Traveling on cc points
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- Joined
- Apr 27, 2016
Hi everyone. I apologize in advance for all of my rambling. We just returned from a week at Disney and spent a small fortune on food and especially cocktails.
I am usually really good as budgeting our vacations but our friends met us there for 5 nights. cocktails starting flowing and the budget went right out the window.
We have never been on the dining plan before. The regular dining plan just doesn’t work for us because I am not a fan of Disney’s counter service options. In a perfect world Disney would add another plan that included 2 table service credits & 2 snacks per night.
My boyfriend and I have another 6 night trip booked for the first week of September (just the 2 of us) and 8 nights booked the first week of December. The same friends are going to join us for the December trip.
I have been reading all the posts I could find here on disboards about putting the deluxe plan on 1 room and sharing it with people in another room and I am trying to figure out if it will work for the way we eat.
From what I have read we would get 1 app, 1 entree, 1 dessert and 1 alcoholic drink per credit. I looked over the menus at the restaurants we just ate at and some restaurants don’t specifically have an app sections. How strict are the restaurants with apps verses sides? I am a vegetarian and tend to have better luck finding foods I can eat on the side section. For example. We ate at the boat house and the other 3 people in my group ordered dinners and I ordered the Mac and cheese & asparagus off the sides menu. Would we be able to use 6 credits for the 3 of them and have my sides count towards their appetizers?
I know it’s unlikely but Will they let you substitute dessert for a second cocktail if the price is less? We are not big dessert people.
We are planning on booking California grill brunch once our 180 day window opens, I have read conflicting reports on whether or not regular alcoholic drinks are included on top of the Mimosa’s. Any recent updates.
What is included at wine bar George on the deluxe plan? Is it 1 credit each?
I don’t understand why doesn’t make all of these answers available in black and white so there isn’t so much confusion.
I looked everywhere and I could find a thread discussing the best restaurants for the deluxe dining plan. I found plenty of threads discussing the regular plan but it’s not the same because they don’t include apps.
The buffets seem to be s good value on the regular plan but seem to not be so great on the deluxe. Am I wrong on this?
Option 1. Buy the TIW card to save 20% on our last 2 trips of the year including alcohol. I might have to kick myself if this is an option we choose because I could’ve used it on our last two trips.
Option 2 add the DDP to our 8 nights for a total of $1860 or $930 per couple. (This price will be a little lower from buying discount gift cards but I am not calculating that because I will buy the discounted cards if we pay oop)
Ready for the kicker. Our friend works for espn and gets a cm discount. Usually 20% but it doesn’t work on alcohol.
By my calculations. Each meal credit costs $35.41 for 1 credit restaurants and $70.82 for signature restaurants. Assuming snack credits are worth $5 each.
I’m going to stop rambling all of my thoughts now. . Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.
I am usually really good as budgeting our vacations but our friends met us there for 5 nights. cocktails starting flowing and the budget went right out the window.
We have never been on the dining plan before. The regular dining plan just doesn’t work for us because I am not a fan of Disney’s counter service options. In a perfect world Disney would add another plan that included 2 table service credits & 2 snacks per night.
My boyfriend and I have another 6 night trip booked for the first week of September (just the 2 of us) and 8 nights booked the first week of December. The same friends are going to join us for the December trip.
I have been reading all the posts I could find here on disboards about putting the deluxe plan on 1 room and sharing it with people in another room and I am trying to figure out if it will work for the way we eat.
From what I have read we would get 1 app, 1 entree, 1 dessert and 1 alcoholic drink per credit. I looked over the menus at the restaurants we just ate at and some restaurants don’t specifically have an app sections. How strict are the restaurants with apps verses sides? I am a vegetarian and tend to have better luck finding foods I can eat on the side section. For example. We ate at the boat house and the other 3 people in my group ordered dinners and I ordered the Mac and cheese & asparagus off the sides menu. Would we be able to use 6 credits for the 3 of them and have my sides count towards their appetizers?
I know it’s unlikely but Will they let you substitute dessert for a second cocktail if the price is less? We are not big dessert people.
We are planning on booking California grill brunch once our 180 day window opens, I have read conflicting reports on whether or not regular alcoholic drinks are included on top of the Mimosa’s. Any recent updates.
What is included at wine bar George on the deluxe plan? Is it 1 credit each?
I don’t understand why doesn’t make all of these answers available in black and white so there isn’t so much confusion.
I looked everywhere and I could find a thread discussing the best restaurants for the deluxe dining plan. I found plenty of threads discussing the regular plan but it’s not the same because they don’t include apps.
The buffets seem to be s good value on the regular plan but seem to not be so great on the deluxe. Am I wrong on this?
Option 1. Buy the TIW card to save 20% on our last 2 trips of the year including alcohol. I might have to kick myself if this is an option we choose because I could’ve used it on our last two trips.
Option 2 add the DDP to our 8 nights for a total of $1860 or $930 per couple. (This price will be a little lower from buying discount gift cards but I am not calculating that because I will buy the discounted cards if we pay oop)
Ready for the kicker. Our friend works for espn and gets a cm discount. Usually 20% but it doesn’t work on alcohol.
By my calculations. Each meal credit costs $35.41 for 1 credit restaurants and $70.82 for signature restaurants. Assuming snack credits are worth $5 each.
I’m going to stop rambling all of my thoughts now. . Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.