any opinions, I have not told my husband about the dining plan, he is clueless about Disney and lets me plan everything and just let him know when we are leaving and what to pack!

 

[crisi]

IMO, there will be no free dining over Spring Break, its their Fall promotion, they don't need to do promotions over Spring Break.

Disney has the right to limit your choices or surcharge certain menu items on the plan. I suspect the changes you are seeing now regarding these things will still be in place for Spring Break.

The thing with the dining plan is that you have to decide if its a good deal for you. That can be hard to do when the rules are changing day to day, but that's part of the risk of what can be a lot of savings on the plan. Personally, when the plan was first released, it wasn't a good deal for us - it wasn't flexible enough, a lot of the restaurants we liked were either excluded or "signature." Those problems were resolved, but now new issues that limit the flexibility are appearing.

Remember, if Disney can't make money on the plan, they wouldn't offer it. If they aren't making money with how it is being used, they are going to change it.