Food budget based on days and family size.

[Anne5555]

For our two visits we used free dining promotions. My husband doesn't want to go there without it because most of the restaurants we like are so crazy expensive. The princess lunch in Norway for 3 disney adults and 1 child was about $200! Since the plan allows two meals per day, we usually eat breakfast in our room, (cereal, fruit, and milk,) eat a counter service lunch and a table service dinner. It also saves a lot of time in the morning and lets us start hitting attractions as soon as we get to the park. And we don't want to get up extra early to have breakfast in the park or at the resort before ropedrop.

If you don't use free dining you can save by eating some meals in your room and visiting the better counter service restaurants with a few splurges on table service. The resorts often have better restaurants than the parks.

 

[SMD]

For our two visits we used free dining promotions. My husband doesn't want to go there without it because most of the restaurants we like are so crazy expensive. The princess lunch in Norway for 3 disney adults and 1 child was about $200! Since the plan allows two meals per day, we usually eat breakfast in our room, (cereal, fruit, and milk,) eat a counter service lunch and a table service dinner. It also saves a lot of time in the morning and lets us start hitting attractions as soon as we get to the park. And we don't want to get up extra early to have breakfast in the park or at the resort before ropedrop.

If you don't use free dining you can save by eating some meals in your room and visiting the better counter service restaurants with a few splurges on table service. The resorts often have better restaurants than the parks.

First, this is a 4 1/2 year old thread, so for anyone using it as a baseline, the numbers no longer apply. There have been resort wide increases on everything, even drinks. Second, DLR has no dining plan at all, let alone free dining.

 

[Malcon10t]

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[mommamonster]

With myself, my DH, 9y/o and 5y/o sons your original budget was really similar to ours with the last trip. We got by spending approximately that (40/60/100$ for B/L/D) but I like to add about 30$ a day for snacks and treats because we usually end up grabbing popcorn or a churro once a day.

With our upcoming trip I am helping my mom budget and we decided to use the menus from disney's dining website to calculate. We are ending up with about 1700$ for the five of us for 5 days, but taking into consideration we are planning F! and WOC dining packages, and my husband and I will do a night at Napa Rose with what I can expect to be a 200$ dinner when all is said and done. Then I rounded it up to 2000$ to include treats and tax/gratuities. It is by far our most dining-centric trip though, my mom and I love to eat during vacation

I have also budgeted 100$ a day by (traveling via car and ice chest to our good neighbor hotel) keeping/eating breakfast, packing in "lunch" consisting of hearty snacks, and only buying dinner and a treat at the parks.

Edited to add: Well, I feel silly. I didn't read the whole thread through first and didn't pay attention to the date it posted originally. Well, I hope someone finds my info interesting, lol.

 

[love2go2disney2]

Our family of 5, budget 250 a day for food. We have a 12,10 and 7 yo. We frequent Disneyland often.