Half Board Option - Advice Please!

[Queenie]

Hi everyone,

I've been having a look around and so far have been quoted 157.20 per person for a three night stay using the 2 for 3 option and flying with Jet2 which is a fantastic price. We're toying with the idea of going - although the price is good we've both just spent £1,500 on our WDW trip so money's tight.

I'm trying to find out about the half board supplement but can't find much on the website, website didn't even give me the 3 for 2 option which is in the brochure. The brochure seems to say that if we stay 3 nights, we can add on a half board option for £42, is that right? If so is that the total cost?

The brochure also mentions something about hotel restaurants but it's not very clear. We'd be staying in the Santa Fe so does anyone know where we could eat if we used the plan? Is it just at the hotel restaurant? Has anyone used this before and it it any good? I assume the £42 only covers one meal per adult per day or does it include lunch as well?

Any advice appreciated!

 

[Miffy2003]

I've not come across this myself so I can't help - anyone else??

 

[disneyangel]

I think you get a meal at the hotel restaurant you stay at or a menu pluto voucher to use in the park which would get you a burger/fries/juice and a yogurt/cake. I'm not completely sure though as I thought I'd seen this in a brochure but can't find it now !

 

[Cyrano]

I've had a look at the downloaded brochure 2005/06.
If I understand it it is for one meal only per day. Cheyenne and Santa Fe hotel only.
Cheyenne is the only hotel where you can take a lunch option.
Adults option - 1 starter, 1 main course, 1 dessert, 50cl mineral water, 1 coffee

Reid

 

[Ware Bears]

I've found a tiny paragraph on page 38 of the Disney winter brochure which says:

QUOTE: When staying at Disney's Hotel Cheyenne and Santa Fe for a 2 night stay minimum, you can purchase the "Half board" option: a complete meal in a themed restaurant in one of these hotels!UNQUOTE

Then in the brochure's price guide (page 14) it says:

QUOTE: Meal dinners are available in these hotel restaurants (lunch only at disney's Hotel Cheyenne)...UNQUOTE

I take it to mean you can choose either lunch or dinner (if both were included they would call it fullboard) and that you can choose to eat in the evening at either Cheyenne or Santa Fe but only at Cheyenne at lunchtime.

Hope this is some help. Personally I wouldn't want to do it, I think it is tying you down to your hotel too much. If you want to budget as much in advance as possible I would think it better to go for the meal voucher like Kaye suggested on another thread, that option gives you more choice of restaurants and doesn't mean you have to go back to your hotel to eat your lunch/dinner.

 

[Miffy2003]

Now that I understand what this is, I agree with Elaine - one of the great things about DLP is the range of dining options - even when on a tight budget you can try many different places and it would be a shame to be restricted, I think.

Also - is the £42 each or all together? If the former, that that seems pretty pricey.

 

[Queenie]

I've had a look at the meal vouchers and I'm not really sure if they're for us, we rarely eat a starter and dessert each, we normally share between us. We also don't really eat at the table service places - we had to ask for plain stuff even in Annette's (for an idea of how unadventurous we are with food, when we went to WDW this year I wanted to eat at a Disney table service restaurant on my birthday. I went on allearsnet and read the menus of every table service restaurant in every park. The only one that had a menu we would eat any entrees on was The Plaza!)

 

[bonhoga]

The meal vouchers don't have to be exchanged for a three course meal - most of our family do this only because we really enjoy our food!!!! But we have at times used the vouchers instead of cash [even in places like Caseys - can't remember the full name - hot dog cafe]they are obviously much better value if you exchange them for a full meal, but even then there are options. If you don't like a starter, or aren't big eaters you could just pick a lower value meal voucher - it would be a lot cheaper than the half board option and would give you a bit more choice! However if food isn't a major player in your holiday the half board option would make life very simple, we just like to try all the different venues................Good luck whatever you decide

Kaye