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I'm always a bit confused by these plans which is probably why we haven't done one however I am thinking about it for next year. Questions:
1. If you have 3 meals per day, can you use one at lunch for counter or table service and then 2 at dinner at a Signature restaurant
2. If you don't use all your snacks in one day do they roll over.
We'll probably stay CL again and do that for a light breakfast. We do table/quick service for lunch and a combination of table service and signature resturants for dinner (more signature than table service).
I'm always a bit confused by these plans which is probably why we haven't done one however I am thinking about it for next year. Questions:
1. If you have 3 meals per day, can you use one at lunch for counter or table service and then 2 at dinner at a Signature restaurant
YES. If you do this you won't be stuffed to the brim.
2. If you don't use all your snacks in one day do they roll over. Yes. You can use 4 in a day too. Lets just say you do CRT for breakfast and Hoop-dee-doo for dinner. Snacks - can be a good breakfast or light lunch (muffins, cinnamon rolls, all baked goods, fruit, yogurt, some croissant sandwiches, @ the yak & yeti counter you can get chicken fried rice and egg rolls as 2 snacks, Rosies @ HS has a side salad and soup as 2 snacks and my fave lunch- sundaes.)
We'll probably stay CL again and do that for a light breakfast. We do table/quick service for lunch and a combination of table service and signature resturants for dinner (more signature than table service).
There are a few places that don't take the plan. rain forest and T-rex and a few others DTD.
Snacks - can be a good breakfast or light lunch (muffins, cinnamon rolls, all baked goods, fruit, yogurt, some croissant sandwiches, @ the yak & yeti counter you can get chicken fried rice and egg rolls as 2 snacks, Rosie's @ HS has a side salad and soup as 2 snacks and my fave lunch- sundaes.)
Also some counter services are big enough to share (starring rolls sandwiches w/ chips and a huge cupcake)
I've also gotten some smaller snack items and rolled them together as a CS credit on the last day to used them up...juice, milk, muffin and bagel kinda thing for the trip to the airport/to take on the plane.
I've only done it at the food court at our resort - not at a CS location - but it helps not wasting any credits if you have them left over.
We always use our credits at the candy stores at MK and Dowtown to take stuff home...Cookies, Mickey Rice Crispies, etc.
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Using snack credits is an excellent way to stretch the credits to experience signature dining. We've done that and plan on doing that again in November.
You get 3 meal credits per person per night of stay. You can use them for TS or CS. You can use any combination of them on any given day. All of your credits are available on your first night's stay.
Snack credits roll over as well.
Here's what we did. Character breakfast everyday. Snacks at lunch. 2 credit meals for dinner (like CRT, Spirit of Aloha, or Signature dining). Worked for us and we didn't feel like it was too much food that way.
We just got back from our trip with DxDP. OMG!!!! IS THAT ALOT OF FOOD!!! We will be doing CL on our next family vacation and I told DH that we would just do the DDP because of all of the goodies on CL.
We did Mickeys Backyard BBQ, Spirit of Aloha and Hoop-Dee-Do and even with those 2 credit places it was ALOT of food!!!
We were stuffed the entire time we were at Disney. We used our credits for sodas and water and only once did we get ice cream with them. Both my girls did use one snack credit each at Goofy's Candy Store, but other then that we drank our snack credits!!
Don't forget that if you're staying at a Deluxe resort with room service you may be able to do room service for 2 credits on the DxDDP. Check your resort's website to see if you can. We had enough credits left to do that for lunch and dinner both on our last day at the GF which was lovely. Blissfully, unlike room service we've had elsewhere, the food was very good indeed.
If we were able to go back before the rumored DDP change eliminating most of the current DDP's, we'd definitely use snack credits for light breakfasts and save up meal credits for 2-credit eating whether room service or restaurant. It's soooooo worth it, we think.
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