I'm so upset - DH says NO TABLE SERVICE MEALS :(

[marriedmarylander]

I told him I swear a month ago I was booking character dining, CRT, etc..now all of a sudden he swears I never told him and is saying I'm spending too much money and that we can't eat any Table Service meals and we have to eat at McDonald's the whole time. I'm soooo upset I just want to cancel the whole vacation. I've spend a lot of time planning, reading websites, asking advise and he has done absolutely nothing. I feel so heart-broken now. I am looking forward to Disney but I don't want to go if it's so difficult for him anyhow. I'm wondering why I just didn't go by myself. It's suppose to be an anniversary vacation and all it's turned into is a mess. He isn't even looking forward to going to anything except IoA so I dont understand why I didn't just go to Disney by myself.

He said even not mcdonalds just eat at the stands and spend $30 a day total on each of us and drink water out of the fountain and not get any sodas the whole time.

 

[ducklite]

There's now way that the average adult can eat McDonalds all week without being ill.

I would flat out agree on a dining budget and be creative. A late chracterbreakfast can serve as lunch as well. Maybe go offsite for a few meals to save some money, or breakfasts in your room.

Anne

 

[weregoingtodw]

I told him I swear a month ago I was booking character dining, CRT, etc..now all of a sudden he swears I never told him and is saying I'm spending too much money and that we can't eat any Table Service meals and we have to eat at McDonald's the whole time.

YIKES! Is he open to ideas? Could you maybe shave a day or two off the trip instead? Maybe going off property for a meal, buying groceries, something else to save money? I don't think my tummy could stand that for even one day! There are definitely other ways to cut costs other than not eating well. The TS lunch menus definitely less expensive than dinner menus. Kids can split meals/share with their parents at the non-buffet restaurants. Agree to compromise - breakfast in the room, table service lunch with children sharing, don't order sodas, counter service or eating off property for dinner. Eating at McD's every day will likely end with one or more of you stuck in the room with a sick tummy.

Keep us posted on this one! Good luck!

 

[laurabelle]

I agree with Anne, there are lots of creative ways to work it out. We don't do table service for all meals. I'm doing my PS' for my July trip this week. We'll only do 1 breakfast (character) and 2 dinners in 9 days for table service/buffets. The rest are the latest lunchs we can book. Chefs De France and Coral Reef both have lunch specials, soup, entree and dessert for $14.99 & $20.00 respectively. We'll be in a villa and do all but that one breakfast there and have the makings for small meals & snacks. There are lots of good counter service places in the parks, esp. at Epcot. Typically we have one big meal a day at the parks and fill in with snacks (not always sugary junky stuff either, though there's plenty of that too!) And there's always offsite places to eat too. HTH

 

[marriedmarylander]

All I have is about 3 meals - two dinners and breakfast. Originally there was 4. He says 3 is too many. Maybe we can do 1 but not 3.

Some of the stuff like H&V fantasmic is a buffet so you have to pay for each person, no sharing. We could share at CRT of course. Character meals are all you can eat per person costs as well.

I mentioned the dining packaged ($35 per person per day) and he blew up saying that' stoo expensive and if we spent $35 per person a day is a lot of food and we only need $15 for each of us a day to eat

 

[laurabelle]

I would drop the breakfast if you had to drop something...what are the other dinners?

 

[marriedmarylander]

I would drop the breakfast if you had to drop something...what are the other dinners?

Hollywood&Vine Fantasmic dinner
Cinderella's Royal Table dinner(tried lunch but no PS available)

The breakfast was our character meal.

Also, H&V is on Monday and CRT is on Tuesday. Sounds kinda silly to me to have the only TS meals on back to back days doesn't it?

 

[ducklite]

we only need $15 for each of us a day to eat

He's out of his mind. You can't eat at Mc Donalds for $15 a day.

Leave him home, and have a great trip!

Anne

 

[patsal]

I have a great idea, leave him home and go alone. That will double what is available for your food budget! Seriously though, I would tell him he can eat at McD if he wants but your doing ... Maybe you could start shaving money from your household food budget to add to your vacation budget? If I had to cut things I think I would cut the breakfasts and eat late lunches.

