Keeping track of CS Credits

[RGirl]

My 4-year-old daughter and I are taking our second trip to WDW in October! Last time, we stayed off property (had to accommodate a variety of issues with others traveling with us, etc.), so I have no experience with the dining plan. This time, we are renting DVC points and purchasing the DDP.

I have no doubt that this question has been addressed somewhere, but I can't find it - for those who can't stand to see a question asked again, I'm sorry, and feel free to ignore my question or post a link to a previous answer if that is your preference.

There are likely to be quite a few times when my daughter and I will just want to split a CS meal. Do I need to be tracking how many child CS meals we have ordered vs. how many adult CS meals so that I don't end up at at day 6 or 7 with nothing but child CS meals for us to use? Or, if we are just ordering one meal at a given CS to share, does it not matter - i.e., do we really just have a pool of 18 (9-night vacation) CS meals so that, if we order 1 "adult" CS meal to share, we still have 17 CS meals (instead of 9 kid meals and 8 adults meals) remaining? (Yes, I do know from searching on here that, if we are ordering two meals at the same time, we would need to order one child and one adult meal; I am really just wondering about when we share meals, which will be most CS meals - which could mean sharing a kid meal or an adult meal depending on how hungry we are.)

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide!

 

[deakam]

If you start with 18 total CS meals you will have 9 adult meals and 9 kids meals. The number of meals remaining in each category will be at the bottom of your reciept every time you use your DDP.

When using a CS meal there really is no way for the CM to know who is eating what meals. The 9 kids meal credits must be used to order kids meals.

 

[sharonabe]

If you look at the bottom of your receipt after you "purchase" a QS meal, it will tell you how many QS credits you have left. It will NOT tell you how many adult and how many child. The system will NOT know how many adult and how many child QS credits you have used, only how many total. That's all I'm going to say.

 

[smiths02]

If you look at the bottom of your receipt after you "purchase" a QS meal, it will tell you how many QS credits you have left. It will NOT tell you how many adult and how many child. The system will NOT know how many adult and how many child QS credits you have used, only how many total. That's all I'm going to say.

The system does not differentiate b/c there are CS locations without kids meal.

According to the policy, YOU are responsible for ordering a kids meal when applicable and keeping track.

And if you go to order a CS meal, you won't be able to order more than 1 adult meal and 1 kids meal at a time (because your card will say 1 A, 1 C)