Dining plan or not
Going to fort wilderness and wondering if we should get the dining plan or not. We have done it before but just getting opinions.
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Don't know about Ft Wilderness. But they offer the dining plan for free for other Disney properties during certain times of the year. You can't beat that price. The free plan typically last about 4-6 weeks I think, and is offered 2 or 3 times a year. As long as you arrive within that window, you can include the free dining in your reservations for the duration of your stay. And you get the free dining even if your reservation runs past the window.
We have stayed at a Disney hotel twice with the kids and grandkids. Both times we had specific days we wanted to be there. My son, who researches this stuff to death, found out that by scheduling our arrival on the last day of the free dining window, we would get the free dining for all of the next 5 days of our stay. And that corresponded with our preferred time there any way so it worked well.
In our case, with 6 adults and 4 grandkids, the free dining was worth its weight in gold, literally. Typical dinners in a Disney restaurant run from something over $20 to over $35. With the dining plan, you just order what you want without considering costs.
Paying for the dining plan is not cheap. But may be worth it if you enjoy eating. In our case, staying at a Disney hotel we did not have a rent car and was pretty much limited to Disney properties for meals.
One caution. If you do go with the dining plan, read up on it carefully so that you don't use up your credits without understanding when and what credits you are using.
We have stayed at a Disney hotel twice with the kids and grandkids. Both times we had specific days we wanted to be there. My son, who researches this stuff to death, found out that by scheduling our arrival on the last day of the free dining window, we would get the free dining for all of the next 5 days of our stay. And that corresponded with our preferred time there any way so it worked well.
In our case, with 6 adults and 4 grandkids, the free dining was worth its weight in gold, literally. Typical dinners in a Disney restaurant run from something over $20 to over $35. With the dining plan, you just order what you want without considering costs.
Paying for the dining plan is not cheap. But may be worth it if you enjoy eating. In our case, staying at a Disney hotel we did not have a rent car and was pretty much limited to Disney properties for meals.
One caution. If you do go with the dining plan, read up on it carefully so that you don't use up your credits without understanding when and what credits you are using.
