Disney Dining Plan Question

[melissa.irwin]

Hi all, still trying to learn the ins and outs as I'm a fairly new member who is just planning our first trip to Disney. Does anyone know if you stay off-site if you can still take advantage of the Dining plan?

We had originally planned to stay at a Disney Resort (and that would still be our dream), however, a relative has recently let me know that she owns a timeshare in Orlando 10 minutes from Magic Kingdom and we may be staying there to save a great deal of money...which I know is a good thing (especially in my husband's eyes! LOL), but doesn't stop me from dreaming about staying at a disney resort . I have priced packages with the resort, tickets and DDP but wasn't sure if you can still get the DDP without the resort? Any info would be appreciated!

 

[Aliceacc]

No, I'm sorry. You can only get DDP if you're staying on site.

From mousesavers.com: Dining Plan

Disney offers a prepaid Dining Plan at Walt Disney World that can be a good value. However, it is ONLY available when you purchase a Magic Your Way vacation package that includes accommodations at a Disney-owned-and-operated hotel plus at least a 1-day theme park ticket per person.

 

[melissa.irwin]

No, I'm sorry. You can only get DDP if you're staying on site.

From mousesavers.com: Dining Plan

Disney offers a prepaid Dining Plan at Walt Disney World that can be a good value. However, it is ONLY available when you purchase a Magic Your Way vacation package that includes accommodations at a Disney-owned-and-operated hotel plus at least a 1-day theme park ticket per person.

That's what I was afraid of - thanks for the very quick response!

 

[Heidi Myers]

We will be staying onsite at the Disney All-Stars Movie Resort for one week but are moving to offsite accommodation after that for a further 3 days. We are hoping to purchase the 10 Park entry tickets. Would they only give us a 7 day DDP? Does the pricing all get calculated separately?

 

[kandb]

No you can't but the dining plan really isn't worth it, according to most who get it.

 

[Heidi Myers]

No you can't but the dining plan really isn't worth it, according to most who get it.

What is your motivation? As a newbie have not yet seen any recommendations to the contrary, but I suppose that is because I have been trawling the threads in favour of it? Can you shed some light on this please?

 

[Aliceacc]

There's a lot of back and forth about in on these boards.

We've done with and without, and will always choose to get it in the future. It's not that it's a money saver-- we pretty much break even. But I do love the convenience of prepaying, and then not having to look at the prices. It suits the way we travel.

 

[DIS_MERI]

We will be staying onsite at the Disney All-Stars Movie Resort for one week but are moving to offsite accommodation after that for a further 3 days. We are hoping to purchase the 10 Park entry tickets. Would they only give us a 7 day DDP? Does the pricing all get calculated separately?

You would be best off looking in the dining plan section of the restaurants boards, rather than posting on an 8 year old thread in the Welcome to the Dis section

http://disboards.com/forums/disney-restaurants.14/

You only get the 1 night of dining plan per night of resort stay, tickets aren't really matched to that at all (you can get a 2 day ticket on an 8 night package and you would still have to buy 8 nights of dining plan). You have to work pretty hard to make the dining plan a value (it can be done, but half the time I don't want to work that hard, or eat that much).