 

[pbharris4]

I'd drop breakfast as well. Maybe you can negoitate $22.50. That way maybe you can do a buffet once a day or every other day. Bring snacks from home (and drinks). You can also share some things (the hot dogs are HUGE). I just don't see how it can be done for $15/pp a day. Our food budget is THE most expensive thing on the trip. We eat dinner at a sit down every night and sometimes lunch too. (We like to eat out and be waited on-besides I cook all the time anyway and I'm on vacation, too :0) ) Or maybe for a sit down meal..you can do breakfast and do counter service for the other meals. Or switch it up. Breakfast and lunch sit downs are cheaper than the dinner ones. My DH tried to pull the counter service thing on me before, I knew it wouldn't work. He ate greasy cheeseburgers, chicken strips and hot dogs for 2 days and got sick from all the grease... now we do some of both. It was a hard lesson he learned, but he asked for it! I am sure you guys can come to some sort of agreement. Try not to let it ruin your vacation.

 

[EeyorePrincess79]

Maybe it would be best if y'all sat down and wrote out a budget for the trip. My DF sometimes thinks things will be too expensive but then we figure it out and it makes more sense. If you DH sits down and thinks about it, he may realize that $15/per person/per day is not necessarily realistic. Maybe you could agree on one character meal and then eat your other meals elsewhere. For instance, there are several cheaply priced buffets on the outskirts of WDW property as well as diners and some of the restaurants in the parks are not too expensive if you find the right ones. I like the steak house in epcot in canada. It wasn't too high priced. Also, many smaller places although they seem expensive, the portions are large enough to share. Good luck!

 

[Spoisal]

I agree with what some of the other's have said. I would do breakfast in the room (donuts, patries, breakfast bars) and then have a BIG lunch as late as your stomach can allow.....then have a snack & dessert around dinner time. Do you eat out at home? Do you have an entertainment budget? Maybe you could tell him that you will sacrifice at home (no eating out, etc) & put that money toward your vacation dining budget?? Just a thought....

 

[hannahouse]

He went from wanting to eat at Fultons to McD's? Indulge in with his choices, and maybe he'll lighten up on the food budget. I don't think there is any way you can eat on $15.00/day!!

 

[pbharris4]

Better yet...give him $15 a day and tell him that he can eat on that. You keep the money you would have spent on groceries for that week and any thing else you can and go have a nice wonderful meal with Mickey and the gang!

 

[leighe]

He's out of his mind. You can't eat at Mc Donalds for $15 a day.

Leave him home, and have a great trip!

Anne

ITA
I don't think DH and I can eat here (in Kentucky) for $15 a day.

Why don't you get on allearsnet.com and show him that counter-service really isn't that much cheaper than sit down - especially if he thinks you are going to eat 2-3 counter service meals vs. one sit-down a day.

 

[marriedmarylander]

I honestly and so mad at him.
I bring up the fact that HE just has to go to Islands of Adventure for a day. That's tickets and transporation right there $150!!! Whenever I bring that up he just brings up the fact that Disney tickets cost $240 each (or something like that). ***??????? Disney was the priority here and we had to get at least 4 days to go to 4 parks anyhow and 6 days tickets were only couple bucks more! Then he rambles on how the only reason he agreed to go to Disney was if he got to go to Islands of Adventure. Now he argues with me over a meal that cost about $50???

Is it me or does he have no real point ??? He keeps saying Disney is more expensive than Islands of Adventure.. well maybe it is if we went to Universal parks for a whole week but we aren't.

He drives me absolutely nuts. I'm about to just go alone and tell him to go to Islands of adventure alone and we'll meet up at the end.

 

[Ilovestitch]

Why don't you tell him that eating some table service meals is important to YOU and and if he cares about you then he would compromise at least. Tell him you aren't traveling thousands of miles to eat the same mcdonalds stuff you could eat at in maryland.

Has he been to WDW before? Before my bf ever went he was more interested in Universal, but once we got there he said he likes WDW more. A lot of people who've never been just don't know what to expect. I'm sure it will be ok once you get there. CBR is my favorite moderate, really has a relaxed atmosphere and nice CM's.

 

[Spoisal]

Better yet...give him $15 a day and tell him that he can eat on that. You keep the money you would have spent on groceries for that week and any thing else you can and go have a nice wonderful meal with Mickey and the gang!

OMG! I laughed out loud when I read that! I don't even know if you meant it to be funny!! I LOVE that - "give HIM $15 a day!"

 

[newholidayx2]

Id go without him! oh ya, we are

 

[marriedmarylander]

Why skip breakfast?

It seems Mickey mouse (my favorite) only comes to breakfasts except CM dinner buffet. With us being at CBR and a meal already planned at MK (could change it to CM?) I didn't know about taking another bus way up to MK to transfer to the Contemporary on a day we already have another park planned. . we don't have a car.

I don't know anymore.