We have always done the DDP which, up until this year, was great. We had 3 of us who were adults, and one child. Having the child in the group made the meal plan really cheap (around $15/day instead of $50ish). However, this year our DS is 10 and would be considered an adult under the meal plan. I crunched the numbers and it turns out that TiW would save us a few hundred dollars vs the meal plan over 10 days (and that assumes we would eat the same way we would had we been on the DDP (i.e. getting the most expensive item on each table service menu and doing four counter services a day (with dessert)), which we probably won't. The thing that made us consider TiW this year was the double price increase in the DDP this year. I'm glad they did it, or we would never have even looked at TiW.