Here right now - our observations of DP

[MissMichelle]

Agreed, us too. Actually I had to get several meals, though our card said 2A and we had one day left to use the extras, so I stood in line with my card and hubby stood in line with his card. I got 2 CS meals and he got 2 CS meals, problem solved.

LOL this is what I just posted as a solution, before I read your reply. So I am correct on this working

 

[lkohawaii]

It appears from all of the threads going on that you will not be able to order more meals than people appear on your card i.e. if your card says 2A, 2C, you cannot order TS meals with 4A, 2C at the table, even if you've saved up your credits to do it. This appears to be their "non transferable" issue. Even if you've paid OOP for another meal for the 2A on the card, and saved 2A credits to use for guests visiting another night, you are ordering more A meals at one time than appear on the card. Many are saying this will be denied because WDW doesn't want you covering the meal of someone off site or not on the DDP.

Even when it's something as simple as M&D live in the Orlando area, put us up for 3 nights before our trip and have FL resident passes and we want to treat them to dinner one night so we're going to pay OOP for a CS meal one night to save our 2A TS credits to use on them the next night, WDW seems to be denying patrons the opportunity to do this. The language in the brochures that states that you can use your credits any way you see fit sort of contradicts the statement that you cannot transfer (in this case buy someone else a meal) but that seems to be the way they are closing one of the judged "loopholes." So you might not be able to treat guests at CRT for your daughter's birthday and you should be prepared in the event they deny you the chance to do so and expect you to pay OOP for the entire thing.

Going back to another issue, if I can get unsweetened iced tea, I'll be fine. Although honestly, I'd prefer a bottle of cold water (I don't have a brita bottle and have not seen the carry ones for sale here in my area for a long time, and don't want something hanging off my shoulder or stroller) and will not drink tap water. My older one would probably be fine w/ lemonade but when it's hot, sugary drinks really don't quench the thirst successfully. My little guy will drink some of the unsweetened tea and some of the lemonade so I guess we'll be fine.

If I have to use a snack credit for a bottle of water, I guess I'll have to but I'd prefer to be able to get it as my non alcoholic beverage at lunch and use the snack credit for something else.

O.k. thanks I know it was never the intention of Disney to save us money at their expense. If anything they wanted to make money and wanted us to "save" money...if we could. Of course Disney is a business...not only a place for our dreams to come true. It makes a lot of sense what you say. I guess I'll just be prepared to pay the whole thing OOP. I'm sure that these are some of the things Disney was banking on when they designed the DP. Of course some people will not be able to use all their credits and some will use it to the fullest...this is how Disney makes out in the end.

 

[n2mm]

LOL this is what I just posted as a solution, before I read your reply. So I am correct on this working

It worked fine for us when we did this. We only had adult credits but needed to get 4 adult meals. I know we should have eaten more during our trip, but was never hungary and near the end of our trip we had a ton of credits leftover.

 

[minnie61650]

2. Cards - Despite cards not separating credits, as stated, servers are doing a great job of keeping things running correctly. Receipts have total credits at bottom, but, servers (who are real people!) are punching in the info and that is what is important here. Not interested in starting the child/adult credit debate as my feeling is that honest adults know how they should be using the plan, but, at TS restaurants there is no way to "cheat" the system unless the server does so.

I need clarification on this...are you saying if my card says 2 A and 2 C I cannot use my 2 A credits and pay oop for the 2 kids? We are treating some guests (1 A , 2 c ...so no I'm not trying to use Child credits for Adults) to CRT which requires 2 TS credits to dinner for DD bday. I am trying to save up credits so that I can pay all on DP for this meal as I've heard it's all DP or all OOP for meals like this. I've played with my credits and I would have way too many extras if I paid this meal all OOP. These rules are getting so confusing. I guess I just don't want to make a big deal out of having to pay the bill when it's our treat for a BD celebration...so it's easiest for me just to bank credits. Hope this all makes sense.

Sorry.
You may no longer be able to use banked credits to treat others. From what I understand you will not be able to pay for extra adult meals on your DDP. If there 2 adults on your plan you will only be able to buy 2 adult meals at one sitting.

 

[bertalander]

So, other than the non-transeferable bit it sounds like what we experienced last year during free dining.

Thanks for the great report!

