To DDP or not to DDP That is the Question.-NEED your advice, please...

[coachyo]

Ok, here is the delima, should we do the DDP or not. We are going in June for DD's volleyball team at the AAU meet June 12-15. It will be Me, DW & DD12, oldest playing is with the team the whole time and eating with them.

We arrive 4 on the June 11 and hustle to make opening kickoff for the tournament at Wide World of Sports. We will not know until sometime shortly or possibly even not until we get there when she plays. She could play in an AM wave or a PM wave which means if she is AM no TS breakfasts like Princess at Norway if PM no Le Cellar on most of those days. We could end up with only 1 night for sure that we can use the plan, I am worried that most of our TS credits would be on the Pricess Norway breakfast and other character breakfasts. Is it very smart to spend the $ if that is the case? Right now I have a TS for morning and evening every day we are there, knowing I probably have to cancel one or the other.
Should we just be going OOP for this trip for the 3 of us? I know we wouldn't order the same or even try to go to Chef's de France (DW fav ) & Le Cellier (my fav ) and Chef Mickeys (DD fav) and O'Hana's (DW's other fav mine too ) and of course DD #1 fav Storybook breakfast at Norway ) if we are paying OOP.
I am so confused should we go for it and pay for what we may not get or be $ smart? Can I get the value out of the DDP with doing mostly breakfast TS & CS dinners? Who can help me? Any good thougths on what I should do & how I could get the value out of it? I'll stop rambling now. I lool forward to hearing from all of you smart people out there.

Thanks, YO (I want my DDP )

 

[TDC Nala]

If you want the DDP, but you require getting value out of it, you're going to have to do some planning. If you do plan to do all those TS meals for dinner, you might get your value out of it. You won't get that much value out of the plan if you use your TS for breakfasts and eat CS dinners. Your 12 year old is too old for a child's plan, so the value on character breakfasts is a bit diminished unless perhaps you intend to do one every day.

If you just want to do it for the convenience, there's nothing wrong with that either.

Also, you should probably take into consideration the fact that you don't know when your daughter's games are...would you end up canceling a lot of your reservations for TS when you find out? Then you'd have to find another TS somewhere in order to use the credit. If you pay OOP you're free to eat wherever and whenever you want.

 

[shortypots]

I wouldn't suggest the dining plan if you are working around a sport schedule only because you just don't know how it will effect your ADR's. You may end up with unused credits and that would be a total waste of money.