Meal Vouchers Questions - Specifically for Kids meals

[Auroras Mummy]

Hi everyone

We (my DH, DD(5) and DD(2)) are travelling to DLP for the first time at the end of the month. We have booked meal vouchers as we have heard that eating out can be very expensive - and me and my DD's have to have our 3 meals a day or we'll turn into monsters (my DH can vouch for that!).

Anyway, my question is, we have paid for our 5 year olds meal voucher but didn't have to pay for the 2 year old. So how does it work? Do we have to pay for her meal separately, does she get them free of charge, or are the kids meals large enough that they could share?

Also, I guess this would be different for each family, but given all our meals have been paid for, does anyone have any idea how much spending money we should take?

Thank you all so much for your help in advance.

 

[Strawberryblush]

If you eat in a buffet restaurant - your 2 year old can eat free. At table service restaurants you can rather share your meals with your 2 year old or pay for them to have a meal.

When we went in 2010 we just shared our meals with our 2 year old because she was fussy and would hardly touch a thing anyway.

Spending money is a hard one -
When we went in 2010 for 6 days we took £500 and come back with £120. Breakfast and dinner were covered already (vouchers for dinner) so we only used the money we ended up spending on drinks, ice-cream, snacks and souveniers. We didn't eat lunch every day...sometimes we just grabbed a snack.

This time we are going for 7 days and taking £650. We have breakfast and dinner covered already (again using vouchers) so we'll be using the above amount for drinks, ice-cream, souveniers and we plan on eating lunch everyday this time too. We'll also be dining at Inventions for dinner and having breakfast there one morning too so that will be around £150 (on top of vouchers) out of the above just for those two.

We could easily spend less than that if we didn't buy what we like while we are there.... so really it just depends on how mad money wise you want to go really.


Forgot to add - That was for 2 adults and 3 small children.

 

[Auroras Mummy]

Brilliant - Thank you very much!

 

[K8T]

Sorry to jump on this thread, but with the half board plus can you choose what you want off the menu and do you have a set price you have to keep to or pay more?

I bought the half board but not sure how it works!!

 

[jothp]

there will be a set menu you can eat from without extra charge. If you want to order other things from the menu then you can but then you may have extra to pay. The vouchers have a face value which will be taken off your bill and you just pay the difference.

To OP we tend to allow the children about E50 each to choose a couple of souvenirs. Me and DH then usually buy a couple of mugs each for about E20 and as a family we choose some xmas decorations and spend about E30. We normally take bottled water/capri sun with us as drinks are very expensive in the parks. We then have to buy our meals but don't really tend to snack in between. If you look on the restaurant review stickys or on dlrp magic you will find restaurant menus so you can work out what extra you might spend on food.

 

[K8T]

Thank you, that helps.