 

[cmm]

"I need clarification on this...are you saying if my card says 2 A and 2 C I cannot use my 2 A credits and pay oop for the 2 kids? We are treating some guests (1 A , 2 c ...so no I'm not trying to use Child credits for Adults) to CRT which requires 2 TS credits to dinner for DD bday. I am trying to save up credits so that I can pay all on DP for this meal as I've heard it's all DP or all OOP for meals like this. I've played with my credits and I would have way too many extras if I paid this meal all OOP. These rules are getting so confusing. I guess I just don't want to make a big deal out of having to pay the bill when it's our treat for a BD celebration...so it's easiest for me just to bank credits. Hope this all makes sense."

I was told by a CM at Disney Dining that I could pay OOP for my and my husband's meal and use 2 child TS credits for my daughter's meal at CRT. It seems worth it to use the TS credits for her, but not for us. Of course, it seems like you have to take everything the CMs say with a grain of salt.

 

[lkohawaii]

Well, if I could do that...I wouldn't have a problem. I was told it's either all DDP or all OOP on special dining like this. Maybe I should contact Disney about this one. I'll get back to you guys on what they say.

"I need clarification on this...are you saying if my card says 2 A and 2 C I cannot use my 2 A credits and pay oop for the 2 kids? We are treating some guests (1 A , 2 c ...so no I'm not trying to use Child credits for Adults) to CRT which requires 2 TS credits to dinner for DD bday. I am trying to save up credits so that I can pay all on DP for this meal as I've heard it's all DP or all OOP for meals like this. I've played with my credits and I would have way too many extras if I paid this meal all OOP. These rules are getting so confusing. I guess I just don't want to make a big deal out of having to pay the bill when it's our treat for a BD celebration...so it's easiest for me just to bank credits. Hope this all makes sense."

I was told by a CM at Disney Dining that I could pay OOP for my and my husband's meal and use 2 child TS credits for my daughter's meal at CRT. It seems worth it to use the TS credits for her, but not for us. Of course, it seems like you have to take everything the CMs say with a grain of salt.

 

[Tiger926]

We got back very late last night and didn't get to bed until midnight, and just returned from a birthday party, so first time to answer questions. Here goes:

1) Adult/Child credits - As I stated, my hubby accidentally tried to order 3 adult meals at one time, instead of 2A and 1C. CM wouldn't allow this for use as a credit, except if we wanted to pay out pocket - not sure if this is correct or not, but this is what happened to us. Pretty much every CS and TS place (except Earl of Sandwich for one which allows kids to order any food they want - not restricted to child menu) we went to looked at our card to double check before ordering and said we could order 2adult meals and 1child meal at one time on one card. This was our experience. As I stated, servers did a great job of keeping things in line as they let us know what was possible. We never once asked about paying out of pocket for our daughter, but, it also was never mentioned to us, not once in 2 weeks at any place that we went to, so not sure what to make of that.

2) Beverages - Earl of Sandwich, Chefs de France & Norway Akershus would not let us order bottled water or juice - fountain drinks only. Some of the other places would let us order water, but only had very small, kid sized apple juice boxes (Captain Cook's @ Polynesian and Backlot Express @ MGM). So, as I stated, some places specifically only allow fountain drinks, while others allow specialty drinks with varying sizes, etc. This makes for a bit of confusion at times, as it took us longer to order. I was especially irritated at Chefs de France (terrible meal!) as they would not allow us to order bottled water, nor did they have apple juice or chocolate milk - not a good selection of beverages at all!

All in all, we liked the DP. It made things easy in regards to payment (one card, does it all!), but some of the inconsistencies as I mentioned, are a bit confusing at first: some places allow kids to order anything they want, some allow kids to order appetizers, some do not, some allow you to order bottled water, some do not. CMs were good about explaining things, and as per usual, there are tons of Disney restaurant managers floating around at all times to help with any problems that arise.

I welcome more questions if necessary. Happy eating to all! Tiger

 

[rantnnravin]

Super!
That makes me feel so much better
we really loved being able to order h20 at CS while on the plan last February.
Chef De France and Akreshus are TS, I never expected to be able to order a bottle of h20 at a TS service meal.
so, nothing has really changed since we bought the plan last year.
thanks for the up-to-the-minute reporting!

 

[artsya3]

We got back very late last night and didn't get to bed until midnight, and just returned from a birthday party, so first time to answer questions. Here goes:

1) Adult/Child credits - As I stated, my hubby accidentally tried to order 3 adult meals at one time, instead of 2A and 1C. CM wouldn't allow this for use as a credit, except if we wanted to pay out pocket - not sure if this is correct or not, but this is what happened to us.


