Is the dining plan worth it for fall?

[1st_trip4us]

We are going to Sea World in November and I've been reading about the dining plan and it sounds great. But in November Sea World is only open til 6pm. First, is that enough time to see and do everything? And second, is the dining plan still worth it? When the park is open til 10pm that's an extra 4 hours, enough time for a whole extra meal. I'm figuring we'll have to eat breakfast before we leave. I cannot imagine we'd be hungry again til about 12:00-1:00. Then try to fit in a whole other meal by 30 minutes before the park closes which would be 5:30. That almost seems like we are eating just to try to get our monies worth. And wasting park time by stopping and eating 2 meals. We are 3 adults and 4 kids. The ages of the kids are 12, 10, 8 & 2. So the 12 & 10 year olds would be $29.99 each. By the time we pay for everyone we are at $165 plus tax. I'm really thinking the dining plan just isn't worth it at that time of year. It's not going to be super hot so we won't have the benefit of grabbing waters every hour, just won't need to hydrate ourselves that much.

Am I missing something or is the dining plan not that great of a deal with the much shorter park hours?

 

[VikingInMouseEars]

Would like to know this too, anyone?

 

[VikingInMouseEars]

Would like to know this too, anyone?

 

[VikingInMouseEars]

Would like to know this too, anyone?

 

[tarrbear]

I'm going to say no it won't be worth it, yes you will be able to see everything during that day but I don't think the meal deal would be worth it, After lucnh you probably won't be hungry till park closing time or later, it would probably be easier and cheaper to just pay out of pocket including a lunch then a snack later in the afternoon.

 

[Priorityonecb]

We decided against it for this reason in the fall. I think we'd feel we had to "squeeze" in dinner before closing to get our monies worth. We plan to have lunch in the park (sharing, we don't eat a ton of food when it's hot out) and then grab something simple for dinner that night on our way back to Disney.