1st Time Doing QSDP- Updating to tell my experience *6/9*

[zianha]

Hi everyone! I've been to WDW 13 or more times but have NEVER done the Dining Plan before. We'll be doing the QSDP this trip and I wanted to ask for opinions on this situation....

There's 8 of us going to Pop and we'll have 2 rooms. Me, my 2 kids (8 and 12) and my nephew (6) will be in one room. My sister, my BIL and my 2 nieces (8 yr old twins) will be in the 2nd room. My sister's family will be staying 5 nights and me and my 2 kids will stay 7 nights. Since my nephew is in my room, that gives us his 4 extra QS meals and 4 extra snack credits after he leaves with his family. I figure we can use those during the week to share a breakfast meal instead of eating foods we're bringing to have breakfast in the room. Does anyone recommend any QS meals (probably in the Pop food court) that have enough to share among us so we can use those "extra" credits?

ETA: I usually eat breakfast in our room and have only had a few breakfast items in the All Star Resorts food courts over the years- Waffles, french toast sticks and a croissant breakfast sandwich. I don't remember any of those 3 being enough to share (except maybe the sandwich). My 2 kids eat less at breakfast than the other 3.

 

[TDC Nala]

Children's meals are generally not big enough for two kids to share, let alone a family (the nephew is six and Pop has children's menus, so you'd be ordering child meals. The DIS Restaurant Board sticks to WDW's written rule that credits for which a child's price is paid should be used to order from a child's menu). I would locate places that don't have a child's menu, although I believe all of those are in parks and none in resorts.

 

[zianha]

Children's meals are generally not big enough for two kids to share, let alone a family (the nephew is six and Pop has children's menus, so you'd be ordering child meals. The DIS Restaurant Board sticks to WDW's written rule that credits for which a child's price is paid should be used to order from a child's menu). I would locate places that don't have a child's menu, although I believe all of those are in parks and none in resorts.

I didnt' think about that! Thanks! We could just use the credits to get the kids breakfast meals. My oldest usually only has a muffin or cereal for breakfast so maybe we can get the other 4 kids breakfast one morning.

 

[Mom_Rides]

We shared the Bountiful Breakfast several times during our trip last June. It was more then enough for 2 (or more depending on how big your eaters are) to share. My DSS9 and I shared this a couple of times and he is a big eater. He would take the pancakes, sausage and biscuit and I would eat the eggs, bacon and potatoes.

 

[catne]

We shared the Bountiful Breakfast several times during our trip last June. It was more then enough for 2 (or more depending on how big your eaters are) to share. My DSS9 and I shared this a couple of times and he is a big eater. He would take the pancakes, sausage and biscuit and I would eat the eggs, bacon and potatoes.

that's on the adult menu, though...OP is talking about kid's credits, not adults credits.

 

[Goofy&Sleepy]

Your relatives extra credits MUST be used by midnight of the night he checks out. You can't use them the rest of the week so be sure & allocate wisely.

btw....if you are at DTD during the day, the MUFFIN tops from Earl of Sandwich are snack credits & GREAT to use for b'fast...usually gone by the end of day though.

 

[Judique]

Your relatives extra credits MUST be used by midnight of the night he checks out. You can't use them the rest of the week so be sure & allocate wisely.

btw....if you are at DTD during the day, the MUFFIN tops from Earl of Sandwich are snack credits & GREAT to use for b'fast...usually gone by the end of day though.

I think he is in the room with them and they have to buy dining plan for him for an additional night or two that he isn't there. That is what is generating extra credits in the pool.

Thanks for your muffin top tip! I've never tried these.

 

[zianha]

I think he is in the room with them and they have to buy dining plan for him for an additional night or two that he isn't there. That is what is generating extra credits in the pool.

Thanks for your muffin top tip! I've never tried these.

Yes! That's exactly the issue! I had to make all of our tickets 5 day tickets and I'll have to add the extra days for me and my 2 kids only once we check in. Otherwise, we would be paying for 2 extra days for his tickets that wouldn't get used. Atleast with the dining credits, we can use them before he leaves with his family.

Yummy! Muffin tops sound like a great use of snack credits for breakfast!!! Thanks!

 

[disneymayz]

Just get 2 kid meal breakfasts 2 mornings. And you will also have 4 snacks credits that you can get a muffin, danish, etc.. With all of that you should have no problem feeding the 3-4 of you in my opinion since you eat light breakfast in the room anyway.

 

[zianha]

On one day of our trip, my sister and her husband have scheduled a tee time for 1:30 or so. We plan to get lunch at AK before they leave and then me and all the kids will stay at AK a bit longer then head back to our room while my sister and BIL play golf. Since it will be about 4 hours before my sis gets back to the room to meet us, it's likely me and the kids will get a snack at the Everything Pop food court. Will her 2 kids in her room (with me as the only adult and not in their room) be able to use their KTTW cards to use a snack credit? Or does an adult in that room have to be present?

TIA for anyone's input!

 

[TDC Nala]

Yes, you can use their cards to buy snacks.

 

[zianha]

Yes, you can use their cards to buy snacks.

Thanks! I'm so excited to be doing the QSDP for the first time!

 

[5boyz]

Your relatives extra credits MUST be used by midnight of the night he checks out. You can't use them the rest of the week so be sure & allocate wisely.

btw....if you are at DTD during the day, the MUFFIN tops from Earl of Sandwich are snack credits & GREAT to use for b'fast...usually gone by the end of day though.

I am confused....wouldnt the little guys credits be good til the midnight after the 7th night? Isnt it everyone in the room has same # of nights? I didnt know if you left earlier your credits expired earlier????

 

[zianha]

I am confused....wouldnt the little guys credits be good til the midnight after the 7th night? Isnt it everyone in the room has same # of nights? I didnt know if you left earlier your credits expired earlier????

Yes, my nephew's credits are still good thru midnight after the 7th night even though he will leave with his parents earlier. I am just making sure his credits are used before they leave. My sister paid for his part on my room reservation so I think it's only fair to find a way for the credits to be used by her family as best we can.

 

[5boyz]

Yes, my nephew's credits are still good thru midnight after the 7th night even though he will leave with his parents earlier. I am just making sure his credits are used before they leave. My sister paid for his part on my room reservation so I think it's only fair to find a way for the credits to be used by her family as best we can.

 

[zianha]

I'm not sure how, but at the end of our trip, my sister had 1 meal credit left over and 3 snack credits. Mine was even worse, on the morning of our last day, we had 15 meal credits left and 12 snack credits!! We ate like crazy, or so it seemed.....we all had breakfast in the room (or no breakfast at all some days) 2 quick service meals a day and 2 snacks a day (except on arrival day where we didn't use any snack credits but used 2 meal credits). There were 3 times that my youngest didn't eat when I "forced" us to use meal credits so I used those for breakfast 2 days. Our last day, we used all the snack credits on water and ice cream easily but we still left 4 meal credits when we checked out. I found we only used our refillable mugs a few times since all our meals came with a drink or we used snack credits for drinks.

My sister always placed 2 orders, one using her KTTW card and a separate one using my nephew's card so we would keep the credits in order, so I guess some of the the extra I had was his? We tried so had to use all of his before they left but I guess it didn't work.

I really did enjoy doing the QSDP and it would work well for us in the future!

 

[lesabrowning]

Even with the extra credits and confusion, it sounds like your family had a great trip and no one went hungry! LOL