Our son will not eat at the Biergarten will they still charge him?

[DisneyMomx7]

I believe the child care centers at the Beach Club run $10 per hour - this includes the child's dinner. They have lots of kids choices - mac and cheese, pizza, burgers. My kids did it and loved it - video games, regular games etc.

Sounds like it would cost the same as the buffet - and your child could eat what he liked, you would have a stress free dinner - win/win!

 

[robinb]

I believe the child care centers at the Beach Club run $10 per hour - this includes the child's dinner. They have lots of kids choices - mac and cheese, pizza, burgers. My kids did it and loved it - video games, regular games etc.

Sounds like it would cost the same as the buffet - and your child could eat what he liked, you would have a stress free dinner - win/win!

My DD loved the kids clubs too. FWIW, the Sandcastle Club at the Beach Club is now $15 per hour with a 2 hour minimum: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/recreation/beach-club-resort/sandcastle-club/ . It would be more expensive but than just bringing him to the buffet but you do have a point about a stress free dinner for the OP.

 

[itchin2go]

OP, I have one of the worlds pickiest eaters. Even at 15 years old, his diet is extremely limited by his pickiness. The last time we ate at Biergarten he was 12, it was mid summer and dinner. Needless to say I spent about $45 for him to eat pretzel rolls and drink soda....that's literally all he had. My DH was so angry with me for what he spent for the kid not to eat, but my older son chose it as his graduation celebration meal, and I refuse to be limited by my son's refusal to try new things.
Now that he's 15, we send him out for a few hours of solo riding, and let him have dinner on his own and charge it back to the room, whenever we want to eat at a buffet or fixed price meal.
Our yearly food and wine fest trip was torture on him before we started letting him go solo or with his cousins.
The kid wants to be an imagineer when he grows up, and wants to dine with an imagineer next trip. We are still negotiating, I won't pay if he won't eat, so he has to decide which is stronger- the desire to live on chicken and fries alone or the desire to pick an imagineers brain.

I think this is really good advice. My daughter is picky too. Our rule is that she has to TRY things. If she doesn't like them, she doesn't have to eat another bite. There is no "clean plate club". I feel like if she tries it and doesn't like it, fine, but I don't see any point in not trying something. Also, I won't even suggest that she try something unless there's a good chance she's going to like it. Sometimes she does; sometimes she doesn't, but she knows there's no commitment past the first bite. As a result, she's much more willing to try things.

Is it a huge difference in the price for lunch vs dinner? And is there a difference in the food they serve at lunch or dinner? Just wondering if we go at lunch and spend less than we won't care as much if he doesn't eat much.

There's a sticky above with all the buffet prices on them. I think it's kept updated pretty regularly, so you can refer back to it closer to your trip to see if anything's changed. It's a pretty cool resource.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

My DD loved the kids clubs too. FWIW, the Sandcastle Club at the Beach Club is now $15 per hour with a 2 hour minimum: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/recreation/beach-club-resort/sandcastle-club/ . It would be more expensive but than just bringing him to the buffet but you do have a point about a stress free dinner for the OP.

Yeah - it's been a few years since mine were young enough to go but they LOVED it! Never really had a terribly picky eater (of course given their choice they would have lived on chicken nuggets and mac and cheese!), but it was nice to have a "nice dinner" with just DH and I when they kids wanted to go to the kids clubs.