Lolaura84
Earning My Ears
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- Jul 25, 2016
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I know I have read that one of the "loopholes" with the Deluxe Dining plan is that kids can order adult meals in most restaurants. I'm wondering if anyone who has used that can tell me how it works?
I'm traveling Thanksgiving week with a total party of 8. We have 6 in one room (3 adults, 2 children, and one infant), and 2 adults in a second room. The room with 6 of us is on the dining plan (free), and the other room booked a discounted room without the free dining plan. I'm now considering whether to up the regular dining plan to deluxe, or to stick with the free regular dining plan and pay for more meals out of pocket.
I've made out all of our touring plans and ADRs, and estimated the cost of our planned meals. We are eating at a good number of buffets and character meals, plus if we were just choosing any menu items, we'd often order an appetizer or two for the table and fewer than one meal per person, so that based on all the calculations, we'd come out slightly ahead going the deluxe route, without considering any value for the additional snacks. It's close enough, though (less than $100 difference), that I can see that being blown based on my mis-estimation of entrée selections.
The thing that might throw us over the edge is the question of the ability to use kids' credits for adult meals. Two of the kids tend to have more adult palates, and food allergies (gluten) so that there are more adult entrees that they would want than kids. How exactly does it work with the kids ordering adult menu items? Say all 8 of us went to dinner, and we ordered 5 adult table service meals with an appetizer and dessert each and split it. Would they take three adult credits and one child credit? Thanks for any help!
I'm traveling Thanksgiving week with a total party of 8. We have 6 in one room (3 adults, 2 children, and one infant), and 2 adults in a second room. The room with 6 of us is on the dining plan (free), and the other room booked a discounted room without the free dining plan. I'm now considering whether to up the regular dining plan to deluxe, or to stick with the free regular dining plan and pay for more meals out of pocket.
I've made out all of our touring plans and ADRs, and estimated the cost of our planned meals. We are eating at a good number of buffets and character meals, plus if we were just choosing any menu items, we'd often order an appetizer or two for the table and fewer than one meal per person, so that based on all the calculations, we'd come out slightly ahead going the deluxe route, without considering any value for the additional snacks. It's close enough, though (less than $100 difference), that I can see that being blown based on my mis-estimation of entrée selections.
The thing that might throw us over the edge is the question of the ability to use kids' credits for adult meals. Two of the kids tend to have more adult palates, and food allergies (gluten) so that there are more adult entrees that they would want than kids. How exactly does it work with the kids ordering adult menu items? Say all 8 of us went to dinner, and we ordered 5 adult table service meals with an appetizer and dessert each and split it. Would they take three adult credits and one child credit? Thanks for any help!
