food plan?

[DisneyDude61]

I know this has been asked before, but I have never done a plan before and I dont know if i should do one now. This trip is just my husband who will be returning from Irag and myself. I can stay at SOG and do tickets/ food seperate, but I can do Package, stay at Beach club, with food and tix. Is the food plan worth it? It would be about 700. more if I do the disney package compared to staying at sog and doing it seperate. I dont know how the food plan works, and we arn't breakfast people, just coffee and go. Also, our flight arrives at 7, so I kinda feel the first day would be a waste. Can I book package for 4 days, but only get food for 3?
TIA

 

[BeckWhy]

You get the meals for the number of nights you will be staying. For example, I will be staying 6-nights & 7-days. We will only get 6 QS, 6 TS, and 6 snacks for our entire trip.

Now, you can mix and match. You can eat at 2 TS restaurants a day or whatever until you run out of credits.

A lot of people think that the dining plan is a lot of food. And yes, it is. But I went through and figured if when we got QS it was an Entree/Combo, Drink & Dessert and when it was TS it was only an Entree and Drink. For us it still saved us money. Obviously the more food you order (and the more expensive) the more money you will save. But the dining plan only costs $37.99 a day, and I had assumed $35 a day before and that was just 2 QS and a snack a day. So for me it was worth the $3 more for the dining plan.

If you want to know what our basic schedule looks like so you can get a better idea, just message back here again or PM me or whatever. I'm more than willing to help.

 

[jonimce]

Think about your usual dining needs. I think with your DH comming home he would just love to do the TS meals in some of the best Rest. Our checks for these dinner's where always any where from 100.00 to 175.00 per meal for two. At 37.00 a day it's a real bargan. We payed much more in the past but had 2 TS's a day. That was also worth it. If you can afford it, give DS a real treat.

 

[JackJenson]

and I would have to say that for our family of 4, we spent about the same amount of money on food that we would have spent on the dining plan, but we saved huge dollars on the accommodations.

Think of it this way, the question should really be whether staying at the Beach Club is worth the extra money, because there is no way that staying at S of G without the dining plan you would spend that extra $700.

Especially if you are breakfast on the go type people, you could eat very well at the resort and all over the World and still not pay more than the dining plan. You wouldn't get all of the extra snacks and desserts probably, but with that I think that there is a lot of waste. We realized on our trip that our room was so reasonable (and rememeber, no 11% tax on the room rate or tax on admission media either) so that we didn't skimp on food at all, but we didn't end up spending more than we would on the meal plan.

Also, we really liked the convenience of the monorail and TTC at Shades of Green. Sometimes we walked to the Poly, we used the shady shuttle to take us to the Poly, and we also used the SoG busses to take us to the TTC for the express MK and Epcot monorails. Going to the other parks, the busses run every hour on the half hour (starting at either 0730 or 0830, depending on park opening) and SoG has a PRIMO bus parking spot at the TTC which saves lots of steps during bus transfers.

When I was at the pool or in the hot tub I met lots of military people, retired admiral, and a general, air force people, and Army people back from Iraq. What stories they had! (DH is a less dramatic DoD civilian employee here at home) It was very nice, and I am pretty picky. OK, very picky.

Of course, you can't lose with the Beach Club either, it is like picking between ice cream flavors, they are all great.

By the way, thank your DH for us, will you?

Jen

 

[jonimce]

YES! Thank him and tell him we are so proud of him.