DVC Dining Plan

[Dale-Not-Chip]

If you have two reservations one on the plan and one off. The plan will still be good until midnight the day of checkout. You would have to keep your old "keys" that is where your food coupons are. You will have to use you new "keys" for room entrence and anything else included with the new reservation.

For example if you park passes were on the first keys you would continue to use those even when you have new keys for a room only reservation.

 

[patsal]

Thanks Dale-not-Chip that is exactly what I was looking for--I just wanted to make sure the "old" keys would still work with the dining plan once new keys were distributed (I was not sure if the "new key" would void the old completely)

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

I would think the plan would only be good until midnight of check-out day on each ressie. Meaning any meal credits you had remaining would expire @ midnight of the first check-out day...then you would start all over again w/new credits on the second ressie. Maybe there's a way to get an exception as long as MS can see that you are purchasing the plan from the day you get to WDW to the day you leave. This is interesting...be sure and let us know how what kind of answers you get from MS.

 

[thelionqueen]

subscribing..interesting.

 

[patsal]

Okay, found the number for MS and after a little digging around found that the plan is good from time of check in to midnight on the first check out, so for me that means the plan is good from July 16th-midnight on July 21st. Since I do not want a DP for the studio days--other plans see above--the credits will still be good on the 21st only(yes I will have to carry two "key cards" as the "old one" wil have the dining credits on it and the new one will be for my room). On Sunday the 23rd, when I check into the 1BR my new cards will have the DP on them and they will be good on the 23rd after I have checked in until midnight on the 27th. Again after I check out of OKW and into AKL I will have the two cards--one for meals that expire at midnight on the 27th and one for the new room at AKL.
For us this works out becasue of the way the days are planned and with the desire to dine both at an off site favorite and on site non-included favorites. I always take care of breakfast in the room as a timesaver, so from my experiences in December I knew we'd have CS and snack credits leftover on the last day of each plan. So long as they are good until midnight we will have no problem using them!

Thanks so much to all of you for your experiences and input!

Sally

 

[magsmom]

We are seriously considering this for our August trip. We were wondering how split stays would work. Thank you - this thread is extremely useful.

Question - to do the dining add on with DVC you don't have to buy a 1 day park ticket as well (like I saw with plans from last year), do you? It's just the add-on per person per day? We all have APs.

 

[patsal]

No, to do the Dining plan with DVC you just have to ask them to add it. We have AP's and do not need the ticket. Currently the only way to add the DP without purchasing a package is through DVC.

 

[sanddune]

Can you buy extra plans for the room? I have 3 teenage boys!

 

[Dean]

Can you buy extra plans for the room? I have 3 teenage boys!

I guess you could add phantom guests to get more cards. I'd think this would not be cost effective, even for teens. You might be better off just supplementing in other ways or considering the DDE. One thing you could do would be to order less expensive or lighter meals for others diverting the DP meals to the bottomless pits.

 

[NMW]

I just added the plan to our October BWV 9 day stay!! Very Excited!

 

[Lenc324]

I was wondering if you have the dining plan do you need a park pass to get into the world showcase for meals?

 

[jarestel]

Yes, you still need a park ticket to access the restaurants inside of a theme park.

 

[pinseeker11]

Can I rent points to stay at OKW and get a dining plan? Thanks!

 

[Plutofan]

Yes the dinning plan is available to renters. The person doing the reservation will need to add it to the reservation. You pay for the plan at check in.

 

[Lucky44]

We've read up alot on the dining plan but has anyone tried it and do you think it's worth it if you're only staying in a studio?

Any help appreciated.

 

[PBader]

We are going to book the DP for a short 4 night stay in October. I think for a short stay it would be pretty good. It will be $114 a night for us and if we have spent that much at one meal--but DS (17) does eat a lot! We are staying in a studio for this stay. This will also be our first time of trying a dining plan and I am looking forward to it. It will also be a great way to try it and see if it will be worth it on future trips.
Paula

 

[Karrie Davis]

We when as a family of 13 (my family, my parents & my siblings familys). We all got it and is REALLY paid off. We ate at the really nice resturants for all our sit down services and figured we spent what we would have "afforded" by eating what we probably would not have been ok spending. The only thing we felt was not worth it was the 2 ponts for the one dinner show at the poly. I will SURELY do this again!

 

[SJSJ4]

We just returned from WDW, and had the dining plan for three days of our stay as we split our trip between SSR, using points, and moved to the Fort Wilderness Cabins for our last 3 nights. We could not get the Dining Plan for our SSR stay, but we did receive it for our FW stay. We had 5 adults. We used all our counter service meals. We still had 5 table services left unused, and we only used all the snack because we stocked up on snacks for the plane ride home. We thought the old plan (Magical Wishes) was much better as you could turn them in at the end for mdse or boat rides or so many other things besides food. The part that I was NOT aware of in getting the dining plan was that some places limit as to what you can get. Wolfgang Puck Express would not let us use it for Meatloaf or Raviolis, which were only $1.00 higher than the some other dinners ($9.95 vs $10.95). My daughter is a vegetarian, so the ravioli, cheese filled, was one she was not allowed to get, again, only a $1.00 difference. But the Trails End Restaurant was overly generous and very accomodating to my daughter, having the chef do additional food for her.

I am not trying to be negative, but I guess we were just spoiled by the Wish Dining Program. We just discussed on our way home whether we would do it again, and we are very wishy washy about it. It was good for when my older children were out and around that parks on their own, that they could get whatever food they wanted, whenever, otherwise they would have to be with us to pay.

Good luck in your decision. I sure some people really enjoyed this program, but we thought it was so so.

Have a wonderful trip when you go. Soaring is AWESOME. Don't miss it, and the new Action Stunt show is great also. Animal Kingdom has added a new bird show. It was terrific.
JT

 

[LakeAriel]

I can't decide whether to purchase the dining plan or DDE with my AP. If you buy the dining plan can you break it up into let's say 3 days instead of your whole trip which in this case is 7? OR do you have to buy for the length of your reservation?

 

[granmanh603]

Hi I think I read on here that it had to be the whole stay and all the people in the room. Carol