<p>Does anyone understand what the GOLD PLUS is? and which is the best meal plan for someone who will probably eat at Davis most of the time and leaving occasionally on weekends?</p>
<p>hey, cool i was wondering about this too so if any current student can help that would be so awesome! which would be the best meal plan? is the food there good and do you get just enough?</p>
<p>gold plus from what i read is basically a certain amount of money on top of the usual meal credits that can be spent at the other stores on the UC Davis campus.</p>
<p>Definitely go for a gold plus option on whatever plan you choose. Ideally, I'd say for a freshman go for the 120 meal plan with the $100 or whatever gold plus. </p>
<p>Basically it is extra money kept on your student id card that you can just swipe to buy stuff at places like Trudy's(for tercero residents) and the silo, which is a huge plus. Also, if you use this "munch money" at the silo you get 10% off the meal. That's pretty huge since it takes care of tax and then some.</p>
<p>thanks! =]</p>
<p>Does this Gold Plus money carry over if you don't use it all in a given quarter?</p>
<p>the munch money/gold plus rolls over quarter to quarter. Unused meals at the end of the quarter gets converted into munch money. Munch money can me used at the little overpriced stores at each of the dorms (to buy bags of chips, cans of soda, etc) or at the Silo (carl's jr, pizza hut, taco bell). If at the end of freshman year you still have munch money, don't worry.. you can use it any time till you graduate & even add more on online.</p>
<p>Unused meals at the end of each quarter does NOT get converted into munch money at the end of each quarter. If you have 30 meals at the end of Fall quarter, and you buy a 90 meal plan for Winter quarter, you will have 120 meals. They ONLY get converted into munch money at the end of the school year (spring qtr).</p>
<p>Personally, if I were to do it over again, I would but as few meals as possible and buy no munch money. The DC food is good, the first quarter, and then it goes old, and the junction charges you 1 swipe ($6) for 1 lunchable, or 1 pringles, etc; you get the picture. UC Davis rips freshman off so badly, luckily there is a Subway, RiteAid, Old Teahouse within 3 minutes of the Segundo dorms and the rest of downtown within 10 minutes.</p>
<p>and some stores in the Borders area take munch money/gold plus (which is good but its like almost to South Davis)</p>
<p>True, that's why you never buy anything with swipes. Munch money spending is comparable to most stores..</p>
<p>oh.. they must have changed it since I was a freshman (it's been awhile for me)... likeorange's info is probably more accurate :)</p>
<p>so...according to likeorange...i should get a budget saver 90 meals with no gold plus? and eat outside?</p>
<p>Get any meal plan you want the first quarter (120 is probably the best), but get 90 meal-plan every time afterwards. Gold Plus is good only if you expect to go to the Junction or the Silo a lot, you should probably get 50-100 first quarter just to try. Everyone eats a different amount, and it is better to buy a little more the first quarter and then adjust accordingly the following 2 quarters.</p>
<p>Some plans allow greater flexibility as to where you can eat</p>