To do the dining plan or not?

[sweetiee]

LOL! He is very pleased too. I almost jumped for joy when we got the BD one. Now if I could just get a 1900 Park Fair dinner instead of breakfast. I called again today. I'll keep calling until we get there. But I'm happy either way. Will make the trip nicer and not so worried about how much we are spending.

 

[sweetiee]

Well, we are back... And had a wonderful time.
Did we get the 1900 PF dinner instead of breakfast? After much calling and being told "no" we did get in!
Maybe I'll do a trip review to tell about our trip. It was great and we enjoyed ourselves. We did leave a cold and wet WDW today though. Hope it warms up for those coming in this weekend!

 

[kitkatsmom]

I am making the same decision you were in deciding whether or not to do the dining plan..

We will be there (for meals) for 7 days. I am not counting our two travel days.
I have 700.00 accumulated in disney reward points (from my disney visa)
So I was going to pay for meals with that.

However as a family of 5, three of which eat a TON.. I am starting to think that getting the basic dining plan might work out better.

I could book us our TS meals at more pricer places, and then we would have the CS meals for lunch etc..

We plan on eating most of our breakfasts in room..

I am just trying to see if 40.00 per person per day is what we would actually spend.

I don't know...
I am back and forth on the decision.. One second I think its worth it, and the next I say no..

We went back in 2004 when they had the SILVER PLAN and that was really worth it. You got a lot more for your money with that plan..
We did shows, cirque, ate and ate and ate..

But this plan is different and not as worth it.. Hmm..

Not sure what to do..

 

[sweetiee]

We did the basic DDP of one snack, one CS and one TS. It was fine for us. THe quick service plan would not have been worth it for us and the deluxe is too much food for us and we would feel like we were a slave to our reservations.
I did feel better after some of our bills came and I realized how much we would have paid out of pocket at some places. I did like not having to order the cheapest thing because of saving money.
We did end up changing some plans around at the last minute with no problem. We were able to get into any place we tried to get into. On the last day at the park we changed our LT dinner to a lunch because it looked like rain and we wanted to be available for the parades and such. WE are glad we did because it rained all afternoon and evening. We ended up coming back and picking up a pizza from the hotel and using CS for that meal. So glad we had used up our TS for lunch.
If you have the money already in credits, I say go for it.