Help explain dining plan over two rooms...

[noahsketomom]

We are a family of six, traveling with my mom and sister.
My mom and sis will have our two girls in their room, and we will have the other two.

How on earth will the dining plan work? Will the girls' credits be pooled with my mom/sis and the boys with us? If we all eat together at Table service I can see how it would work, but for CS throughout the parks, how does that work?

Sorry, but I am just trying to wrap my head around how this is going to work. We've never done a dining plan and I'm still trying to decide if we should do it (if it's not included in a free offer), and this part of it is giving me a headache. I was hoping that the girls could be pooled with our room, but after a quick search it doesn't look like that is possible.
Has anyone had a similar situation that has worked out ok?

 

[MakiraMarlena]

All credits are pooled by room. Your daughters' credits will be on the room account in the room to which they are assigned. In order to access credits from their account, you must have at least one magic band from their room, plus that room account's PIN number. At a CS you will have to order and pay for their meals separately.

And no, you can't have credits pooled across room reservations.

 

[lauradis]

All credits are pooled by room. Your daughters' credits will be on the room account in the room to which they are assigned. In order to access credits from their account, you must have at least one magic band from their room, plus that room account's PIN number. At a CS you will have to order and pay for their meals separately.

And no, you can't have credits pooled across room reservations.

Is that a new magic band thing?????

Because 2010 we had two rooms under one reservation and all the dinning credits where pooled per reservation, not per room... same thing with room charges.

 

[MagicalMomma6]

Is that a new magic band thing?????

Because 2010 we had two rooms under one reservation and all the dinning credits where pooled per reservation, not per room... same thing with room charges.

No, that's not new. The only way you can have two rooms under one reservation is if there are only two adults on the reservation and the rest are children. As soon as you add that third adult, it automatically turns into two reservation numbers. I know this because we are a family of 6 and when it's just us and the kids in two connecting rooms they can keep us under one reservation number. If we bring my MIL or my parents, we automatically have two reservation numbers for the same two connecting rooms.

 

[noahsketomom]

No, that's not new. The only way you can have two rooms under one reservation is if there are only two adults on the reservation and the rest are children. As soon as you add that third adult, it automatically turns into two reservation numbers. I know this because we are a family of 6 and when it's just us and the kids in two connecting rooms they can keep us under one reservation number. If we bring my MIL or my parents, we automatically have two reservation numbers for the same two connecting rooms.

That makes sense! I was honestly worried about that too if we ever traveled by ourselves....It made no sense for me not to have control over the kids reservations if they were on their own.

 

[lauradis]

No, that's not new. The only way you can have two rooms under one reservation is if there are only two adults on the reservation and the rest are children. As soon as you add that third adult, it automatically turns into two reservation numbers. I know this because we are a family of 6 and when it's just us and the kids in two connecting rooms they can keep us under one reservation number. If we bring my MIL or my parents, we automatically have two reservation numbers for the same two connecting rooms.

Have you ever asked them to make it only one reservation number?

 

[DCDisney]

They can't do it as 1 number--even if they will which our travel agent did for us, at the resort they still broke it out into 2 rooms with separate credits. It was a total PITA to deal with. My room was fine but the other room had a first timer as the adult with 2 kids and they ended up not using credits when they should and using credits when they shouldn't. It was mainly the snack and QS credits that weren't optimized properly and it was free dining so I just had to let it go. My only thought on if we do it next time would be to switch out a band between one of the pre-schoolers from our other room and one of my teens from my room but I would have to do FP+ to reflect that.

 

[DCDisney]

I also asked if they could register me in both rooms since our other room had just 1 adult and 2 kids but they aren't allowed to do that either.

 

[Allison]

They can't do it as 1 number--even if they will which our travel agent did for us, at the resort they still broke it out into 2 rooms with separate credits. It was a total PITA to deal with. My room was fine but the other room had a first timer as the adult with 2 kids and they ended up not using credits when they should and using credits when they shouldn't. It was mainly the snack and QS credits that weren't optimized properly and it was free dining so I just had to let it go. My only thought on if we do it next time would be to switch out a band between one of the pre-schoolers from our other room and one of my teens from my room but I would have to do FP+ to reflect that.

Not sure why it didn't work for you to have one reservation number with two rooms and pooled credits but I have done it.

 

[dpswift]

How are you planning on spending your time? As one big group or your mother and sister by themselves? In your case where all the kids are yours the only problem should be the snacks. They will know how many kid credits are left. Just when you are all together have them "buy" you kids QS meals.

Snacks are trickier because they are not listed as child and adult.