Big Savings on Deluxe Disney Dining Plan?!
With 2017 pricing decreasing for Walt Disney World’s top tier Dining Plan, it’s a good idea to consider whether purchasing it or paying to upgrade if you take advantage of the Free Dining promo makes sense for your family’s vacation. While we originally tested this a few years ago, due to price changes, we thought it would be worth revisiting and updating this post. While our exact menu prices in the case study section are no longer entirely accurate, the idea remains the same.
Actually, the “idea” here favors the Deluxe Dining Plan offering even better savings for a 2017 Walt Disney World vacation. This is because menu prices have increased at a higher clip than Disney Dining Plan prices–again, the Deluxe Plan is actually decreasing in price for 2017! This means that, although the precise numbers now differ, the gap between using the Deluxe Plan and paying out of pocket is now greater than it was when we tested this.
Our point with this test was to demonstrate how the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan is the most expensive of the Disney World dining plans, but if you use it efficiently, you can maximize your value and save a lot of money at Walt Disney World restaurants. If meals are an important part of your trip, we think it makes sense to upgrade to the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan–even if you need to pay to do so during Free Dining season. What follows is that original case study, along with some new conclusions at the end of the post.
I had heard this a few times from Disney Dining Plan veterans, and the idea is great in theory, but I was still a bit skeptical that the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan would actually save money in practice. I mean, it’s just so much food. So when the opportunity presented itself for us to test the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan, we just had to do our own “research.” Oh, the sacrifices we make for our readers! 😉
For those who are unfamiliar with Walt Disney World’s Dining Plan structure, check out our Ultimate Guide to the Disney Dining Plan post. As you can see from that, the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan includes: three counter service restaurants or table service meal credits per night; two snacks per night; and, one refillable mug per trip. The snacks and refillable mugs are pretty self-explanatory, so I won’t waste time fixating on those.
The three meals aspect of the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan is a bit more interesting, and is where most of the savings comes into play. As the description above indicates, you can choose any mix of meals, table service or counter service, for these credits. If you eat at a table service restaurant, not only do the meals include desserts and entrees (like they do on the regular Disney Dining Plan), but they also include appetizers. Obviously, table service meals offer much better value than counter service meals, so it’s in your best interest to do all table service meals if you book the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan.
Unfortunately, unless you’re a competitive eater, three table service meals per day is probably too much. In fact, two table service meals per day might border on too much. Disney realizes this, which is why the price increase of the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan over the standard Disney Dining Plan is not as much as you’d expect when determining the value per-meal on the DDP.
Considering what you (potentially) receive on the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan over what you receive on the regular Disney Dining Plan, the price difference isn’t bad. In fact, it’s a really good deal by Walt Disney World standards. That is, assuming you can eat 2 table service meals every single day of your trip.
It’s one of those “eyes bigger than your stomach” scenarios, though. All that food sounds and looks great, but you’ll likely waste a lot of credits by the end of your trip, so the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan actually works out to be a poor value for a lot of people who purchase it. Unless you have a plan…
Our Plan
Realizing that three table service meals per day (the absolute best way to maximize your value on the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan) plus two snacks was an unrealistic goal for us, we decided to hedge our bets with the plan by doing two table service meals per day instead of three.
However, to keep the value high, we used two of these credits per day for signature restaurants, which meant that we were still using all three table service credits per day. I’ve written in the past that you get more value out of dining credits by doing two separate regular table service meals instead of one signature meal, but if your option is one signature meal or one regular table service meal and one counter service meal (or one table service meal and one wasted credit), you’re much better off doing the signature meal.
We thus planned on doing one early regular table service meal for lunch, and a signature table service meal for dinner. I’ve heard of others doing a breakfast character meal buffet and a signature dinner to spread the time between meals even more. However, we wanted to get a bit more bang for our buck, so we did lunch and dinner.
It also helped us that we were only doing this experiment for two nights (and we could spread out our meal and credit usage over the course of three days). I don’t think we could have kept up the table service lunch and signature table service dinner pace up everyday for a 7-night trip. Two sit-down meals per day may not seem like much, but it really is.
