It's Official! The 2018 Disney Dining Plans Include Alcoholic Beverages

Not to change the subject, but at what restaurants can you get mimosas at? I don't remember seeing that on any menus.

I have seen them on quite a few menus. I am sure they are on The Grand Floridian Cafe breakfast menu as well as the Wave and Captains Grill breakfast menus. I would think they are probably on most resort table service breakfast menus.

As far as adding the alcoholic drinks to the dinning plan goes, I know we still save much more using TIW. I was curious once we got home last week as to if we would have saved money using the dining plan. After running the numbers, we saved over $500 using TIW. That is adding in almost all of our snacks and all of the bottled water we bought in the parks.

It makes no difference for us; the dining plan didn't fit our dining habits anyway. With the dining plan, we would spend more money and not get exactly what we want (appetizers and maybe no dessert).

We do enjoy a drink with dinner sometimes, so raising the price and including alcohol wouldn't have bothered us, but I can see why nondrinkers would be peeved at having to pay for something they don't want. On the other hand, it's always been that way - if we did the dining plan, we'd be paying for desserts we maybe didn't want (or I would at any rate; hubby gets dessert more often than I do).

If we were doing the dining plan next year I would be all about this! But we're going to be AP as of November so are going with the TIW card. Just makes the most sense when we're taking four trips: November will be a party of 7, January a party of 3, April a party of 6, and October a party or 6. One TIW can get the discount for everyone in the group.

I enjoy a drink with my meal. I have no problem with it being added or the increase if I were to get the plan. I think they should have had it as an add on option so those who don't drink won't have to pay for something they won't use.

I can't see Disney adding that option and that is why we don't go with the dining plan as we prefer appetizers over dessert. The TIW card gives us the best flexibility and saves us the most money.

I like the flexibility of TIW too.

We don't really drink so it wouldn't be a plus for us. However, the dining plan is too much food for us so we save money by paying out of pocket. We had TIW the last couple years, but we don't save with that either as we don't drink or eat at signature restaurants. We don't eat at table service every day either.

We sound very boring

having done table service dinning plan and the deluxe, both are too much food and too much time spent in restaurants. hence our decision to book the Q/S dinning plan for our upcoming trip. As a non drinker (recovering addict) this doesn't effect me.