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If I pay over a thousand dollars for food I expect my chips on a plate, but would prefer to have a greater choice of potato styles.
As I say, standards and expectations.
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Sign of free dining plans to come?
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If I pay over a thousand dollars for food I expect my chips on a plate, but would prefer to have a greater choice of potato styles.
As I say, standards and expectations.
kenny_davis_sr
New Member
dining plan thought
My family just returned from our first WDW stay. Pardon me I am new to this forum. Anyway the stay was awesome. We had the basic dining plan and found I could do without the snacks which get used up too fast. I think the fair thing might be to go to 1 counter meal and 1 table service meal plan. We found that breakfast was the least expensive of the meals which we ate our resort for convenience and plan your lunch and dinner by park.
My family just returned from our first WDW stay. Pardon me I am new to this forum. Anyway the stay was awesome. We had the basic dining plan and found I could do without the snacks which get used up too fast. I think the fair thing might be to go to 1 counter meal and 1 table service meal plan. We found that breakfast was the least expensive of the meals which we ate our resort for convenience and plan your lunch and dinner by park.
NewfieFan
Well-Known Member
Dinner should still taste just as good - you still have to earn your seat - now you have to get up early and run like a mad man through the house... to get to the phone on the 180 day mark!:animwink:
abe_bb
New Member
The wife and I are planning our next trip in Sept 09, with our two daughters (15 months and 9 years) - we were going to go again this year but the little suprise caught us off guard decided not to go with a 3 month old.
For the first time, we have enough to stay at a Deluxe if we choose to - and frankly this may swing our vote in that direction. Although if you are paying for a deluxe, they should include the wine option for free <_< hehe.
Figuring it out cash-wise - if we ate one meal per day at a sit down, and paid cash for it, at the places and times we normally do (including some character buffets and such that are under the dining plan last time i chekced), staying at a deluxe w/ free dining isn't substantially more, since one good meal a day is about 70 bucks extra per day right there.
So this may put us in a position to stay at, say, Contemperary instead of Riverside (Blasphemy, i know, but ...).
Could we just eat at Counter Service? Yes. We could. But the character meals alone... our eldest loves them. It's the only time she will let a character near her, if they are out in the park she gets frightened. (Yes, she is special needs).
decided not to go with a 3 month old.For the first time, we have enough to stay at a Deluxe if we choose to - and frankly this may swing our vote in that direction. Although if you are paying for a deluxe, they should include the wine option for free <_< hehe.
Figuring it out cash-wise - if we ate one meal per day at a sit down, and paid cash for it, at the places and times we normally do (including some character buffets and such that are under the dining plan last time i chekced), staying at a deluxe w/ free dining isn't substantially more, since one good meal a day is about 70 bucks extra per day right there.
So this may put us in a position to stay at, say, Contemperary instead of Riverside (Blasphemy, i know, but ...).
Could we just eat at Counter Service? Yes. We could. But the character meals alone... our eldest loves them. It's the only time she will let a character near her, if they are out in the park she gets frightened. (Yes, she is special needs).
imamouse
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Welcome to WDWmagic :wave:.
The only time I used the DDP, I saved my snack credit for breakfast (usually a yogurt parfait from the grab and go section of any resort). Friends of mine used their snack credit for the big cinnamon buns at MK on their way out in the evening and ate them the next morning for breakfast. There are ways to make the snack serve as your breakfast, in effect getting three meals for the DDP.
Lucky
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Lucky
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I haven't read everything in this thread, but the bounceback offer we received in our resort room last week offered the regular dining plan for free for 8/23/09 through 10/01/09. (The package must be booked by midnight on the day you check out.) The flyer listed prices only for deluxe and moderate, but the CM I booked with said it also covered values. I booked a moderate. I spoke to 2 different CMs, to be sure I was not being misinformed. But it was pretty clear anyway from the flyer that it was the same dining plan offered at mods and deluxe, because the price savings quoted was the same for both.
If free dining is offered to all next April, as in the past few years, it might look like the bounceback, or it might look like the one you describe, or something else. We probably won't know until April.
