Survey on meal plans

[BCV23]

LOL....I finally get it. Thanks!

 

[Chuck S]

Rather than any sort of a pre-paid meal plan that would usually include WAYYYY too much food...I'd rather have a simple discount at all the sit-down restaurants. Even if it is just enough to cover the sales tax.

 

[auntsue]

I would absolutely love some sort of meal plan. We eat all of our dinners and lunches out. The dinners are always at very nice restaurants and I like the idea of prepaying so much, that as soon as I get back from the shore, I am going to check out the Connections dinner vouchers. Hopefully that will work for us. (We already get their character breakfast and quick and casual vouchers.)

 

[CarolMN]

Originally posted by Chuck S
Rather than any sort of a pre-paid meal plan that would usually include WAYYYY too much food...I'd rather have a simple discount at all the sit-down restaurants. Even if it is just enough to cover the sales tax.

I agree with you - the Disney portions are almost always way too much for me to eat at one sitting. I'd love a "simple discount" plan!

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by auntsue
I would absolutely love some sort of meal plan. We eat all of our dinners and lunches out. The dinners are always at very nice restaurants and I like the idea of prepaying so much, that as soon as I get back from the shore, I am going to check out the Connections dinner vouchers. Hopefully that will work for us. (We already get their character breakfast and quick and casual vouchers.)

The problem with almost all meal plans and all inclusive options is that you must use it to the fullest to get a real benefit. Even under the old FnF card, you had to eat out Lunch and Dinner getting an appetizer, more expensive entree, drink and desert plus use at least some of the recreation to make it worthwhile. We are not big eaters. Two salads (or soup), a midsize entree, water and no dessert will more than do it for us at almost all places. While we did save money on the FnF card the one time we used it, that's because I compared to what the things would have cost had we paid for them all. No way we would have ordered half the things we did had we been paying out of pocket. Even then, by the end of 3 days, even my kids were refusing dessert.

I've looked at many meal plans at various resort areas. Few are tempting, most are very expensive and few save much or any money unless it includes drinks and you drink yourself silly. Even the ones that sound ok on the surface can end up having so many restrictions, bad food or other aggravations that it may not be worth it.

We were in MX last month and purchased a members meal plan for one day worth. You could actually use each component on different days as it was a voucher program. $30 for 3 meals for a day per person. There were many restrictions, the food was only so so and they converted from US dollars to pesos at their exchange rate (not good). It was for food only, with 10 drinks it was $49.50 per day. I'm glad I only did one day. Many truly all inclusive options are $70-92 per person per day and require each member of the party to sign up for the entire time. Most still charge you extra for the lobster, etc. It's been well shown that after about 3 days, the usage tails off considerably. That's why most resuire a 3 day min.

 

[5infam]

auntsue,

What are Connections dinner vouchers?