Walt Disney World Travel Examiner: Tables in Wonderland membership is your key to dining discounts at the Walt Disney World Resorts.
Formerly known as the Disney Dining Experience (DDE), the Tables in Wonderland membership still gives Florida residents and Annual and Seasonal Passholders awesome dining discounts and benefits. Your Tables in Wonderland card can be used at select Disney World restaurants to receive a 20 percent discount on all food and beverage, including alcohol for your entire party, up to 10 guests. Florida residents can purchase the Tables in Wonderland membership for $100 per year and Passholders can purchase membership for $75 per year. An additional card for a spouse can be purchased for an additional $50 per year. However, if you are planning on having a majority of your meals at the Walt Disney World Resorts with your spouse, there is no need to purchase a second card. This is a membership that will pay for itself in just a few meals at a Disney restaurant. For example, a family of four’s average sit down meal can run up to $150. With your Tables in Wonderland card your savings would be $30, paying for the card in anywhere from three to four meals. As a Florida resident or Passholder, I am sure that you have more than four meals at the Walt Disney World Resorts within a year’s time. Restaurants included in the Tables in Wonderland dining membership are located throughout the Walt Disney World Resorts and Theme Parks. There are more than 50 participating restaurants that offer discounts with your membership card. Regardless of your party’s size there is an 18 percent gratuity added to all food and beverage purchases made with your membership card. Other benefits you will receive with your Tables in Wonderland membership card include complimentary theme park parking if your sole reason to visit is for dining. You will pay for parking upon entering and then after eating, take your receipt, parking ticket and Tables in Wonderland card to Guest Relations for a refund for parking. If you arrive at a theme park after 5 p.m. you will not have to pay for parking if you show your Tables in Wonderland membership card at the auto plaza.
