Dining Plan with Large family

[writersblock42]

My husband's Great-Grandmother died last year and with the money she left, my MIL (in control of the estate) decided to do a trip to disney with her four children and two spouses (all adults), her six children, and her husband (my step-FIL). The question is that she (with estate money) is buying a package with hotel at Carribean Beach and the tickets. We have to pay for our own food. She wants to do the dining plan. She says she may or maynot be able to afford it. She has a AAA discount. If not we would have to pay for it. My question is would the entire group have to get it or could we just get it by room? Another HUGE worry of mine is that I have an irresponsible SIL and her family that includes her husband and three kids. I am worried that they will blow the dining points and that will affect our points. I plan on printing out the spreadsheet and keeping track, but worried about them. Anyway help would be wonderful.

 

[Amyrlin]

The way around this would be for the packages to be booked as sperate packages, each with a different reservasion number. Then they cannot access your credits. That way if MIL canot afford it it will be easy to add it onto your party only.

 

[sugarpie]

My MIL took us to DW last year & there were 12 of us, 4 to a cabin in Fort Wilderness. Our meal plan & credits were figured by room, or cabin in our case. I don't know if it was booked as seperate packages or not - she had a travel agent. If it's all one reservation I think you would all need to have the meal plan. Call Disney reservations & ask, they're happy to answer your questions.

 

[BlindTyldak]

I think as a Grand Gathering you would all need it because I believe it is one reservation (or more accurately, it was when we did it when it was Magical Gatherings). But if you are not doing any of the incredibly overpriced Grand Gathering specials, I would see no reason that the reservations could not be separate and it just requested that the rooms be nearby each other.

Though I speak from experience, I wished we'd had our rooms spread out on more than one occasion.