Question on Meal Plan

[ahgranier]

I am planning a trip to WDW on Feb 2008. It will be the first time that my husband and girls 4 and 5 will visit this wonderful place. We will also be traveling with my father and his spouse. We are planning are staying at the WDW Fort Wilderness Camp Ground.

I have some questions concerning the meal plan.
1. If we are at disney for 7 nights...we will have 7 days of meals per person?
2. I am reading everywhere that you room key holds your meal ticket balances as well? Is this correct? If so what do the families get when they check into the Fort Wilderness Camp Ground since there are no room keys? An can you get two seperate keys so that if we seperate for the day we can still use the meal plan or do you only get one?
3. Are the meals lumped together? Meaning with 4 adults and 2 children..will we have 28 adult table top meals 28 adult countertop meals and 14 each for the kids?

Or, are the meals seperated by person....I have 7 TT and 7 CT, my husband 7 TT adn 7 CT, etc?

Reason for my question! The girls are planning a morning to do Cinderella's Breakfast using 2 TT meals per person....The boys will be playing golf that morning!
We that will limit the other places that we will be able to eat together if my husband and father have to use 2 TT meal tickets somewhere by themselves....but if it is that they are lumped together then we start with 28 adult TT meals then after this breaksfast we have 24 TT meals then we can split the rest the other 6 days we are at the park.
I hope everyone understands my quesitons.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Tikitoi]

I have some questions concerning the meal plan.
1. If we are at disney for 7 nights...we will have 7 days of meals per person?
2. I am reading everywhere that you room key holds your meal ticket balances as well? Is this correct? If so what do the families get when they check into the Fort Wilderness Camp Ground since there are no room keys? An can you get two seperate keys so that if we seperate for the day we can still use the meal plan or do you only get one?
3. Are the meals lumped together? Meaning with 4 adults and 2 children..will we have 28 adult table top meals 28 adult countertop meals and 14 each for the kids?

For the 7 nights that you are there, eveyone in your party will have a TS, CS and Snack per day, for each night you are staying. So, TS= 7 nights x 6 people = 42 TS total for your party. Not sure what to say about the no room key portion, since never stayed at FW Camp. But when you go and have maybe for your first TS, (everyone in the party), as long as it is a 1 TS credit your receipt will state that you have 36 TS remaining. We may eat different CS at different times and just know to check our receipt. So you don't all have to eat together at the same time. Hope this helps.

 

[CleveRocks]

I am planning a trip to WDW on Feb 2008. It will be the first time that my husband and girls 4 and 5 will visit this wonderful place. We will also be traveling with my father and his spouse. We are planning are staying at the WDW Fort Wilderness Camp Ground.

I have some questions concerning the meal plan.
1. If we are at disney for 7 nights...we will have 7 days of meals per person?
2. I am reading everywhere that you room key holds your meal ticket balances as well? Is this correct? If so what do the families get when they check into the Fort Wilderness Camp Ground since there are no room keys? An can you get two seperate keys so that if we seperate for the day we can still use the meal plan or do you only get one?
3. Are the meals lumped together? Meaning with 4 adults and 2 children..will we have 28 adult table top meals 28 adult countertop meals and 14 each for the kids?

Or, are the meals seperated by person....I have 7 TT and 7 CT, my husband 7 TT adn 7 CT, etc?

Reason for my question! The girls are planning a morning to do Cinderella's Breakfast using 2 TT meals per person....The boys will be playing golf that morning!
We that will limit the other places that we will be able to eat together if my husband and father have to use 2 TT meal tickets somewhere by themselves....but if it is that they are lumped together then we start with 28 adult TT meals then after this breaksfast we have 24 TT meals then we can split the rest the other 6 days we are at the park.
I hope everyone understands my quesitons.

Thanks for the help!

First of all,

These are all very good questions, and the good news is there are easy answers to all of them.

Disney Dining Plan credits are determined by the number of nights you are staying at your resort. If you are staying 7 nights, then you are correct, you will have 28 adult table-service meals, 28 adult counter-service meals, 14 child table-service meals, 14 child counter-service meals, and 42 snacks. I hope you're hungry.

This is all lumped together for your party. It is figured and paid for on a per-person per-night basis, but you can use those credits any way you want. You can all have a huge pig-out one night and use them all at one meal if you really want to. It can also be that 3 of you could use them all up and the others never use "their" credits. [But child credits and adult credits are tallied separately.]

So I hope I was clear with that so far ... you get a total number of credits for your party. It's not like you personally must eat one table-service meal each day, and your husband must do that same thing each day, etc. ... it's all in one big pile (well, 2 piles -- an adult pile and a child pile).

Even though you won't have a key that opens up your "room" at the campground, each person (including the kids) will get a resort ID called the Key To The World (KTTW) card. This is the card you will use for your park tickets and dining credits. You can also set up a "room" charge that you can use rather than paying cash for souvenirs and other out-of-pocket expenses at your resort or at any of the parks, as well as some places in Downtown Disney.

By the way, each person's park tickets are separate. Park admission entitlements do NOT get lumped together for the whole party. But dining credits do.

At every meal when you use DDP credits, ANYONE'S card can be used to "pay" the bill. It doesn't matter who's card it is, since all the credits are lumped together anyway. So if your party splits in two, that presents absolutely no difficulty for you, since each and every one of you will have your KTTW card with you.

I hope you can understand from all this that the "girls'" eating at Cinderella's Royal Table won't mes things up for the "boys." Like I said, the dining credits you have are just in one big mish-mash pile anyway ... your party can use up that total number of credits as you see fit.

I hope this all makes sense. Please post back if it doesn't. There are a lot of people who hang around here who are happy to help. We are all here because we love thinking about Disney World, so it's fun to answer questions and try to help.

ENJOY!

 

[ahgranier]

Eric and Tikitoi,
Thanks for all of the information that you have given me. It will help me make decision for the whole family much easier since I am the acting travel agency...Knowing that they lum the meals together and anyone of the party can use them (keeping the adults and kids seperate) it will be easier for what everyone wants to do. I know that my father will not want to attend all fo the disney character breakfasts. I am looking so forward to bring my family for there first time....They are going to have a blast.
Again Thanks,
Amanda

 

[Disney Crazy Debbie]

Eric and Tikitoi,
Thanks for all of the information that you have given me. It will help me make decision for the whole family much easier since I am the acting travel agency...Knowing that they lum the meals together and anyone of the party can use them (keeping the adults and kids seperate) it will be easier for what everyone wants to do. I know that my father will not want to attend all fo the disney character breakfasts. I am looking so forward to bring my family for there first time....They are going to have a blast.
Again Thanks,
Amanda

Your dad may surprise you because with two little princesses I'll bet he is easily swayed to partificipate just to make them happy!

 

[ahgranier]

I hope that you are right! Ahg