The next step was determining which restaurants would offer the most value for our money. After researching this at length last year to create our Best-Value Table Service Disney Dining Plan Restaurants post, I had a pretty good idea which non-signature restaurants we should consider. After eliminating a couple restaurants because we had already eaten at them recently (or for various other reasons), we settled on Tutto Italia and Le Cellier. I consulted some Walt Disney World menus and determined that Narcoossee’s and Yachtsman Steakhouse were the way to go for our dinners.
We booked reservations for Tutto Italia (lunch) and Narcoossee’s (dinner) the first day of our trip, Yachtsman Steakhouse (dinner) the second day of our trip, and Le Cellier (lunch) the last day of our trip.
Along the way we had snacks as our appetites allowed. We originally planned on doing this during Epcot Food & Wine Festival to really maximize our value since snacks there can sometimes cost $7+, but after giving it some thought, we realized that we wanted to focus our stomachs on the snacks and other Food & Wine Festival-exclusive offerings, so we decided to nix that plan, in favor of this plan.
Unsurprisingly, we saved a lot of money. We paid $342.08 to add-on the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan (total for two people, two nights) to our Disney Vacation Club stay at the Beach Club Villas.
Reminder: the 2017 add-on price would be different, but since the cost of both the standard and Deluxe Disney Dining Plans have increased at similar rates, the cost difference between the two should be about the same.
Here’s what each meal would have cost if we had paid out of pocket:
- Tutto Italia – $115.02
- Narcoossee’s (2 credits) – $201.20
- Yachtsman Steakhouse (2 credits) – $201.47
- Le Cellier – $113.30
In addition to that, we each received refillable mugs ($30.86 value) and we used 7 of our 8 snack credits ($30.24). We would have used all 8 credits, but the Disney’s Magical Express bus’ early arrival prevented us from using the last one. This amounts to a total value received of $692.09 for time we were on the trip, which far exceeded the amount we spent on the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan, and even exceeded Disney’s own advertised savings on the Disney Dining Plan since we saved over 50%.
UPDATE: Perusing menus should demonstrate that these prices are on the low end of what you’re going to pay currently, particularly at Le Cellier, which has spiked the most since we tried this. (It was also a 1-credit restaurant for lunch at that time.) It’s pretty easy to see that these menu prices have gone up much more than the DxDDP price.
I think the numbers pretty well speak for themselves. I was incredibly pleased with the Deluxe Dining Plan, and if you’ve read my review of the 2017 Disney Dining Plan, you know I’m not the biggest fan of the plan, in general. So this is high praise coming from me.
That said, before you go booking this because you’ll save 50%, there are a few things worth noting. First, we never would have eaten this much food if we weren’t on the Deluxe Dining Plan. Assuming that we dined at the same restaurants, we probably would have spent $85 at Tutto Italia, $175 at Narcoossee’s, $201.47 at Yachtsman Steakhouse, and $75 at Le Cellier.
We would have spent another $20 or so on snacks, and we wouldn’t have purchased the refillable mugs. Total, we still would have spent around $556.47. We also use the Tables in Wonderland card, so our total out of pocket would have been $445.18, which is still well above what we paid for the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan.
Plus, as noted, we received more food than we would have if we paid out of pocket–while we wouldn’t have ordered it if paying out of pocket, I’m certainly not complaining about it and we definitely ate it all and enjoyed it, so it must be accounted-for in an accurate value calculation. In other words, no matter how you do the math, the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan was still a great deal for us.
Doing only two nights of the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan was perfect for us as it didn’t require us to keep up the pace of such lavish and large meals over an extended duration. Had we done it for 7-nights, I think my verdict would likely be, “great deal, but way too much food.”
As mentioned above, this ‘too much’ food is exactly what Disney is counting on by pricing the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan so low (relatively speaking). The expectation that people won’t or can’t maximize their value on this plan is built into the price, and for those on longer vacations, I think that assumption is very accurate.
If you’re contemplating doing the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan during a long trip, either mentally and physically prepare yourself for huge feasts, or mentally prepare yourself to waste some credits (if you do end up opting for some counter service meals, make sure to consult our list of the best-value counter service restaurants to get good bang for your buck). Given the potential savings, you can use some credits “inefficiently” and still save a lot of money.
