Dining Plan Logistics

[mjmarshall1510]

Two questions about dining plan. We have 2 adults, 3 kids, 6 nights on 3 different reservations that are not combined due to DVC contract reasons (1 night, 1 night, 4 nights). We bought the standard dining plan for all 6 nights.

Question 1: I think that means we are technically entitled to 15 refillable mugs since we technically have 3 separate dining plan packages. Suggestions on what to do with the 10 we have absolutely no use for? Just don't take them? Take them and put them out for free? Something else? Would not consider selling/trading them.

Question 2 (please read the whole thing before judging): We get 12 "Adult" quick service meals and 18 "Child" quick service meals and we are planning to use all of them at the resorts or Disney Springs. Is there anything that would stop us from ordering an alcoholic beverage with all 12+18 quick service meals? I'm thinking like canned beverages or single-serving wine that can be stocked for later. Hopefully, it would go without saying that the alcoholic beverages would not be for the kids. But, the kids won't notice or care because they would prefer pop/juice in their refillable mugs over the other nonalcoholic beverage options. In other words, we could order a milk with the kids' quick service meals and probably end up throwing it away because they are going to drink whatever they put in their mug, or order an adult beverage that one of the adults would probably drink later in the evening. So, I feel like we should do this to maximize value and minimize waste...but will anything stop us? To be clear, we're not monsters; if there was something nonalcoholic that the kids actually wanted, that would get priority over stockpiling booze.

 

[SaraAnn90]

I don't have an answer re: refillable mugs but do know that when we have done mobile ordering it will not allow us to apply a child QS meal to cover an alcoholic beverage. It would show the meal as being covered but the drink as being out of pocket or in the edit screen only show the option to apply an adult credit.

 

[mjmarshall1510]

I don't have an answer re: refillable mugs but do know that when we have done mobile ordering it will not allow us to apply a child QS meal to cover an alcoholic beverage. It would show the meal as being covered but the drink as being out of pocket or in the edit screen only show the option to apply an adult credit.

Okay, so the app does track adult versus child credits separately?

 

[SaraAnn90]

It does. There are some restaurants that don't offer kids meals and in these cases you can use a child credit for what would otherwise be an adult meal; however, it would switch an alcoholic drink to being a cash purchase if you select the child credit.