Is Busch Gardens Meal Deal Worth It

Has anyone here ever done the meal deal at busch garden's Williamsburg. We are going to Virginia beach for a softball tournament and we have decided to spend at day at busch garden's. Do you think the meal deal is worth the money or are we better off paying cash for food.

Last edited: Jun 16, 2016

I've never done the 'meal deal' there, but I can say aside from Epcot, BGW has as good or better variety and quality of food than any other theme parks I've been too.

I did a quick search about this because I was curious myself, but the most recent reviews on the meal deal I could find were 4 and 5 years old. I will say they were all negative about it being a good way to go, but hopefully someone who's tried it more recently can give you better info.

Good luck and have a safe and fun trip.

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Not in Williamsburg but I did it in Tampa. For us it was great. Family of 6 and I think it was around $100 for the day for all of us. And we drank and ate our way through the day. We made sure to eat 3 meals at the park. I'm off to google as I think it may have changed. We did it 2 years ago. The drinks alone made it worth it to us

I can't say about Williamsburg, but the one in Tampa was awesome. We'd stroll in, grab 3 bottles of water and then off to a ride. Stop in, grab some fruit or a cookie and a drink, then go ride. We took 6 bottles of water with us when we left the park. We also purchased the refillable bottles, as we were staying 3 days but only did the meal plan for 1 to start. (We weren't sure if we would like the meal plan, but we did end up purchasing it for the next 2 days as well.) Those came in handy as well, and we could use our PH discount on the refills (making less than $1 each of soda/lemonade, or 1.50 each for the icees). I'd pour the soda/lemonade out of the paper cups into the hard plastic bottles, since they had handles and were easier to carry!

We did the giraffe safari thing (extra cost) and it was worth the money. Petting the giraffes was amazing! DH did the front of the line pass one day, and it worked really well for him.

Hi - We are going in a week to BG and the dining deal didn't even occur to me. When I look online it looks like it is only for sit down restaurants, so no? Not the case? The snacks etc. . .included?

It's pretty much cafeteria style quick service. You go through the line and grab what you want, then go through the checkout, show your wristband and you're done. You can go through and get a piece of cake or a bowl of fruit only, or a whole meal, or just a drink. Not snacks like ice cream, popcorn, pretzels. It says once per hour, but we went through and got full meals each, then after we ate, went back through and got more drinks, and it wasn't a problem. The best place we found, foodwise, was the smokehouse.

We did busch gardens with the kids today and the meal deal is not worth the money. We got three meal deals and we did not get our money's worth out of since it was so hot.

We are going to do the uss battleship tomorrow with the kids in Norfolk. My daughters softball team lost both games this weekend

I agree, it's just too hot to eat lots of meals.

IMO, it was worth the money for us. We don't go during the summer because, duh, too hot.

It's just like getting the DxDP...if you use it on QS only, or just get bottles of water for snacks, it's a waste of money. If you don't use the BGdp to get lots of free drinks, cold fruit, cookies, etc, between meals, then it's a waste of money.