DDP Help needed. Please !

[jasheehy]

OK, we are going home to SSR after spending a few days in Vero. We are going to be at SSR for 4 Nights. Thus I understand that my DDP will be for 4 days.

My question is in regards to eating.

If the 4 of us (myself, wife and two teenagers) go to dinner, instead of using 4 credits that night, can we basically use 3 and share the meal between the four us. Thus leaving us an extra credit for another day?

 

[Katiebell]

John, unfortunately, nobody can answer that exactly. My best advice would be you can ask, but don't plan your ADR's around it -- and be prepared to pay OOP for a meal or two if necessary.

Lots of families share meals, both on the DDP and paying OOP. A few of us specifically wrote to Disney Guest Relations. I gave the scenario of 2 adults, both on the plan, sharing 1 TS credit (which we often do at other restaurants). Another person, bicker, asked if 4 adults could share 3 TS credits. The answer from Disney Guest Relations was clear: guests on the DDP may not share meals.

Many, many people on the boards will tell you they have shared meals on the DDP and had no problem, that the servers were very accommodating. The DDP brochure states that you can't use credits to purchase meals for people not on the plan, and you cannot use children's credits to purchase adult meals -- but it does not say you cannot share meals amongst your own party. If Disney truly wants to prevent families sharing credits (thus banking credits for a 2 TS signature restaurant or dinner show), they may change the brochure in the future, but it could be a real headache for the restaurants to police and enforce it.

There are a couple of recent threads that discuss this in great detail:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1376421
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1383495
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1382695

HTH...

 

[renessa]

Read down a bit further for the many sharing and "shring" threads. They have lots of posts. Disney hasn't put no sharing into print yet, but that's what they're telling people who email them specifically with the sharing question.