mousefanmichelle
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- Jun 29, 2006
comicguy said:For us in August Me, DW, and DS(13) Receipts totals just over 1800.00 for 10 days. The dining plan would have been about 1200.00 for the 10 days for the 3 of us(but of course we had free dining so we really saved!! ) If we had bought the plan we would have saved 600.00 dollars.
Not flaming... don't think you will be flamed for the post. Where does the $1800 come from. Assuming 2 adults and 3 kids for 7 nights it would be around $800 for the dining plan. Even with 2 adults, 2 teens, and 1 child it should be under $1000. So lets say $900. Still a lot more than the $400 that you can feed your familiy for a week for but not $1400 more.
I think the dining plan is only a factor if you plan to eat on property alot. They will add up fast.
The thing to factor in (and the reason each person should do their dining budget to figure it out-all the menus are on the web) it that just one trip to Chef Mickeys with a family of 5 will blow over 25% of your food budget. So even if you just plan on doing few meals on property you may get closer to that $900 than you thought.
Nicknamy - I guess this is what I meant by the $1800 bucks spent on food for a family of 3. Yikes! I could never imagine spending that - ever - dining plan or no dining plan. I am thinking that you would get the dining plan so that you can eat at the better restaurants on site and that is great and when my kids are old enough to appreciate really good, expensive food - you know when they can pay for it themselves - I would maybe consider this for DH and I. Like I said I am a cheapskate out-to-dinner kinda person.