Should we get the Dining plan?

[kandb]

Help me decide. Myself and twin college aged children are planning on a trip to WDW for Jan. 2026. We did a Jan. 2025 trip and loved it. We love Ohana, Yak N Yedi, Steakhouse 71, Via Napoli, Teppan Edo and we loved to have a cocktail or two every day. We are most likely going to stay at a value resort and spend our 4 full days in the parks and eating and drinking, Lol. We will have alcohol with lunch and dinner. I will get the dining plan if Ohana's included and some other good restaurants. I will look at the cost and price of meals at the restaurants. Anyone get the DDP and glad they did? It gets alot of, "not worth it".

 

[NYCgrrl]

Sounds like the restaurants you mentioned are all on the TS version of the dining plan. The easiest way to figure out if the plan will work for you financially is to compare prices. Currently the plan is about $ 98.00 p/p.

HTH and have fun.

 

[Mouse Tracker]

use a dining calculator to figure your anticipated choices. DDP= 1 TS, 1 QS (both allow an alcohol drink with meal)

 

[disneydreamer1980]

As others said, compare what you’d spend without it to the cost of the plan. I would go through the menus, figure out what you’d most likely order and add it up and see if you come ahead with the DDP. Most people don’t. And remember tips not included. The restaurants you’ve listed, other than Ohana, aren’t super expensive. To take full advantage of the DDP a lot of folks eat at character meals and more expensive restaurants to get their “moneys worth” and/or try to eat some of the more expensive things on the menu. And if you have credits leftover when you leave, you’ve wasted money. Seems like too much work for me for virtually no financial benefit but lots of people love it.