apostolic4life
Chef Grumpy
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To me, I don't see how people are "saving" money on the DDP. Call me crazy, but how many families would actually eat all 3 meals plus several snacks all at WDW without the introduction of such a plan?It seems to me that people are led to believe that they are "saving" hundreds of dollars on the plan....but in actuality, they are actually spending more money than they would if they only ate a few meals and snacks on property and the rest off. JMHO, and I'm sure many people here would disagree with me. But to me, it only appears to be a value in the sense that you are not spending as much money as you would by paying for ALL of that food for each person in your party out of pocket....this is true, its like buying in bulk. But how many WDW vacationers would really eat that much food, 3 times, every single day of their vacation?
Not us, thats for sure. And pre-DDP, I'm guessing very few. But of course, thats just our personal family opinion. We save so much money eating off property/at our villa (and back in the day, our hotel room) than what we would "save" with the DDP. Truth be told, even if we got the DDP, we would actually be spending more money than if we ate the majority of our meals OP. I'm by no means trying to speak for every family out there, but my personal opinion is that there really is no value in the DDP; Disney is just leading everyone to believe that they are "saving" hundreds of dollars on food. Again, its JMO and I am not really against all the people out there who do use the DDP. More power to ya.
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