Question about 10 year old on DDP

[bobbigrl27]

If Disney offers a free dining plan in 2012, I am stongly considering booking during that time. My daughter will be 10 years old at the time and a picky eater. After looking over many of the menus, I think she will probably want to order off the the kids menu most of the time. If she does that, would we be able to pay OOP when she orders a kids meal and save her adult dining credit for myself or my husband to use at another time? If that isn't possible, would they let us use her adult dining credit towards a kids meal?

I would never purchase the DDP in this situation because there is no way my daughter will eat $45 worth of food each day, but if we can get it for free, it would save us some money.

 

[disneymayz]

If Disney offers a free dining plan in 2012, I am stongly considering booking during that time. My daughter will be 10 years old at the time and a picky eater. After looking over many of the menus, I think she will probably want to order off the the kids menu most of the time. If she does that, would we be able to pay OOP when she orders a kids meal and save her adult dining credit for myself or my husband to use at another time? If that isn't possible, would they let us use her adult dining credit towards a kids meal?

I would never purchase the DDP in this situation because there is no way my daughter will eat $45 worth of food each day, but if we can get it for free, it would save us some money.

I can only speak for the QS. Some places have the flat chicken nuggets for the kids and I prefer them so I as an adult order them and have never been told I can't.

 

[TDC Nala]

Most of the time restaurants will be fine if she orders a kids meal. There may be some TS restaurants that won't allow it. You can either pay with an adult credit or pay cash for her kids meal and use the adult credit elsewhere. You may be OK with using her adult credit for her kids meal since you wouldn't be paying for the plan.

 

[elainesj]

I was looking at this very same issue as my dd will be 11 next time we go.

My thoughts were to share 2 adult TS meals (or pay for a kids meal OOP) and save the credit for another meal.

it's OK to share non buffet TS meals and this would stretch our credits so we can do more TS meals if we wanted. If we did this for at least 2 TS meals, we would have enough for another meal.

I think some cost calculations need to come in play to see if this route is worth it to your family.

Last trip, we would order 2-3 adult CS meals to share in our family of 4 and did this for each CS meal and had enough CS meals to do both breakfast and lunch so avoided paying OOP.

 

[TDC Nala]

it's OK to share non buffet TS meals

Not limited to buffets. You can't share at any restaurant that charges a fixed price per person (buffets, yes, but also all you can eat family style, dinner shows and restaurants like CRT or Akershus where you order off a menu, but pay one price.) You also can't share the all you can eat skillet entree at Whispering Canyon, anyone who eats from the skillet is charged for it (except children younger than 3).

 

[DisneyRunner2009]

In 2009 at Sanaa, my daughter ordered a kids meal off the menu. She was 12at that time and nothing appealed to her on the regular menu. The server then allowed her to get an adult dessert. It cost us one TS credit.

 

[Mom2HandR]

Yes a 10 year old can use their adult TS for a kids meal, but I don't know if you can buy them a kids' meal OOP. I mean, if they are 10 they are adult according to DDP. So I can see whay they let the kids blow the adult TS on a kids' meal. But do they let adults order a kids' meal???

 

[bobbigrl27]

Well I sure hope they let kids over 9 order off the adult menu. Even if we pay OOP, I don't see very many selections on the adult menus that my daughter would eat.

 

[WLfamily]

I would think if your paying OOP you can order anything off of a menu that you want just like any restaurant you would go to outside of Disney. It's when you use the DDP for ordering that "rules" come into play.

 

[SpongeCake]

Not limited to buffets. You can't share at any restaurant that charges a fixed price per person (buffets, yes, but also all you can eat family style, dinner shows and restaurants like CRT or Akershus where you order off a menu, but pay one price.) You also can't share the all you can eat skillet entree at Whispering Canyon, anyone who eats from the skillet is charged for it (except children younger than 3).

you can actually. when we ate at the 50s diner in January, the waitress actually suggested that our 4 kids share 2 kids fried chicken meals and 2 milkshakes because there was no way they would ever eat it all.

 

[CathieArms]

you can actually. when we ate at the 50s diner in January, the waitress actually suggested that our 4 kids share 2 kids fried chicken meals and 2 milkshakes because there was no way they would ever eat it all.

That's not the same thing as a buffet or family style meal.