Dining Plans--Please Help

mmarquez9

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The question: How do I arrange and pay for one of the Disney dining plans? There are three of us, including 12 year old DD (who doesn't eat a lot). We will be staying from August 3rd through the 7th. Thank you so much. You all are so helpful!



The problem I have had with our ITR on post:

I am not sure how to even ask this question. My husband is coming back for R&R from Iraq the first week in August. I have gone to our ITR office (ticket and sales on our military installation), but for some odd reason I am having a terrible time with ladies who work there. I requested a resort--she was able to book us for the All-Stars Sports Resort. She never mentioned the Magical Express option---I had to go back there again to ask if she could arrange this for us since she did the hotel booking. During that same time period I asked if she could set me up with pricing information on the dining plans and if I could purchased a plan. She acted as if she had no clue and it would be something I would have to arrange. I don't understand, I am on a rather large military installation who sells Disney World tickets all the time and she isn't able to suggest or help me with creating a package? She also cut me short a day on my hopper passes. I wrote down the days we would be staying. When I went back up to the office to pick up the tickets I noticed the dates and requested an additional day. No problem, right? Instead of charging me $9.00 extra dollars for all us, she rings my credit card for $282????? I go round and round with her about how is that and to please show me how she comes to that total for one extra hopper pass day (five total)? She finally comes to the conclusion she thought I wanted an additional ticket for someone else?? What? LOL Ugghhhhh.... Why the communication problem you may ask? She asked me to fill out all of my information on paper, leaving it with her. When complete she'll give me a call that afternoon. She never called that afternoon. I had to call her and then they realized that forgot and begin working on finding a resort. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I should never have left that office!!



Michelle
 
It sounds like the person you are dealing with is fairly clueless. Yikes. I am not military so I don't really know the answer first hand, but I did a search and founds some threads.

One thread here I found said
dining plan w/ Military discount?
If we purchase our park hopper tickets with a military discount - can we still add on a dining plan?
and one of the responses was

The answer to your specific question is "no". However, you can purchase a 1 day ticket to get the package and then purchase the military discount tickets from any MWR/ITT office that sells them. They do not have to be purchased at SOG. HTH. Have a wonderful trip.

hth!
 

Angeleigh, that was my first request from the ITR lady, Shades of Green, but they were booked. I wonder if she really checked for us, now that I think about it. We would have planned much earlier for this trip, but DH was unsure at the time of his R&R dates. With the Army, anything can change at the drop of a hat. :confused3

Again, thank you. I'll have to do some work myself to come up with an eating plan for us. ;)
 


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