We usually do the meal-skip thing too, like if we're having a 2TS for dinner then that day we'll snack through the morning and afternoon, then have the dinner kind of early, like 7pm, and then on another day we'll have 2 sets of CS credits. For example, last spring we did dinner at California Grill on Monday evening. So we ate oatmeal in the hotel room that morning, had pretzels and fruit around lunchtime, shared a funnel cake and lemonade slushy in the afternoon, and were ready to eat dinner at 7:00pm. Then, on Wednesday, we had two counter service meals that day and did not book a TS.
When my mom goes, there is a mandatory afternoon tea at the GF, which is not on the
DDP, so it is easier to manage the 2TS thing on those trips.
Sometimes it works out that we arrive later and/or leave earlier, so we just use a CS for dinner on the first night and have the TS left because we don't have time to use it on departure day - so the 2TS fits right into that as well.
If none of these will work, we go oop for the Plaza at MK - it's very reasonable and has long been a family favorite. The cost of dinner here, especially since we usually won't order dessert/app like on the DDP, is much less than any other TS, or less than paying for half of the meal at a 2TS oop.
HTH!
followed by one of those rainbow pops.
and top that with a hand fulll of goofy candy!!
