Deluxe Disney Dining Plan Costs $163 Per Night, Plus Other DDP Price Increases.

Walt Disney World has released 2027 vacation packages, revealing Disney Dining Plan price increases and changes. This includes the return of the Deluxe DDP, with a twist. This covers how pricing has gone up & down for kids and adults on the various tiers of DDP year-over-year and since 2019, plus our commentary.

Let’s start with the basics, which is that the Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan (QSDDP) and standard Disney Dining Plan (DDP) are once again returning, with the latter renamed to the Table-Service Disney Dining Plan (TSDDP). In addition to that, they’ve brought back the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan (DxDDP), but the Disney Dining Plan Plus (DDP+) is still unavailable.

I wouldn’t count on the Disney Dining Plan Plus ever returning, as it only existed for a few weeks pre-closure. Not only that, but the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan is basically in-between the DDP+ and old DxDDP. Albeit much more expensive than either. To that point, let’s dig into the costs and price increases for the 2027 Disney Dining Plans…

As always, Walt Disney World has not released official pricing for the 2027 Disney Dining Plans. This is par for the course; even back in the old days (2019), they didn’t publicly post prices.

For as long as we’ve been doing this, we’ve had to reverse-engineer DDP prices, which we’ve done again for 2027 by booking a single night at Pop Century, and then doing the math ourselves to remove the costs of the required park tickets.

Not publishing prices of the Disney Dining Plan upfront is a way of obfuscating costs and avoiding sticker shock on individual package components. Walt Disney World determined ages ago that a package total increasing by a couple thousand extra dollars was preferable to displaying a daily dining cost for whatever reason.

Perhaps because tickets get added first, so the number is already big and people are less likely to balk at it getting even bigger? I won’t pretend to understand consumer psychology. My impression was that all of the numbers I saw were pretty eye-popping!

This year, the biggest sticker shocks come from bringing back the DxDDP while also eliminating the Kids Eat Free promo that’s available in 2026. Those changes can amount to massive year-over-year price differences for some guests, and minimal ones for others. It all depends on the ages of guests in your party, and which tier you’re purchasing. Groups of Disney Adults may not notice much having changed at all.

Based upon our reverse-engineering, per night pricing for the 2027 Disney Dining Plans is as follows:

• Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan: $62.78 per adult and $25.82 per child
• Table-Service Disney Dining Plan (standard): $99.87 per adult and $31.94 per child
• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: $163.01 per adult and $46.85 per child

These prices all include tax, but guests must pay for tips or gratuity out of pocket. Children 3-9 must order from the kids menus; under age 3 eat free from an adult’s plate.

Here are screenshots from the booking flow on DisneyWorld.com if you’d like to double-check my math:

The first screenshot is sufficient to give you the adult cost of each tier of 2027 Disney Dining Plan. Use that and the second screenshot for the child pricing.

For reference, here are the 2026 Disney Dining Plan prices:

• Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan: $60.47 per adult and $0 per child
• Table-Service Disney Dining Plan: $98.59 per adult and $0 per child

For those who don’t want to do the math, here are the increases for 2027:

• Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan: +$2.31 per adult and +$25.82 per child
• Table-Service Disney Dining Plan: +$1.28 per adult and +$31.94 per child
• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: N/A

That doesn’t tell the full story, so here are more data points from last year…

For reference, here are 2025 Disney Dining Plan prices:

• Quick Service Disney Dining Plan: $59.14 per adult and $24.71 per child
• Table-Service Disney Dining Plan: $97.79 per adult and $30.56 per child
• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: N/A

The math there is an increase of $3.64 for adults on the QSDDP in two years and $1.11 increase for kids. On the TSDDP side, prices are up $2.08 for adults and $1.38 for kids. That honestly isn’t too bad given food inflation, not to mention sticker/menu prices at WDW over the same time horizon.

However, this still doesn’t paint a complete picture (DxDDP is still NA!), so let’s time travel to 2019-2020. You might want to brace yourself for this one…

2020 Disney Dining Plan prices were as follows:

• Quick Service Disney Dining Plan: $55 per adult and $26 per child
• Disney Dining Plan: $78.01 per adult and $30.51 per child
• Disney Dining Plan Plus: $94.61 per adult and $35 per child
• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: $119 per adult and $47.50 per child.

