MYW with Free Dining - Panic attack

[Belle0101]

I was trying to finish up our dining plans so I can make some ARs and I just gave myself a panic attack. Maybe someone can help me?

We (4 of us) are checking in on the 7th and checking out on the 17th - 10 nights. So we'll have 40 each of snack, counter and table credits = 120 credits?

And we can start using them on the 7th?

Can we still use them on the 17th even after we've checked out or do you have to use them all prior to checking out?

I have a planning type personality but not having park hours or an EMH schedule and soooo many credits ... Deep calming breaths right?

I'd just feel better if someone could confirm that I understand it right or let me know that I'm wrong so I can fix any mistakes I may have made.

Thanks!!

 

[BBGirl]

I understand that you can use you credits from check-in til 12 midnight on the night you check out. Once you have your "key to the world" you can use the credits and continue to use them until midnight on check out day at which point they expire. Hope this helps.
Tina

 

[robinb]

We (4 of us) are checking in on the 7th and checking out on the 17th - 10 nights. So we'll have 40 each of snack, counter and table credits = 120 credits?

And we can start using them on the 7th?

Can we still use them on the 17th even after we've checked out or do you have to use them all prior to checking out?

Yes, you can start using them the day you check in and use them until midnight on the day you check out .

I hope I can explain what I did to plan my meals. Here goes ...

I made a little Excel speadsheet to plan and track my meals and credit usage.

I created several 3x3 tables that had rows for "Breakfast", "Lunch" and "Dinner" and columns for "Restaurant", "Counter" and "Table". I had one table for each day. For every meal I would plan, I would select the row for that meal ("Breakfast", "Lunch" or "Dinner") and enter the name of the place in the "Restaurant" column and the number of credits used in the "Counter" or "Table". At the bottom of all the tables I summed up all the Counter Service credits and all the Table Service credits. These were my running totals of all the credits I was using.

In the upper right of the spreadsheet, I tracked how many Counter Service and Table Service credits I started with (we had 30 of each) and how many remained to be allocated (by subtracting my running totals from the starting totals). This allowed me to add and subtact restaurants on the fly and know how many credits I had left.

Like this:
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|.............|.Restaurant ..|. Counter ..|. Table..|
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|Breakfast |...............................................|
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|Lunch.....|.Tuskar House |.....4........|...........|
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|Dinner.....|.Spirt Aloha....|...............|.....8....|
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