2020 Walt Disney World Dining Plan Price Increase – How Much does the Dining Plan Cost?

With the new 2020 Walt Disney World Vacation Packages now available, that also means changes to the Disney Dining Plan for 2020.  How much does the Disney Dining Plan cost? Looking at the changes we see there is an increase in both Kids and Adults prices for the 2020 Disney Dining Plan.

Prices for all three plans: Quick Service, Regular and Deluxe have all gone up from $2.22-4.01 per person per night.

Here’s the updated 2020 Disney Dining Plan Prices breakdown:

Quick Service Disney Dining Plan:

• Quick Service Disney Dining Plan Prices:
  • Adult – $55.00 (increase of $2.50 from 2019)
  • Child – $23.78 (increase of $2.22 from 2019)

Per Person, Per Night: This plan includes dining at various counter service restaurants in Disney World (e.g. fast food). This includes meals and snacks at most quick service dining locations in the Walt Disney World Resort.

• Two Quick Service meals (entrée or combo meal at lunch and dinner and a beverage)
• Guests under 21 years of age can choose one non-alcoholic beverage (including specialty beverages — i.e. Artisanal Milk Shakes,  Fresh Smoothies, Premium Hot Chocolates, or Soda, Coffee or Tea — where offered). Guests 21 and older can can choose either one non-alcoholic beverage (including specialty beverages where offered) or one single serving mixed cocktail, beer, or wine (where offered) within their meal entitlement.
• Two snacks
• One Resort refillable drink mug per person, per package

Standard Disney Dining Plan:

Per Person, Per Night: This plan includes dining at both counter service and table service restaurants in Disney World. This includes meals and snacks at most quick service dining locations in the Walt Disney World Resort.

• Regular Disney Dining Plan Prices:
  • Adult – $78.01 (increase of $2.53 from 2019)
  • Child – $30.51 (increase of $2.53 from 2019)

• One table service entrée, dessert (lunch and dinner only), OR full buffet
• One quick service meal, including entrée OR combo meal
• Guests under 21 years of age can choose one non-alcoholic beverage with their Quick Service and Table Service meal (including specialty beverages — i.e. Artisanal Milk Shakes,  Fresh Smoothies, Premium Hot Chocolates, or Soda, Coffee or Tea — where offered). Guests 21 and older can can choose either one non-alcoholic beverage (including specialty beverages where offered) or one single serving mixed cocktail, beer, or wine (where offered) within their meal entitlement.
• Two snacks from a wide variety of options
• One Resort refillable drink mug per person, per package

Deluxe Disney Dining Plan:

Per Person, Per Night: This plan includes dining at both table service and counter service restaurants in Disney World, with the option to choose which type you want to dine and and when. For example if you want all 3 meals per day at table service restaurants you can. If you prefer quick service you can do that instead.

• Deluxe Disney Dining Plan Details:
  • Adult – $119 (increase of $2.76 from 2019)
  • Child – $47.50 (increase of $4.01 from 2019)

• Three table service or quick service meals (table service includes appetizer, entrée, and dessert (lunch and dinner), OR full buffet); quick service includes entrée OR combo meal
• Guests under 21 years of age can choose one non-alcoholic beverage with their Quick Service and Table Service meal (including specialty beverages — i.e. Artisanal Milk Shakes,  Fresh Smoothies, Premium Hot Chocolates, or Soda, Coffee or Tea — where offered). Guests 21 and older can can choose either one non-alcoholic beverage (including specialty beverages where offered) or one single serving mixed cocktail, beer, or wine (where offered) within their meal entitlement.
• Two snacks from a wide variety of options
• One resort refillable mug per person, per package

Is the 2020 Disney Dining Plan Worth It?

That’s a loaded question and not one that can be easily answered unfortunately.  That’s going to depend on your family’s eating habits.

First thing that jumps out to me is that we see price increases across the board with both adults and kids costing higher per night on the Dining Plan. It was nice last year when only the kid’s prices went up and the adults stayed the same, but unfortunately that’s not the case again this year in 2020.

Not too many other significant changes were made for the 2020 Dining Plan and besides the price increase, no new features or changes were made to the plan itself. All three levels are still there and pretty much unchanged.

I’m always of the idea that the dining plan is a better bargain for adults than kids. As you know Disney introduced alcohol to the Regular and Deluxe Disney Dining Plans two years ago with mixed reviews among guests, but as long as you drink alcohol at every meal it could be worth it for you. With kids I don’t feel like you get as good of a value back unless your kids are really good a regular eaters.

If you do have kids then you’ll have to decide if it’s a good value depending on how much your children eat.  If they are good eaters then the Dining Plan might be for you.  If not then you’ll have to add up the prices for how much you think they’ll eat to see if it’s worth it.

If you’re looking for convenience then the Disney Dining Plan of course will make things much easier as you can just pay for your meals ahead of time and not worry about that once you get to the parks.

You can always splurge and get Annual Passes if you go to Disney World enough and then get the Tables in Wonderland Card which will help you save a boatload on your table service meals, hough prices on Disney World Annual Passes just went up recently too…

There was also a recent increase in Walt Disney World Resort Hotel Parking Fees today too with prices going up $1-2 per night.

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Your Thoughts:

I want to know what you think about the 2020 Disney Dining Plan Price Increase for Kids

• Do you like using the Disney Dining Plan?
• Which one are you going to get for 2020?

Let us know in the comments section below!