Now that the prices are shifting, we will likely test this strategy again during our 2017 Walt Disney World vacation, as prices are creeping up at table service restaurants and the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan has gone down in price. Since this will likely be a 5 day trip, we are going to take a different approach. Rather than lunch and dinner, we will opt for character breakfasts, followed by using snack credits for lunch, and early dinner at Signature Restaurants.
This is still a lot of food, but spacing the two table service meals out seems like a sound strategy. Plus, character meals can be an excellent use of table service credits. Even though most aren’t quite as good as ordering the most expensive meals at a standard 1-credit table service meal, we think we can adopt this strategy for a more enjoyable trip. It’ll cut into our savings a bit, but we should still save a lot.
Overall, we recommend upgrading to the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan if you think you can eat two table service restaurant meals per day for most of your trip (if you can do three, hats off to you–I’d like to hear from you folks in the comments) and use most of the snack credits. Although it was not a part of our case study, this is true even during the Free Disney Dining Plan promotion, which happens annually select dates every August, September, November, and December.
Free Dining also coincides with the absolute best time to use the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan: during Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival. Then, you can get even more bang for your buck by using the snack credits on expensive food booth samples. However, that will be a lot of food…and any time of year is a good time to use the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan. Just make sure you pack your appetite and make Advance Dining Reservations to some of Walt Disney World’s more expensive restaurants!
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Your Thoughts
Have you ever done the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan during a Walt Disney World trip? Did you pay to upgrade to the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan from the standard plan when taking advantage of Free Dining? What do you think of our little experiment? Hearing from you is half the fun, so please share your questions or thoughts in the comments below!
My husband and I upgraded fro the “free” dining plan to deluxe for our honeymoon. It was a great decision. We are foodies, and we made all of our dinner reservations (signature, of course) in advance. We would start the day with a table service breakfast, usually at Boatwrights (we stayed at Port Orleans), have a snack midday and a late fancy dinner. The dinners were magical – when I reserved everything,mod course I mentioned we were honeymooners, and the staff at each restaurant seemed on a mission to outdo the last with an amazing table, personalized touches and often visits from the chefs. Our Narcoosee’s experience, with dessert served during the fireworks, was the week’s capstone.
I just read the new blog post you made today and then I saw the link in there to this one so I read this one again. We are a family of 3 and we always take our annual Walt Disney World vacation in September (normally near the end of the month). The past few years my sister has also traveled with us. The first time I booked the deluxe dining I went over all the math to see if it would work for us. Being 3 adults and one child, I compared the free dining discount versus the 30-40% off room rate discount for The Beach Club (where we always stay). I always booked the free dining discount and then upgraded to the deluxe dining. Once I booked the 40% because it worked out to be a few dollars more of a savings for us. We have never had 3 meals a day on the deluxe plan. That is way too much food for us and I know from experience! When I was a child my grandparents would take us to Disney every year and back then my grandmother belonged to the Magic Kingdom Club and the Gold Key Club and we used to eat 3 meals a day with the Gold Key Club and it was way too much food! So I knew that we did not want to do that. Instead what we tried was a sit down character breakfast every morning and then a signature dinner and it worked out great for us! We are early risers so we would always eat breakfast at Cape May Cafe in the mornings (my aunt also works here so it was a good way to see her in the mornings and was convenient since we stay at The Beach Club) and then we would pick different signature restaurants to eat at for dinner. We have found that this plan works out perfectly for us. It is a good way to eat breakfast at 7:30am every morning and then be at the parks when they opened and be able to be in the parks all day and then have a nice break for dinner time and be back in time for the nighttime entertainment. I’m sure you know how hot it can be in September so it always worked out great for us. We always attend MNSSHP every trip as well so that would be our only night we wouldn’t eat signature and instead we would eat at Beaches and Cream for a late lunch before the party. This year will be the 4th year with the same type of plan (minus my sister this year) and we always enjoy it. And every year when I get home, I use my excel spreadsheets and go over all the numbers and we typically save around 40%. Now if we weren’t using a dining plan, we wouldn’t eat like this. We take a few other trips during the year and stay at my aunts house so when we pay out of pocket we have entirely different eating habits. It is nice to splurge a little and get dressed up for a nice quiet meal. For us, it is another way to stop and smell the roses and really enjoy your environment. Things can be hectic at the parks so it is nice to slow down little during the day.
