Is the DDP worth it for me?

[MBELSANTI]

Hi!
In the past we've either had free dining or we used our DVC and only needed to add the DDP as we had annual passes. I haven't purchased a package with room, tickets and DDP in years. Is it worth it? I know it will be the only way that I can have DDP. I enjoy to dine in nice restaurants on my vacation and like planning the ADR's, but would I be better to go out of pocket for food? We are going for 7 nights and arriving late the first day and leaving early on the last, so we will lost out a full day technically. I guess I can plan to have a character breakfast as well as dinner ADR on one day, but I am doing Weight Watchers, so I think that would be too much food for 1 day if you know what I mean LOL! I guess I could book 1 night in room alone and then start the package the next day, but with my luck I will need to do a room change (which I have done in the past and really don't want to do that again ). So do you all feel its worth it? I was planning on getting only 5 or 6 day park hoppers. Thank you in advance for your advice!

 

[cluvsdisney]

The only way to tell is to go through the menus and figure out how much it would cost you to eat what you think you would order vs the cost of the plan.

It doesn't work for us b/c we don't eat desserts with each meal and we seem to prefer having a TS lunch and winging it for dinner. There is no way we could even come close to breaking even on the DP.

 

[navywifetill2002]

How many meals do you think you'll actually use if you don't have the plan? Would having the plan cause you to eat more then you really want to? Would you use the "extra" credit for a special 2 credit dinner so you don't feel like you're wasting it?

We were planning on staying off property with DH's hotel points (free) but I knew I wanted to do lots of character dining with DD. When I started adding up what we were going to be spending I had food sticker shock! The price of my TS meals and tickets was just $250 less then staying at a Value with the upgraded "free" dining and that includes 8 QS & 8 snackcs. So for me it was a no brainer to save the hotel points for our next vacation and stay at a value resort.

 

[MBELSANTI]

The desserts are what I fear the most... I need to really stay away from those if I am going to be sticking to my WW plan while I am there... I think if I have DDP I might be tempted to over indulge. I really enjoy the TS restaurants and so does my son. We both like what happens to be the most expensive thing on the menu so it was always worth doing DDP for us. I think I am going to lose $$ when it comes to the tickets...when I took the cost of the room alone and added DDP and then subtracted from the package with length of stay passes, it seemed like the tickets were way more expensive than if I would buy them alone...has anyone else found this to be true?