Expert advice needed for complicated? about MYW pkg.

[eeyoresmom]

Warning,MYM experts or you'll feel like this Hope you can help.Our original plans were for a week June 16-23 at POR with AP rate for 2 rooms (for 6 people).We decided to add an extra 5 nights to our vacation but can only get the AP rate at ASMU.Nothing against All Stars, I would just prefer to start in the value and move to the moderate.We are coming down because DD is in an event at WWOS so we got the 4 day hoppers from them.Here's my problem: I would like to add 1 or 2 park hopper days and possibly the dining plan if it makes financial sense to the last few days(kind of just to add a little magic to that part of the vacation)If we have a 5 day reservation can we buy the dining plan for just 2 or 3 days? Do we have to match the dining plan days to the # of park hopper tix we want? To complicate matters ,I also have DDE,so maybe we'd be better off keeping room with AP and using DDE?TIA

 

[blueberry22]

The number of days in your dining plan has to match the number of nights in your reservation. The length of ticket you buy has nothing to do with the dining plan- the only requirement is that you have a ticket. Thus you could have a 2 night reservation, a 10 day ticket BUT you could only get 2 days of dining i.e. 2 sit down meals, 2 counter service meals and 2 snacks per person reserved in the room. Conversely you can make a 8 night reservation get a one day ticket but you'd still need to have 8 days of dining (8 of each meal and snack per person)
The dining plan is good from the moment you check in (even 6am) until midnight the day you check out- you can use your meals any time during that time period.

 

[calie_j]

I can answer a few of your questions. To get the dining plan you need a package that includes room and tickets, everyone on the room needs to be on the same plan. The # of days for dining goes by the same # of nights for the room, 5 nights room 5 days of dining. The tickets on the package do not have to match either of these, you can get the package by buying 1 day, or more, tickets for everyone in the room. Since you are getting 2 rooms you could set one up as a package and not the other one.

There's lots of complicated questions in your post. Since you're getting AP rate and have DDE one of you has to have an AP, you can get around that by having that person stay in the room without the package, otherwise you'll need to buy that person the same park ticket the others have on the package. The other thing is if you can upgrade your tickets to add more days, not sure if you can do this since it's thru whatever group you're going to WWOS thru you'd have to check on that........you wouldn't be able to do a package cause you already have tickets. Upgrading is a cheaper choice tho going from 4 day hoppers to 6 or more days would be cheaper then buying seperate 2 day hoppers for your extra 5 days.

Price out your options of changing your ressie to a package for the whole stay (my guess is this is the most expensive way) and doing a seperate ressie for the added days with and without the package (one of these will be the cheapest IF you can do it depending on the ticket question). You may need to check out and back in but if they can work it you will probably be able to stay in the same room and just have to go down to the desk. Don't forget to figure in your DDE against the dining package to see if it's worth it.

Good luck in your planning, Calie

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

You can't do the dining plan with an AP rate. And also your dining plan has to match the exact # of nights you are staying.