Dinning plan and camping Do you or Dont you

[tinksgilrs251520]

How many people get the dinning plan when you camp and do you come back for lunch and dinner?

 

[tinksgilrs251520]

nevermind saw older thread....sorry

 

[Born 2 Fish]

nevermind saw older thread....sorry

I don't care,,I wanna tell you anyways.
I like it ,,wife ain't as up to it as I.

 

[AuburnJen92]

Hell, I will reply, I don't get the dining plan....

I can't eat that much food....holy cow.

 

[clkelley]

We will only do the dining plan under two circumstances:

1: - It's free dining, so therefore we can't have it at the campground and
2: - the free dining has to coincide with when we need to get new annual passes, so the two day ticket purchase requirement doesn't drive the price up.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Hell, I will reply, I don't get the dining plan....

I can't eat that much food....holy cow.

amateur.

 

[MICKEYLOVINMOMOF5]

amateur.

I've been pondering if this is something I should entertain with my house critters, my kids are half samoan.. they can E-A-T!! We are a BBQ'ing family though, I enjoy cooking outside, I fired up the grill last night in the rain because I had a "hankerin'" for grilled potatoes..hmmmmmmm!

 

[Robert6401]

My take on the dining plan - it is DEFINITELY worth trying!

That being said, having done it, I prefer not to now. I found that with the dining plan your whole trip revolves around the meals. We found ourselves leaving one park early to go to another for an ADR. That, and the amount of food is insane - and I CAN EAT!

I think it is something that can be helpful, but now we use the TiW card, and typically eat one meal back at the camper. This seems to work better for us right now.

 

[kampfirekim]

Nope! I like to work my dining into whatever we're doing at the time. The idea of planning our vacay around meals isn't appealing to us.

AND we can't eat enough to make it worth it.

Just my take on the situation....

 

[retired and happy]

I agree. You're on vacation. Why schedule your day around when and where you are supposed to eat, insteand of going with the flow and eating wherever you happen to be, or going back to the ole campsite and burning some steaks or burgers? or picking up a Giddy Up and Go.

 

[MomofSixinSC]

Rather than come back to the campsite for meals, we would make sandwiches at the campstie in the morning and then carry them whereever we are headed for the day. I also brought some granola bars and fruit so we could snack. For us, this was much cheaper than eating Disney food.

 

[MadFF]

We get to Disney VERY rarely, so...

We used the Dining plan two years ago and it worked out great for us. We got the plan that had one Counter service meal, on Table meal, and one Snack per day. We would have a simple breakfast at the camper in the morning (bagels, cereal, etc) and just not worry about food for the rest of the day.

One big thing was that we simply did not spend much time at our camper. My wife said that she wasn't going to spend two days driving in a truck just to cook in a campground -- she wanted to be waited on! lol!

We only made two Advanced Dining Reservations - at Hoop-de-do-Review, and Cinderella's Castle. The rest of the time we just found a restaurant to eat at! It didn't occur to me to make reservations for every night... if one restaurant was too busy, we just moved onto the next one.

It was worth it to us. Not having to stock the camper with food, not worrying about eating, not having to constantly cleanup after meals at the camper, having different great meals every night.

We are in the initial stages of planning a trip for 2011, and are planning on using the Dining Plan again. If we went more often, I would probably start cooking at the camper.

 

[rebelstand]

We did the Dining Plan(1 snack, 1 quick service, 1 table service) last June. We have an allergy child (eggs, tree & peanuts) and when I called in to talk to WDW about ADR they highly recommended making the ADR. This was so the staff & chef's could help us to ensure that my son did not get something he shouldn't have. They did an excellent job and took the worry out of the equation. However, we did spend at least 10-30 minutes waiting around. It seems we always arrived close to our ADR restaurant and did not want to venture too far away. I also, at the time, believed that this was a "Once In Your Childhood Trip" so I was planning a military style tour of the parks, utilizing EMH, and no park hopper option either.

Since then we have gotten the TT and I found FW. Yes, fellow fiends, I had never heard of Fort Wilderness. This time I sprang for the park hopper option so we can be more flexible. We plan on breakfast at the TT, lunch at a quick service, dinner & rest back at the TT, then heading back to one of the parks for EMH or just hanging out at the Fort.

 

[retired and happy]

Looks like you've got this Fort plan thing down pat. You daily schedule looks very do-able. With whatever flexibility you want to use each day. Enjoy.