Anytime the issue of the dining plan comes up, I know there is always the debate about planning out your meals ahead of time vs just being free to eat where you want when you want without being locked into a certain amount of TS restaraunts, etc. So I know there are different points of view about how many TS restaraunts to eat at each trip, preferences over planning your day around food, etc.
On our next couple trips, I decided to change our approach a little and ditch the dining plan, in favor of being annual pass holders and using the Tables in Wonderland Card. Our April 2012 and April 2013 trips will be dated so as to allow both of them to be under the same annual pass.
Since I now have the freedom to plan our meals however we want without having to worry about using up all these meal credits, I must admit I may have gone overboard a little with the meals I currently have planned for next year's April trip. We're staying 5 nights at the Poly and 5 nights at the Beach Club and so far, I have counted 15 sit down meals. One for each night of our stay, plus 5 breakfasts. There are just so many different ones I have wanted to try, rather than narrowing it down, I figured I would just take advantage of the fact that I won't have to keep track of all these darn counter service and snack credits to make sure that we get them used up in the midst of the abundance of Table Service Restaraunts...especially since we also have days that we are going off property, such as Sea World, the beach, etc.
So 15 TS meals for a 10 night stay. Anyone else do similar amounts of Table Service dining in proportion to the amount of nights you are staying? Or do you like to limit it to no more than one per day of your stay? Less than one per day?
On our next couple trips, I decided to change our approach a little and ditch the dining plan, in favor of being annual pass holders and using the Tables in Wonderland Card. Our April 2012 and April 2013 trips will be dated so as to allow both of them to be under the same annual pass.
Since I now have the freedom to plan our meals however we want without having to worry about using up all these meal credits, I must admit I may have gone overboard a little with the meals I currently have planned for next year's April trip. We're staying 5 nights at the Poly and 5 nights at the Beach Club and so far, I have counted 15 sit down meals. One for each night of our stay, plus 5 breakfasts. There are just so many different ones I have wanted to try, rather than narrowing it down, I figured I would just take advantage of the fact that I won't have to keep track of all these darn counter service and snack credits to make sure that we get them used up in the midst of the abundance of Table Service Restaraunts...especially since we also have days that we are going off property, such as Sea World, the beach, etc.
So 15 TS meals for a 10 night stay. Anyone else do similar amounts of Table Service dining in proportion to the amount of nights you are staying? Or do you like to limit it to no more than one per day of your stay? Less than one per day?
. So, for our upcoming September adventure we'll be on-property between WL & YC a total of 11 nights /12 days and have 12 ADRs. 