Here were the 2019 Disney Dining Plan prices:

• Quick Service Disney Dining Plan: $52.50 per adult and $23.78 per child
• Disney Dining Plan: $75.49 per adult and $27.98 per child
• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: $116.25 per adult and $43.49 per child.

We need to offer the caveat that this isn’t an apples to apples comparison, as the 2019-2020 DDPs offered more. Beyond the price increases, there have also been unfavorable changes that have reduced the value of the Disney Dining Plan over that same timeframe.

We’ll cover that in the commentary, but first a rundown of what each tier of the 2027 Disney Dining Plans includes…

2027 Disney Dining Plan Details

Here’s what each tier of the 2027 Disney Dining Plan offers:

Quick-Service Disney Dining Plan Details:

• 2 Quick-Service Meals Per Night of Stay
• 1 Snack or Nonalcoholic Beverage Per Night of Stay
• 1 Resort-Refillable Mug Per Trip

Table-Service Disney Dining Plan Details:

• 1 Quick-Service Meal Per Night of Stay
• 1 Table-Service Meal Per Night of Stay
• 1 Snack or Nonalcoholic Beverage Per Night of Stay
• 1 Resort-Refillable Mug Per Trip

Deluxe Disney Dining Plan Details:

• 2 Table-Service Meal Per Night of Stay
• 1 Quick-Service Meal Per Night of Stay
• 1 Snack or Nonalcoholic Beverage Per Night of Stay
• 1 Resort-Refillable Mug Per Trip

Table Service Credit Constitutes

Meals redeemed at breakfast will include:

• 1 entrée
• 1 nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

-OR-

• 1 buffet or family-style meal
• 1 nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

Meals redeemed at brunch, lunch or dinner will include:

• 1 entrée
• 1 dessert
• 1 nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage, for Guests 21 and older)

-OR-

• 1 buffet or family-style meal
• 1 nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

Two Table Service Credits

Some dining experiences at Walt Disney World require 2 credits rather than just a single credit. By and large, these are premium offerings: Signature Restaurants, Dinner Shows, Pizza Delivery, or Room Service Meal. These are a poor use of credits, so don’t do them. But here they are:

Character Dining – Certain ‘fancier’ character meals require two credits instead of one. These are Fairytale Dining at Cinderella’s Royal Table in Magic Kingdom, Princess Storybook Dining at Akershus Royal Banquet Hall (at lunch and dinner only) in EPCOT, and Story Book Dining at Artist Point with Snow White in Wilderness Lodge.

Fine Dining or Signature Restaurants – Experience an elegant Table-Service option with a wide selection of cuisines ranging from traditional African, Indian and Mediterranean to premium steaks and fresh seafood in Signature Restaurants, which are mostly the fine dining restaurants in Deluxe Resorts. There are about a dozen of these, and it’ll specify ‘Signature Dining’ in the restaurant description.

Dinner at Be Our Guest Restaurant– Be Our Guest Restaurant in Magic Kingdom requires 2 Table-Service meal credits to be exchanged for a single dining experience. This makes no sense whatsoever and is an artifact of a different time.

Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue Dinner Show – Enjoy family-style dining with live entertainment at a themed dinner show. All dinner shows require advance reservations. Two Table-Service meals will be redeemed from the dining plan for each person dining at a dinner show experience.

Private In-Room Dining – When staying at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, indulge in the comfort and convenience of dining in your room. Each in-room meal consists of a normal table service meal, but requires 2 credits for the convenience. Not worth it.

Quick Service Credit Constitutes

Meals redeemed at breakfast, lunch or dinner will include:

• 1 entrée
• 1 nonalcoholic beverage (or alcoholic beverage for Guests 21 and older)

-OR-

Stop by select quick-service locations for a Pizza Pickup meal, which requires two (2) quick-service meal credits and includes:

• 1 large pizza
• 2 single-serving nonalcoholic beverages (or alcoholic beverages, for Guests 21 and older)

Snack Constitutes

At quick-service restaurants, most outdoor carts and select merchandise locations, snacks may include a single serving of items such as:

• Frozen ice cream novelty, popsicle or fruit bar
• 2 scoops of hand-scooped ice cream
• Popcorn scoop (single-serving box)
• Piece of whole fruit
• Single-serve bag of snacks
• 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola® products, including Dasani® water
• 20-ounce fountain soft drink
• Single-serve coffee, hot chocolate, hot tea, milk or juice
• Cup of soup

The following are not included:

• Items that are more than a single serving (such as a box of donuts or a jar of peanut butter)
• Items (such as popcorn or drinks) that are served in a souvenir container
• Items considered to be merchandise (such as bottle toppers, glow cubes and bottle straps)

Our Commentary

The biggest reason why the math on the 2027 Disney Dining Plans vs. 2019-2020 is not an apples to apples comparison is because Walt Disney World has cut back what the DDPs offer since then.

