Disney Dining Plan....no. Our Dining Plan here, to be quite frank, sucks. It's mainly comes in the form of prepaid vouchers (i.e. a $10 voucher, a $15 voucher, Snack Vouchers). If you come under the amount of the voucher, you don't get change back, and if you're over, you have to pay out of pocket. Than there's the whole issue of the fact that it takes a long time to enter the payment into MATRA....Big Wallaby wrote:One of the options we're looking at for the rooms is whether DLR is doing any sort of promotion like WDW is doing where if you buy a certain number of days you get more free days. Even with buying tickets, it could come out cheaper than our other options, and that opens us up to be able to use the Dining Plan. How worthwhile is the DDP on the West Coast?
Do you have a list of unique restaurants and such at DTD and around the area? What do we HAVE to do while there?
We test trialed a WDW-style Dining Plan a few months ago. However, I have a hunch we won't be continuing it, as we just simply do not have the grand variety of restaurants that WDW has (and of course, it didn't help that we used vouchers for the test trial instead of linking it with the hotel room key).
As to unique restaurants, most of the restaurants in the resort are quite good (with the exception, IMO, of Rainforest Cafe, which is iffish in quality, if you ask me). In the surrounding area.....well, there are so many, it's hard to know where to start. If you venture far from the tourist areas, Orange County actually has GREAT Mexican food.
