Which should I pay oop after dining plan?

[clarkinstlouis]

Surprising wife and daughter with Disney Trip. Got nice bounce back offer. So my 8 day res are

Mar 13- arrive 6pm quick service or whatever
14 - cinderellas castle
15- 50's cafe in Hollywood
16 - tusker Bf 8 am! hoop de do dinner
17- not sure
18-le cellier
19- artist point
20- crystal palace 8 am!

So with this I have 7 table services each with 10 used.

Thoughts? Thank you, I'm new at this. Tried it once before but had to get wife involved. Not this time lol!

 

[shanejoseph]

The way I do it: Look at the menu's for each ADR you make, pick what ya'll would probably order, get prices, total bill, and pay out of pocket for the least expensive ADR. From your list so far, I would think Tusker breakfast, and 50's. We usually don't do as many two TS credit meals as you have listed, but don't let that stop you! For instance our next trip we have, 7 TS credits, Bongos, Yak & Yeti, Mama Melrose, BOG, Via Napoli, Le Cellier, & Boma. 8 TS needed. We'll pay out of pocket for Napoli. Hope this helps, just my $0.02!

 

[purple figment]

Surprising wife and daughter with Disney Trip. Got nice bounce back offer. So my 8 day res are

Mar 13- arrive 6pm quick service or whatever
14 - cinderellas castle
15- 50's cafe in Hollywood
16 - tusker Bf 8 am! hoop de do dinner
17- not sure
18-le cellier
19- artist point
20- crystal palace 8 am!

So with this I have 7 table services each with 10 used.

Thoughts? Thank you, I'm new at this. Tried it once before but had to get wife involved. Not this time lol!

You actually have 11 credits listed (2 credits each for CRT, Hoop, Le Cellier and Artist Point, 1 credit each for 50s, Tusker House and Crystal Palace.)

Credits are based on the number of NIGHTS you are staying so if you are arriving on 3/13 and leaving on 3/20 that is 7 nights so you will need to pay OOP for 4 TS credits.

You can look at the menus for the restaurants and the thread with the fixed price meals to determine which would be the least expensive. At CRT, Tusker House, Hoop De Doo and Crystal Palace everyone will be charged because they are all fixed price meals. At the others you can use credits or OOP or a combination if some want a full meal and others want to share or just have something small like an appetizer.

Assuming you are on the regular dining plan (1 TS, 1 QS, 1 snack per person per night), the value of each TS credit is approximately $37.50 so at the 2 credit places you would need to spend $75 per adult for entree, dessert and non-alcoholic beverage (inc. tax) to get the value of the credits. Because of this the 2 credit meals aren't always the best use of your credits.

You can look at the menus and prices for restaurants on the Disney website and on these 2 sites:
http://allears.net/dining/menu#res
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/dining/diningmain.cfm

And fixed price restaurants on this thread:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3108466

 

[clarkinstlouis]

Thanks Kim but the 8:30 show is one table credit if what I was told is right. Is that wrong?

 

[purple figment]

Hoop De Doo is 2 credits per person at all shows. Here's the info on the dinner shows on page 5 of the dining plan brochure:
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/m...alog/WaltDisneyWorld/en_us/PDF/2015Dining.pdf

 

[sharonabe]

With all the signature dining you have listed and the one day you have nothing yet, you might be better off upgrading to the DxDDP, depending on what your bounce back offer was. If it was free dining, the upgrade cost would more than cover some extra table service meals, but you need to figure in all those tips too.

 

[GillianP1301]

Often times the 2 credit meals are the best ones to pay OOP. Using HDDR as an example, one adult for category 2 (which is what DDP will cover, unless you do the later show) is about $55. That's $27.50 per credit. Your Tusker House breakfast would cost you about $30 OOP or one credit.

So, I would definitely do HDDR review OOP. That also gives you the option to pay a few more dollars to get a category 1 seating.

As a previous poster suggested, I would look at menus of the other locations and see if you can make the same argument for some of your other 2 credit meals.