Magic Your Way Dining

[yazbosox]

Magic your way dining plan

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Has anyone used the Magic Your Way Dining plan? Our family, 9yr. old, 5yr old and 7months are going Christmas week 2005. We have already booked ADR for dinners. How is counter service? Snack? What can you get? Our plan was to use the counter service for lunch. We are small breakfast eaters, and plan on bringing small cereal boxes and picking up bagle and fruit at the resort before heading out. We were also going to bring granola bars and other snacks to munch during the day. Has anyone used this plan

 

[disneymagic02]

We just got back and used the Magic Your Way Dining, it was great, we had too much food and some of the dinners we had like Cali Grill and Le Cellier were well over $100.00 and there was just me and my DH. Counter service you get one drink, entree and desert, at some CS they only have 1 desert to choose from but that was not an issue for us. I can not speak for the snack options because we used all of ours for the Food and Wine Festive(well worth it). Last night I went through our reciepts and added up what we spent to see if the package was worth it and we saved over $250.00. If you have any other questions I will be glad to anwser them for you.

 

[dandelion garden]

Lots of folks post their experiances using the dining plan. There are some really great reports that can help you plan out your ADR's and even your menu choices!

I started out reading trip reports on this board. Then I moved onto dining reports.

Since then, I think I've gained at least a few pounds just looking at pics of people's meals

 

[Hopefully]

We (DH, DadultS, and myself) used the MYW Dining Plan on October 16th - October 23rd. We paid $735 for 3 adults for 7 nights. Our receipts totaled $1168.84 - a savings of over $400 for the 3 of us.
We would normally eat a TS meal every day on vacation. We have been to Disney numerous times, and were not concerned about maximizing park touring hours. I had read the menus on allearsnet.com before making a decision whether to buy the plan or not, and decided it would work for us. Without trying to "maximize" the plan or "get our money's worth", we ate where we wanted and we ordered what we wanted to eat.
You do need to have pre-planned your meals and have made ADR's for the TS restautants. Walk ups were being turned away most everywhere. I have seen multiple posts from people who were unhappy about the amount of time a TS meal took - start to finish - but it was what we expected of a Table Service meal. (Not Quick, Not Prolonged)
We too are small breakfast eaters.
CS was mainly lunch each day with entree (Sandwich, Salad, Burger and fries etc) a drink and a dessert. As another poster said, some location only had one choice of desert. We found most CS lunches to be very good, and actually more food than we would have ordered otherwise. We ate at Peco Bill's, Columbia Harbour House, Tusker House, Cantina de San Angel, Backlot Express etc. Our expectations were for "fast food" and we were never disappointed. Our favorite was the Columbia Harbour House, with the Tusker House a close second.
We also used our snack credits at the Food and Wine Festival, a great surprise.
We ate our TS meals at: Rose & Crown, with an Illuminations view (great!), Yachtsman's Steakhouse, Teppanyaki in Japan, Morrocco for lunch, "OHana, and Le Cellier.
The plan was very worth it for us and we enjoyed it greatly, as well as saving over what we spent.