MomOTwins
The Mommy Fairy
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- Mar 5, 2018
Okay, so the best part of a Disney World trip for my kids (and me, if I'm being honest) is the character meals, but they are soooo expensive. Plus, my DH really wants a signature meal for his birthday. So I am planning to do a split stay with a two-nights stay and package at our first hotel on the Deluxe dining plan, and front-loading the character meals with a buffet lunch at the earliest lunch time (will skip or just have cereal for breakfast, as we are not big breakfast eaters) plus dinner. This is the plan:
Arrival night
Cape May Café dinner (I know the characters are only at breakfast, but we love seafood and it is at our hotel, so convenient for a post-travel meal)
Day 1
Tusker House lunch
Yachtsman Steakhouse dinner
Day 2 (checkout day)
Minny's Lunch at Hollywood & Vine
Akershus dinner
By my count, the DDP gives us 6 table credits for our 2-night opening stay, which I understand we can use even after we check out as long as it is before midnight on checkout day, for a cost of $624.96 for our family of 2 adults 2 kids and 1 baby (eats free at buffet and will probably feed him from our plates at other restaurants). It looks like this saves us over $250 just on the meal prices (the buffets are fixed price but though I had to do some guesswork on what we would spend at Yachtsman), and that does not even include the free beer/wine DH and I will get with the 2018 DDP, and the snacks and drink mugs that are also included.
So three questions: (1) did I do the credit-counting math right such that I right that I can really get ALL of these meals if I get a 2-night Deluxe dining plan? (2) is this crazy and we will hate it because it is too much food? (3) what do you think of my choices--any substitutions you would recommend?
Arrival night
Cape May Café dinner (I know the characters are only at breakfast, but we love seafood and it is at our hotel, so convenient for a post-travel meal)
Day 1
Tusker House lunch
Yachtsman Steakhouse dinner
Day 2 (checkout day)
Minny's Lunch at Hollywood & Vine
Akershus dinner
By my count, the DDP gives us 6 table credits for our 2-night opening stay, which I understand we can use even after we check out as long as it is before midnight on checkout day, for a cost of $624.96 for our family of 2 adults 2 kids and 1 baby (eats free at buffet and will probably feed him from our plates at other restaurants). It looks like this saves us over $250 just on the meal prices (the buffets are fixed price but though I had to do some guesswork on what we would spend at Yachtsman), and that does not even include the free beer/wine DH and I will get with the 2018 DDP, and the snacks and drink mugs that are also included.
So three questions: (1) did I do the credit-counting math right such that I right that I can really get ALL of these meals if I get a 2-night Deluxe dining plan? (2) is this crazy and we will hate it because it is too much food? (3) what do you think of my choices--any substitutions you would recommend?