QSDP Benefit

[aljack34]

We are going very soon. I was thinking about adding the qsdp to our reservation but I am trying to see the benefit. If the normal counter service costs between $10 and $13 and a normal snack is around $5, what is the benefit of the qsdp? The way I see it you get 2 counter services at roughly $11 each and one snack being $5 that is $27 a day. The mug averages to $2.83 a day - we are staying 6 nights. So really that is $30 a day I would be spending if I paid out of pocket vs. the $45 a day the plan actually costs to get it. So I am not seeing the benefit other than paying before I go to this plan. Am I not seeing something correctly?

 

[Lisa F]

your QS comes with entree, drink and dessert - drink and dessert can be swapped out for anything else with a snack designation at the same location. You can work it to make it worth it but you'd have to be choosing the more expensive counter service options.

 

[aljack34]

So, I would need to add in the price of a drink and dessert to my $30 total that I have? I thought most counter services included a drink with your meal anyway? Dessert is not all the necessary. So, I should add $3 for a drink with the counter service meal and that would be $30 + $3 + $3 = $36. IF I did want desserts at both of my quick service meals, I would add probably another $5.00 each so that would be $36 + $5 + $5 = $46. That is roughly breaking even. And I don't know if I would need the desserts at both of those counter services as one or two may be breakfasts. I guess I just don't see the cost benefit.

 

[Lisa F]

No, CS do not include drink in the meal - they are separate.

There are plenty of higher priced CS restaurants - Be our guest breakfast or lunch, chicken and/or rib meals at various locations (Cosmic Rays, Flame Tree BBQ), Wolfgang Puck Express in Disney Springs are some... I am sure there are others... all of these are CS options that will run you more than $10-13 for a meal. I'm sure there are more. If you plan to eat at the heavier CS locations and you utilize the dessert credits for sides (ie at Flame Tree you can get the onion rings instead of dessert making it a very sharable meal for two) then you can save a bit. If you just want to eat where you want to eat and what you want to eat and won't get desserts (at some places they are quite nice, like specialty cupcakes... at others they are very generic like prepackaged chocolate cake) then it is not a good value. If you get a kick out of working the plan to its fullest you can save some money.

For example say you are spending the day at MK and go to BoG for Lunch and Cosmic Ray for dinner -

$2.99 drink
braised pork or roast beef sandwich = $16.99
cupcake for dessert = $5
OR swap cupcake for soup $5.99

with soup instead of cupcake you're at $27.66 for lunch with tax

Columbia Harbor House dinner
$2.99 drink
grilled salmon with couscous and broccoli $12.49
seasonal cobbler for dessert $4.29

$21.06 with tax

another $5 on average for a snack and you're about $54 for the day. IMO you have to work too hard for that little bit of savings, i'd rather just order what I want