Walt Disney World Dining Plan 2010 adds Peak Season pricing

Disney World Dining Plan Includes Peak Season Pricing

If you have read Disney Dining: Holiday Pricing and Gratuities, you know that higher prices are in effect at some of the Walt Disney World Resort restaurants during certain holidays. In previous years you could have avoided the higher prices by eating at restaurants that did not raise prices or by purchasing the Disney World Dining Plan. With the Dining Plan, your meals are prepaid so that regardless of menu prices, you don’t pay any more.  But, with the 2010 Disney Dining Plan that is a thing of the past. 

The regular dining season will be:

Jan. 1 – Feb 11

April 11 – June 3

Aug. 15 – Dec. 16

Peak season will be:

Feb. 12 – April 10

June 4 – Aug. 14

Dec. 17 – Dec 31

During peak season the 2010 Disney Dining Plan will increase from $42 per adult per night of your stay to $47; children’s pricing (ages 3 – 9) will increase from $12 per child per night of your stay to $13. That means that a family of four, two adults and two children staying 5 nights during peak season, will pay about $60 more, total.

When planning a Disney World vacation, you will want to be aware that if your check-in date falls within the peak season, even one day, you will pay peak season Disney Dining Plan prices for your entire stay. If, for example, you check-in on April 10 for a 5-night stay (April 10 – 15), even though April 11 – April 14 fall within regular dining season, you will still pay $47/adult, $13/child per night of your stay. However, the reverse is also true: for example, check-in on June 3 for a 5-night stay (June 3 – 8), you will pay regular season prices for your entire stay.

You will also want to be aware that for all Walt Disney World resorts, except Value and Moderate resorts, regular and peak season Disney Dining Plan prices overlap. Here’s what that means:

For Disney’s Deluxe, Deluxe Villa and Fort Wilderness Cabins, July 18 – Sept 31 falls during resort Value season; Peak Dining Plan season overlaps those dates: June 4 – August 14. If your stay is between July 18 – August 14, you will pay Value season resort prices, but peak season Disney World Dining Plan prices.  For both resort Value season pricing and regular Dining Plan pricing, book your trip from August 15 – September 30 or November 28 – December 16.

• Disney Dining: Holiday Pricing and Gratuities
• Dollars and Cents of the Disney Dining Plan
• Dining Plan Comparison: Apples to Apples or Apples to Oranges

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