Originally Posted By dizneed Hello, awfully slow on this board – question, does the free meal plan offer influence your decision to plan a trip to Disneyworld? It does for me as I don't have to facture food cost into our budget, it's almost like an "all inclusive". What are your thoughts?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros For me it doesn't impact my decision, but it's a nice bonus when it's offered. It seems like it's increasingly rare to find free dining these days, and often comes at the expense of a discounted price on the hotel room. Unless you're planning on eating at a table service restaurant every day, and ordering one of the most expensive (if not the most expensive) thing on the menu, it's hard to justify the expense of the 'free dining plan' as opposed to a 'discounted' hotel room, which gives you the flexibility to eat whatever and wherever you want Personally, I'd rather Disney had more reasonable hotel prices so they didn't need to have year-round discounts running, but I know that's not their business plan. I don't really understand the logic for how they price (and then discount) their rooms, but it doesn't seem to be changing any time soon
Originally Posted By RoadTrip It has no impact on our decision to visit because our resort is paid with DVC points so the "free dining" is never offered. We've never purchased the DDP... unless you are determined to go around ordering the most expensive thing on the menu at expensive places, it is hard to do much more than break even with it. I prefer the Tables in Wonderland Discount (available to Florida Residents, DVC Members and AP holders). You spend $100 on the Discount Pass and then receive 20% off all food AND beverage purchases at a very wide range of Disney dining locations. You can get to the break-even point pretty quickly, especially if you like to end your evening (like I do) with a stop by a favored resort lounge before turning in for the night.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: That Dizzy Dinin' plan don't make no dif ta us cauldron gals. We always bring our own cauldron full a vittles inta the parks. What we don't bring from home we can ketch off the the banks a Tom Sawdust Island. Didja know theys got the biggest 'n best bull frogs this side a Morva?
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 It doesn't really impact my decision to go, since it is never offered during the times I have been able to go. We do get the dining plan, and would love it if it were free,the kids are always back in school by the time it rolls around and we only go to WDW when we can spend a lot of time there since we are from Seattle.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips While it does not influence our plans to go to Walt Disney World or not ..... Imagine the surprise that I got when I booked 2012 and was told my hotel room came with free dining for all four of us for the whole nine days that we were there .. Quite a big savings for us We had booked at Port Orleans Riverside
