I hesitate to post this but as there was a big and heated discussion before I left about how credits were allocated and such I thought I should report my experiences with the plan.
Just to confirm there are not such things as adult or child credits. I asked at the desk when we checked in and at a few places we ate at. Everything is lumped together and as I was told I could use them anyway we wanted to do. I could for example go over to the Whispering Canyon Cafe and buy dinner for 28 new friends (We had 28 Table Service Credits) or buy meals one at a time at 28 different places. The only restrictions were that they be used by midnight of departure day. No where on any reciept or any report I asked for from the front desk did the word adult or child get mentioned.
Now as to why Disney lets this "loophole" exist I have a theory. In our case we were there for 7 days and we maximized the use of the plan. Not so much with kids meals but with sharing counter service, getting refillable mugs at WL to use for lunch drinks at the resort so we could get bottled water for the parks with those meals, saving lunch snacks for later ect. Part of that was due to the heat and the need for water the other part was that there was so much food and a desire to maintain weight with eating 8 sit down meals. (We paid for one out of pocket and yes, we did maintain weight). It got to the point that we would order 2 CS meals for lunch and 1-2 for breakfast to split. The breakfast platter was huge at WL. We ended up spending less on food at Disney than we did at the Orlando and Philly airports on our way back.
At the same time some other people joined us for two three nights. They arrived late on the first night and left early on the last day. So in essence they had only two days to use three days worth of credits. They had no clue and not much was explained to them on how the plan worked. Until I talked to them about it they would have been content using only 2 TS credits, 2 CS credits and no snacks. (They didn't like the snacks on the plan and didn't grasp the concept of getting bottled water as a snack. Instead they bought it.) They didn't understand that you didn't loose them each day. So for every overly analytical person that uses the plan to its max I am sure that there are several that don't. Heck, I couldn't believe that they didn't understand it. Of course they also didn't join us in being at the parks when they opened. Sadly I am related to them.
So anywho credits are just that credits. Child and Adult credits only exist on the pages of the National Inquirer with Big foot and I do not see Disney changing the plan to over complicate it when most likely for the small percentage that use the loophole there are most likely more that don't use the plan well. Even with the Internet I knwo a few people going to Disney, some well educated computer literate people, that would never think of using the Internet to plan a vacation. For that matter DW as asked me not to talk too much about how I planned our our trip. Something about geek and over planning as if that is possible.
Just to confirm there are not such things as adult or child credits. I asked at the desk when we checked in and at a few places we ate at. Everything is lumped together and as I was told I could use them anyway we wanted to do. I could for example go over to the Whispering Canyon Cafe and buy dinner for 28 new friends (We had 28 Table Service Credits) or buy meals one at a time at 28 different places. The only restrictions were that they be used by midnight of departure day. No where on any reciept or any report I asked for from the front desk did the word adult or child get mentioned.
Now as to why Disney lets this "loophole" exist I have a theory. In our case we were there for 7 days and we maximized the use of the plan. Not so much with kids meals but with sharing counter service, getting refillable mugs at WL to use for lunch drinks at the resort so we could get bottled water for the parks with those meals, saving lunch snacks for later ect. Part of that was due to the heat and the need for water the other part was that there was so much food and a desire to maintain weight with eating 8 sit down meals. (We paid for one out of pocket and yes, we did maintain weight). It got to the point that we would order 2 CS meals for lunch and 1-2 for breakfast to split. The breakfast platter was huge at WL. We ended up spending less on food at Disney than we did at the Orlando and Philly airports on our way back.
At the same time some other people joined us for two three nights. They arrived late on the first night and left early on the last day. So in essence they had only two days to use three days worth of credits. They had no clue and not much was explained to them on how the plan worked. Until I talked to them about it they would have been content using only 2 TS credits, 2 CS credits and no snacks. (They didn't like the snacks on the plan and didn't grasp the concept of getting bottled water as a snack. Instead they bought it.) They didn't understand that you didn't loose them each day. So for every overly analytical person that uses the plan to its max I am sure that there are several that don't. Heck, I couldn't believe that they didn't understand it. Of course they also didn't join us in being at the parks when they opened. Sadly I am related to them.
So anywho credits are just that credits. Child and Adult credits only exist on the pages of the National Inquirer with Big foot and I do not see Disney changing the plan to over complicate it when most likely for the small percentage that use the loophole there are most likely more that don't use the plan well. Even with the Internet I knwo a few people going to Disney, some well educated computer literate people, that would never think of using the Internet to plan a vacation. For that matter DW as asked me not to talk too much about how I planned our our trip. Something about geek and over planning as if that is possible.
