People have been asking for the return of the Disney Dining Plan, but Disney has released a new alternative. Are we excited about it?
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Welcome to ParksCenter on WDWNT.TV! We’re back with more news and discussing the latest happenings in Disney Parks. Also, thanks for joining us live at our new time, 9pm ET!
It’s our first show of the year, and we’ve got a lot to cover!
We start with our parks news, and the official kickoff of the 100 Years of Wonder celebration across the company. New shows, new merch, and more will be coming to the parks, and we’ll take a look at the first batch tonight!
Then, here at WDWNT, we’ve been covering so many instances of the parks in desperate need of cleaning. From Small World to the Monorail and more, we’ll talk about it with the panel.
We also take a look back at the NYE celebrations, a look ahead to the Walt Disney World 50th finale, and a look ahead at 2023 including the latest construction updates on Tron and Moana.
Finally, our panel is talking about the Disney Dining Plan that we lost in 2020, and the new Dining Card offering that Disney is currently promoting. Will the dining plan ever come back? Will we miss it?
So much to cover, and we’ll pack it all into 90 minutes. You won’t want to miss this special episode of ParksCenter!
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If I'm paying an UNGODLY amount of money to go to a park, the LEAST I expect is it to be clean. The bottom of the barrel minimum. Royal Carribean manages to clean their ships top to bottom OVERNIGHT. Disney has no excuse.
The dining credit can be more than $750, it is dependent on the number of nights you stay. I booked a room at the WL and rate, with tax, is about $503 per night. I’m staying 10 nights, so a $1500 dining credit gift card. That’s equivalent to a 30% discount off of rack rate, that room is never discounted by more than 25%, maybe 30% for an AP, which I do not have. We will definitely spend $1500 for food, so it’s worth it for the 2 of us. If I got just a room discount, I’d still have to pay for food, and we’d definitely spend $1500. So, this offer works out better because again, I don’t think I’d get a 30% room discount. And preferable to a dining plan because I can go to a lounge and order appetizers and drinks and use the card to pay for it. I can use it to buy cookies at Gideon’s (yes, it is included), I can blow it all at Victoria & Alberts if I choose. And it was not required that you had to buy park hopper tickets, which the free dining offers always did. I’m fine with the offer.
Were you a fan of the Disney Dining Plan? What did you like about it?
Will the castle at MK be Decorated for the 100th anniversary of Disney?
Could the parts needed to repair the door at Tower or whatever at Lighting, are in short supply and are taking time to be delivered?
Jason, you nailed it. The execs are NOT walking the parks and they should be! Many of the daily cleaning issues stem from poor training and lack of coaching from management. These could be easily course corrected, but management has to get into the parks and look at them through the lens of what guests are seeing!
I’m staying club level at Animal Kingdom Lodge in august for 4 nights with 2 adults, 3 kids so I have $600 to spend in 4 nights 🤔 I get club level because my husband and I love the unlimited lattes and breakfast and late night snacks, plus we’re going for his 40th. We were planning on skipping sit down dinners this trip, so in order for me to spend the extra $600, we will book some sit down dinners.. some where. We did a lot of sit down dinners at some of the most popular Disney spots the last time we were there but wasn’t really impressed. We did California Grill, Sanaa, Be our Guest, Space 220, Skippers Canteen, and more. The only place I ate that blew my expectations was Topolino Terrace but that almost impossible to get a reservation. Probably even more so now with people trying to spend there Disney food bucks
I’m excited for Tron but I hope they do away or update Tomorrowland speed way and people mover as both look very out dated