Dining Prices Help

[lucigo]

We have 4 TS reservations and only 3 days of DDP. Can someone please help me figure out which of these meals would be the cheapest (the one I should pay for OOP). I have 3 adults and 1 child, but he probably won't eat at all of them anyway, he has autism and is VERY picky.

We have:

Boma (dinner)
Ohana (dinner)
Whispering Canyon (dinner)
Crystal Palace (lunch)

 

[DannysMom]

We have 4 TS reservations and only 3 days of DDP. Can someone please help me figure out which of these meals would be the cheapest (the one I should pay for OOP). I have 3 adults and 1 child, but he probably won't eat at all of them anyway, he has autism and is VERY picky.

We have:

Boma (dinner)
Ohana (dinner)
Whispering Canyon (dinner)
Crystal Palace (lunch)

It's pretty easy to look up menus & prices: http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/dining/disneydining.cfm

But off the top of my head, you have 3 fixed price (buffet or family style AYCE) meals, at which your DS will be charged, as they will not be watching him every minute to see if he eats or not.

 

[havoc315]

Whispering Canyon can be the cheapest, or the most expensive. Since all the others are buffets, Whispering Canyon is the one place where you can order cheaper entrees, share plates, and/or skip desserts. So if you got, for example, just Roast Chicken, with no dessert, it would be much cheaper than the other meals.

On the other hand, if you chose to get desserts for every member of your family, and you got the expensive entrees like the skillet, then Whispering Canyon could easily become the most expensive of the 4 TS meals. (In which case, Crystal Palace lunch is probably the cheapest).

 

[lucigo]

Thanks, it looks like from the link provided that Crystal Palace for lunch is cheaper than Ohana or Boma, and that Whispering Canyon would be the one you could get the most use out of with the dining plan.

So assuming 2:30 pm is still lunch I think we will pay for that one OOP.

 

[appleseed1]

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

 

[Faldred]

If you're ordering of the menu for your boy at WCC, I'd pay that one OOP and use his credits at the fixed-price meals. Buffets/fixed price for kids tend to be more expensive than kids' meals off the normal menu.

The opposite is true for adults.

 

[lucigo]

If you're ordering of the menu for your boy at WCC, I'd pay that one OOP and use his credits at the fixed-price meals. Buffets/fixed price for kids tend to be more expensive than kids' meals off the normal menu.

The opposite is true for adults.

My plan is to bring him a lunchbox to whispering canyon as they don't have chicken nuggets and he has severe diet limitations. Last time we went to WCC they asked me what they had that he would eat...he ended up with a banana, some fries, and a cookie. And I thought that was a good meal for him LOL

 

[DannysMom]

My plan is to bring him a lunchbox to whispering canyon as they don't have chicken nuggets and he has severe diet limitations. Last time we went to WCC they asked me what they had that he would eat...he ended up with a banana, some fries, and a cookie. And I thought that was a good meal for him LOL

Pretty sure you should should be able to pick up some chicken nuggets for him downstairs at the QS spot, Roaring Fork. I know how it is feeding a picky eater. I am grateful that my ODS has gotten more adventuous in the last 2 years -- still won't eat veggies for the most part, but he has be come a pretty good carnivore, if it's meat, it's good.

 

[lucigo]

Pretty sure you should should be able to pick up some chicken nuggets for him downstairs at the QS spot, Roaring Fork. I know how it is feeding a picky eater. I am grateful that my ODS has gotten more adventuous in the last 2 years -- still won't eat veggies for the most part, but he has be come a pretty good carnivore, if it's meat, it's good.

Oh thanks for the tip!! Hoping Disney nuggets will be acceptable this trip. Sometimes they are, sometimes not. His staple at home these days is Schwan brand chicken nuggets, so we bring them wherever we go!

 

[DannysMom]

Oh thanks for the tip!! Hoping Disney nuggets will be acceptable this trip. Sometimes they are, sometimes not. His staple at home these days is Schwan brand chicken nuggets, so we bring them wherever we go!

Good luck! Last time we were there, (3/09) the kids & adult nuggets were different (at almost all CS places that had chicken nuggets on both adults & kids menus.) The kids ones were baked & were a processed chicken product -- at best they were OK, if they sat around under a warmer or got cool, they were kinda gross. Whereas the adult chicken nuggets were actually recognizable as chicken & were probably fried & they actually tasted pretty good. Don't know if that has changed in the last 2 years or not.

 

[lucigo]

Good luck! Last time we were there, (3/09) the kids & adult nuggets were different (at almost all CS places that had chicken nuggets on both adults & kids menus.) The kids ones were baked & were a processed chicken product -- at best they were OK, if they sat around under a warmer or got cool, they were kinda gross. Whereas the adult chicken nuggets were actually recognizable as chicken & were probably fried & they actually tasted pretty good. Don't know if that has changed in the last 2 years or not.

We aren't going to stress over it. Even though we have the dining plan, if he prefers to eat from a lunch box thats ok. Its his vacation too and forcing him to eat foods that he isn't familiar with isn't going to make it fun for him.