Keeping track of DP credits

[Bethmsu]

Hello, I have a question I am hoping someone with experience can help me out with. I will be headed to WDW in about a week with 4 other people. We have a linked reservation at POFQ because we got 2 rooms in order to spread out (4 Adults, 1 Child). We have the regular Dining Plan and have gotten the advice from several people to keep track of our credits so that we know what we have remaining and can check for any errors.

Will our credits be totaled on all the cards or split by the reservation? Or (best case senario) are they each on their own card?

In the past (several years ago) I traveled with just one person and ours were pooled on our cards so it had our total for both of us and we could just use one card. With the 2 of us always together it was a breeze to keep track but I am more worried with the larger group!

We are plannin on splitting up and eating at different restaurants at times and not necessarily by reservation.

Any insights on this, or ideas on how to best manage this would be greatly appreciated. I would love to make one of those little cards where you tick off the meals and snack as you use them but if we are to check it against our totals it seems complicated!

Thanks in advance for any insights or ideas.

 

[Faldred]

Dining credits are pooled for each reservation, not by room or by person. The tricky part I'm not sure of is if linked reservations count as one -- I doubt that they would, but I'm not 100% certain.

Remaining credits are shown at the bottom of your receipt, so that part is easy enough. If you want individual tracking cards, check out the DISigns forum -- IIRC, some of the posters there have designed cards for people to track their credit usage.

 

[tzolkin]

Dining credits are pooled for each reservation, not by room or by person. The tricky part I'm not sure of is if linked reservations count as one -- I doubt that they would, but I'm not 100% certain.

Remaining credits are shown at the bottom of your receipt, so that part is easy enough. If you want individual tracking cards, check out the DISigns forum -- IIRC, some of the posters there have designed cards for people to track their credit usage.

I booked two rooms last trip (one for DH, 2 kids and I and one for my parents and teen DD). The credits were split for each room. So when we weren't eating with my parents I had to use my card to pay for the 4 of us and then use DD's card to pay for her meal separately. (You will need to mention who is in which room when you sit down at any TS restaurant so they can give you separate checks)

The TS meals were easy to keep track of because I totaled up the credits when I booked them and each person ate one TS meal per day, but the CS meals were more difficult because not everyone felt like eating at the same time and we often split meals. We wound up with extra credits and just bought a bunch of breakfasts to share our last morning.

 

[vicki_c]

I think the credits are by room - not by reservation. I've read many discussions of credits when there were multiple parties & rooms, and it's always been said that each room's credits are pooled, not both or multiple rooms.