Laura, Just to realize that you are talking about 3 different types of chairs. The free ones are plastic. The $10 or so (I can't remember I thought that they were more) are the nice wooden ones. I compromised and I am going to use the padded banquet chairs with a cover and sash over it for $8.50. For Epcot all they had were black plastic chairs. I wasn't wild about the look and not wild about the price for the wooden ones. So I choose the padded banquet chairs. Remember that this is what you are going to see in your pictures for the rest of your life. I spent a pretty good penny on the chairs, but I would always have wished that I had changed that in the future. I cut back in other areas.....