required to use a credit???

[asmit4]

If I want to bump a child to age 10 during the 'free ddp' promotion I know I can do this if I buy them the adult tickets. However.....what if I do this and pay OOP for his kid meals.....

Say I have 4 nights, with 3 'adults'....that would give me 12 adult TS credits for the regular ddp. Can I pay for all of my 'picky eat like a bird' meals for my 'little adult' and then we'd effectively have 6 sit down meals instead of 4? Will they make me use a dining credit if I want to pay OOP for each kids meal?

 

[ses1230]

Yes you can pay OOP for the "adult" and use the credits for other TS meals.

 

[ibela]

You can pay OOP at a la carte restaurants. At fixed price/buffet/character meals your child would be charged the adult price.

 

[rachelp6]

You can pay OOP at a la carte restaurants. At fixed price/buffet/character meals your child would be charged the adult price.

How can they charge you adult price for a child that is obviously not 10? Especially if you are going to pay out of pocket for their child priced meal? I aged up my kids with the free dining and depending on what we decide I will be paying out of pocket for some of my kids meals so we can utilize the adult ts credit.

 

[maxiesmom]

How can they charge you adult price for a child that is obviously not 10? Especially if you are going to pay out of pocket for their child priced meal? I aged up my kids with the free dining and depending on what we decide I will be paying out of pocket for some of my kids meals so we can utilize the adult ts credit.

The park ticket ages up too. For all intents and purposes you have declared to Disney your child is an adult. This means that for buffets you will be paying the adult price for him if you pay out of pocket. At non buffets he can order off of the kids menu and you will pay that price.

You can't delare a child an adult and then pay the childs price for them at buffets.

 

[asmit4]

I think it must be because when you now use MDE it will show your kid as '10' even when in my instance- my son will be 3.

Whether they look at my son and decide they are not charging me the adult price is up to the restaurant. However- I will not be paying for ANY buffets OOP anyway- because they are a great use of a child credit IMO. I will just be paying OOP for actual alacarte meals.

 

[kaytieeldr]

They won't make you use a credit, but in my opinion up-aging a child so the actual adults get more credits to use isn't right.

 

[dbramer]

They won't make you use a credit, but in my opinion up-aging a child so the actual adults get more credits to use isn't right.

I wasn't gonna be the first to say it, but....yeah....this.

 

[queenOhearts]

They won't make you use a credit, but in my opinion up-aging a child so the actual adults get more credits to use isn't right.

Playing Devil's advocate here... I'm not quite sure I agree. If OP chooses to pay the additional costs for both an adult ticket and the child's meals OOP, then what is the harm of doing so? I don't feel OP is getting over on anyone by choosing to pay more. In fact, one might argue that Disney would be profiting from this. There's no such thing as a free lunch, the money ends up coming from somewhere.

 

[Shagley]

A little off topic, but I didn't think you qualified for the free dining promotion if you were staying at a DVC property?

 

[dbramer]

Paying adult prices for a 3 year old knowing that you will be paying OOP for their meals? That isn't the intent of the plan and might be one of the reasons that the prices on food keep going up and entitlements on DDP keep going down.

And the price difference between a child's ticket and an adult's ticket is only 20.00. The difference in price between a child's DDP and an adult DDP is 40.00 per night for the DDP plan (one QS, one TS per night). That is extra credit is worth a lot more than the extra 40.00 spent on the plan, especially if it is used at a Signature.

 

[Allison]

A little off topic, but I didn't think you qualified for the free dining promotion if you were staying at a DVC property?

No, not necessarily. A cash reservation at a dvc resort is no different than a reservation made at another resort.

 

[Saimaeve]

To me it's the morality of lying By aging up your child.

Plus, the company uses that information for things like room occupancy. What if there was a fire? They'd be looking for a 10 year old and not a small child.

Also, in the future would you be be able to age down when there is no Free Dining?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Playing Devil's advocate here... I'm not quite sure I agree. If OP chooses to pay the additional costs for both an adult ticket and the child's meals OOP, then what is the harm of doing so? I don't feel OP is getting over on anyone by choosing to pay more. In fact, one might argue that Disney would be profiting from this. There's no such thing as a free lunch, the money ends up coming from somewhere.

It's a version of the "ghost guest" from the first couple of years of Dining Plan Free. Guests would add fictional beings between 10 and 17 to their reservations to get additional dining credits. Yes, this child exists and will be there - but by expecting to use his/her credits for themselves, the parents could be seen as abusing the system.

 

[maxiesmom]

It's a version of the "ghost guest" from the first couple of years of Dining Plan Free. Guests would add fictional beings between 10 and 17 to their reservations to get additional dining credits. Yes, this child exists and will be there - but by expecting to use his/her credits for themselves, the parents could be seen as abusing the system.

And if it once again becomes a wide spread problem Disney will go back to counting heads, as they used to, in order to stop the abuse.

 

[TDC Nala]

Closing because it doesn't make much sense to debate the morality of the procedure when Disney allows the procedure without asking guests their reasons for doing it.