karrit2000
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2000
Is it acceptable to bring older children to paid events and seminars. We will be at the festival the first weekend and I was wondering if my 11 and 16 year old DDs were allowed to attend seminars and tastings if I pay for them and they only eat but don't drink the alcohol. They enjoy fine dining so they really want to go to events I just didn't know if it was frowned upon.
As long as you are willing to pay the adult price Disney will allow your children to attend the food tastings & seminars. Yours are old enough to probably enjoy the various events if you are willing to pay the price for them to attend. They will not serve alcohol to anyone underage & they do check ID's to insure this. I wouldn't advise registering them for the wine and/or spirit seminars as there is no food served at them. People do register children for the Culinary demos, PTFS, Sweet Sundays and possibly F & W Pairings, Regional lunches, etc. I don't remember if some of the pricier events have age restrictions on them or not. For the culinary demos it's hit or miss as to if the servers will give the extra wine samples to the parents, sometimes they will & sometimes they won't. For the pricier events I personally wouldn't spend the $ for a child attend just to eat the food. Since PTFS to me is too expensive for what you get in such a short amount of time I don't attend and I don't get why parents pay to bring younger children to that event, but I think yours are old enough to enjoy. The one other event that I would advise against registering underage children for if they don't already have a restriction is the Tequila Tasting in Mexico. The Tequila Lunch has plentiful food but the Tequila Tasting is more of a bite size sample portion of each food to go with the Tequila so you're really paying for the Tequila.