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- Joined
- Feb 3, 2007
We have used the DDP our last 5 trips (2 times free 05 and 06 and May 06, Oct 06, Feb 07 as DVC members--and getting ready to use it again in 2 days for our upcoming 2 week trip to the BWV). We love it and find it's a great bargain. We never have to think about what the prices are and never have a problem using all of our credits. However, since we are AP holders we also have the DDE card too and use that when paying OOP. We like sit down breakfasts and use the DDE discount for those. Plus we like to dine at a few less expensive places (the Plaza and Trail's End) and use the DDE for those restraurants too and then use our TS credits for a couple of signature meals. Since we average 4-5 trips a year and each trip 1 to 2 weeks, we get our value out of the DDE card too. The DDE card is great when family and/or friends meet us for meals and only some of us are on the DDP, then we use our DDE card for the OOP portion of the meals and drinks. I guess we are a multi dining discount family. However, I'm not sure our method would work for the folks who only visit once or twice a year. But you can't go wrong with either.
We use the DDE. DDP is ruining WDW dining, and therefore 1)I refuse to participate and contribute to the downslide and 2) there's not enough really great places to eat anymore now that the DDP has stripped the unique items of the menus.
So we eat in our villa, and we cherry pick a few meals and use the DDE on it. We don't spend any more than we would on the DDP, ususally quite a bit less, and we've haven't stuffed ourselved to the gills with low quality food on the DDP.
We remember when WDW used to be FANTASTIC!
I have not done either the DDP or DDE. Can you give some of your experiences (good or bad) with one or both.
Thanks
Chris
I have not done either the DDP or DDE. Can you give some of your experiences (good or bad) with one or both.
Thanks
Chris
We use the DDE. DDP is ruining WDW dining, and therefore 1)I refuse to participate and contribute to the downslide and 2) there's not enough really great places to eat anymore now that the DDP has stripped the unique items of the menus.
So we eat in our villa, and we cherry pick a few meals and use the DDE on it. We don't spend any more than we would on the DDP, ususally quite a bit less, and we've haven't stuffed ourselved to the gills with low quality food on the DDP.
We remember when WDW used to be FANTASTIC!
We also have used both on a split trip, and I totally agree that the TS meals are a wash and the snacks and QS are "free", but the problem for us is that we really don't WANT to use the QS credits, and since the signatures cost two TS credits, it doesn't necessarily make sense for us.We love DDE and have used it on every trip since it became available to AP holders.
I agree with goofy4tink that the savings are very close whether using DDE or DDP. When I've run our numbers the TS meals are a wash so QS and snack end up being "free" on the DDP.
We've done the DDP on the DVC portion of two of three trips since it became available to members staying on points. My husband loves it. Loves the savings and we still use the DDE for wine, etc as well as OOP meals. My problem with it is that none of us enjoy QS meals as much. I don't want to worry that using a QS for a yogurt parfait is not the best use of a QS. But we just compromised this morning and will add DDP to our next trip as he promised not to fret if we leave some QS credits unused. We'll see how it goes.
I do think it is funny that some still blame the DDP for any and all changes in dining at WDW. Does anyone remember when FL residents were up in arms that AP holders were going to be able to buy DDE? We big bad APers were to blame for a perceived downturn in Disney dining and upturn in prices.