Originally Posted By dlgirler Can anyone share tips & tricks on how to get the most out of the Disney Dining Plan? For example: “Don’t use your table service meal at breakfast or lunchâ€, or “Eat at the locations with the most expensive food†Other questions: Does the plan cover side orders like a baked potato, or extras like adding chicken to a pasta dish? Is there an included dining location that does NOT have a children’s menu? (I know my kids will get sick of the required standards like mac and cheese or PB&J with applesauce!) Thanks!!
Originally Posted By mrichmondj i don't think you are alloowed to use your table service at breakfast
Originally Posted By beamerdog Check out <a href="http://allearsnet.com/" target="_blank">http://allearsnet.com/</a> for menus.
Originally Posted By Labuda Actually, you can use table service for breakfast if you so desire, but I'd recommend sticking to dinner with it whenever possible - more bang for your buck. Also, good places to maximize your $$ spent are Italy's L'Originale Alfredo di Roma and France's Les Chefs de France. Those are the only two I recall right now where, had we been paying out of pocket, we'd have been out around $80 for the two of us for the meals we had.
Originally Posted By dlgirler Labuda, you are the queen! Always so helpful and accurate -- I thank you for all of your help on the posts!! I did notice that Epcot (and DS) have some great dinner $$$ choices for the plan, but we only have one night there - and have picked Teppanyaki for the kids. I didn't get park hopper so am pretty limited to the park of the day or resort options.
Originally Posted By dlgirler I just found a great link – it evaluates the dining plan and offers several helpful tips to get the most out of the plan! <a href="http://www.touringplans.com/MYWDining.html" target="_blank">http://www.touringplans.com/MY WDining.html</a>
Originally Posted By hondo75 We used the plan in Oct '05. It was great. As long as you like eat. We only ate two meals a day and were more then stuffed and many times we got out desserts to go(took those back to the room to enjoy later). We also normaly only used the snack item to get something to drink since we were usual too full to eat anymore. It also made it nice that we didn't need to worry how expensive the resturant was. Two tips, One don't use your table service for breakest it a waste, Two make PSs many times we got turned away from the most popular resturants because they were booked up. So to sum up, I recommend it.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 dlgirler, that web site was very useful. I'm going in Dec. and I'am useing the plan and that cleared up any questions that I had thanks.
Originally Posted By elene I think the MOST important thing is to make reservations to places you REALLY want to go. When we went some places were already sold out.
