Originally Posted By ronnyt We plan on eating every meal at the park. My kids have some food allergies, and eating lunch at the park is tough. So we would have a couple of lunches at the park, all of our snacks, and all of our suppers at the park. Is the plam still a good deal ??
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Do you usually split meals? My husband and I don't, and the plan was a cheaper way to go for us. It was also way worth it to not consider cost and order what ever we wanted to order off the menu. We don't yet have any kids so no experience on how much they are likely to eat, and what that would ordinarily cost you. www.allearsnet.com is a good place to research and make those cost comparisons.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun We have 2 boys (12 and 8) and have never done the DDP. We do split meals - there is more than enough food in 3 counter service meals for the 4 of us. We have crunched the numbers and found DDP would cost us more than we usually spend. The up side would be that we may eat at places we normally don't. Since we don't like to be "locked in" to too many reservations, we usually only have 3 sit down meals - averging $90 each, but other that that we don't spend $75 a day on food for all of us. We do have the Disney Dining Experience which takes 20% off of your bill. My SIL used the DDP once and said it was way too much food, they just felt huge the whole time. She won't get it again. I have read that many people really like it, but for now it isn't for us.
Originally Posted By MrDisneyGeek do you have to do the DDP for everyone in your family? or could you only do 2 for your family of 4?
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP nope, The Disney people know that loophole! You must buy it for everyone in the room. The only way to buy it for half the party is to get two rooms and make two totally seperate reservations, and then you couldn't garuntee that you had rooms next to each other either. (Not that you were seriously considering that for a family of four!)
Originally Posted By nats 31 the dining plan is good in 2007 but not worth the money in 2008. I don't plan on using it again unless Disney starts thinking of the customers(so called guests) and not only how they can take every last dime from anyone they can.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun ronnyt, did you decide to go with it? I'd be interested to hear your opinion if you did. Or why you chose not to.
