Guilty of not reading through the posts. Forgive any repetition.
1)We did not look at what you can get ooh all that food is it too much? BUt rather is the food enough. We arent breakfast eaters (well we eat but we dont care to get up early enough to take time for real food..at home school mornings etc are dry ceareal granola etc and milk or juice). So 2 plan meals a day was good, and enough food.
2)How much will we spend with/without the plan. Plan cost for the family about 100 a nightX7 nights 700. I knew I didnt want to wait in lines for characters so We were definitely doing a couple of character meals for the interaction. So my family of 4 - 2 kids 2 adults, if I was very very careful nothing special lets share all the time, we could eat a cs for about $30 for the family. 7 days 2 character DINNERS tax tip all encluded probably around 100 each, then 12 cs at about 30 each would and the total was about 560. I could have brought that down more by sandwhiches whatever but lets face it I really didnt want to. So dining plan would cost an extra 140 for the week to have ts everyday. BUt we cant forget that more drinks would have had to be purchased if we had to share all those cs drinks wethere this was at the park or brought from home. This doesnt allow for any cool ice creams or whatever that you know the kids are going to beg for. also lets also forget that in the end but I didnt know it would work out this way to start with so couldnt figure it in deciding and it may not be allowed in the future sharing meant we covered all meals we were on site for for 8 days 9ts & 7 CS so 16 meals instead of 14 - all done within rules not trying to get away with kid for adult use, etc except the one time I got my son a hot dog but got myself kids to make up for it.
3) reading the boards complaints of too much food, well I guess but we didnt have a problem with it. Rarely threw out food but then we shared ALOT. and we did a lot of buffets. It didnt really figure into the equation. We got what we wanted and didnt order extras if we didnt....always took my deserts to the room if I couldnt eat them then though and not all of them got eaten. But most atleast got partially eaten. Cs's we tried to get a lot of fruit for deserts to help balance out the kids diets and them getting hungry at off times.
To me it was a no brainer for an extra 140 (if i stood my ground and got no extras) I didnt have to scrimp and we got to go to lots of character meals. Try new things - but honestly next trip we may try new restaurants but we wont be trying new things we always end up not liking it.
1)We did not look at what you can get ooh all that food is it too much? BUt rather is the food enough. We arent breakfast eaters (well we eat but we dont care to get up early enough to take time for real food..at home school mornings etc are dry ceareal granola etc and milk or juice). So 2 plan meals a day was good, and enough food.
2)How much will we spend with/without the plan. Plan cost for the family about 100 a nightX7 nights 700. I knew I didnt want to wait in lines for characters so We were definitely doing a couple of character meals for the interaction. So my family of 4 - 2 kids 2 adults, if I was very very careful nothing special lets share all the time, we could eat a cs for about $30 for the family. 7 days 2 character DINNERS tax tip all encluded probably around 100 each, then 12 cs at about 30 each would and the total was about 560. I could have brought that down more by sandwhiches whatever but lets face it I really didnt want to. So dining plan would cost an extra 140 for the week to have ts everyday. BUt we cant forget that more drinks would have had to be purchased if we had to share all those cs drinks wethere this was at the park or brought from home. This doesnt allow for any cool ice creams or whatever that you know the kids are going to beg for. also lets also forget that in the end but I didnt know it would work out this way to start with so couldnt figure it in deciding and it may not be allowed in the future sharing meant we covered all meals we were on site for for 8 days 9ts & 7 CS so 16 meals instead of 14 - all done within rules not trying to get away with kid for adult use, etc except the one time I got my son a hot dog but got myself kids to make up for it.
3) reading the boards complaints of too much food, well I guess but we didnt have a problem with it. Rarely threw out food but then we shared ALOT. and we did a lot of buffets. It didnt really figure into the equation. We got what we wanted and didnt order extras if we didnt....always took my deserts to the room if I couldnt eat them then though and not all of them got eaten. But most atleast got partially eaten. Cs's we tried to get a lot of fruit for deserts to help balance out the kids diets and them getting hungry at off times.
To me it was a no brainer for an extra 140 (if i stood my ground and got no extras) I didnt have to scrimp and we got to go to lots of character meals. Try new things - but honestly next trip we may try new restaurants but we wont be trying new things we always end up not liking it.
