ooohhh...my tummy...just back from 7 nights on DDP...

[stinkerbelle]

on the FREE DDP...so that just made it all the more better!!

Let's see...for table service places we went to (all for dinner)

50's Prime Time...always a favorite of ours...had a great meal and some FUNNY servers around us. And evidently my "cousin" was ticked that I didn't like the collard greens and airplane fed them to me.

The Grand Floridian Cafe...this was a last minute pick for us...all our other TS meals were ADR'd months ago...but we got into this one. Was a VERY nice meal in a pretty setting.

Now for what my husband calls the "filet trifecta"...because he had the filet at the following 3 places...3 nights in a row...

California Grill...we celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary there on tuesday night...had sushi, a flat bread, the filets and 2 lovely desserts. Got to see Wishes in the rain...had a seat right by the window...and it seemed every CM in the restaurant wished us a happy anniversary.

Jiko...another of our favorites! Dh had the filet, I changed it up and went with the chicken, with flat breads and the taste of africa for appetizer and 2 great desserts with a presspot of coffee. oh...and you gotta love the african wines!

Le Cellier...this would have been an amazing meal if we didn't have 3 not-so-happy infants at the tables next to us...but, that's disney! The food was still wonderful. This was our first time here and I have to say we will definetly go back! Again, we both had the filets for our main course, also had salad and steak kebobs for app. and the creme brulee sampler was WONDERFUL for dessert.

We overtipped at all these places...we had some great servers and not one bad meal!

We hit all our favorites for counter service (Tusker house - twice!, Cosmic Rays - twice!) Electric Umbrella, Sunshine Season, and the food court at CBR. We ended up using our remaining snacks on drinks at the MNSSHP Friday night...

All in all...it was great going to WDW with money in my pocket...and coming home with over 75% of it still in there! the free DDP was such a treat!

 

[Schucraig]

Glad to hear you had fun! Thanks for the reviews!

 

[stinkerbelle]

oh - and we added it all up afterwards...nearly $600 in both counter service and table service meals! (not sure about snacks...)

 

[suemac]

We overtipped at all these places...we had some great servers and not one bad meal!

I thought DDP included ipt. Am I understanding the plan wrong? or did you just tip additional?

 

[beth_cam]

It does include tip. However it is an 18% tip that there has been great debate as to being too low a tip, especially at non Disney owned restaurants where it seems the waitstaff gets that much less of the tip. People often tip 20-25% at home so many figure they should add extra to make it what their usual tip would be + any added tip they might would give for great service. Tip should also be added for any items not covered from the dining plan. Although it seems that at many places if you order DDP they will automatically tack on an 18% tip to anything else you order.

 

[llqool]

Thanks for the reviews! We had to decide between Jiko and CG for our upcoming trip's one "date night" without kids. We chose CG, but you make me wish we could have gone for Jiko, too! Do you remember what you had for desserts at CG? Have they changed up the desserts since the happiest celebration on earth has ended?