The latest reduction is that the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan will not include an appetizer with table service meals, as was previously the case. It was also the case that the Deluxe Dining Plan used to offer 3 floating credits that could be used at any combination of table service or counter service restaurants.

That was especially advantageous in the specific use case of doing a character meal for breakfast (1 credit) and a Signature Restaurant (2 credits) for dinner. This might still be possible if the Deluxe DDP tier disregards the credit requirements for each meal, but we’d bet against that. According to official materials, the DxDDP offers 1 QS and 2 TS credits.

And although this isn’t a new development (the change happened in 2024), the number of snacks available on all tiers of the the Disney Dining Plans have gone from 2 to 1 per night since 2019-2020.

When it comes to typical guest behavior, this was an easy thing to cut to achieve cost-savings, as many people either wasted snack credits previously or used them to stock up on stuff to take home from Goofy’s Candy Co. at the end of their trips.

Not only does this achieve cost-savings for the company, but it also decreases the utility and value of both tiers of the DDP. In past breakdowns, we’ve ascribed a $5 value for each snack credit. Given current menu prices, that’s probably $6 now. So if you added $5-6 back into the 2024 Disney Dining Plan prices for an accurate apples to apples comparison, there would be increases across the board.

These two changes reduce the maximum value of the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan by a significant margin. It’s impossible to ascribe a dollar value to it since that would vary based on use cases. For our power user purposes, it’s about a $40 reduction. Meanwhile, the price has gone up by $44.

That amounts to a value differential of $80+ before adjusting for inflation and menu price changes, both of which obviously have shot up since 2019-2020. However, our experience has not been that those are anywhere near $80 per day. This makes the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan a complete non-starter for us. And we frequently purchased it in the past!

Unless there’s something missing or wrong from the official WDW site, the price paired with what this tier includes (and doesn’t) makes it difficult to envision many (any?) use cases where buying the DxDDP makes sense. The target audience is basically guests who want something that sounds all-inclusive (but actually isn’t given how much more restrictive it is now) and don’t care about the cost.

This is a curious choice on Walt Disney World’s part. By making the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan both absurdly expensive and more restrictive, they’ve narrowed the audience. Why not pick a lane? Either absurdly expensive or more restrictive? With limited exceptions, the new target audience is basically “people who aren’t paying attention and want a very expensive vacation.” In Disney’s defense, I guess, that’s a not-insignificant segment of the market.

I’ve largely become numb to Walt Disney World price increases, but I’m nevertheless surprised that the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan is so expensive while also being scaled back. I would’ve been less surprised if it were $175 or higher, but the same almost all-inclusive offering as before.

When we last reverse-engineered credit values (a complicated process since it’s almost impossible to reconcile the numbers across the tiers), we arrived at a table service meal being “worth” approximately $64.50, a counter service meal being approximately $26.50, and a snack about $6.50. All (very) rough numbers, but a decent-enough rule of thumb.

Given that, it might seem like the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan costing “only” $63.14 more than the Table-Service Disney Dining Plan makes it, in fact, a bargain! But what this doesn’t account for is waste or the rather extreme likelihood that no one on the DxDDP is coming anywhere close to maximizing it.

This was always the implicit assumption in DxDDP pricing in the past, and for good reason. The average guest is not eating 2 table service meals per day, plus a counter service meal, and a snack. (Or back in the day, 3 table service meals and 2 snacks!) Value maximization just was not a thing with the DxDDP, and that was previously priced-into the product.

Now, it’s not. This pricing reflects an erroneous assumption on Disney’s part that guests will maximize the DxDDP, which they will not. From my perspective, the new-look DxDDP does not seem thoughtfully designed or priced. It will appeal to an exceedingly limited audience; much more limited than before.

Given the issues with ADR availability and problems Walt Disney World has had filling tables, it would’ve made sense to price the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan more attractively, and actually encourage guests to do more table service meals.

