I think your kids are going to want to get up and run to the parks in the mornings. Keeping them interested in anything more than a 15 minute breakfast might be difficult. On the other hand, by 5pm they'll probably be wiped out, hungry, and willing to sit for a nice meal?

Also if you're staying on site, don't you want to take advantage of early entry in the mornings?

Our breakfast reservations are early enough to where we will get there when the parks open. I don't think our breakfasts will last longer than 30 min.

As for the kids being wiped out by 5, our plan is to go back to the resort mid-day and let them swim, relax, nap, etc., then go back to a park later that night.

We found the dining plan worked best when we did a lot of character meals and buffets. I think, with the cost of Cinderella's castle, you are much better off using two table service credits and then paying out of pocket for a different meal. You could always order pizza at the resort one night for dinner and that would be way less expensive than paying for another table service dinner.

What breakfasts do you have reserved? We used a TS credit for the Safari Breakfast at Tusker House and it was a great use of the credit. We did spend at least an hour there with our sons interacting with all the characters.

Are you staying at a resort with TS restaurants?

Have a great trip!

Thanks for your response!

We are staying at the Polynesian. I was told that we can use our meal plan anywhere on Disney property. Is that not correct? Every reservation we have is either at the Polynesian, Contemporary, Grand Floridian, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot. I'm assuming the meal plan is accepted anywhere on these properties. Am I correct or do we have to do some rearranging?