Our Dining Plan 12/15-22, Your Thoughts Appreciated!!!

[Maverick]

Hello everyone! Looking for feedback on our dining plans for December 15-22. A few notes:

1. Party of 4. 2 adults, 2 kids (both boys age 16 and they are SKINNY, but can eat a horse!!!! I'm jealous!!!!!)

2. We are on the Disney Dining plan for 7 nights.

3. We arrive late on December 15, so we will not be using any credits that day.

4. Unless otherwise noted, breakfast is doughnuts / pop tarts / bagels in the room.

Friday - December 16:

Lunch - Pecos Bill's (Counter)
Dinner - Electric Umbrella (Counter)

Saturday - December 17:

Lunch - Sci Fi (Table)
Dinner - Cinderella's Royal Table (Table)

Sunday - December 18:

Lunch - Flame Tree BBQ (Counter)
Dinner - Spoodles (Table)

Monday - December 19:

Lunch - Hard Rock Cafe (Universal)
Dinner - Rosie's All American Cafe (Counter)

Tuesday - December 20:

Breakfast - Crystal Palace (Table)
Dinner - Le Cellier (CP Package - Table)

Wednesday - December 21:

Lunch - Backlot Express (Counter)
Dinner - Hoop De Doo (2 Table Credits)

Thursday - December 22

Earl of Sandwich (Counter)

Based on the above information, we'll each have a counter service left over for a food court breakfast one day of our choosing. (Or something else???)

I honestly believe the dining plan will be too much food for my wife and me. We are already talking about sharing some counter meals so we don't OVEREAT and then the boys can have midnight meals at the food court. We could share some table service meals as well, but wouldn't be able to use the ones that are left over.

Regardless.... The math and the menus tell me we should come out pretty good on the deal, but we'll be spending about $300 more on food than we've ever spent before. So.... While the plan is a good deal, Disney will still get more of our money. Ironic, eh???

Let me know what you think about our plan!

Thanks,
Mav

 

[Piglet99645]

WOW. You are ORGANIZED!!

Just wanted to comment that if you have table service credits left over, other posters have indicated that you CAN use those for counter service instead...

Also, we just did the dining plan for 4 days, and we foudn that we shared meals with our 5yo quite a bit, and had extra meals. You and your wife may want to share meals and eat more often to keep your energy up......

Don't forget about your snacks. We couldn't use ours up, and ended up getting mickey rice krispy bars to take home....

I found the dining plan very rewarding - mainly in that it forced me to sit down and eat once a day for TS, when otherwise I would have just pressed on with only counter service and worn myself out every day. Also, I liked that I ate at some more expensive restaurants that I would have passed up if I had been paying the prices on the menu.

Have fun!

Piglet

 

[twinsmamma]

Hey your plans sound good. Me and my boys, twins 12 will also be going to the world that week. We are also eating at cindarellas the 17 for dinner We are going to eat at le cellier the first night, planet hollywood the second, crystal palace lunch and cindarella the 17th, sci-fi late lunch 18th, le original de alfredo 19th, chef mickeys 20th, 1900 park fare breakfast, and fultons crab house th 21st, and just lunch at hotel the last day. Hope you have a great time and pray that it is not too cold that week I know I am. Where are you staying, on site? We are trying the Pop just becasue it is new and we dont spend too much time at the hotel anyway.

 

[unixadm]

Sounds great! Looks like you booked some of the same places we did when we went in September....you can read my reviews with photos HERE


The places we have in common are:

Pecos Bills', Cinderella's Royal Table, Spoodles (our Favorite), Le Cellier, and Sci-Fi

Oh...and if you want to see organized.......take a look at my ITINERARY!

People at work laughed at me, and even my wife was amazed at the time I put into it....but it paid off....We were able to hit tons of rides with no lines (Used TGM's advice to do daily touring plans....removed the TGM specific info from there due to the agreement), and my wife was amazed.