Disney Dining – A Planners Dream Tool
Have you tried out a Disney Dining plan?
These prepaid dining options are a planners dream. One thing that seems to unite true Disney vacation fans is the planning aspect of the trip. Although there are some non planners out there, the ones who truly get the most out of their Disney vacations tend to be those to plan… at least a little.
The dining plan offers a basic number of meals offered per day, per person. The plan we were on included one sit down, one quick serve and one snack credit for each person per night of stay. So for our 6 night stay (4 people in our party)we started with 24 table serve credits, 24 snack credits and 24 quick serve meals that we could use for the duration of our stay. The fun is getting to use these credits, the planning part is figuring out how to get the most out of the plan and not run out of food or end up with leftover credits when you leave.
The trick for us was trying to figure out how to spread out the food so we could be full throughout the day and not just overfull after one meal. Figuring out things like, snack credits can be used for a cereal and milk will be valuable for our next visit. For this visit though we opted to mix up our sit down meals between breakfast and dinner and even went to resort food courts outside of the resort we were staying at to maximize the quick serve meals. Some food courts even offered an extra drink with the meal. Snack credits were a mystery throughout the stay. We could have the obvious – pretzels, popcorn, drinks, but we knew there had to be better options. So we were constantly looking for the snack symbol throughout our daily adventures.
We had a fabulous time using the dining plan the first time around, but we are definitely looking forward to doing it again – even better 