Ever use all your CS before trip is over?

[pjew]

Using the Dining plan for the first time this Sept. and going over my ADR and Counter service restaurants. It looks like i may use all my CS before (2days) trip is over.

Has that happened to any of you?

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

No, but only because I only ate CS for lunch.

Used snacks, brought stuff from home, or paid OOP for breakfasts. We also paid OOP for some TS dinners when we went over on those.

Some people comment that they share CS meals, but to me they're not big enough to share just between DF and I, maybe it's what we're ordering, but I need my own meal.

Good luck figuring it out!

 

[tinkercrazy]

Not ever. We get the ddp every trip and the way I work it is, eating cereal bars ect. for breakfast except for a character b'fast sometime one day of our stay. I work the ts credits mostly for dinner and then our lunches we normally get dbl cheeseburger meals ,purchase 2 extra buns for 1.30 each and share the fries and drink...they're are 4 of us and it is normally plenty of food!! They're are so many large combo meals at that they can easily be split and my dh and ds are very hearty eaters!!!

 

[vdarrell]

I am trying to fiqure out this plan,sorry if this is an question that has been asked before.
After viewing the 2008 DDP list I saw the menu for ASMo Premiere Food Crt and it listed the counter service items on there was a 16 inch pepperoni pizza would that count as 1 counter meal? What would be considered as a snack at ASMo?
Am I correct in assuming that if I am booked for Dec. I don't make reservations until 6 months before?

 

[abc999]

You can use the snack credits in the resort gift shop to get boxes of donuts and muffins.. We did that for breakfast, then used the cs and ts for lunch and dinner. We also shared a couple of meals at Cosmic Rays. Got the half chicken and ribs, that was the only thing we could share.

The 16 inch pizzas are 2 counter service credits, I believe. They also have personal pizzas that are smaller.

 

[delmar411]

You can use the snack credits in the resort gift shop to get boxes of donuts and muffins..

You can no longer do this. Those items are not included on the dining plan as of Jan 1, 2008.

 

[PrincessTrisha]

Using the Dining plan for the first time this Sept. and going over my ADR and Counter service restaurants. It looks like i may use all my CS before (2days) trip is over.

Has that happened to any of you?

we usually have a few CS meals left over. Normally, I go with 3 adults (me, my mom and my dad). We share 2 counter service meals between of the 3 of us most of the time and it's more than enough (and we are not small eaters).

 

[LizinSTL]

Using the Dining plan for the first time this Sept. and going over my ADR and Counter service restaurants. It looks like i may use all my CS before (2days) trip is over.

Has that happened to any of you?

I guess it's possible. I'm not sure what your party size is but I think it's best to use credits first and pay OOP last if necessary. You may find that one or more in your party isn't incredibly hungry when you are planning a meal. Just don't order the CS meal for that person(s) at that time. I think it really all works out in the end.

We are going in May with 3A/1C on the DDP. We'll be there 8 full days/7 nights. If we end up paying OOP for a few meals, that's ok w/ me. I don't "plan" our CS meals at all. When we are hungry we order 1-4 CS meals at whatever CS location is convenient....depending on the TS meals we have planned that day. We'll be getting CS breakfast and CS lunches most days. I don't really anticipate running out of CS credits, but if we do, I'll just pay OOP for those meals.

 

[bigbabyblues]

No, we usually end up with several CS meals leftover.

 

[disneychick0412]

We may have been one meal short, I really can't remember. One thing we always run short on is snack credits. Some people say that they end their trip with tons of snack credits, but we don't. The reason is because I usually use 2 snack credits at once (for example, popcorn (1) and a drink (1). So we usually use all our snack credits about half way through the trip.

 

[themudd4]

It can happen...so just plan for it if this is a concern for you. Do as others have suggested and pay OOP for breakfast or bring some breakfast items from home. If you eat at the resort you can get breakfast for roughly $6-$8...maybe even a lil less if your not big eaters.
If you are thinking you may want to split CS meals to try and save them...Cosmic Rays has this HUGE chicken and Ribs meal that 2 of them easily fed our family of 4. Also if you are worried about this you can always buy you a loaf of bread, some bologna or PB&J in the gift shop of your resort and have a lunch or two in the room to save your CS meals.
Honestly I think you will probably be fine. But I undersatand being prepared!

 

[TifffanyD]

We ran out of CS and didn't even use any for breakfasts! And we even booked an extra TS and paid OOP. We did do one of our TS for breakfast so we still needed a lunch and dinner on that night, plus we needed to eat both on arriving day and departing. Couple that with a couple of smaller meals and we had to buy a little extra. Oh wellll