princesslover
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2009
Dining plans have been a big winner for Disney for a long time. There's no way they're not brining them back once the operating conditions return to some level of normalcy. This might be a good time for them to think about revamping the system, so there's no guarantee that what they'll offer is going to be exactly comparable to what has been offered in the past, but Disney tends to be averse to radical changes.
Personally I'd like to see more flexibility, such as flexibility in the number and types of credits you can buy in your package or some type of points system where you buy a certain number of points and different types of meals cost different amounts of points. But those are more significant departures than I'd expect they're willing to make.
My boldest prediction - off-site guests will have access to a limited version of dining plans via MDE when dining plans return, likely in the form of pre-purchased counter service credits that can be redeemed via in-app mobile order.
My biggest complaint with the dining plans is that we always end up with extra QS credits and a ton of snack credits. We are almost always converting the QS to snacks, and then running around the last day like crazy buying snacks to bring home. I would rather have the option of getting more TS instead. I like the idea of flexibility in buying dining packages. It seems that before the pandemic they did improve slightly in offering more options for the basic dining plan.