This article really helped me understand why some people would upgrade to the deluxe plan. I think it sounds like an amazing thing to do if you’re a foody, and if it’s not your first trip to the parks…as you will be navigating quite a bit to get to signature restaurants if you’re maximizing your plan. I will say, that as the mother of young twins, I don’t think the deluxe plan with small children is the way to go. Aside from the fact that kids often don’t eat their share on the dining plan to begin with, using the deluxe plan to the max means eating at some places that children might not find as enjoyable as a more relaxed restaurant. I will definitely consider it when my kids get older, and if I’m traveling with just my husband.
Totally agree. Although some families use it, I see the DxDDP as an adults thing.
We are going in September of this year. We are military, so we are lucky enough to be able to take advantage of discounted park tickets, discounted room prices and pay full price for the Delux Dining plan. We go for 9 days, 8 nights. We always plan for the checkin and checkout day to be resort only days. This gives us a chance to relax instead of pushing it at the parks.
For us, we always use one meal credit for a nice breakfast at the resort and then usually either a Character lunch/dinner or a signature dinner. We have a 5 year old and it is just the three of us, so the DxDP isn’t too pricey. While, sure we could eat much cheaper oop, we wouldn’t be as likely to eat in some of the character places or signature if we had the sticker shock at the actual meal itself (psychological aspect).
I used an excel speadsheet and the menus at touringplans.com to determine where we would most like to eat and what we would most like to order if price were no object. The DxDP allowed us to do all of that for less money than if we were to do everything we wanted OOP. So, if we were OOP we’d be spending less than the price of the DxDP, but we would miss out on some meals we’d like to do. With the DxDP, we can eat where we would most like, what we would most like, and we still had snack credits to take into consideration.
We push our credits for all 9 days and do a handful of 2 credit meals to keep us from gorging. The days where we will actually use all three credits for three meals are uaually days where we plan to be in the park until 10:00pm or later. Other days, we eat an early breakfast, snack on lunch and do a nicer dinner. We usually use a few snack credits to bring home treats for friends and my 5 year old for later. We also get lunch and dinner on check in days and breakfast and “lunch to go” on check out days.
If you are open minded about how you use your credits, and especially if you have little ones that absolutely MUST eat at the Castle and every darn character meal known to man, the DxDP can be great. Not to mention that you get to sit in the AC for two hours and eat while your kids get autographs you otherwise would have stood in a a 30+ min line for each character to get.
For our family, it’s a great deal!
We are going to disney world in may and with our package i upgraded to deluxe plan. I am going with 4 kids and my husband and I. I was wondering if the basic plan would be better for us or if we should stick with the deluxe package. Sometimes my kids dont eat that much but my husband does.
Loved this article! We are thinking about the DxDP for our disneymoon in October (on which you have ill advised me once before). If we do decide the DxDP is the way to go, could you please advise on other resturants that would get the most bang for our buck. I know the big 3 Narcoossee’s, California Grill, and Critico’s, but what else gets you a huge bang for your buck.
Thanks!
PS(I have heard that Yachtsman Steakhouse is a better steak than the popular Le Cellier)
Loved this article! We are thinking about the DxDP for our disneymoon in October (on which you have ill advised me once before). If we do decide the DxDP is the way to go, could you please advise on other resturants that would get the most bang for our buck. I know the big 3 Narcoossee’s, California Grill, and Critico’s, but what else gets you a huge bang for your buck.
Thanks!
PS(I have heard that Yachtsman Steakhouse is a better steak than the popular Le Cellier)
Yachtstman Steakhouse is far, far superior to Le Cellier.
While your food is “prepaid” when using the dining plan, one major pitfall of using the plan (especially the Deluxe) is the gratuities you may forget you are responsible for. And they add up quickly.
If you order every part of your meal (app, entree, beverage & dessert) it comes out to a very hefty “bill” which would also require a very large gratuity. Not that gratuities are bad…good service deserves generous gratuities.
Two times my family of 5 was on the DDP. For a 7 night trip we ended up with $500-600 dollars in gratuities! (We usually do a breakfast or very early lunch at table service restaurants and a Signature Dining for dinner).
You raise a good point that people considering the DxDDP should be mindful of in general, but the context of this article is how much you’re saving versus paying for the same meals out of pocket. If it’s the same meals, it would be the same tips in both circumstances.
