Help with free dining.

[Aladdin73]

This is my first post after several years of lurking. My wife and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversery in September. I was wanting to know how the free dining worked as far as what you get. Is it the same as what you buy in a package per day ( 1 cs, 1 ts, & 1 snack) or is it different?Thanks in advance for any advice I receive.

 

[iloveeeyore]

Happy Anniversary!

Yes, free dining includes the same thing as the basic (not delux) DDP, only you don't have to pay for it, so you'd get 1 snack, 1 cs and 1 ts meal per night of stay per person. The "value" of free dining is $38 or $39 per day per adult, I think around $10 per day per child. The dining plan is a decent value if you pay for it (depending on where you eat), but a GREAT value for free. For my family of 4, we saved about $1500 on our last trip with free dining (It would have cost around $1000 to buy it, but we ate about $1500 of food. That was when the plan included appies and tips.)

Here's the info on what the plan includes. And it would be free.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-dining-plan.htm

 

[Aladdin73]

Thanks for the info. This is going to be a big surprise for her, so cross your fingers she does not find out.