Wishing on a food credit!

[cdsulhoff]

this is what I'm wishing they will do someday! Im fairly new to this whole DDP stuff! So bear with mauh!

WHY Can we just buy food credit card and add Credits on them! Cause the plans go from giving me way too much food credit to not enough!
Can we purchase extra points/ credits to our plan? Hmm lets see they did this before someone is going to tell me this I feel!

Driving me nuts I had the deluxe plan then realize WOAH that's way to much!!! Not Im on the 1-1-1 plan and finding my self wishing I had a 2-1-1) (2ts 1qs 1s)Im already spending out 13oo extra for this darn meal plan for 6 of us! That's only 20 a day per person which is not bad at all! but I want more credits but not too much!!!

 

[DonaldTDuck]

DDP is just what it is and it's an incentive to stay on property. It's simple, one TS, 1 QS and 1 snack for regular etc. If it doesn't work for you try something else. We always get the regular and pay oop for 1 or 2 meals. Easy Peasy.

 

[cdsulhoff]

See I get that part! However, it would be nice to have it where they allow you to make your own plan. Al

Like you can purchase 6 TS 12 QS and 20 snacks! for all in the party no matter who uses the credit! I think it would fit into soo many more ppls way of dining! and why does it matter who uses the credits! If I have a total 25 ts credits and Im paying adult price on all 25 then I should be able to use it the way I want! My one son who is a chicken nugget person now has a adult dinner plan cause of his age and Hate using a adult credit for KIDS FOOD!! that I can pay OOP! Granted I going to do the dining but Personally I need to go and see how the standard dining, the 1ts 1 qs 1s works for us! I was going to do the 3-3-2 but that was way too much eating!! If I have an offer to do 3 ts and Im paying like im going to do 3 ts , well guess what Im going to want to do 3ts and no qs!!! But I will spend my whole time in restaurants than the parks!
OR,
I wish they would do a plan that has 1 table/ 1 qs/ 1 snack with 1 character/signature dinner for the whole stay per person!

 

[Pumbaa_]

moved over to ddp board for dreaming

 

[cglaura]

this is what I'm wishing they will do someday! Im fairly new to this whole DDP stuff! So bear with mauh!

WHY Can we just buy food credit card and add Credits on them! Cause the plans go from giving me way too much food credit to not enough!
Can we purchase extra points/ credits to our plan? Hmm lets see they did this before someone is going to tell me this I feel!

Driving me nuts I had the deluxe plan then realize WOAH that's way to much!!! Not Im on the 1-1-1 plan and finding my self wishing I had a 2-1-1) (2ts 1qs 1s)Im already spending out 13oo extra for this darn meal plan for 6 of us! That's only 20 a day per person which is not bad at all! but I want more credits but not too much!!!

If you share meals or are not big eaters sometime the plan is more $$ than if you paid as you go. We spend less for two people per day than it would cost for one person on the regular plan. But we share meals or get a kid size meal.

What I do is look at the menus to get an idea of prices. Then I figure how much $$ I'll need for the trip. Then I add and extra $100 or so just in case we get a little more hungry on any particular day.

I get a Disney Gift Card for that amount. No need to keep track of credits or worry about what this food is worth or is that snack on the plan.

That card is for food only. If you don't want to carry around a gift card you can put it on your room to "charge" against with your room key (kttwc).

By now we have it down though, know what we share (pretty much everything), so I know to budget $30 per day for food. Then however many sit down adr meals we will have (usually only 2).

We eat breakfast in our room that we bring from home. Saves money and time. We are not morning people!

 

[hannahdrewmom]

We have found that Dxdp works well if you are planning on doing signature meals otherwise it is WAY too much food that takes WAY too long to eat each day.
Normally if we aren't planning a huge signature meal type of dining we buy the regular ddp and then use those credits for buffets and then pay oop and split meals for other order off the menu type places. It still ends up saving us a good bit of change.

 

[Allison]

It sounds like it might be better for you to not use a dining plan and pay out of pocket. You could add money onto a gift card and then purchase whatever you want which is essentially what you are wanting.

 

[disneymom1229]

if all the people in your traveling party are adults then you will have 1 ts 1qs and 1 s per person per night. you can use them however you wish. the credits are not so much specifically in each persons name, but a total for your party. so say you wanted to buy your son a kids meal oop and save his adult qs and ts to use on another day for another adult in your party you could do that. even if you eat sit down, you can still let them know that you want to pay for the kids meal separate from your dining plan. hth you spread your credits out better...