Dining Plan question - Beaches and Cream and others

[PolDisneyfam]

My family will be using the dining plan for the first time this November. I need some advice on a few meals.

Anyone use the dining plan for Beaches and Cream? I am wondering if you can choose the larger sundaes (No Way Jose) for your dessert?

Is there anywhere where they let you substitute an appetizer for a dessert?

We also have a picky adult eater. No chicken or seafood. We are planning on going to a few places where they serve family style meals (Ohana and Liberty Tree Tavern). If we asked, would they bring those items on a separate plate? Is this a request we need to set up ahead of time?

Thanks for the help.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

1. Yes you can choose any sundae you want except for the Kitchen Sink. But a meal at B&C isn't worth very much if you are trying to maximize use of dining credits.

2) No.
It may be possible to substitute the dessert for an item such as soup or a small salad. But that will be up to the restaurant and they will have a specific item that can be substituted for. You can't just pick something off the menu.

3) Ohana doesn't bring meat on a plate. They are on skewers. They just have to say they don't want any chicken or shrimp. As for the other offerings, I believe the potstickers are pork, they don't have to take any chicken wings, and the others don't contain any meat.
I don't know about Liberty Tree but it's served family style, just don't pass the picky eater any of the offending foods.

 

[purple figment]

1. Beaches & Cream: The only ice cream dessert not included in the dining plan is the large Kitchen Sink.

2. Sub app for dessert: At some Table Service restaurants you can sub for the dessert so you will have to ask. However, not all restaurants are allowing a substitution, but at those that are, it is something the restaurant has pre-selected in advance - often a small side salad, a small cup of soup or a veggie dish. It is not something on the menu.

At Quick Service venues, it is written into the DDP brochure that you can sub the dessert and/or beverage for something on the menu that has the purple ddp snack logo next to it. The substitution must be done in the same transaction when you are using the QS credit.

3. 'Ohana brings skewers of meats so the ppicky person can just pass on the skewers he doesn't want. At LTT the family style dinner has turkey, ham and beef. You can ask your server if the turkey can be brought on a separate dish if the picky eater doesn't like all poultry vs just chicken.

Just let the server know when you are seated.

 

[PolDisneyfam]

Thanks to you Makira and Figment. I think we will pay out of pocket for Beaches and Cream since we are one TS meal over on our plan. Good to know that we can at least ask on the QS to sub out dessert for a snack item.

We will def. ask for the poultry on a different plate if that is allowed.