Chiming in a little late to say how much I am enjoying your reviews. We have ditched the dining plan after doing deluxe once and regular once. Our trip last year we stayed CL and paid OOP for everything, we still came out ahead of what DDP would have cost us and ate exactly how we wanted. We are going back in March and will do a Garden Grocer order to do our own little CL in our room. While we enjoyed trying Cl once, we didn't feel it was really worth it for the $$ spent. Going OOP gives us so much freedom to eat the way we want and save money!