[Pooh Fan]

You may find out that it is not so bad after all without the dining plan. On our last trip there was a huge mixup in which MS added DD's BFF to our reservation but then at some point--not sure when--she was removed from our reservation. When we got to AKL, they were unable to add her back on because there's only supposed to be 4 in a room--not 5. For some reason I trully thought that you could have 5 in the AK rooms. Anyhow, because they could not add her to the reservation we were unable to have DP for her.

Luckily they let her stay in the room and sent us up an airmattress at no charge. On the trip, we kept all of our reservations and just paid OP for her meals and snacks. We always knew that the DP givees you way too much food. Since we shared some of our counter services and we never use all of our snacks the only thing we paid for OP for her was our dinners. We actually came out money ahead on the deal.

It got DH and I to really look at what it costs us for the DP as well as what we would spend ordering what we wanted, but not wasting. We figure that we can still buy snacks and eat dessert and order whatever we want and come out cheaper by not using the DP. (This is because DD and I can't finish a meal to save our lives--way too much food.

Long story short, don't stress too much about not having DP. Look at the menus on Allearsnet and budget according to where you want to eat. Who knows you may see that you can do better than the DP too.