2024 Complete Guide to the Disney Dining Plan

Want to get a Disney Dining Plan (DDP) but not sure the best way to use your credits? Or maybe you’re not sure if you should even consider getting the Disney Dining Plan at all for your trip?

Having a good idea of the costs and how to maximize credits should help you figure all of that out.
When people ask us about the Disney Dining Plan, one of the first things they want to know is whether or not it is “worth it.”

Before you can decide if the Disney Dining Plan is right for your family (and ultimately worth it), you have to know exactly what it is and how it works, and then you may need to do a little math.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 What is the Disney Dining Plan?
1:38 What are "dining credits"?
2:21 Who should get the Disney Dining Plan?
3:29 How much does it cost?
4:41 How do you maximize your dining credits?
5:30 How do you maximize your snack credits?
5:59 Outro

[GlobalTravelingFamily]

Thank you so much for this video. Explaining the dining plans to clients, especially clients who are new to Disney can be so difficult. I have actually been sending this link to many of them. You did such a great job explaining it and going through the break down.

[brookemcgee]

You mentioned being able to have the dining plan even if you rent dvc points
I like to rent points to have a villa because of the large size of my family. How do we add on the dining plan if we have rented the points?

[pappabear]

We eat three meals a day. Why does the meal plan only have two?

[yorkshirelassdiaries]

Are there places that you can get breakfast or lunch for a snack credit?

[taylorledoux]

So if we eat at topolinos for dinner one night, that’s 2 table service credits, does this also include a dessert? Or is a dessert considered a snack credit?

[emilyopiola]

Can you still use 1 QS credit as 3 snacks?

[DubDriver]

Are dining credits used at the park or just at the resorts?

[melbachelko]

I’m doing a solo trip, is it worth it to go ahead at 60 days and make reservations or take my chances walking up?

[MrHads]

If we dont Stay on a Disney hôtel we cant have thé dinning plan