Kinda and YES!
The Kinda: we would never, ever, ever spend the kind of money on food that the DP allows. DH and I had a date at Spoodles and if we were paying DDE and OOP, we wouldn't have ordered an appetizer because of the wonderful bread and tapenade, we would never have ordered the seafood add ons to our steaks, and we may have split one dessert if there was anything that really sounded wonderful.
The YES!: We LOVED it!!! The best thing in our minds? Prepaying our food and not worrying about charges later. But the word we kept coming up with was FUN! Did we pay less for the DP than the "cost" of the food we ate? Most definitely. We paid $521.82 for six nights and more than spent that on about 4 TS meals alone. We are big eaters so I actually thought it wouldn't be enough food - you know, we'd eat breakfast in our rooms to supplement and then split two lunch CS's between the three of us and then use another as a snack and use the snacks for sodas. But I didn't count on a few things:
1. They changed the snacks to include so much more so we even covered breakfast a few mornings with one snack credit by buying a box of doughnuts. And we could have skipped the trip to Target for English Muffins and cereal and just used snack credits for those.
2. Disney portions are HUGE.
3. We're not used to eating dessert with every meal.
4. Heat does make your appetite drop.
We are DDE TS people so it was an adjustment to drop some breakfast and lunch TS's and eat CS. But I have to say we loved it! WDW CS food is great! And it was just so fun to hand over the card and use credits. We split a lot of meals. At first, we wanted to save them but truly we were all getting plenty of food by splitting. On our checkout day? We had 6 snacks, 3 CS and 3 TS credits to use up. We had breakfast in our room at VWL, moved over to the Poly and then split one CS at MK Colombia Harbor House for early lunch, drove over to the Beach Club Marketplace where I bought two Princess sucker bouquets, two huge Mickey jawbreakers, and two bags of Chip and Dale snack mixes to use up the snacks (all of which I added to gifts we brought home) and then we went to DTD where we split the final 2 CS credits at EOS (bringing the cupcakes back to the room for later) and topped it off with (3 TS) dinner at Spoodles. On our checkout day!
We were very disappointed we could not be on the DP for our last 4 days, as we were DVCers staying on points NOT at a DVC resort. I'd have sold my soul to be back at my beloved VWL or BCV on the DP.