Help with QS Questions

[southernbohemian]

Okay, I though I knew what I was doing and had it all figured out, but now I realize that I was just kidding myself, so hopefully someone can help.

We are going in June - 2 adults and 4 kids. According to the DP, we have 4 adults, 1 child and the youngest doesn't count because he's just 2. I did the math and decided for us the best deal would be to get the QS dining plan and then just pay OOP for 2 TS meals and the 2 year old's meals.

Well, then we found out that our 5 year-old will have to be leaving the vacation halfway through. Since her tickets were free for the days she'll be missing, I just plan on keeping her on the reservation and not making any changes. But that leaves us with 8 child credits and 8 adult credits left over at the end of the trip. Now, I originally thought - well, that will work great, I can just use those to pay for the 2-year-old's meals and then we'll end up using all of the credits. Is this allowed? I don't want to break the rules, so if I can't do it, I think it might be cheaper just to do OOP the entire time than to pay for that many meals we're not going to eat. I understand that you can only order as many meals at a time as there are people on your plan, so we could only order 4 adult/1 child - but will they care if we give the child meal to the 2 year old after the 5 year old has left? If you do separate transactions at one meal time, can we order 5 adult meals altogether and give one of them to the 2 year old?

Sorry if this is confusing. As I said before, I'm not trying to get one over on Disney, I just want to know if the plan is still worth it for us.

 

[GraceLuvsWDW]

You're not getting anything over on Disney. You are allowed to use your credits any way you want as long as you don't use more than the number on your card-4A 1 C at any one seating.

 

[teach22180]

I understand that you can only order as many meals at a time as there are people on your plan, so we could only order 4 adult/1 child - but will they care if we give the child meal to the 2 year old after the 5 year old has left?

No, they won't care. There have been reports of an adult eating the child meal and a child eating the adult meal. Just as long as you don't order more than you have on the card, you're fine!

 

[brendaziz]

Yeah- you are JUST fine.
No worries- You're not breaking any rules and NO ONE would ever care.

If you'd like you could eat 3 meals a day and just have people split meals and you'd still be fine to do that. Whatever you like and what works for you guys.