| Woo, first post! ^_^
We used the Deluxe plan this year ... our first time using a dining plan (the last time I was at WDW, there was no such thing as a dining plan). And, sadly, we found it to be just a bit too much food.
We rarely ever had more than just the entree-and-side, even at most of our table service meals ... let alone appetisers and desserts. We also finished with about two unused meal credits apiece ...!
Likely we won't be heading back to WDW sooner than 4-6 years from now - we just aren't financially able to go more often than that. But we've already resolved that, for our next trip, we'll be scaling back to the Basic Dining Plan, or whatever the equivalent is then.
We especially found that making two Table Service reservations for the same day was a BIG mistake - even if they were as far apart as possible (Breakfast and Dinner); we ended up not being hungry enough for more than a light snack come lunchtime, if we ate at ALL.
The refillable mugs were also of questionable value, as we were not close to the drink stations (we were in Building #9, one of the 80's buildings, at Pop Century), AND, every meal we got in the food court CAME with a drink, anyway.
(Speaking of the distance to the refil station - I'd love to see a drink refil station in every building ... right in the T-junction, perhaps, in the Values. If you had to use your KttW card to dispense the drinks ... well, they could record "infinite drink credits" for those that bought the souvenir mug, and make everyone else pay normal costs for a 12oz soda. Then at least, the refillable mugs would ALWAYS be useful, no matter how far you were from the food court / restaurant of yoru resort.)
Anyway ... yes, we've changed our tune, and even "big eaters" like us feel that the Deluxe plan is just too much food. Not to a degree where we feel we didn't get our dollars' worth, but ... too much, nonetheless.
__________________ -- Sean
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