Is Food Plan worth the cost?

[Eric Graham]

True.

While "free" is almost always "worth it" in the real world, because "free" usually means "costs nothing" (so I suspect that wasn't what the OP was asking about), there are arguably situations in which getting the DDP for free isn't worth it either, if you are thereby disqualified from room discounts that would have benefitted your party more, or if you're required to upgrade your room or ticket package to be eligible. The one time we got "free" dining for a 5-night stay, we had to upgrade our tickets to parkhoppers, upgrade our room from standard to preferred, forego the 15% room discount we'd have had on the standard room, pay extra gratuities on all that "free" TS food, and accept some limitations to our ordering choices, to get the most "bang" out of those dining bucks. What we really got in the end wasn't so much a free dining plan as a discount of a few hundred dollars off the total cost of our trip. Still a net positive, but not what I'd call free.

Thank you for clearing that up. I greatly appreciate it. Oftentimes, I have somewhat grandiose ideas about how the world is such a wonderful place at times when in actuality it isn't. Just my nature. but, I'm not an angel either just a person. I'm quite different in real life than on here. Kind of like a Brad Paisley song I'm familiar with. More acceptance would be wonderful, but more deserving who knows. Sorry off on a tangent, forgive me. I recall when we experienced the dining plan one time and it was really too much food for us. The 5 course meal (sorry exaggerating) is often very tasty at times but a lot after walking 10-12 miles in the parks in a day it is often too much. Maybe I'm just 200 years old, who knows....i went to see the lion king yesterday in a neighboring state. it was such a truly delightful experience. I ended up buying some things for other people, and I'm sure my delightful wife will get on to me later about that. But, it's ok. Someone I know is also in the play industry. She truly seems like a total delight every time I've encountered her. So much potential in her, I hope she makes it big. Kind of like a big brother relationship. We share a lot of the same hobbies too. Plays and musicals are really cool to me because I always wanted to sing on Broadway but alas I just sang in the choir. I really liked how that the wonderful group did basically a nod to the select city they were in by incorporating parts of the city into the production. I truly enjoy and greatly appreciate when the wonderful people at Disney incorporate such very special and personable things into things that they do. I really enjoyed how they also intertwined Frozen (one of my favorite movies) into the play. Sorry...that's too many word for now. I really don't know what this emoji means at all, but it's kind of fun to use it.