Dining plan option for child under 3

[lgaston]

Is the Disney Dining Plan option free for kids under 3? Hoes does it work? What were your experiences? We'll be 3 adults and one child under 3.

thanks

 

[ajwolfe]

No, there is no dining plan for a child under 3. You can either feed this child off or your plate or order off the children's menu. In our case, I would imagine there will be an overabundance of food at the table service meals, so we won't need to order a kids plate. We were thinking at counter service we may order ds (2) his own sometimes though. HTH.

 

[Calliaz]

Kids under 3 are free at buffets and can eat off your plate at other locations. Just be careful if you decide to order something for them and pay out of pocket that you are very clear with the CM--otherwise they may try and deduct one of your credits for their meal.

At TS restaurants, we told the server and then checked the bill before we left. At CS, we placed 2 seperate orders (one with credits, one for cash). At the food courts, I put the food into seperate piles and had the CM ring each up as an individual order.

 

[BuzznBelle'smom]

This was not made clear to us when we went with our DSthen2. Buffets the kid can get a plate, sit down/counter service you have to share. Not a huge deal--if we had known, he could have shared with his sister, but we kept ordering separate meals for him. We ended up having to pay for the extra meals that went over the meal plan--not a big deal he did eat them, but had we known...