Lets just think logically here

[LizinSTL]

It drives me nuts when people say that you don't have to order all that food. Nobody is making you do that. While that is true, if I am paying almost $40 per day, per person, I would like to enjoy an app., entree and dessert, however, I could never consume the whole thing. Sure, I could eat a few bites of each and throw the rest away, but isn't it better to just share w/ my adult 10 year old. I agree that the topic of sharing has gone overboard. I hope they do separate A and C credits so that people stop accusing others of being criminals. I think most people are sharing because it is a lot of food, not to rip off Disney. If I get 1 extra TS out of the deal, then so what. I have a feeling by day 4, we will be sick of eating so much food anyway! I personally will not be paying OOP for anyone. I considered it, but I have a feeling if I did that, we would never even use all of the credits. It would be a good thing if you were going to a Signature Dinner though.

We had more than enough food on the ddp to not pay OOP for any meals. We had a lot of buffet/preplated meals because it's what our kids prefer so their cost was higher than the daily cost of their meal plan anyway. Some people here are speculating that you can't share a CS meal either. That' s just so ridiculous. How is Disney going to enforce that? Really? I'm cracking up at all the speculation on these boards about changes in the ddp. If it happens, it happens. Until Disney OFFICIALLY separates the credits, guests are on the "honor system". IF they do separate the credits, it won't have any effect on the majority of DDP users anyway. If something is not covered by the DDP, either pay for it or don't order it.

Your kid likes funnel cakes? Bring a $5 with you to the parks that day to get it for him or tell him *gasp* NO. Your 10 year old likes chicken nuggets? Order him a kids meal and "lose" the adult credit on him. Really, normal use of this plan allows you to get MORE than your money's worth out of it without working the system in any way. Assuming you use your TS credits, you won't be losing money over the course of the week.

 

[Lewisc]

Since Disney Dining plan requires you to pay oop or to share with your under 3 year olds, I think that the whole discussion on sharing/paying OOP/etc is ridiculous. DISNEY tells you that's what you have to do if your child is under 3. It doesn't magically change when your child turns 3 years old!

Actually when your child turns 3 things do magically change. You have to pay for park admission,buffets,dinner packages and all you care to eat restaurants.

I can't see Disney going after "normal" sharing but if too many guests game the system who knows. I'm thinking of the (few?) posters who want to feed twice as many people as credits and don't think they should even pay for an extra drink.

 

[LizinSTL]

Actually when your child turns 3 things do magically change. You have to pay for park admission,buffets,dinner packages and all you care to eat restaurants.

I can't see Disney going after "normal" sharing but if too many guests game the system who knows. I'm thinking of the (few?) posters who want to feed twice as many people as credits and don't think they should even pay for an extra drink.

I think you know what I meant. @@ While yes, you do pay for your child at age 3, it doesn't mean Disney won't allow you to share with your 37 month old. If you are allowed and encouraged to pay OOP or share with a 35 month old, then you should be able to share with a 37 month old. If you are a cash guest, then you can share. Why not on the DDP? It's really common sense. Why do you presume that the people who share are not buying anything extra?? Because a couple people have posted silly hypotheticals? The dining plan isn't hard. It's really very consumer friendly, easy to use and a great value to the disney guests. It's too bad that some people here make it more complicated than it needs to be. I've seen plenty of speculation in the last week that sharing will be forbidden at Disney. At least now that the speculation of separating child/adult credits has settled down. I can't wait to see what speculation will come up next?? LOL

 

[Amyg]

This is 100% fine. It gets nuts when people spend so much time with maximizing what they eat with what they paid - only buy most expensive entree (even if a less expensive one is your favorite), get the app and dessert even if you are stuffed, using child credits to get an adult TS, saying your 2 year old is really 3 so that you get his/her credits to treat your off-site neice with...... you get the idea.

I would imagine most people just select what they really want to eat, not because it's the most expensive as that would be nuts! Me and my ds shared things that we would normally not be offered but what we really would love to try. That said, non of our meals were the most expensive on the menu, we want to enjoy what we order.

 

[Natalya]

No those that brag about how they bend the rules are the ones that give away to much info about the loopholes.

That is what I meant actually

I think it came out wrong.

 

[Sammie]

Sammie I'll even call you the voice of reason with one exception. All the arguments about DDP could or will be solved by the seperation of credits. That being said, all the confusion and arguments are the results of the flawed DDP that the "people who know more than us" instituted and now are trying to give a quick fix. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if the credits were pooled together people would use them this way. If they underestimated the percentage, then they need to get out of Fantasy Land and into the real world. As for the quick fix, they have now complicated DDP even more by putting one thing in a brochure and still providing guests with pooled credits. This seems to be a panic move on their part. Maybe some heads are on the line? There would be no confusion if the brochure was changed along with the introduction of seperate credits, not before. Paying OOP, sharing, would be non issues. To many people want to blame those who maximized their dollar, just like Disney tries to do, and not those who instituted the plan with flaws and loop holes.

I won't disagree with that. I think personally the change in brochure is for those that won't push it. There are a few folks who will accept the written rule without enforcement.

Those that will, will have to wait for the seperation of credits, which I do think will be coming before the end of the year.

Until then, I would say the restaurant has the final say and if that is not something anyone wants to chance, don't purchase the plan.

 

[bicker]

No those that brag about how they bend the rules are the ones that give away to much info about the loopholes.

That's a really good point. If you're going to violate the rule against using child credits to purchase adult meals, and you aren't keeping it to yourself because of the reasonable shame a mature person should have for such behavior, you at least should keep it to yourself out of self-preservation, given how often Disney has followed-up the widespread abuse of its programs with curtailing or ending of those programs.