Going to Disney World at the end of the month for 1 week. We have the Magic Your Way Package Plus Dining plan. It will be me, my wife, daughter (6 years), and son (5 years). We each get 1 table service meal, 1 quick service meal, 1 snack for each day we are there until check-out.

We have 3 character breakfasts scheduled, dinner at Cinderella's Castle, and dinner at Tutto Italia at Epcot. I'm thinking that I would rather pay out of pocket for dinner at Cinderella's Castle rather than use 2 table service meals per person. What are your thoughts on this? Also, it is difficult to decide whether or not we should use the table service meals for breakfast or if we should use them for dinner. We have reservations for breakfast every morning and have only 2 dinner reservations. The obvious choice is to use them for breakfast because I'm not sure whether or not we will be eating table service dinner other than the 2 nights we have reservations. We figured we will be going back to the parks in the evening and may possibly eat a quick dinner at one of the parks, probably counter service. What are your thoughts? Would appreciate hearing from those that have experience using this plan. Thanks!

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?

You are good. It is accepted everywhere.

My only thought that if you are staying at a resort with a TS restaurant you might be more likely to use it there at your home resort. So, at the Polynesian, that might be Ohana's.

I am glad to hear that you have reservations. Many people do not realize the necessity of making those and end up disappointed when they can't get in to a character meal or a fancy dinner at Victoria and Albert's.

Have a great trip.