DAY SIX
Our last day.
To start the day we assess our food credit situation. We have no table service credits left, but we have five counter service and seven snack credits remaining. We were in AK today, still determined to ride EE before our WDW visit was over. We had breakfast in the villa.
Tusker House Since we had eaten lunch at FTB earlier in the week, we decided to eat at Tusker House about 1.30pm after DS and DH had finally managed to ride EE! As usual DD was not hungry, but the rest of us were starving. DH and DS had the fried chicken sandwich and fries. DS liked it but DH said he would rather have had the rotisserie chicken and mashed poratoes after he saw how good it looked on someone else's plate!
I had the salmon and rice and it was delicious. Again, there were three desserts available so we got one of each, DH had the carrot cake, DS had chocolate cake and I had the cheesecake. The carrot cake and the chocolate cake were moist and tasty, but I felt the cheesecake was a bit ho hum. DD ate a little of everything as usual. We had diet cokes to drink. Total cost of the meal was $40.72, 3 cs credits used.
We used four snack credits during the morning on three ice cream bars
and a bottle of water - $10. As we were leaving the park we used our three remaining snack credits for two bottles of water and a bottle of diet coke to take with us in the car after checkout. These cost $6. Total cost of snacks today was $16.
We still had two counter service credits left, and we definitely weren't hungry so we decided to visit the Boardwalk Bakery to see what we could get to take back to the beach with us. We were told we could get one sandwich, one bakery item and one drink for each cs credit. We decided on a ham & cheese sandwich with a brownie and a bottle of water, and a roast beef sandwich with a chocolate croissant and another bottle of water. The cost of this was $21.48, using the last of our cs credits. We took the food back to the beach with us and ate it in the condo later that evening. The brownie and chocolate croissant were delicious.
Total cost of food today - $78.20.
The total cost of the dining plan for us was $624.80 - 3 adults and 1 child for five nights. The cost of the food we ate was $932.29, a difference in our favour of $307.49!
We also spent $60.14 oop on meals for DD, primarily to make our credits last six days rather than five.
We would definitely do the dining plan again, although we would probably do more non-buffet restaurants next time. It was great value and meant we could eat at places we hadn't visited before, eg, Le Cellier, Tangerine Cafe, without worrying about cost. We ate a lot of cs desserts which we wouldn't have done if we had been paying oop all the time. I don't think we've ever eaten dessert with a cs meal before! We'll definitely go to 1900 Park Fare and Le Cellier again, but will probably give CP breakfast, H&V and possibly the Garden Grill dinner a miss, mainly because we've eaten at these places many times now and it's good to try something different!
I'm glad so many people have read my report and found it helpful, if there are any other questions you want to ask about anything at all, please feel free!