10 yr old child on Dining Plan - pay OOP for her from kid's menu?

[momtotwinglesx4]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has recent experience with this. My daughter will turn 10 just before our July trip and we have the Dining Plan. Obviously we'll need to use her adult DP credits for dinner shows or buffets, but for ala carte TS restaurants, will they allow her to just order from the kid's menu and me to pay OOP for her meal, saving her adult DP credits for later use? She's a light eater and rarely can finish a kid's meal, so she doesn't need an "adult sized" kid's meal either.

Or is this one of those "depends on the restaurant and the server" situations?

Thanks!

 

[Faldred]

I did it consistently with my 10-year-old on our last trip (Nov 2015).

 

[danielocha30]

you won't have a problem, Disney is not "patrolling" how people use the credits, they even allow you to pay with your dining credits meals for people out of your room reservations, they won't object of you ordering from a kid menu and PoP, make sure your server knows in advance so you won't get charge a dining credit for a meal you wish to pay

 

[momtotwinglesx4]

Thanks for your replies - so I guess this issue I'm more concerned about is if 10 yr olds (or even 11 or 12 yr old light eaters) are ALLOWED to order from kid's menus, regardless of method of payment. I do believe it's printed on the kid's menus "For guests ages 9 and under". How hard and fast is that rule?

 

[Jaime4004]

Thanks for your replies - so I guess this issue I'm more concerned about is if 10 yr olds (or even 11 or 12 yr old light eaters) are ALLOWED to order from kid's menus, regardless of method of payment. I do believe it's printed on the kid's menus "For guests ages 9 and under". How hard and fast is that rule?

not hard and fast at all. My 13 year old always eats off the kids menu, never had a problem.

 

[OThopeful35]

"for guests ages 9 and under" is for the Dining Plans. I order for myself on the kids menu all the time.

 

[TwoMisfits]

It is much stricter at the non-Disney owned restaurants who are part of the Dining Plan.

 

[persimmondeb]

They're not fussy most of the time. I've only been refused once and that was with an almost 15 year old DS, at Big River. He ended up with an app, which he wasn't that thrilled with, and it probably wins the prize for least exciting TS at Disney ever for us. We haven't been back.

 

[purple figment]

Thanks for your replies - so I guess this issue I'm more concerned about is if 10 yr olds (or even 11 or 12 yr old light eaters) are ALLOWED to order from kid's menus, regardless of method of payment. I do believe it's printed on the kid's menus "For guests ages 9 and under". How hard and fast is that rule?

While it says "For guests 9 and younger" most restaurants will let anyone, regardless of age, order from the kids' menu. Once in a great while someone will post that a restaurant or server enforced the age limit, but it is rare and typically at a non-Disney owned restaurant.

 

[tyandskyesmom]

We normally do the DxDDP and my almost 13 year old daughter gets kids meals a lot and then we have more meals planned using her credits saved. She either doesn't like the adult options or is not hungry enough to order an app, entrée, and desert. We have never, in all our trips, had a problem with doing this.