Dining plan require park tickets?

[Mail2artist]

I'm sorry if this is repeated and I haven't found it yet.
But I'm a little confused.
When it comes to having a dinning plan do you get as many days as you have the room booked or do you HAVE TO have park tickets as well?

We're looking into a 8 day stay but I know we won't be in a park everyday, so find it pointless to buy a 8 day hopper ticket when we only need 5-6 days.

Does that make sense? I want the dinning for as long as we're on property, but I don't want to spend money on tickets we won't use.

How does this work?

 

[dixonsontour]

The Dining plan is for same number of nights as your stay. I think the minimum ticket purchase is now 2 days MYW (used to be one day) to qualify as a package for dining.

So no you don't need a ticket for your full stay to get the dining.

 

[3BoysRDisneyFreaks]

make sure that if you aren't getting park tickets to cover your whole trip, you make meal reservations that aren't in a park. you need a park ticket to eat at those.

 

[Mail2artist]

THANK YOU!!! I will for sure make sure we don't need in a park for certain meals, but all the brochures I read on the packages made it sound like you needed tickets for all days. I especially don't want tickets for the days we arrive and leave.

 

[Faldred]

You need a minimum 1-day Magic Your Way base ticket to purchase a dining plan, unless you are an annual pass holder or a DVC member staying on points.

The 2-day ticket requirement is for the "free dining" promotion.

 

[purple figment]

THANK YOU!!! I will for sure make sure we don't need in a park for certain meals, but all the brochures I read on the packages made it sound like you needed tickets for all days. I especially don't want tickets for the days we arrive and leave.

Disney frontloads their tickets so if you decide to add more days it will only cost about $3 per day to add the 6th, 7th and 8th days to your tickets.

 

[willowsnn3]

You need a minimum 1-day Magic Your Way base ticket to purchase a dining plan, unless you are an annual pass holder or a DVC member staying on points.

The 2-day ticket requirement is for the "free dining" promotion.

Can you purchase the dining plan if you book room at an AP discount rate or a percent off rate??? If so, would you still be required to buy a "required" ticket??

 

[KAA1972]

Yes, you can purchase the dining plan with the annual passholder room only discount and you will not be required to buy tickets. However, if you want the free dining promotion, you will be required to buy tickets (usually a 2 day ticket is the minimum required for free dining).

 

[Faldred]

As noted, AP holders can make a ticketless package that includes the dining plan. You can apply normal AP discounts, but it does make the reservation a package, which has the package deposit and payment-in-full at 45 days out.

 

[ebird08]

OK so i have a question, too (perhaps i should've started a new thread). Anyway, my question is, i'm looking to book bounceback during our next stay but my fiance and i are AP's so we really won't need tickets. However, we are going with his daughter, who WILL need tickets. Here's the question - if we book BB with 3, 2 day tix can his daughter use all three 2 day tickets (for a total of 6 days admission)? I mean I would assume that technically she can't but really, how would anyone know? Am i crazy for thinking that would work?

 

[TDC Nala]

Unless you are an annual passholder, a DVC member staying on points, or qualified for the military room discount, you must purchase at least a one-day park ticket as part of a package for each party member to be able to get a dining plan. You must take the dining plan for the full stay, but you do not need to buy full stay tickets.

Two-day park ticket minimum is for the free dining promotion only.

 

[Cafeen]

OK so i have a question, too (perhaps i should've started a new thread). Anyway, my question is, i'm looking to book bounceback during our next stay but my fiance and i are AP's so we really won't need tickets. However, we are going with his daughter, who WILL need tickets. Here's the question - if we book BB with 3, 2 day tix can his daughter use all three 2 day tickets (for a total of 6 days admission)? I mean I would assume that technically she can't but really, how would anyone know? Am i crazy for thinking that would work?

Actually, yes, it will work. Simply split the tickets off of your KTTW card and hand them to her. Tickets are transferable until they are first used. (I'm sure there are some exceptions to that rule, but general admission at least are).

Alternatively, keep an eye out for AP discounts, it may end up being cheaper to book an AP room only, add dining to that (via AP ticketless package) and then purchase the daughter's tickets separately. Just another option to throw at you .