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If you do a 2 TS credit meal, how do you make up for it?
Hi! I tried to search for the answer for this on these boards, but I couldn't find it.
My question is this: If you have ever used 2TS on a signature meal or room service, how do you make up for it the next day?
Ex: I made rez at Jiko (2TS) so I'm trying to figure out for the next day what we are going to eat using only 1 snack and 1 QS - no TS for that day.
Do you use your snack for breakfast and have a large QS lunch later in the day?
Or do you eat breakfast in your room using food from home and then have 1 snack and 1 QS to last the rest of the day?
Supplement the 1 snack and 1 QS with your own snacks?
Just thinking out loud and wondering what the "pros" do. (They probably don't get the 2TS in the first place!)
Thanks in advance!
PS - using ONLY the Basic DDP and NO food from home, does anyone ever get hungry?
When We are planning to do a 2 credit dining place, we do exactly what you mentioned. We either eat our own food for breakfast, use a snack credit or whatever. Then we use a counter for a big day meal. Sometimes that will be at night and we will just pay oop for lunch too.
What I did when we did HDD (2 credits) last year was we just paid OOP for a TS meal. I chose someplace we wanted to eat that was on the cheaper side price wise. Then once we got there, because we weren't overly hungry, Lenny and I split a meal and Abby got her kids meal. For the 3 of us I think it only cost us about 25 dollars for the entire meal (close to what a CS would have cost for the 3 of us).
This year our travel plans will wind up getting us there around 9:00 at night. We get a full day's worth of meal credits for that night but we won't use them, so we are planning on making up a 2 TS credit meal that way. Did that make sense? Also we are going to put in an order with Garden Grocer for breakfast foods (Milk, cereal, etc) so we can grab a quick breakfast in our room in the morning and hit the parks ASAP. We don't like using our Snack credits for breakfast. Dole Whips and Mickey bars are just too good to pass up!
Because of arrival and departure times, we never need more than one meal on arrival and departure days. This leaves us with an extra counter service credit in there. We choose one night to have counter service instead of table service to use this credit, and we're good to go.
What also helps is that we bring breakfast groceries from home, so we're able to actually use snack credits for snacks. This comes in handy the first couple of days, but by about day 3, we're so full from the massive amount of food we get with our counter and table service meals that we often don't even want snacks. You could use snack credits for breakfast, or if you're doing a character breakfast, you could use snack credits for a light lunch (i.e. ham and cheese croissant at France in Epcot, fried rice at Yak and Yeti in AK, etc.)
We just pay OOP for our evening meal. Yes we still do get a little hungry sometimes on the Basic plan, but my kids are piglets! My gang likes 3 square meals a day with munchies inbetween. We usually either bring b'fast items from home (which I know you said you can't do) and that way we have a snack credit mid day, Or we use our snack credits for b'fast and buy OOP for any snacks we might need during the day.
If you can't take b'fast items with you due to luggage fees, consider shipping them to your resort, or ordering from Garden Grocer. If you have a rental, you can just zip to a grocery and grab some cereal bars, fruit, poptarts, oatmeal bowls, nabs etc.
My personal tip is when I fly with Southwest (no baggage fees), I pack an extra suitcase full of shelf stable b'fast and snack items (and sometimes drinks) to take with us, and then we have an empty suitcase to pack our souvieners in for the flight home!
When we use the regular dining plan we do usually have to pay for a meal or two out of pocket. We like signature dining. But the way I figure it, by the time we've eaten a QS meal, the dining plan has paid off for us so it is worth it. But, to answer your question, we can't eat on the regular dining plan and not pay for something or bring your own food.
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Because of arrival and departure times, we never need more than one meal on arrival and departure days.
That's definitely the easiest way to do it. The number of credits you receive (given in a "lump" at check-in is based on the number of nights on your reservation. If we arrive later in the afternoon our first day, then we just grab counter service in a park and still have that extra credit to "double up" for a signature meal later that week.
The first time I used the regular dining plan I had brought cereal, juice, gatorade, and light snacks with us. We never spend a credit on breakfast because usually it is the cheapest meal of the day and we wanted our money's worth.
If you are not going to bring anything from home then I would buy the refillable mug and use a snack credit for breakfast. You can get donuts, muffins, fruit, etc and then fill your mug with juice. Then eat an early dinner around 3 or 4. You might get snacky again later, but just grab one at the park and that should hold you over.
I probably would do a snack credit for breakfast (big cinnamon roll or cheese danish) and somewhere that I could get a big counter service meal late afternoon. Wolfgang Puck Express at DTD is awesome for that. We eat there alot because it is more like a TS meal than CS. In March, I got the Chicken Alfredo, small ceasar salad (comes with it) and creme brulee for dessert. I was stuffed and it was more than enough for lunch/dinner.
We are doing CRT using 2 credits. Therefore I am choosing to pay OOP for 2 more table service meals. I am paying OOP for CP breakfast our last morning and our lunch at H&V b/c those are the cheapest. I could have went without adding the other TS ADR's, but I really wanted to eat there. lol. (because of the characters... not so much the food)
We have used a lot of the above-mentioned strategies, including paying OOP for the least expensive meals (because we really like the 2TS restaurants!) We also almost always split 3 CS meals between the four of us (which is normally plenty for us) and then we have some extra CS credits to work with.
The other thing we have done, when DS's were 10 and 12, is pay OOP for one or both of their meals, and save their credits for me and DH. For example, we went to the Brown Derby, and DS10 wasn't very hungry, so he ordered a grilled cheese and we paid OOP. This saved us two adult TS credits, which we used at another meal. This strategy won't work for us much in the future, as the boys are getting older and hungrier!
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