2017 Disney Dining Plan Changes

I think this is much better. Neither my husband or I like desserts, so we wasted 60 desserts between us over 15 days (by refusing them, giving them away or choosing fruit to take back to the room with the intention of eating it, but some got thrown away) We used all of our snack credits at the F&W festival and easily could have used more. Even for dessert lovers, it gives them the option to have dessert with their QS meal or later in the day at another place. However, Disney are offering less so I hope they don't increase the prices too much.

I like this better ( not that we get the dining plan anyway). But the couple times we did have the quick service plan, we didn't care for or need the desserts. Most seemed to be the same options everywhere ( chocolate or carrot cake, mousse).

It's better for the regular dining plan where you gain the snack credit instead of the QS desert. We struggle to get through all of our snack credits now but maybe thinking of it as our desert might help.

more snacks! I usually would only eat one dessert a day; during our first trip we ended up with a fridge full of tie dye cheesecakes from the resort food court. Having an extra snack available for when we're at the parks will be a real bonus.

I think this is a good move as when I was there the carrot cake got a little..... Dull (I am not a chocolate cake fan - I like mine in bar form or hot )

Also I felt the need to eat my dessert rather than cart it around, by having it as a separate snack credit I can see me using it later in the day after walking off the entree.

Another benefit is the selection a snack credit offers vs the limited choice of desserts on the QS menu.

Good call Disney

I personally love this change. If you want to keep your dessert then you can use the extra snack credit they are giving you to get the dessert. But for the rest of us that feel like we waste those desserts it gives a lot more freedom.

I'm all for anything that adds flexibility to DDP. I would have never purchased it in its current incarnation--much too rigid. I'm still unlikely to pay cash for DDP because we share a lot of meals and DDP still doesn't make a lot of sense of you choose to do that, but it does at least look like a semi-attractive option now. That is, assuming that the price doesn't go up 20% to compensate for this added benefit.

at first I didn't like this idea because I "loved" all of the desserts however thinking about it there is only a select few where I really enjoy the dessert so I've since came round to the idea much more and I'm super excited to try this out next April!

Plus if you still want the dessert, just use one of your extra snack credits. This really doesn't take away any benefit, just adds more flexibility.

I know that exactly what i thought and I'm now super excited to try it!!!

We always do the dining plan and I think the extra snack is much better than dessert! We like to use a snack for breakfast and then it would be nice to have one for later. The lunchtime dessert choices are not always very good and we usually don't even want one with lunch.

I'm really excited about this change since I usually use my QS for lunch and I hate having to carry around a dessert I didn't finish - I don't like wasting sweets .

This additional snack will come in handy during my "Drinking Around the World" day so I can "Snack Around the World" too.