Full board meal plan

[Portugal1000]

Thinking of upgrading the free half board meal plan to the full board. Can anyone tell me how this works. Says you get 2 credits a day. Is that for two sit down meals a day? Can you use is any restaurants for the set meals? Or is it for just a certain value?
Thanks

 

[DLPdaft]

Thinking of upgrading the free half board meal plan to the full board. Can anyone tell me how this works. Says you get 2 credits a day. Is that for two sit down meals a day? Can you use is any restaurants for the set meals? Or is it for just a certain value?
Thanks

you do know you'll pay the full price of the full board, on top of what you've already paid, yes? Unfortunately you don't get any discount on the full board price if you have "free" half board included.

I wouldn't buy full board, its a lot of food and if you were paying for it all without a meal plan I really don't think many guests at DLP would be using table/buffet service restaurants twice a day for every night of their stay booked (plus breakfast at your hotel every morning).

 

[Portugal1000]

Thanks
The extra cost is £120 for the two of us for 3 nights so £40 a day. I was thinking that as the park hours would probably be shorter we could have a early lunch , 1pm, in the park and then a late dinner in the village or hotel ( thinking of staying at New York ). Would give us something to do at night and get us out of the cold in the day time. Plus I would like to try some of the restaurants. We haven't been since DS was 3. Anyway I will think about it. My 14 year old son as a big appetite so he'll have no problem!

 

[DLPdaft]

Thanks
The extra cost is £120 for the two of us for 3 nights so £40 a day. I was thinking that as the park hours would probably be shorter we could have a early lunch , 1pm, in the park and then a late dinner in the village or hotel ( thinking of staying at New York ). Would give us something to do at night and get us out of the cold in the day time. Plus I would like to try some of the restaurants. We haven't been since DS was 3. Anyway I will think about it. My 14 year old son as a big appetite so he'll have no problem!

You have one set of half board (ie table/buffet service meals) vouchers included in your booking already, which can be used at any of the participating half board restaurants, of any level (they can be used at cash value if you want to use them in a participating restaurant outside of your included plan).

I guess one of my issues with so many buffet/table service meals in one stay is the time it takes you out of the park (for lunch for example) - especially on short park days . We always tend to have our main meal of the day in the evening after park closing on short park days, and if you're staying at the HNY you can have a late breakfast, call it brunch, and then you wouldn't really need £20 each worth of a meal in the middle of the day - we do counter service which fills the gap great (pasta and pizza are our favourites in the parks, or Hakuna Matata if its open).

We're all different though, and I totally understand that the restaurants themselves are an attraction at DLP.

 

[Portugal1000]

Thanks again. Do you know the best place to find DLP restaurant menus. I am expert when it comes to Florida but no idea about DLP!

 

[addverbaan]

You can upgrade now - when I was pricing up my hol with the free half board, it is now listed as an option to upgrade to full board.

 

[DLPdaft]

Thanks again. Do you know the best place to find DLP restaurant menus. I am expert when it comes to Florida but no idea about DLP!

DLPguide.com has a good section on the restaurants and their menus/prices.

 

[DLPdaft]

You can upgrade now - when I was pricing up my hol with the free half board, it is now listed as an option to upgrade to full board.

thanks I didn't know this was possible - I still think its a lot to pay for one extra meal at DLP though, when you've already got breakfast and dinner (and teatime treat) included in the half board plan.

 

[addverbaan]

I agree -we would never get through that much food! But we do have full board booked for our stay next week but that's becaus I am sneaky! We are in the DLH booked for 1 adult and 1 kid and 1 extra adult and child room only with AP's. We are going to spit the vouchers so we can have 4 meals, plus the PG voucher and even compared to getting the 10% AP discount, it is still saving over €70 euros and the PG is a bonus on top

 

[Anemone]

You can upgrade now - when I was pricing up my hol with the free half board, it is now listed as an option to upgrade to full board.

Yes, I was told in June I could upgrade free half board to full board and only pay the difference but couldn't upgrade the category from Plus to Premium unless I paid the full price of Premium HB.

 

[Anemone]

I agree -we would never get through that much food! But we do have full board booked for our stay next week but that's becaus I am sneaky! We are in the DLH booked for 1 adult and 1 kid and 1 extra adult and child room only with AP's. We are going to spit the vouchers so we can have 4 meals, plus the PG voucher and even compared to getting the 10% AP discount, it is still saving over €70 euros and the PG is a bonus on top

Great thinking adverbaan