Split Reservation--Dining on One Half

[SplashMom]

We are going in April/May for 10 days and are still considering the dining plan. We had free dining on our last trip, which was wonderful. We did find it a lot of food and would probably not want a big meal every evening.

We are now considering splitting our reservation into two stays of 5 nights each and just get the dining plan for half of our visit--5 nights. We usually eat at a few nice places anyway and it seems a waste to spend the same amount on one meal as we would pay for the dining plan for the day. However, we are travelling offsite for one day (Kennedy Space Center) and we have reservations for Margaritaville one evening so the dining plan for the entire time would be wasteful. We would have dining for the first 5 days and then do the other activities the last 5 days.

Has anyone else booked two reservations to take advantage of the dining plan for just part of their trip? Was it worth the effort? Just looking for opinions until we decide. Thanks!

 

[tinkamom]

I did this last spring. We stayed at POFQ for 7 nights and then SOG for 4 more. It was worth it for us because I really wanted to try SOG but didn't want to give up POFQ and the DP and we saved quite a bit of money too! But.....we really missed the dining plan those last few days!