Child-Adult Switch - Is This Allowed?

[eva]

We are taking a big group to WDW next year. We have decided it would be easier to buy the dining plan for most of the group. Then we don't have to be at every meal to pay. The only issue we might have is with our grandkids. Our two DGD will be 3 and 9. And our DGS will be 6 and 13. The girls eat more than the boys and are very adventurous. The boys only eat kids meals and pick them to death. Can we buy the appropriate dining plans for each age and then switch dinners after they are ordered? For instance, could the 9 year old order a kid's meal and then trade the 13 year old for the adult meal? All the grandkids belong to my youngest DD. So they should be together to switch meals around as needed. I wish they would allow us to buy the girls adult plans and the boys kid's plans.

Also, we will have three villas at OKW. If one room opts out of the plan, is that allowed? My oldest DD and her husband aren't too keen on the plan. So we said that we could just give them the price of the plan and then they could pay themselves. I would do that for my youngest and her family of 6 too, but she would keep the money and cheap out on food. So we will likely have some on the plan and some not. I think I can do that as long as an entire room does the same thing. Correct?

 

[MakiraMarlena]

As long as you use the child credits for child meals and the adult credits for adult meals (in some cases you might be permitted to use an adult credit to purchase a child's meal) then it won't matter who eats which meal.

You can buy adult plans for any of the kids if you register them as 10 years old and buy adult tickets if you are on a package with tickets. Of course you have to pay the adult price on the DDP too.

Yes, any separate room can opt out of the plan as long as everyone registered in the room opts out, but the other rooms can't use the credits allocated to those rooms to purchase meals for them.

 

[Altoqueenkelly]

Yep, that should work

 

[maxiesmom]

And you will have to tell your waiter/waitress who is on the plan and who is not before you order. So you may have to have people ordering for each other, if I am understanding what you want to do.

 

[eva]

Thanks everyone! I think I am getting the hang of it. We have been to WDW at least 30 times in the last 20 years, but have never done the dining plan. We normally eat at a lot of signature restaurants. So it didn't seem to make sense. But with a large group we will be sticking to more basic table service for dinners.