Not sure of the true question but here go my assuming mind..


I assume u already ate your meal? and then realized the situation?

Because If you ordered and ate nothing done /(unless something magical happens) and you ate the three adult meals, children are usually less portion and such so unless it wouldn;t have been the same portions? I dont know why they couldnt' change it..

Or I'm not sure cause I asked somoene and they said you can use as many up in a day, and be left with whatever left later, so maybe you didnt have enough A to cover it?




I was reading around and came accross somewhere that the Cm might ask for out of pocket money (no, not in those words) if, under blah blah blah circumstance.. Well it said like you can have a CS dinner and is worth 2 dinners,, and you can have a fancy fancy (forget the code heh) and its also worth 2 dinners or breakfast if breakfast.. And if you do a certain thing you can but you might be asked to pay a surcharge for the meal.. like if you order the lobster or something like that (not even sure if its true bout lobster just for explanitory purpuses) you can just use one dinner and pay a 7 surcharge fee. (NOT even sure of a ballpark number of a true fee/just for explanitary purposes)


If i did answer your question right, I'll be looking around to where I read that and post what it said.. tc

 

[Luv2Roam]

artsya3 -- I don't see there was a question from the OP. She was just stating what her experiences were. (And this situation was at a CS if I read correctly. Her DH ordered, then they would have eaten.)

 

[minnie61650]

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I assume u already ate your meal? and then realized the situation?


If i did answer your question right, I'll be looking around to where I read that and post what it said.. tc

It was at a CS meal and the CM caught it before the food order was placed.
Here is part of the the OP's 1st post which is on page 1 of this thread.

Here are our observations of DP (first time we've used it):

2. Cards - Despite cards not separating credits, as stated, servers are doing a great job of keeping things running correctly. Receipts have total credits at bottom, but, servers (who are real people!) are punching in the info and that is what is important here. Not interested in starting the child/adult credit debate as my feeling is that honest adults know how they should be using the plan, but, at TS restaurants there is no way to "cheat" the system unless the server does so. At CS restaurants where my hubby has gone up to counter by himself, he's been told that he must order 1 meal off of children's menu - eg. Pinnochio Village Haus (terrible kids' menu, but we were hungry). Hubby rushed up to counter as DD was very hungry, didn't notice the kid's menu, so ordered 2 chicken finger meals and a sandwich. The CM immediately cancelled this once she saw my hubby's card (he immediately apologized for the error) as she said he had to order 1 child, and 2 adults, so, CMs are keeping on top of this.

Happy eating to all! Tiger

 

[artsya3]

Yeah , think this was my post last , last night

Read the original post and few others in front and seems to be pretty clear

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[minnie61650]

Yeah , think this was my post last , last night

Read the original post and few others in front and seems to be pretty clear

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No problem.
It can be very easy to become confused especially since there are 4 pages with lots of confusion, ideas and opinions going on. I too was confused and needed to reread the whole thread.It is hard to sort through it all sometimes.

Glad you were trying to help and please continue your help and advice!

 

[btmfdr]

Of course some people will not be able to use all their credits and some will use it to the fullest...this is how Disney makes out in the end.

I believe the way Disney makes out is all of the TS resteraunts that were running at half capacity most of the year are not resevation only. My family is going in November and would not have chosen the eat 'table service' nearly as much as we have planned for this trip.

Additionally what is the deal with Disney tap water? Is it bad? Or just not agreeable to folks from other regions?

 

[Ellester]

Additionally what is the deal with Disney tap water? Is it bad? Or just not agreeable to folks from other regions?

Florida water in general tends to be very mineral heavy, to the point that some people can easily taste and smell it. My grandparent's water in central Florida was always very iron-y. Ours in Ft.Lauderdale had almost a garlic smell. My brother has kidney issues and his urolgist told him not to drink too much local (Palm Beach) tap water. He called the east coast of Florida the "Kidney Stone" coast!

 

[minnie61650]

Florida water in general tends to be very mineral heavy, to the point that some people can easily taste and smell it. My grandparent's water in central Florida was always very iron-y. Ours in Ft.Lauderdale had almost a garlic smell. My brother has kidney issues and his urolgist told him not to drink too much local (Palm Beach) tap water. He called the east coast of Florida the "Kidney Stone" coast!

I would not drink the tap water from my resort room.

Disney does filter the water they serve in their food courts and restaurants so I have no problem ordering tap water when dining at a Disney restaurant.