If Free Dining Does Not Return...

[mickeymouseears]

It depends how much time you spend in the hotel. We stay at value resorts, as we spend most of our time in the parks or visiting other resorts when we have a dining reservation there. We do prefer to stay onsite due to the convenience of the transport and being in the magic bubble. Also, maybe I'm wrong, but I found there are a lot more food options in the value resorts and the pools were open for longer. Looking at next year's prices, we would not spend thousands extra to stay at a moderate resort, as they are very similar to the value resorts after all, especially as we won't spend much time there. Definitely becoming very expensive!

[Boo2you]

The dining plan made it possible for us to stay onsite without it we’d have to stay on I drive or a villa. Not the end of the world but I’d still miss not being onsite and all the benefits that brings.

[LizzyBear]

As long as the other benefits to staying onsite are back (60 day fastpass and EMHs) we would still stay onsite but hopefully with another discount. It's nice bonus but not a dealbreaker and I don't think paying for the plan would be worth it for us, we'd just change how we eat so would likely hire a car so we have more freedom to buy groceries for the room and eat offsite.
ETA: Our cancelled trip was a split stay 10 nights onsite, 1 at Universal and 10 in a villa and i'll likely replicate this when we rebook so we wouldn't be staying onsite for our whole holiday.

[Donaldfan]

Originally Posted by mickeymouseears

It depends how much time you spend in the hotel. We stay at value resorts, as we spend most of our time in the parks or visiting other resorts when we have a dining reservation there. We do prefer to stay onsite due to the convenience of the transport and being in the magic bubble. Also, maybe I'm wrong, but I found there are a lot more food options in the value resorts and the pools were open for longer. Looking at next year's prices, we would not spend thousands extra to stay at a moderate resort, as they are very similar to the value resorts after all, especially as we won't spend much time there. Definitely becoming very expensive!

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POFQ (moderate) has a huge food court and when I was there the pool was open till 11.00 pm.

[SnowWhite]

Originally Posted by Egon

Is there somewhere i can learn what QS, TS, & QSDP means? i see a lot of these acronyms and i havent got a clue what they mean

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Here you are - have fun and make sure you have a snack to keep you going lol
https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/For...ns-p-1331.html

[Tretinker]

We stayed off site before we found about free dining or before it started I'm not sure which. We then stayed on site with free dining at easter. They stopped doing easter which didnt immediately affect us because we have children doing exams for the next four years. Last summer we stayed onsite for 10 days, a night at universal and the rest off site.
This time we are supposed to stay onsite for 16 nights.
Onsite is great but the benefits are rapidly declining 2022 we can do easter and free dining will be unlikely anyway and now its paid for parking we may well stay off site in a nice villa.

[Disneyleo]

If free dining doesn’t come out I think what we would do is
Around 7 nights with paid for dining plan in a value resort and then possibly 5-7 nights in another resort without dining plan

[offtoseemickey]

I wouldn’t stay onsite again (at these prices) without free DDP. I also think if they decide to scrap the DDP then restaurant prices need to start decreasing. Food prices at Disney have got completely out of hand and I think it’s all due to the (free?) DDP.

I have had great times staying onsite at Disney, but I think prices are just way too high for the accommodation offered.

We are more than happy to stay and eat mostly offsite.

ETA- and the parking situation is just outrageous IMO.