VegasVic14
Earning My Ears
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- Jan 12, 2014
I will go out on a limb and say you will lose money with the DDP for all breakfast meals.
- Garden Grill Breakfast: $40.47 Adults, $24.50 Ages 3-9. Tax and gratuity included.
I'm fairly certain gratuity is NOT included at Garden Grill; this is probably a typo on allears' part.
As to the others in your list, there is no longer any kind of seasonal or daily pricing. The price is the same every day of the week. The only time there is a difference is on a holiday such as Easter and Christmas or if there is a dining package attached to the reservation like Fantasmic or Candlelight Processional.
OP, if you're planning on getting some kind of alcoholic beverage with your breakfast, then the DDP might still be a good value. Otherwise, you'll be losing money unless you're thinking of doing the DxDDP and these are just your breakfast plans. On the regular DDP, a TS credit is worth about $43, so you're not losing much, but 2 people times 4 meals does add up. On the DxDDP, a TS credit is worth about $35, so you'd be saving money.
That was all copied and pasted Maybe I shouldn't be using that site then
Not if you use at least one on a breakfast at Be Our GuestI will go out on a limb and say you will lose money with the DDP for all breakfast meals.
Thanks for the update of those 4 character meal prices. We're doing them with our grandkids, so that part of the trip is a given. Alcoholic drinks are a very small part of the budget and certainly won't happen at breakfast. Again, thanks for all the advice and info. As of tomorrow, 8/23, we have only 176 days to go.
I used the OOP character meal costs and added the approximate OOP costs for the remaining portions of the DDP ( 1 QS and 2 snacks pp per day) to see which total was higher. [Disclaimer: the mugs are irrelevant to us as we wouldn't use them and our plans will have 1 TS (x 2) credit leftover to be replaced by 1 more QS OOP].It has been a while since I planned a trip with kids under 10, but IIRC if you did any character meals with them, the value was boosted. The cost of the plan was low in contrast with the cost of character meals and buffets. I also think that if you want to include the cost of snacks if you plan to buy some also made a difference in value.
One online calculator shows the DDP to be $333 higher and another calculator shows DDP $210 higher. Any other snacks above and beyond DDP is still OOP, so those, too, are irrelevant when doing a comparison. Having taken the grands to character meals in 2018, I know of their boosted value. We can take the savings and "boost" this trip even more in some other way.
Do you have two Disney kid aged grandkids? I don't see how either of those calculators could be correct.
The adult cost for all your breakfasts should be $40.47, so that's $323.76 total for the two adults.
Child cost for the breakfast is right at $25, so that's $200
Six adult QS meals at $15 avg (assuming you're drinking soda or tea or something with your meals) is $180
Six kids QS meals (they could get adult meals with the DDP which might stretch these credits even further, but we'll stay with kids meals) at $7.50 is $90
Two $5 snacks for all of you 5 days is $200.
Total OOP is about $995
DDP cost for 2 adults and 2 kids for 5 nights is $1035, so only a $40 savings if you pay OOP.
So, if you think you won't want all those snacks and you prefer drinking water instead of soda, you'll definitely save money OOP.
BUT, if you do want an alcoholic drink or two with your QS meals, if the kids want an adult QS instead of the kid choices, if you want a couple of the more expensive snacks you can get with DDP, then I say you go with the DDP.
Yeah, this calculation is very close and worth thinking about. I'm a "maximizer" and I didn't buy a snack until it was over $6.00. If you get 3-4 mixed drinks and a few $6 and up snacks you've broke even or exceeded.
And I know that no one values the refillable mugs. I certainly started out not valuing them because I am not a soda drinker, but then I took my mug to the food court every morning and some afternoons and I made myself hot tea and coffee there (sure beat out the in room method) and I definitely got some value there.
As to the mugs, I have no idea why no one includes them as a value
I think it's just hard to give them a value when calculating for/against DDPs. It's one of those things we wouldn't buy OOP just like we wouldn't get four desserts at the table. For us, it was a cool souvenir that we saw as a bonus to the DDP. Our rooms were never close enough to the food courts to run over and use them much while there and we rarely eat at the resort.
Grandkids are included in their parent's DDP. I only mentioned traveling with them as the reason why the price of those meals was needed to calculate OUR decision to add DDP or go OOP. Sorry for the confusion.Do you have two Disney kid aged grandkids? I don't see how either of those calculators could be correct.
The adult cost for all your breakfasts should be $40.47, so that's $323.76 total for the two adults.
Child cost for the breakfast is right at $25, so that's $200
Six adult QS meals at $15 avg (assuming you're drinking soda or tea or something with your meals) is $180
Six kids QS meals (they could get adult meals with the DDP which might stretch these credits even further, but we'll stay with kids meals) at $7.50 is $90
Two $5 snacks for all of you 5 days is $200.
Total OOP is about $995
DDP cost for 2 adults and 2 kids for 5 nights is $1035, so only a $40 savings if you pay OOP.
So, if you think you won't want all those snacks and you prefer drinking water instead of soda, you'll definitely save money OOP.
BUT, if you do want an alcoholic drink or two with your QS meals, if the kids want an adult QS instead of the kid choices, if you want a couple of the more expensive snacks you can get with DDP, then I say you go with the DDP.