Dump my silver plan?

[indyanna]

This is our first trip to Disney, and I'm sooo confused! We've booked seven nights at the Wilderness Lodge and added on the Silver Plan. We're a family of four with 2 kids ages 8 and 11. I just read about the concierge service and started thinking that light meals there might be better than purchasing the Silver plan and using it for meals. Is it likely that we will spend about $1800 during our trip on food? It seems it might be a lot cheaper to just drop the package and spend as we go even if we choose to eat a few nice dinners and do some extras.

Help! I need some opinions!

 

[CEDmom]

We (DH, DD-3 1/2 and I) were at WL earlier this month. We upgraded to conceirge for $45 a night and it was worth every penny. We had breakfast every morning and made dinner out of the evening refreshments. I would drop the silver plan if I were you. Unless you are really big eaters or your kids love fancy restaurants you'd be hard pressed to spend over $250 a day on food which is about what you'd have to do just to break even. Even if you can't get the upgrade a lot of the food at Roaring Forks isn't too overpriced. Also, the Merchantile has a decent food selection that is a little cheaper.

Have a great trip. We loved the Lodge!!

 

[Pamlur]

We are going in September; 7 adults, a "junior", a child and an infant (who eats a LOT). I had added the Silver Plan, but when I started really researching the menu prices, I dropped it. If we didn't have the kidlets along, we might spend that much, but we are going specifically BECAUSE of them and we don't want to force-feed ourselves. I was doing it more for convenience, but it will be just as convenient to have everybody charge their meals to their room and put our credit card on all the rooms.

We know up front that we won't be doing any of the spa treatments, we can't do the tours because the kidlets are too young, and we won't be renting water sports equipment. It wasn't going to be a good thing for us.

But we are staying at BCV, so concierge isn't in our plans, either.

 

[indyanna]

Thank you so much for the input. I'm going to ahead and change my reservation to eliminate the plan. I'm assuming this won't a problem if my trip isn't until late October, right?