How does the dining plan work with F&W Festival

[kathyg]

We're thinking of doing the F&W festival for the first time, so I'm not really familiar with how it is set up.

How does the dining plan work at the Festival?

Thanks.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

You have been able to use the snack credits at the booths in the past, other then that, there's no difference.

 

[thunderbird1]

As I understand it, the F&WF booths are the one exception to the "under $4" rule for snack credits. Any food item from any booth, regardless of the sticker price, is available for one snack credit. At least that's how it was last October--even the $6.50 lobster rolls were one snack credit. This is subject to change, but I would be surprised if it did. Obviously, you cannot use snack credits for wine or other alcoholic beverages.

The F&WF was a lifesaver in terms of using up our snack credits last trip. We had 4 people for 14 nights, so 56 snack credits. We'd get the kids something for lunch (McDonald's), then start noshing our way around the world while they visited the kidcot stations. Fun for everyone!

 

[Bellamickey]

Yea, in the past Ive used my snack credits at the booths! YUMMMY! It should still be that way...unless they changed it?

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Yea, in the past Ive used my snack credits at the booths! YUMMMY! It should still be that way...unless they changed it?

It was that way this year when I went, though the first CM I asked, at the Food and Wine center at the Wonders of Life said no, when we got to the booths and checked, it was any of the food items for a snack credit.

 

[TDC Nala]

This is going to depend on how you want to experience the food and wine festival.

If it's a major part of your trip and you want to do the special events, don't get the dining plan. The only thing included in the dining plan specific to the food and wine festival is that you can use snack credits at the World Showcase kiosks (for food items, possibly for nonalcoholic beverages, definitely not for alcoholic beverages).

If you are using for yourself only one snack credit per day, you'll get one taste of one item (and they're small), and if you want to try others you will need to either use more snack credits or pay for the tastes yourself. If you are staying 8 nights and have 8 snack credits to use, you could use them all in one day and have a pretty good amount of samples. By that time, you may not want a full dinner in a restaurant though.

So, if the food and wine festival is just something you want to try for a day or so and you're sticking to the food kiosks, you can work it into the dining plan in that way.