New with a question

[Forensicmom]

We are planning our first trip and have a question about the dining plan. The Dining Plan offers 1 table service, 1 quick service and 1 snack per person per day.

If we use a quick service as our lunch and a sit down for dinner, what about breakfast? Does that mean that we just have to pay for our breakfast somewhere? Do the hotels offer continental breakfasts? I'm just curious as to how to make this work the best.

 

[Vinnya1726]

Hi,

You would have to pay for your own breakfast. You could possible share one of the quick service meals each day for breakfast and share again for lunch and that would allow you not to spend out of pocket. They give a lot of food for lunch at the parks so that might work for you. Good Luck and have a Magical Trip.

 

[ancestry]

You can use your snack for breakfast. -- a yogurt, or bagel, etc, counts as a snack.

 

[lmbcdb]

We took cereal bars, bananas, yogurt and cheese for breakfast. Granted, though, we drove and brought a mini fridge.

This time, I am having garden grocer deliver cereal bars and bananas to the resort, along with a few other things.

We would eat a cereal bar and something else while waiting for the bus. Then we would usually eat an early lunch (11:00), a good afternoon snack (see THIS thread), a dinner, then later, if necessary, another snack in the room of breakfast stuff. My husband is a big eater and he had plenty to eat.

 

[catne]

Occasionally we split a counter service breakfast, then split a counter service lunch, especially if we know we'll be somewhere like Cosmic Rays where we can get a very large lunch (the ribs & chicken combo meal is plenty of food -- even for 2 over-sized adults, lol.)

After the first day, we rarely get hungry for a snack...the meals at Disney restaurants are generally good-sized portions (unless you get hot dog meals...those are a waste of a credit, IMHO.) So most of the time we just use the daily snack credit right as we leave a park (at a bakery) to get a large pastry to-go (like big apple turnover or cinnamon rolls at Main Street Bakery, Magic Kingdom, for example.) We pack giant ziplock bags and put the pastries in a ziplock when we get back to the room (the pastry boxes are not air-tight...if not put into ziplock, the pastry will be very dried out & stale the next A.M.) We have these pastries the next day for breakfast, usually with coffee we make in the room (usually stay at moderates or deluxe with coffee maker in the room.) Sometimes we buy the mugs and get coffee or soda at food court.

We do pay cash for the occasional extra snack...liike a dole whip...but so often we're full from meals so even those we split sometimes. Mostly, though, we just don't snack much at all. In fact, when we do the deluxe dining, we end up having most of the snacks left over at the end and just get a lot of prepackaged cookies as snacks.

 

[Forensicmom]

Thanks. Two of my girls and I are "light" eaters but we're hungry more often. I just wanted to make sure how to work it out.

So Disney doesn't mind if we share meals? Can we share food credits or does it not matter?

 

[canopynut66]

We are planning our first trip and have a question about the dining plan. The Dining Plan offers 1 table service, 1 quick service and 1 snack per person per day.

If we use a quick service as our lunch and a sit down for dinner, what about breakfast? Does that mean that we just have to pay for our breakfast somewhere? Do the hotels offer continental breakfasts? I'm just curious as to how to make this work the best.

You can upgrade to deluxe and get 3 TS or counters a day and 2 snacks but that is a lot of food unless you want to do a dinner show like Hoop De Do or some signatures where it is 2 TS each meal. we break it up and use a TS for a character breakfast and then have counter service that night then other days may do a signatures and use 2TS and then others use counter for breakfast or a brunch then have TS for dinner. The first day we arrive very early flight so we get settled and go to DTD and eat OOP at rain Forest or T REX go to resort and relax. Then start out next morning with a character breakfast say at Tusker House for Donalds Sarafi or Cape May or Hollywood & Vine/Crystal Palace for breakfast and that will hold us until counter service that nite somewhere. Other days we eat a roll with our snack and get a coffee and then do a brunch at the park we going to and have a TS that night. we are big eaters and we are still left with counter service and snacks on the last day if we do not watch out as once get into that big breakfast or big dinner then seems like we do not snack. we have water sent to resort from garden grocer so do not use snack for that either. we have stayed from deluxe down in the 59 trips and have fell in like with POP and if we say eat a counter there for the evening you can get your receipt stamped and within 90 minutes go back and get a huge sundae or bakery item for your dessert so we are never hungry with the 1 counter 1 TS and a snack more often thatn not we take the snacks home----IF you want to but a breakfast the cheapest is Whispering Canyons for around $11.99 over at WL or Kona's in the Poly starts at $8.99 and they huge breakfast my sister and I split one there. whispering Canyons is a fun place and can get family style breakfast there either OOP or use a TS for it aswell

 

[TDC Nala]

I don't know how many kids you have or how old they are. But if the kids start sharing meals, you may end up with a disproportionate number of kids credits, which may be harder to get rid of if you are looking to do your entire trip without spending any money out of pocket for food, since they can only be used to purchase children's menu meals.

 

[chocolateMinnie]

we order from gardengrocer to top up the meals. While adults meals are quite large the kids portions aren't in general and the choice is not great at cs for kids. We order for water, juice, park snacks and breakfast cereals (plus our USA additions to bring home with us )