When Disney announced the Deluxe Dining Plan for 2027, a lot of planners had the same first reaction: finally, Deluxe is back. That is true in the broadest sense. But it is not a simple return of the old version. Disney sold the old Deluxe Dining Plan in 2020, it disappeared from the post-pandemic dining-plan lineup, and the 2026 lineup still has only two options. For 2027, Disney is adding a third option back in, but the structure is different enough that it makes more sense to treat this as a new version rather than a straight revival.
What Disney has confirmed so far
For 2027, Disney says guests can choose from three dining plans: the Quick-Service Dining Plan, the Table-Service Dining Plan, and the Deluxe Table-Service Dining Plan. The Deluxe plan includes 2 table-service meals, 1 quick-service meal, and 1 snack or nonalcoholic drink per person, per night of stay, plus a resort-refillable mug. Like the other dining plans, it must be purchased for the entire party ages 3 and up and for the entire length of stay, and unused credits roll over day to day until midnight on checkout day.
Disney’s general dining-plan rules matter here too. A table-service breakfast credit covers an entrée plus beverage, or a buffet/family-style meal plus beverage. Brunch, lunch, and dinner cover an entrée, dessert, and beverage, or a buffet/family-style meal plus beverage. Some experiences use 2 table-service credits, including Cinderella’s Royal Table, Akershus at lunch and dinner, Story Book Dining at Artist Point, fine/signature dining, dinner shows, and private in-room dining at Disney’s Grand Floridian. Gratuities are generally extra, and not every fine/signature restaurant or dining event participates, so it is worth checking individual locations before you build your budget around them.
Why this is not the old Deluxe plan
The easiest way to understand the change is to compare it with the last version Disney sold before the closure. In 2020, the old Deluxe Dining Plan gave each guest 3 meals in any combination of table-service or quick-service meals, plus 2 snacks and a refillable mug. At table-service lunch and dinner, adults also received an appetizer, entrée, dessert, and beverage. The 2027 Deluxe plan is much more fixed: 2 table-service meals, 1 quick-service meal, 1 snack or nonalcoholic drink, and the current entrée-plus-dessert structure at lunch and dinner.
That makes the new plan less flexible and less snack-heavy than the version many longtime Walt Disney World planners remember. If you used to think of Deluxe as the plan where you could freely mix three meals a day however you liked, that is not what Disney is bringing back for 2027.
Who this plan may work for
Based on Disney’s published structure, this looks best suited to families who already expect to do a lot of sit-down dining: character breakfasts, resort dinners, table-service lunches in the parks, or a trip built around a few premium meals where using 2 credits still feels worthwhile. That is an inference, not something Disney says outright, but it follows pretty directly from the way the credits are set up.
It looks less natural for families who mostly Mobile Order, snack through the parks, or usually want only one sit-down meal per day. Two table-service meals per night is a lot of reservation time, a lot of food, and a lot of tipping. The value is only really there if that shape matches how your family actually likes to travel.
Why ADR planning matters even more with this plan
Resort guests can make Advanced Dining Reservations (ADRs) starting 60 days before arrival for their full length of stay, up to 10 nights. That booking window matters on any dining-focused trip, but it matters even more when your plan includes two table-service meals per night.
In practice, that means the reservation strategy is part of the value calculation. If Deluxe only really pays off when you land the meals that make those credits count — character dining, buffets, signature restaurants, dinner shows, or the harder-to-get reservations later in a stay — then planning those ADRs well matters almost as much as the sticker price.
What will the new Deluxe Dining Plan cost?
Disney is not showing a simple public price table on its main dining-plan page, so the clearest current figures are coming from package-booking calculations. At the time of writing, multiple sources are landing on the same working number: about $163 per adult per night and $46.85 per child per night for the 2027 Deluxe Table-Service Dining Plan.
Before those figures started showing up, the simplest way to estimate the price was to compare current 2026 adult prices with the last known pre-pandemic prices. In 2026, the Quick-Service Dining Plan is $60.47 per adult, per night and the Disney Dining Plan is $98.59. In 2020, those same adult prices were $55 and $78.01, while the old Deluxe Dining Plan was $119.
That gives us a useful range. Quick-Service is up by roughly 10% compared with 2020, while the standard table-service plan is up by roughly 26%. If you applied that same increase range to the old $119 Deluxe price, you would land somewhere around $131 to $150 per adult, per night. But because the new Deluxe plan is built around two table-service meals per night, a more realistic pre-confirmation estimate was probably closer to $150 to $165. The reported $163.01 figure lands almost exactly at the top end of that range.
So, will it be worth it?
That still depends on how your family actually eats at Walt Disney World. A family using Deluxe credits on character meals, buffets, and a few carefully chosen premium reservations could see a very different result from a family using those same credits on lighter breakfasts, more casual table-service restaurants, or park days where Mobile Order would have been easier. Gratuities are generally extra, and kids ages 3 to 9 must order from the children’s menu where available.
That is why this is not really a yes-or-no question you can answer from the plan name alone. The better question is: do we genuinely want two table-service meals most days, and do we have a realistic ADR strategy for the restaurants that make those credits useful? If the answer is yes, Deluxe belongs on your shortlist. If the answer is no, the old name may be doing more work than the actual math.
How we’ll update PlanTheMagic
When it comes to the big question — whether the new Deluxe plan is actually worth it for your family — the best answer will come from our Disney Dining Plan Calculator. It compares paying out of pocket with Disney dining plans based on the meals, snacks, drinks, desserts, and restaurants your family is actually likely to choose, which is a much better test than guessing from the plan label alone. We're updating it for this new plan and we'll post when its ready. Sign-up to our newsletter if you want to know the moment its available
If you’re rough-planning 2027 already, this is probably the easiest place to start: decide whether your trip really looks like two table-service meals a day, then compare that against the restaurants you actually want. That is where Deluxe will either make sense - or quietly fall off the list.