You might already know this but we were told we had to do the meal plan for the number of nights we are staying. So in our case it is a short trip, we are only staying 4 nights so we had to get the dining for 4 days. I tried to explain that we were arriving in the afternoon the first day and leaving early morning on our last day but they said no it had to be four days. But I suppose you could split up your reservation. Just thought I would let you know how it worked for us.