SO...our final numbers are...
OOP TOTAL $649.85
Mugs total = $80.90
DDDP TOTAL $2922.48
OVERALL TOTAL $3571.53
DDDP Credits used =48
Snack Credits used =32
Mugs = 4
We would have paid $2324.80 for the dining plan for this trip but we got the quick service free so we only paid the upgrade...which I am surprised i don't have the numbers for...I'm slacking! But that total number is still $597.68 left than what our DDDP total is. SO we saved a considerable amount of money by doing the dining plan this time around.
We ate at a lot of great places and had a lot of great food. I live not having to worry about what people are ordering.
This time around, we did feel a bit rushed with all the scheduling. Between ADRs, fast passes, the heat, the rain, and all else involved...it just seemed (for the first time) that we were always needing to be somewhere. So we decided that right now, maybe the dining plan is not in our best interest....not monetarily but activity-wise. We decided we would be cancelling some of the ADRs we had set for our Christmas trip and in fact, on the way home Skye went through the Christmas ADR list and we decided what we would let go.
We still LOVE the dining plan and still say that if you want to eat that way, you certainly can save money...but you have to be out for the most expensive item on the menu.
We did love a lot of the counter service venues and find that while a lot of the table service venues are getting standardized more and more every day that the counter service places seem to be getting better at variety offered...and some of them are really good!
So, if there are any questions or suggestions for future use, let me know...otherwise I will be starting on Christmas 2019 soon.
Thanks for reading!