01-19-2013, 10:03 AM
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Earning My Ears
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Massachusetts
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Disney Dining Plan calculator - Amazing Tool!!!
Hey everyone! I found a great tool online for calculating the best Disney Dining Plan for me (and you)! These people I subscribe to on YouTube just uploaded a video explaining this CRAZY spreadsheet they have! You put in where you are going to eat and some other things like adults and kids and how much you tip and stuff and it shows you how much you should budget for meals if paying cash and shows how much you save or lose with each Disney Dining Plan. It's AMAZING!!!!!!!!! (oh and for you lucky people who can get Tables in Wonderland it does that too!)
The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMDg...456VJg&index=1 The website with the file is here: http:/www.seeyareelsoon.wix.com/seeyareelsoon Of course it is free! I just had to share this because I found out that by not getting a Dining Plan I am going to spend $150 less on food!!! More money for souvenirs! Greatest tool EVER!! 
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01-19-2013, 12:35 PM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Houston, TX
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I can't get any of the drop down menus using Numbers. I will have to wait until I can use my husband's laptop. It is a very elaborate spreadsheet, can't wait to play with it.
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01-19-2013, 06:46 PM
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Earning My Ears
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Works fine for me!!
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01-19-2013, 06:57 PM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Apr 2006
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This is awesome. Thanks for posting.
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01-19-2013, 08:18 PM
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Good info, thanks!
Now to kill some serious time running different scenarios..... 
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01-19-2013, 08:47 PM
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Earning My Ears
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Great spreadsheet
 It verified what I thought - the DDP does not work for us; we are not big dessert eaters, especially after a meal. I would prefer an ice cream later on in the evening (while waiting for the bus back to the resort!).
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01-19-2013, 08:50 PM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Colorado
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Awesome Planning Tool
It said that even if we don't get dessert with every lunch and dinner, we are better off with the DDP simply because we have so many expensive ADRs scheduled.
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01-19-2013, 09:03 PM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Carolinas
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WOW. This is AMAZING. (If anyone's wondering... $816 DP vs $500 OOP...
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01-19-2013, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Connecticut
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TFS! We would save $14 so it looks like we will use the DDP
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01-19-2013, 10:09 PM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Coast of Virginia
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Wow, this thing is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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01-19-2013, 11:23 PM
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Earning My Ears
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Upstate New York
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Love this! Thanks! We're on the fence for our next trip. We've done the traditional plan the last few years, but with the price increase we wonder if it's worth it. I just plugged in all of the restaurants from our last trip, and there was a $4 difference between the plan and OOP. Not the 15-20% savings we'd hope for, but the conveniece is always nice.
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01-19-2013, 11:39 PM
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Earning My Ears
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Oceanside, CA
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It's really accurate... I had already did the Math for our ADR and other food selections and it is the same as what I calculated.
If we were paying full price for Dining plan (we are not part of the stay, dine play package) we would basically break even (we will save $20 but we would not normally get all the snacks, but hey this way we will get many awesome tasty snacks!)
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01-20-2013, 12:04 AM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Lincoln, NE
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THAT ROCKS! Wow. I have been trying to convince my DH that we don't need the dining plan, but putting in all of our ADR's, the dining plan actually saves us over $200, guess I was wrong...
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01-20-2013, 12:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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The only time the dining plan is ever a great deal is when it is free. However, we have not it in years....
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01-20-2013, 01:40 AM
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Mouseketeer
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Signal Mountain, TN
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Thanks for the post. Looks like a great tool. I'll have to wait and try it at work I guess. I can get it all working but for dinner drop down. There is none on the file when I use Open Office on my MAC. Hopefully it works on my PC with Excel. The other columns work great.
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