As the DDP is back, I have been trying to work out what it is actually going to cost us as well as what it would cost if we paid out of pocket.
This is all from personal research and some assumptions (see below) I was initially working this out to calculate gratuities but it spiralled!
All just for informational purposes in the hope it may help someone else.
The context -
We are a family of 6: 4 adults and 2 children (6 and 8)
Travelling from the UK we are staying this coming Easter at CBR for 7 nights and have purchased regular DDP for the time we are there. That gives us 6 resort mugs, 42 snacks, 28 adult QS, 14 child QS, 28 adults TS and 14 child TS credits!!
We paid in pounds and DDP cost us £77.99 per day for adults and £24.99 per day for the children. Total cost then was £2534 OR $3227 (depending on exchange rates!)
In terms of TS eating, we are hoping to book the following - Ohana, Topolino breakfast, San Angel, Tusker, Yak+Yeti, Skipper Canteen and one more tbc) We aren’t huge drinkers but are likely order alcohol with some meals and regular drinks at others.
By my calculations, paying out of pocket would have cost us around $2300 for 7 meals, with Ohana and Tusker House being the most expensive. Paying a mandatory 18% gratuity means my bill for this will be in the region of $450. I’m not adding that as cost as we would be leaving gratuities in this region regardless of using DDP or paying out of pocket.
Quick service meals are a little more variable. Give that you get a main and drink for one credit I looked at few menus and averaged this out to be about $18 per meal for adults and $12 for children. Sure, you can get more for these credits but being realistic that won’t happen every time.
That gives a total of $644 for QS meals if paying out of pocket.
Snacks seem to vary greatly. For this I averaged out at about $5 per credit. Maybe slightly high, but we won’t be just getting soda/water! That means our 48 snacks have value of around $240
Resort Mugs are easy and come to around $105 for us all.
Overall then:
TS - $2300 (plus $450 gratuities)
QS - $644
Snacks - $240
Mugs - $105
Total of $3289!!
Lots of food but that is with $100 of what we paid for the plan!
We like the fact we can eat when and where we choose but higher value meals and alcoholic drinks are the way forward if getting more value that what you paid is your primary objective.
Hope this helps someone, feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I have made some assumptions and rounded here and there.
