2 seperate dining packages?

[luvtheworld16]

Three of us are going to Disney during free dining this fall, myself and two others. I want to book two rooms so that the men can stay in one room and the female in another. When I call Disney to book the rooms would it be "legal" to tell them Bob and Mary will be in one room and Bob and Sam will be in the other room so that we get free dining for four people? Would we then be able to all three share the 4th person dining meals? We will be there six days so I can get a 3 day park admission for Bob with each room so he could get in the parks all 6 days; Mary and Sam have three days on new unused tickets they purchased previously.

Or could I book room A with Quick Service dining and room B with regular dining (we are staying at a value resort)?

Is any of this possible? I already have a discount code for the rooms so I won't be saving any money by using free dining with just one person in the second room. Should I just stay with using the discount room code and forget free dining?

I know this is complicated, I'm just trying to figure out the least expensive option. Thanks!!!!

 

[TDC Nala]

They kind of frown on adding phantom guests (from what I understand you have three guests but you want to book for four) just so you can get more free dining credits. Used to be that once in awhile they'd ask you to produce everyone when you were checking in. Don't know if they have just quit doing this or they are still checking on a random basis. And then you would have to buy park tickets for the "phantom" so it may not be such a great deal after all. From your example I take it you are thinking of registering the same person twice, in different rooms. I can't see them letting you do that.

If you book two separate reservations on free dining, yes, one can have the quick service plan and you can upgrade the other to regular dining. However, you won't be able to use the credits interchangeably between the rooms. If you have a room with 2 adults on quick service an another room with one adult on regular dining, the guest on regular dining can use their key card to purchase only one TS meal per transaction; they couldn't use their DDP to buy a TS meal for everybody.

You will have to determine if you think the room discount would be better for your party than free dining. Once you add free dining, the room discount is gone. Usually free dining, if you plan to use all the allotments, can be the best deal at a value resort.

You could do free dining on one room and the discount on the other...but you would not be able to share your DDP credits with the person in the second room.

 

[Txmomof3Boyz]

I had a similar question that the travel agent I used could not answer so I called WDW Dining to verify myself. Here is what I wanted to do. My family, Me, hubby, mother-in-law, 13 year old DS, and 5 year old twin DS are going together. We booked two rooms at Allstar Movies and got the free QS dining plan. My hubby and I are in booked in one room, and my MIL and 3 kids in an adjoining room. We decided the two little ones could not handle sitdown dinners every night and it was a better plan with the two snacks a day and the refillable mug. But I came up with the idea to upgrade just my husband and I to the regular DP which would give us 12 TS dinner credits with the idea that we could used them for the entire party to have two TS dinners, including one Character buffet. The lady at WDW Dining said that would not be possible. You cannot share meal credits across two rooms like that. She said if we tried it and when it came time to pay, that they would take off two dinners from our ticket, and charge my MIL for her meal the the 3 kids meals OOP. Bummer. But it doesn't hurt to ask, right.

 

[cruise cruise cruise]

The other problem with your plan is that Mary and Sam would need to purchase 2 day minimum park tickets in order to be eligiable for free dining and you said they already have tickets. FUrthermore, bying Bob 2 seperate 3 day tickets vs 1 6 day tickets is going to cost you quite a bit of $$

 

[luvtheworld16]

Thanks for the replies! Sorry for all the questions, the dining plan is new to me.

The other problem with your plan is that Mary and Sam would need to purchase 2 day minimum park tickets in order to be eligiable for free dining and you said they already have tickets. FUrthermore, bying Bob 2 seperate 3 day tickets vs 1 6 day tickets is going to cost you quite a bit of $$

That's part of the problem. As it is now we all are hoping to get the military tickets (4 days with park hopper), just need to go to the air base to buy the tickets. Mary and Sam are going to use the 4 day military ticket plus two of their non-expiring unused tickets. Bob is planning on getting two 4-day military tickets (which is the least expensive way that we've figured out for him) and only using 6 days.

Sam and Bob eat quite a bit so they would definitely be able to split a third quick service dining plan. Mary, on the hand, does not eat much. If everyone is on the same dining plan can they "share" the meal credits?


I'm thinking that the 40% off room plus military tickets is the least expensive way to go. We will just have to watch and eat cheap meals.

 

[TDC Nala]

If everyone is on the same dining plan can they "share" the meal credits?

yes...if they're all in the same room or in different rooms under the same resort reservation number. You can't share credits across separate room reservations.

If you're going for military tickets and a military discounted room, you may be able to get dining plans for everybody plus keep your room discount and get those military tickets. It's called a ticketless package, and is generally available for annual passholders and those eligible for the military room discount. You will be paying for the dining plan...but it might actually work out better.

 

[sukhakuli]

I don't believe you get 40% off the room if you are staying at a value resort and using a military discount. I think it is 30% for value, 35% for moderate, and 40% for deluxe.

The best way to figure out what the best discount for you would be, is figure out how much the military discount is saving you on the resort, and then go through the menues and do a rough estimate of what everyone would be eating, and see what that would cost you. Then add up what the rack rate of the resort would be, and see if it is less than the military discount plus paying OOP for meals.

Also, do you have your rooms booked? There are a lmited number of rooms available for the military discount.

Personally, we are doing a split stay. So, we are using the 40% off to stay at a deluxe resort before FD starts, and then when it does start we are moving to a moderate (the Ft Wilderness cabins), and getting free dining. The cost of the YC with the discount is the same as the cost of the cabins, but with the cains we get FD.

Oh, and you can buy the military tickets at Shades of Green when you get there, so you don't have to go to your base's MWR if you don't want to. You have to have a valid military ID to go to SoG.

 

[luvtheworld16]

I notice that quite a few military people (or their spouses) on these boards have an attitude. Sad to say, but true. I never said the 40% room discount was a military discount. It is a totally separate discount from military. I realize that I can purchase military tickets at SOG, however time is limited and I prefer not to waste a morning trying to get Disney transportation to SOG to purchase tickets before entering any of the parks - especially since the air base is 20 minutes from my house.

TDC Nala, thanks for suggesting adding the dining package to my room when I call Disney. I will look at our ADRs and figure out if that is the best option.