Now, if you wouldn’t normally eat as much food as the DxDDP provides or your bill would be significantly more on the DxDDP, then the tips do make a difference. But if you don’t want to eat as much food as the DxDDP provides, why have it in the first place?
I want to ask your opinion on which option might be best for our situation… planning to go Fall 2014 (during Food & Wine). It will be my husband and I, our 5 1/2 yr old son and daughter who will be about 20 days shy of turning 3 (so she will be “free” during this trip). Probably most days we will have at least one table service meal (either breakfast or dinner, character dining more often than not), lunch will probably be counter service at the parks. With kids this young I doubt we’ll be doing any signature dining (unfortunate because I’m a foodie!). Is the deluxe plan worth it for us? Especially since we’ll need to use some of our credits, or share meals with our youngest? Thanks in advance!
My husband and I did the dining plan in 2007 for our 8-day honeymoon on the Disney property. I’d been to Disney several times throughout my childhood and my family usually did counter-service for meals, but we decided to splurge for this trip. We had a hard time using all our meals and snacks, even though we did a character breakfast and dinner at Narcooses which used up four sit-down meals alone. No matter what meal we ate, we always ended up carting around extra food and storing it in our hotel fridge, and then tossed it away at the end of the trip. It was fun to try some restaurants we wouldn’t have gone to otherwise, but it used up A LOT of time and we both had incidents where we felt “sick” because we over-ate or had too much rich food. I’m sure it’s a deal for what you get, but we would rather buy only what we need and spend our time exploring the parks. We are going on another trip soon and will not be doing the dining plan this time.
We used the deluxe dining plan on our last trip to WDW and it worked out great! We started planning online really early and booked awesome table times for our whole vacation months in advance (and changed them around online about a dozen times lol) We were able to eat at all of the character meals we wanted plus the Aloha and the Fantasmic package works with the plan too. It was 7 days of awesome food and unbelieveble memories. We are headed back in May with the dining plan again and already have a bunch of reservations ready to go (narcoosees, Cinderellas table, Be Our Guest, Aloha, Fantasmic with Hollywood and Vine, Chef Mickeys….yay!!!) It’s a definite addition for all of our WDW vacations 🙂
I’m curious to understand if you factored tips into your savings? It seems like this would work fine for a couple, but not realistic for a family. Assuming two sit down meals per day – and maybe one of them a signature meal – your tips per day are probably at least $40 per day. That adds $20 per person (assuming a couple) to the daily cost. Given that, is it still a bargain? Thanks.
We had a party of 6 people at WDW 11/6-11/13/12 using DDP. We spent $354.84 in automatically added gratuity by the end of the week from table service meals. It was great food but I wish the gratuity was included. If we had not done the Deluxe Dining Plan, we would have used more quick service meals and saved on tipping. I think it worked out okay for us but tipping does add up for parties of 6 or more.
I did include the amount we spent tipping when I calculated the value (or cost) of the meals to compare that to what we paid out of pocket and then what we paid for the dining plan. Because some of the dining plan cost was free as a fall incentive (the regular dining was free and we upgraded to deluxe and paid that difference–about $80/night for two of us), we still came out ahead even with big tips. But you really have to eat appetizer, entree, desert at the majority of your meals to “profit”.
ALSO, the room wasn’t discounted, and there are times of the year when you can get room discounts……and so if eating sit down meals at the restaurants doesn’t appeal to you as an activity or Disney experience, you can likely save more by selecting room discounts and paying for your food as you go and just eating normal meals.
We purchased the Deluxe dining plan for our trip last may. It may not seem like a great plan for traveling with kids (ours were 3 and 5 at the time)but for us it was perfect. We did character breakfasts before the parks opened, had a nice relaxing lunch midday and a late dinner. It was still a lot of food and we ended up using most of our snacks on bottled water but we still saved around 20%. Even if we didn’t save a dime, the conveinence was totally worth it.
