Questions re: 2-year-old at Chef Mickey's

[jat1977]

We are planning a trip in the Fall and will be bringing our three kids (7, 4, and 2). As I understand it, we will need to make a reservation that includes our 2-year-old (so a reservation for 5), but she will eat free as long as she eats from one of our plates. Is that correct?

 

[StirlingSilver83]

Usually when eating from a buffet you can grab her her own plate...thats what we did with out 20 month old last trip

 

[T00dles]

Yup. She can get her own plate at any buffet. Just tell them she is an infant. It's great! We even went to CRT and were not charged. She got her own appetizer, shared her sisters nuggets and they gave her a scoop of ice cream.

 

[kdisser]

Yes you have to list the infant on the reservation, we went last fall and I called about it for our 1 year old. And the restaurants need to know the exact amount of people for overall total occupancy of the restaurant. But the infant doesn't get charged unless you go out of your way at a regular restaurant to order a plate.

 

[Misha72683]

At a buffet she can have her own plate. Our 2.5 year old did at every buffet we went to. He was listed on the reservation, but we weren't charged for him. At Akershus they even allowed him to order an entree of his own at no charge (since it's a fixed price meal, but you do order specific entrees).

 

[DisneyBrewingCo]

I go with a 2 year old to a Disney restaurant once a week and they do not make them eat off of your plate but yes you do want to include them in the reservation total.
Buffets for any one under 3 is free and you can get them as many plates of Mickey Waffles as their little toddler bellies can handle.

Have a great trip!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

We are planning a trip in the Fall and will be bringing our three kids (7, 4, and 2). As I understand it, we will need to make a reservation that includes our 2-year-old (so a reservation for 5), but she will eat free as long as she eats from one of our plates. Is that correct?

KIDS UNDER-3 EAT FREE "411":
1) TECHNICALLY, there is such thing as a "kids-under-3-eat-free" policy.
. . . no where in ANY Disney brochure is this mentioned
. . . there is no such policy
2) But, when done per policy, they eat almost free.
3) And, based upon CM discretion, they can eat free.
4) The official rules:
. . . kids under three can eat off the adult's plate
. . . if they order anything, like milk, they are supposed to pay for it
. . . if they order any food, they are supposed to pay for it
. . . this is anywhere, including buffets
5) What really happens:
. . at buffets & AYCTE kids actually "eat buffet food free"
. . . . . . adults could get the food, instead and give it to the kid
. . . . . . the adult could claim it is their plate kid eats from
. . . . . . they might as well have a drink, for same reason
. . . . . . it's tough to determine it was theirs or their parents
. . . . . . thus, kids can have their own plate and beverage without charge
. . at non-buffet, servers can determine if they ordered food
. . . . . . it is easy to tell if they got a drink
. . . . . . the server usually charges for food ordered for the kid
. . . . . . the server usually let's the drink go, but not food
. . . . . . the server, at their own discretion, can charge for beverage
6) So, to wrap-up, in practical terms
. . . at non-buffets, kids under-3 eat without charge ONLY from parent's plate
. . . at buffets & AYCTE, they can actually take food from the buffet table or separate plate
. . . at all meals, items are ordered for the child "might" be charged for them

7) Please remember to add your child to the table count.
. . . if there are four adults and a child, that needs an ADR for five people
. . . this is regardless whether the child is lap, stroller, highchair, or regular chair
. . . also, if the baby makes six people, the AUTOMATIC 18% GRATUITY is in effect
. . . no automatic gratuity at CRT-HDDR-LUAU-BBQ, as tips are already included in the meal price

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Yes the infant has to be on the reservation. No, you will not pay for the infant's meal.

 

[DopeyDame]

Make sure to double check the check when it arrives. More than half the time, we were charged for my son, even though he was only a year old (so there's no way they could have thought he was 3). they always happily and easily fixed it, but it happened frequently enough as to be annoying. So just make sure you don't get charged before you pay.

 

[AshleeH]

We took our daughter at 18 months old and she had to be on a reservation (we had to cancel a BOG because I did not know this and couldn't modify that one) - that's for fire codes. But yes, they eat free everywhere. At that age she ate off my plate, but every now and then we got her one of her own.

 

[disnut8]

We are planning a trip in the Fall and will be bringing our three kids (7, 4, and 2). As I understand it, we will need to make a reservation that includes our 2-year-old (so a reservation for 5), but she will eat free as long as she eats from one of our plates. Is that correct?

As others have stated, you will not be charged for your daughter's meal but she does have to be include in the count for your table since she will be taking up space.

However, on the subject of plates, I rarely will leave a Disney World buffet line with just one plate. I grab a big plate for the real food and a small one for the other stuff. Real food being desserts and the other stuff being, well, veggies and meats and things like that. Why wait until you are full to eat dessert?