I’m not going to rehash the logic behind this, because we’ve covered it at length (repeatedly) elsewhere, but it’s the same animating idea behind the 40% off VIPassholder and DVC Welcome Home Days discounts. This seems obvious, but what do I know. I’m just a blogger.

Setting aside the nonsense with the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan, the adult price increases for the other two tiers seem perfectly reasonable. Same goes with kids costs in 2027 vs. 2025.

According to the USDA, food prices were 3.1 percent higher year-over-year from last February to this February. The food-at-home (grocery store or supermarket food purchases) CPI increased 2.4 percent; food-away-from-home (restaurant purchases) CPI was 3.9 percent higher year-over-year.

Throughout the next year, overall food prices are anticipated to rise slightly faster than the historical average rate of growth. In 2026, prices for all food are predicted to increase 3.6 percent, with a prediction interval of 1.6 to 5.6 percent. Food-at-home prices are predicted to increase 3.1 percent, with a prediction interval of 0.2 to 6.1 percent. Food-away-from-home prices are predicted to increase 3.9 percent, with a prediction interval of 2.8 to 4.9 percent.

The price increases for the 2027 Disney Dining Plan are below the backward-looking 3.9% rate of inflation for restaurants, as well as the forward-looking 3.9% for the year to come. That’s the more relevant statistic since it accounts for labor and other input costs at restaurants, which are obviously different from grocery stores.

As always, you’ll want to do the math to determine whether the 2027 Disney Dining Plan is right for your party. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to wait until mid-October 2026 to do that math, so don’t bother with it right now. Although Walt Disney World adjusts restaurant prices throughout the year, the start of the new fiscal year is when across-the-board increases typically occur.

Given the aforementioned food inflation, it’s a foregone conclusion that Walt Disney World will raise restaurant menu prices at least once before next year begins. So doing the math on the 2027 Disney Dining Plan vs. paying out of pocket right now is pointless, because you don’t know what menu prices will be next year. By contrast, the DDP price is already locked in–and the increase to adult prices is well below the levels of food inflation.

If you want to read more about most common circumstances when the DDP does or does not make sense, see Is the Disney Dining Plan Worth It in 2026? Keep in mind that covers this year, when the DDP is considerably more attractive for young families. The dynamic will be different next year, and more or less a return to 2025 analysis. (I’d recommend just ignoring the DxDDP for the reasons discussed above.)

Ultimately, we were excited for the return of the 2027 Deluxe Disney Dining Plan, but the prices and details make the DxDDP DOA for us. And probably for most fans who aren’t awful at math (and maybe even some who are!). It’s disappointing that the formula here is seemingly just “raise prices and cut corners” without asking the operative question: who is this even for?

If Walt Disney World is going to cut anything from the Disney Dining Plan, I would (selfishly) love for booze to be removed. For one thing, a large portion of people cannot order alcohol–Disney Adults who are under 21 years of age. For another, there’s an ever-increasing percentage of the population that does not drink at all, especially those under age 35.

There’s also the foundational fact that Walt Disney World is a family-friendly place. While I take absolutely zero issue with responsible adults having the option to purchase alcohol in all of the theme parks, I vehemently disagree with Disney actively incentivizing consumption of alcohol. (Same story with the dessert parties. Having it available for purchase is one thing; implicitly encouraging consumption by making it part of the value-proposition is another entirely.)

Removing the booze and reducing prices a bit would be a net positive for Walt Disney World’s core demographic, and certainly better than cutting corners elsewhere or raising prices. There’s still a while before this becomes an issue for us, but I can say with complete certainty that we will never purchase the Disney Dining Plan once our daughter turns 10 if the current policies remain in place.

It’s one thing for us, as adults, to choose not to drink. It’s another entirely to charge a child (in the eyes of the state) prices that include alcohol, which they cannot legally consume. Walt Disney World doing that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I know I’m not the only one. I also know I’ve written all of this before, but it’s a Disney hill that I’ll die on, and it all bears reiterating.

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YOUR THOUGHTS

What’s your take on the 2027 Disney Dining Plan pricing increases & decreases? Do you use the DDP for eating at Walt Disney World? Surprised to see the DxDDP cost $163? Would you be happy with price decreases and the removal of alcohol, or does booze add a lot of value to the DDP for you? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment of the Disney Dining Plan? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!