Snack credits - What if something is more expensive, or less expensive than $4.00?

[Momarazzi]

So about the snack credits... I hear that it has to be $4.00 or under to qualify.

What if I wanted something for $2.00 (say a piece of fruit) plus a drink. Can you get 2 things if it still comes out to under $4.00?

What if I wanted something for $5.99? Could I use a snack credit and pay the difference OOP?

Jennifer

[wendy774]

No and no. If it is less than $4 you cannot get another item to make up the difference and if it is over $4 you cannot pay the difference. That's why alot of people try to find the best value for your snack credits. I didn't worry so much about the value and just got what I wanted.

Wendy

[TDC Nala]

They are not all under $4. That is just the general rule. For example, food & wine festival kiosk items can cost up to $7 and they have been generally covered. You will not know precisely what is covered unless the menu is marked, or you ask, but generally a single serving item costing less than $4 will be covered. Some of those items (like some side dishes in CS restaurants) will not be covered.

You can use a snack credit for one item only. No matter what the items cost, you cannot get two items for one credit.

You cannot combine credits and cash. Either an item is covered by the snack credit, or it isn't covered - and if it is, you can pay with the credit OR you can pay cash - you can't pay some of each.

[koolaidmoms]

There is a sticky with a list of all the snacks available in each park and hotel. What I did was as I was making my 4x6 index cards with our dining reservations and other information for each day on them I added where we might like to stop for snacks and what may be our best options there. It gave us a heads up and if we wanted ice cream or fruit I knew the best places to go near us in the park. :)

[TDC Nala]

There is a sticky with a list of all the snacks available in each park and hotel.

The sticky does not necessarily reflect all the snacks available in every park and hotel - it lists the ones that posters have been able to get. If an item is not listed, it does not mean that that item is unavailable as a snack. It may mean that no one who's posted has tried to get it.

[Golf4food]

One snack credit = one snack item

[catne]

One snack credit = one snack item


Well, it'd be nice if it was that simple, but it really depends on how Disney defines what exactly is a snack. Sometimes what you'd think would be a snack is not. For example, a lot of people would call a yogurt parfait in a prepackaged single serving size a snack but you could not buy that with a snack credit at POP last September or the Contemporary in January.

[3boymthr]

Well, it'd be nice if it was that simple, but it really depends on how Disney defines what exactly is a snack. Sometimes what you'd think would be a snack is not. For example, a lot of people would call a yogurt parfait in a prepackaged single serving size a snack but you could not buy that with a snack credit at POP last September or the Contemporary in January.

Yep, and at the Ale & Compass at the YC 2 pieces of toast with butter & jelly = 1 snack credit - at the same time a cinnamon roll = 1 snack credit as did a bagle w/cream cheese and a bowl of cereal w/milk. So all things are not created equal in snack credit world. You have to pick and choose what to use them on if you want to use them efficiently and pay out of pocket for some smaller items.

For Example, we used our snack credits for breakfast everday, but... the two pieces of toast only costs 69 cents so I paid OOP for DSs toast every day ($3.45 for the week) and saved his snack credits to get all of us rootbeer floats in AK which cost $3.69/ea ($18.45).

[Cmbar]

Yep, and at the Ale & Compass at the YC 2 pieces of toast with butter & jelly = 1 snack credit - at the same time a cinnamon roll = 1 snack credit as did a bagle w/cream cheese and a bowl of cereal w/milk. So all things are not created equal in snack credit world. You have to pick and choose what to use them on if you want to use them efficiently and pay out of pocket for some smaller items.

For Example, we used our snack credits for breakfast everday, but... the two pieces of toast only costs 69 cents so I paid OOP for DSs toast every day ($3.45 for the week) and saved his snack credits to get all of us rootbeer floats in AK which cost $3.69/ea ($18.45).

Where did you get rootbeer floats in AK?? I have to plan on that one!

[MelanieC]

yummy a rootbeer float sounds good. I agree - where are they at, I haven't seen those :)

[catne]

don't know about rootbeer floats, but we just had Coke floats at The Plaza Ice Cream Shop on Main Street/Magic Kingdom a couple of weeks ago.

[ReneeA]

We got root beer floats at The Fountainview Cafe in Futureworld for a snack credit - actually DH and DS got RB floats, and DD and I got waffle cones.:thumbsup2

[IDoDis]

This ice cream cookie sandwich is the best value for your money that we found as a snack credit. It's two GIANT chocolate chip cookies with three scoops of ice cream inside. It was so large that we shared two of them between the 4 of us one day, and another day all 4 of us shared one. It's from Dino Bites in Animal Kingdom. This snack is a lot of food!!

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u63/bullfrogs-n-butterflies_2007/DSC01513.jpg

[starstruck93]

Yep, and at the Ale & Compass at the YC 2 pieces of toast with butter & jelly = 1 snack credit - at the same time a cinnamon roll = 1 snack credit as did a bagle w/cream cheese and a bowl of cereal w/milk. So all things are not created equal in snack credit world. You have to pick and choose what to use them on if you want to use them efficiently and pay out of pocket for some smaller items.

For Example, we used our snack credits for breakfast everday, but... the two pieces of toast only costs 69 cents so I paid OOP for DSs toast every day ($3.45 for the week) and saved his snack credits to get all of us rootbeer floats in AK which cost $3.69/ea ($18.45).


This is REALLY good planning! I'm making a note of this! Thanks! April

[trappednabox]

You can get a root beer float in AK in the stand that looks like an old truck near where the bathrooms are when you are leave Expedition Everest

:rotfl: I hope that makes sense. We got one there last week and they were sooooooo good!

it was funny though, there was no line, after some people saw ours they jumped in line :rotfl: by the time we finished there was a super long line.

but it was hot and a good way to use a snack credit, just wish there had been tables to sit at