Prices for dining plan

[snyderla]

Dining plan is worth the price for sure IF you eat at least 1 table service meal per day. DH & I eat breakfast in our room usually, but do eat at Trail's End for breakfast at least once each trip. We usually only eat a table service meal once or twice per trip. Otherwise it's Trail's End for lunch once or twice(about $12 per adult) and counter service. We each only spend about $25 per day on food. And most of the time we only eat 2 meals per day because we are so busy with other things we don't think about the fact that we need food! (One of the comments heard most often by people we take to WDW that have already gone with us before is "BUT WE HAVE TO STOP TO EAT THIS TIME!" Imagine those poor, starving people that are trying to keep up with us as we forge through the parks from 1 attraction/ride to the next! I am so ashamed.)

 

[raven69david]

For me and my wife, we added what our previous trips cost us for eating only (we kept track of our meals our last 2 trips and entered them in our computer for future reference) and the dining plan definetly was not the best for us. For $80.00 a day for both of us, we would waste money in the long run. Sure we have character dinings and the such, but after that and regular meals/snacks, we end up saving in the long run. For 7 days, we do not eat or spend nearly $600.00 in a week for food. I'm sure it's convenient to have the DDP, but for our family it's definetly not cost effective. I believe others have posted on this issue and have stated that they had remaining vouchers or whatnot left over from their DDP...which is money thrown away. Anyway, for those families that use it and benefit from it great. I personally do not like to have to pick & choose what i can or cannot have based on the DDP allowance per day.