Hi Everyone,
We just returned from an 8 day trip to Disney and after basing many of our dining choices on reviews I read here I'd like to return the favor! First a little bit about our family and what our plans were for the trip.
Our band of Adventurers
me - 40-something, dad of 3 boys, and chief Disney planner, drinker of MUCH coffee, and 1 previous trip to Disney
DW - age-not-to-be-documented, 2 previous trips to Disney, coordinating shirt planner
DS - 13 years old, lover or all things sports or seafood, 1st trip to Disney
DS2 - 9 years old, loves all rides and especially loves big cheeseburgers, 1st trip to Disney
DS3 - 8 years old, thrill seeker and lover of macaroni and cheese, 1st trip to Disney
The Plan
We stayed 7 nights in AKL-KV on rented points and I spent a LONG time debating about the dining plan. After studying the menus and plugging everything into a spreadsheet (did I mention I'm an engineer ) it looked like we could spend a bit less on food compared to the dining plan so we decided to pay OOP. The plan was to eat breakfast in our room, spend the morning until early afternoon in a park, then come back to the room for a late lunch and to rest/swim. We had a TS dinners planned for each evening then we could go back into the parks to enjoy the evening shows.
9/19 Arrival Day - dinner at Boma, our flight landed at MCO ~4PM and we had a reservation for 6:50PM.
9/20 MK Day - Dinner at Whispering Canyon
9/20 AK Day - Dinner at Yak & Yeti
9/21 resort Day - Brunch at Chef Mickey and Dinner at Ohana
9/22 HS Day - Dinner at Sci-Fi Dine in Theater
9/23 EP Day - Dinner at Garden Grill
9/24 2nd MK Day - Lunch at BOG and Dinner at Sanaa
There are lots of online calculators to see if the dining plan fits with how you plan on visiting the parks. For our family the dining plan for 3 adults and 2 children for 7 nights would have cost ~$2000 plus tax and that wouldn't include tips which would easily add another $200 (we normally tip ~20% as long as the service is good). We ended up spending $1755 on food including snacks in the parks plus $138 for our grocery order for a total of $1893 including tips on the dinners.
We took some pictures of the dinners so I'll try to upload those later and comment on what we ordered and our overall impression/enjoyment of our experience.
more posts soon...
We just returned from an 8 day trip to Disney and after basing many of our dining choices on reviews I read here I'd like to return the favor! First a little bit about our family and what our plans were for the trip.
Our band of Adventurers
me - 40-something, dad of 3 boys, and chief Disney planner, drinker of MUCH coffee, and 1 previous trip to Disney
DW - age-not-to-be-documented, 2 previous trips to Disney, coordinating shirt planner
DS - 13 years old, lover or all things sports or seafood, 1st trip to Disney
DS2 - 9 years old, loves all rides and especially loves big cheeseburgers, 1st trip to Disney
DS3 - 8 years old, thrill seeker and lover of macaroni and cheese, 1st trip to Disney
The Plan
We stayed 7 nights in AKL-KV on rented points and I spent a LONG time debating about the dining plan. After studying the menus and plugging everything into a spreadsheet (did I mention I'm an engineer ) it looked like we could spend a bit less on food compared to the dining plan so we decided to pay OOP. The plan was to eat breakfast in our room, spend the morning until early afternoon in a park, then come back to the room for a late lunch and to rest/swim. We had a TS dinners planned for each evening then we could go back into the parks to enjoy the evening shows.
9/19 Arrival Day - dinner at Boma, our flight landed at MCO ~4PM and we had a reservation for 6:50PM.
9/20 MK Day - Dinner at Whispering Canyon
9/20 AK Day - Dinner at Yak & Yeti
9/21 resort Day - Brunch at Chef Mickey and Dinner at Ohana
9/22 HS Day - Dinner at Sci-Fi Dine in Theater
9/23 EP Day - Dinner at Garden Grill
9/24 2nd MK Day - Lunch at BOG and Dinner at Sanaa
There are lots of online calculators to see if the dining plan fits with how you plan on visiting the parks. For our family the dining plan for 3 adults and 2 children for 7 nights would have cost ~$2000 plus tax and that wouldn't include tips which would easily add another $200 (we normally tip ~20% as long as the service is good). We ended up spending $1755 on food including snacks in the parks plus $138 for our grocery order for a total of $1893 including tips on the dinners.
We took some pictures of the dinners so I'll try to upload those later and comment on what we ordered and our overall impression/enjoyment of our experience.
more posts soon...