imlazar
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2005
Greetings, we just returned from a week at Wilderness Lodge and I wanted to share our experiences with the Disney Dining Plan.
We had the plan for eight nights, there were two adults and two children.
We had no problems using up the table service meals via a combination of character breakfasts, hoop dee doo, and other dinner restaurants. We ended up with 4 counter service meals left (one day/4 people), we almost had five, but were able to cash one in at Roaring Forks for 3 bottles of water. We had no problems using up all our snacks.
(I should add that we spent two of our eight days away from Disney world but returned both nights for dinner, which is why we had the leftover counter service meals)
Our impression of the DDP is that it is a good value for what you get, but we ended up getting a lot more food than we needed. We believe we would have saved a small amount of money by not using the plan. We don't normally order appetizers, and we almost never order desert, so we "pigged out" at dinner since both come with the plan.
We also can usually split one kids meal among our two children, but we had to order two, plus desert for table service. We did split one counter-service kids meal among both kids a couple of times, but towards the end we realized we had more counter service meals than we could use, so we ended up getting both kids their own meal and then throwing most of it away.
We also got more snacks than we really needed, we ended up getting things like ice cream every day which we normally wouldn't have done.
Our best estimate is that the average dinner would have cost us $55, counter service would have cost us $25, and we would have spent $10 a day on snacks, for a total of $90. The meal plan cost us $100 a day. So it was close to a break-even proposition, and it allowed us the flexibility to take in a few higher priced meals such as Hoop Dee Doo (which would have been $150 for the four of us), and the character breakfasts.
Overall I think we were pretty pleased with the plan, I'm still not sure though if I would do it again just to avoid desert with every meal.
We had the plan for eight nights, there were two adults and two children.
We had no problems using up the table service meals via a combination of character breakfasts, hoop dee doo, and other dinner restaurants. We ended up with 4 counter service meals left (one day/4 people), we almost had five, but were able to cash one in at Roaring Forks for 3 bottles of water. We had no problems using up all our snacks.
(I should add that we spent two of our eight days away from Disney world but returned both nights for dinner, which is why we had the leftover counter service meals)
Our impression of the DDP is that it is a good value for what you get, but we ended up getting a lot more food than we needed. We believe we would have saved a small amount of money by not using the plan. We don't normally order appetizers, and we almost never order desert, so we "pigged out" at dinner since both come with the plan.
We also can usually split one kids meal among our two children, but we had to order two, plus desert for table service. We did split one counter-service kids meal among both kids a couple of times, but towards the end we realized we had more counter service meals than we could use, so we ended up getting both kids their own meal and then throwing most of it away.
We also got more snacks than we really needed, we ended up getting things like ice cream every day which we normally wouldn't have done.
Our best estimate is that the average dinner would have cost us $55, counter service would have cost us $25, and we would have spent $10 a day on snacks, for a total of $90. The meal plan cost us $100 a day. So it was close to a break-even proposition, and it allowed us the flexibility to take in a few higher priced meals such as Hoop Dee Doo (which would have been $150 for the four of us), and the character breakfasts.
Overall I think we were pretty pleased with the plan, I'm still not sure though if I would do it again just to avoid desert with every meal.