My husband and I upgraded to the Deluxe Dining Plan during the fall free dining incentive–we found that either eating a table service breakfast early in the day–Boma, Kona Cafe, Cora’s Kitchen were great or having sort of a brunch by having a lunch at the earliest seating at Chefs de France or Tusker House (where foods are kinda brunchy) then having late seatings at signature restaurants, like Narcoosees, Artist Point, Jiko, Flying Fish and snack throughout the day, we generally used all 3 table service meals per day. Arriving super early and leaving late on the travel days helps use up meals, so if you have a couple days where you have only two table service meals (or even have a counter service meal or two and use a table service credit), you can use them all, not eat tooo much, and try a lot of different cuisines, and save a lot of money rather than paying for those same meals cash (I did the math and we saved about $45-50 per day). BUT I would recommend this kind of dining experience/strategy for adults–honestly, we enjoyed the romance of the signature dining, and the amount of time we spent eating in the table service restaurants was enjoyable for us. If we had kids with us, this would have been too much time eating, and it would have cut in to our ride and active time–we also did the math and we easily spent 4 hours eating those two meals each day on average. Fun for my husband and I celebrating our anniversary and WDW, torture for kids.
ALSO–you MUST make reservations for table service restaurants, especially the signature restaurants, so again, this was easy enough for my husband and I to stay on schedule and eat when we planned to eat (monhs in advance when I made the reservations), but that would have been hard with younger kids, when you need to play it by ear sometimes.
can you use any credits for Victoria & Alberts?
Hi there, we did the dxddp for 2 weeks in Nov 2010. For us, as a family of 6 we were able to eat at all the places we wouldn’t have if been on the regular plan. We did have 18 credits left over at the end, but that didn’t matter too much to us. This October we are there for 3 weeks and again have upgraded to the deluxe, as we feel to be able to maximise on the signature restaurants. For most parts we will eat a sit down breakfast and a signature evening meal, with a few lunches thrown in here and there. Great value for us!!
Does the DxDDP require tips to be paid OOP? It would seem those Signature Meals would add a bit of additional cash if so.
My husband and I used the DDP on our last trip to WDW (2 years ago) and have purchased it for this year’s trip in December. We’re both ‘big’ eaters and it’s just the two of us so we can take the time for leisurely meals. We look forward to the table-service meals as a major part of our experience. We actually did 3 meals per day several times on our last 8 day trip and were only in pain one of those days. Yes, literally in pain. Breakfast at Whispering Canyon Cafe, lunch at Sci-Fi Dine-in Theater (milkshakes AND sundaes, OY!), and dinner at Hollywood Brown Derby. We’re convinced it was the double-dairy whammy at Sci-Fi that did us in! Through trial and error we’ve come to the following conclusions. 1 – Definitely do Signature dining as much as possible. 2 – Just because a buffet is ‘all you can eat’ doesn’t mean you need to stuff yourself, you can still have a light meal. 3 – Ignore your mother’s voice in your head telling you to ‘clean your plate’ you can be a little bit wasteful, you’re on vacation after all. 4 – Don’t forget that you can cash in 2 credits for Room Service at a Deluxe Resort or Pizza Delivery at a Moderate or Value Resort. How nice is it to not have to race to a reservation and have your breakfast delivered to you after a late night in the parks? Or, take those tired, cranky, picky-eater kids home at the end of a long, hot day in the parks and have a pizza party!
Our goal for the upcoming trip is no counter-service at all. ADRs have been booked for nothing but table-service, we’ll see how it goes! 😉
I went back and forth trying to decide whether or not to upgrade to the DDP from the regular plan, which we are getting free on our upcoming trip in September. We decided against it for the following reasons:
1) We enjoy WDW buffets (we have Boma, Cape May and Biergarten scheduled) and we can’t imagine having a big buffet lunch AND a full signature dinner with appetizers, entree, bread and dessert on the same day (and we prefer lunch over breakfast so the amount of time between meals wouldn’t be as great).
2) Hubby isn’t really a ‘signature’ kind of guy, so while I would appreciate the finer cuisine of a signature, he would be saying ‘I’d rather have a cheeseburger’. UGH. 😉
3) The additional tips would really add up at the signatures.
That being said, I’m still jealous of the DDP folks! I’m with you in spirit!
LOL at the “I’m with you in spirit” line!
Those pictures look delicious! Can you tell me which restaurants they are from?
In order: Narcoossee’s, Le Cellier, Narcoossee’s, Yachtsman, Tutto, Tutto, Beach Club pool, and Main Street Bakery.