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Dining Plan Help - Really Need Advice :)
- Thread starter waterpark13
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I think I may cancel the dining plan the reason being when we were away for july 4th (a test run for meals) I ordered breakfast twice seperate days and the child ate half of the meal pancakes and spending 25.00 totla fpr breakfast was not fun. I plan on bringing 200 a day for spending money 1200 for entire vacation. Feedback welcomed
I think I will purchase the refillable mug drinks are gonna get me..
LAM378
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Even if on paper it looked like I could save a few bucks, I wouldn't do the dining plan with my son (he's 5). He's picky and doesn't want to eat one day, and the next day he's ravenous for nothing but hamburgers or something. The plan seems like a good idea if you're doing a lot of character meals, but even then it won't save you more than a few dollars--and if you skip even one or two TS meals, due to illness or just not being hungry, you've lost money.
Quick service meals are pretty big in WDW, and one meal, or one meal plus an extra side, is often more than enough for him and I to share.
I go into character meals with the mindset that I will not get my money's worth for what my son eats. He's too excited about the characters to eat, usually. But it's worth it for the experience and not having to stand in line in a park to meet characters, so I always do them.
I love the refillable mugs because I easily save money on coffee and my son loves lemonade, and we spend a lot of time hanging at the resort. For your child, it depends what he likes to drink--milk and juice aren't available, only soda/iced or hot tea/lemonade/coffee/hot chocolate. If my kiddo didn't drink buckets of lemonade on vacation there would be no value in the mug for him.
Quick service meals are pretty big in WDW, and one meal, or one meal plus an extra side, is often more than enough for him and I to share.
I go into character meals with the mindset that I will not get my money's worth for what my son eats. He's too excited about the characters to eat, usually. But it's worth it for the experience and not having to stand in line in a park to meet characters, so I always do them.
I love the refillable mugs because I easily save money on coffee and my son loves lemonade, and we spend a lot of time hanging at the resort. For your child, it depends what he likes to drink--milk and juice aren't available, only soda/iced or hot tea/lemonade/coffee/hot chocolate. If my kiddo didn't drink buckets of lemonade on vacation there would be no value in the mug for him.
LAM thank you very much. Yes this is what is going to happen he is going to be to excited to eat and all that money wasted. It is going to be warm and we don't eat a lot when it is hot. When we have dinner at arestaurant I will have a burger and sides and order him a burger with fries and share. Also my son only drinks ice tea occasionally milk or water no soda is allowed he does not like it and I wont let him have it. I think I will definetly cancel the dining plan I feel that we will be wasting money. Also when I am on vacation I dont really like schedules and having to run all over a park to find the quick servie meals will drive me a little batty. So I will keep the refillable mug option. Feeddback is welcomed.
jaklgreen
Well-Known Member
That is probably best. Kids that age are mostly grazers anyway. We have been taking our kids yearly since they were 1&2 yo . They usually just split a breakfast(so you can share something with your son) and then we made sure they got 1 good meal in a day. One that you sit down and rest for a bit. So we made our main meal in the afternoon, character buffets are perfect for that. Kids get really excited at WDW and do not want to stop and eat, we made sure that every couple of hours we sat them down on the bench with a bit of a snack so they can rest and eat something and we always had a drink that we were handing to them to keep them hydrated.
Thank you all for all your responses and help. I decided to cancel the dining plan and feel better about doing so. I think what actually convinced me was the refillable mugs can not be used in the parks...the only time we will be at the resort is the first day we arrive and to sleep so economically does not make sense.
We are really looking forward to Disney and hopefully not so crowded.
We are really looking forward to Disney and hopefully not so crowded.
HRHPrincessAriel
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we also debated the cups.We used Amazon prime pantry and had water/sodas sent to the resort. It was waiting for is when we arrived. We just took a small soft sided cooler with us into the parks with a few sodas each day.
That is a great idea!! I just looked at Amazon prime pantry website definetly going to ship water, soda, cereal, and snacks to resort!! Thanks for the info much appreciated!
HRHPrincessAriel
Well-Known Member
I wrote a review somewhere about it on here. Make sure you order 4-5 days ahead of time. It's not like prime with 2 day. My mom even used almond or so milk from there. The prices were some of the cheapest and not too much more than the store
Yes definetly I am checking out priced really good deals and my son loves snacks so this is a big help whenwe return to the resort and he may want some snacks and water saves a lot than buying in resort. I did not want to purchase the mug refill waste of money.