dining questions cross-post

[Mrs. Bradbury]

My apologies, I'm cross-posting this here as well as on the restaurants sub because I'm getting no response there.

Our WDW trip is just around the corner, and I have a couple of things I'm unsure about as far as dining goes. We will be a party of 8, with 1 family of 4 on the table service dining plan, and 2 families of 2 each with no dining plan.

1. We'll have an 18% gratuity added to any table service meals because our party is 6 or more, correct?

2. And assuming the dining plan folks don't order anything extra, they will be able to charge their tips to either a card or back to their room with their magicband? IOW they don't need to bring cash for tips?

3. We have a reservation for CRT and when I made the reservation, it didn't ask if anyone was on the dining plan, so I paid in advance for all 8. I think I read here that CRT will credit me for the 4 on the dining plan at the time of our meal. Did I understand this correctly?

4. Tips are included at CRT still?

This is just a comment, in hopes it may help someone. My DIL wanted to get the chocolate slipper dessert for my granddaughter at CRT and emailed an address for confirmation that she was given by WDW, and they never emailed her. She emailed again, no reply. I called Disney Dining and was told they didn't do it anymore. I also was doing my own sleuthing and was fairly certain that was bad info. Sure enough, the email I found, WDW.Magic.Kingdom.Specialty.Desserts@Disney.com is a good address and she received a response straight away. wdw.crt.special.events@disney.com is the first address she was using that did not get any response.

Thanks, everyone!

 

[scrappinginontario]

My apologies, I'm cross-posting this here as well as on the restaurants sub because I'm getting no response there.

Our WDW trip is just around the corner, and I have a couple of things I'm unsure about as far as dining goes. We will be a party of 8, with 1 family of 4 on the table service dining plan, and 2 families of 2 each with no dining plan.

1. We'll have an 18% gratuity added to any table service meals because our party is 6 or more, correct?

Yes.

2. And assuming the dining plan folks don't order anything extra, they will be able to charge their tips to either a card or back to their room with their magicband?

Yes

IOW they don't need to bring cash for tips?

Correct, cash not needed

3. We have a reservation for CRT and when I made the reservation, it didn't ask if anyone was on the dining plan, so I paid in advance for all 8. I think I read here that CRT will credit me for the 4 on the dining plan at the time of our meal. Did I understand this correctly?

Yes, you can have your server switch you to DDP credits. CRT is a 2 credit location so your family of 4 will use 8 credits and the money you paid will be credited back to the CC used when booking.

4. Tips are included at CRT still?

I honestly don’t know as I can’t see anything in the website to indicate that tips are included. I remember they were in the past but not sure about now.

This is just a comment, in hopes it may help someone. My DIL wanted to get the chocolate slipper dessert for my granddaughter at CRT and emailed an address for confirmation that she was given by WDW, and they never emailed her. She emailed again, no reply. I called Disney Dining and was told they didn't do it anymore. I also was doing my own sleuthing and was fairly certain that was bad info. Sure enough, the email I found, WDW.Magic.Kingdom.Specialty.Desserts@Disney.com is a good address and she received a response straight away. wdw.crt.special.events@disney.com is the first address she was using that did not get any response.

Thanks, everyone!

 

[Mrs. Bradbury]

Yes.

Yes

Correct, cash not needed

Yes, you can have your server switch you to DDP credits. CRT is a 2 credit location so your family of 4 will use 8 credits and the money you paid will be credited back to the CC used when booking.


I honestly don’t know as I can’t see anything in the website to indicate that tips are included. I remember they were in the past but not sure about now.

Thank you!

 

[lanejudy]

4. Tips are included at CRT still?

As of this past spring, yes, CRT includes tip. (Unlike most TS.)

 

[elvispursley]

Tips are included! Wish they posted it—we sat there for a good bit wondering if we were supposed to tip our server. I finally asked the couple next to us—they too were confused. I finally just asked our server and learned the tip was included.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Moving to restaurants now that responses have been received.