


July 2005 Carribean Beach Resort

July 2006 Coronado Springs Resort

It's higher because you split the park hopper passes. The more days you buy, the cheaper they cost. Alot of people, including myself, resort hop. We like to check out the different resorts for fun. WDW makes it very easy as they move your luggage for you. I'd suggest calling WDW for exact prices, questions and booking. Online wouldn't work for you too well.
If you want to do the DDP a split stay does not work so well.
As you have figured out already, the way to go is to book a Package for your first nights with a ticket covering the whole time at WDW and then do a room only reservation for the other nights. Alternatively you could also do just two room only reservations and purchase the tickets seperately, possibly through a discounted dealer like the one mentioned on mousesavers.com (I haven't used them, just read about it).
The DDP however is only available with a package. So your second stay would need to be a packet, too. The best way to do that is to get a one-day ticket for that stay, as the first three or for days on the tickets are the most expensive ones. So the price for a six day ticket and a one day ticket should be cheaper than the price for a four day ticket and a three day ticket. Hope this makes sense for you!
IMO as you are planning a stay for 2008, the DDP is not such a great deal anymore anyway. So unless you are sure that you want to eat a table service meal every day, I personally would prefer to just pay for my meals. But that is just my personal opinion! This is true!
Have fun planning!
This is true, your first reservation should be room only. Then your second reservation should include your park passes. Pay your dining out of pocket for 2008.
I realize the dinning plan has changed, my understanding is that it no longer includes appetizers or tips. It was our experience that we only had the appitizers a couple of meals and we always felt strange not leaving the poor CM's some kind of tip, so we usually did. Even with those changes with my daughters and my self penchant for eating, the DDP seemed like a really good deal, the sit down dinners were a nice respite from busy days in the parks.
Are there other changes to the dining plan that I dont know about?
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Okay booked last night a split stay at AKL and CSR.
The CM decided the best way to go is this...
12/1-5 AKL
8 day park hopper with dining plan
12/5-9 CSR
1 day base ticket with dining plan
As long as you have one ticket you can get the dining plan. And it does not matter how many nights you are staying vs. how many days are on your tickets.
That sounds like a good plan!
Here's what we did for our trip in 15 days!
CR - room only
POFQ - room, park tickets, ddp
As we are doing other non park things, this plan worked out great for us. My itinerary is posted in my pre-trip report, link on the bottom. It kinda happened unplanned this time, however, this is what we do when we resort hopped in the past.
Changing resorts is not a headache - but of course that is my opinion. Many would like to get to a resort and stay there. We almost always do a split stay because it makes the vacation more varied. It almost makes it seem longer. We never stay less than 3 days at any one resort though. I'm the type that doesn't unpack everything in my suitcase either so packing back up is not as bad.
I have done split stay and not. Tjis trip coming up we will hit 3 resorts in 8 days!![]()