Sharing Dining Credits?

[HollyH]

We have done the DDP in the past (several times). Help me on this:

If memory serves...
For a party of 4, 7 nights would equal: 28 TS, 28 CS & 28 S

When you rcv the check at the restaurant, they subtract the credits needed for that restaurant from your KTTW card, which subtracts those # of credits from your room allottment. They have never asked for everyones KTTW card. They only needed one from the room.

Stay with me on this...

This trip our DS is older and wil be taking his DGF to California Grill. The same night my DH & I will be going to Bistro De Paris (which isn't on the plan). We assumed they could use our 2 credits we won't be using that night so they will have 2 credits each for CG.

Disney Dining this morning said no. The credits are per guest and may not be shared. We are staying at AKV in a 2 bd. All the same room #. How do they know and keep track of whose credit is actualy being used?

Anyone do this before? Is this something new and everyone's KTTW card must be presented at bill time?

Just when you thought you had it figured out!

 

[Andromeda9mm]

I can't imagine why it wouldn't work ?? I agree with you on this one.

Meredith in Utah

 

[Cajunnanci]

As long as your son and his girlfriend are both on the Disney Dining Plan, there are no problems.

 

[kaytieeldr]

It will work, no problem.

The only time, in my experience, that more than one card needed to be presented was when six of us dined together on three reservations.
The person whose card showed one adult on the DDP 'paid' for one meal.
The person whose card showed two adults on the DDP 'paid' for two meals.
And the person whose card showed one adult and two children paid for one adult and two children (this was all legitimate, by the way - everybody present was on the DDP )

 

[JimMIA]

I agree with the others -- I don't think the CM understood your question. I also don't think the CM understands the system.

You are going to have 28 TS credits, and your party can use them however you choose...as long as the people you are buying meals for are staying in that room, and all are paying for DDP, which IS the case with your party.

 

[SpaceRangerEric]

Everyone in the room needs to be on the DP, and the credits are tracked per room, not per person. The only division is between adult credits and child credits.

 

[Pakey]

I couldn't tell from OP if you are all staying on one room or if you have 2 rooms. When we did dining plan with two couples in two rooms, each couple had to show their "key" at dinner and they deducted from each separately. We even asked at one place if they could just do it on one key and they said no.

If you are all staying on one room, they aren't going to be able to track it and you shouldn't have any issues.

 

[pwyu1969]

I agree that the disney worker misunderstood your question... my exp was with the 2007 plan, there may be some changes, but here is what I found.

All 28 credits are put in a "bank" and think of each of the four room cards as "debit" cards that can access the bank. So one person can blow all 28 snack credits at one time on an ice cream binge unbeknownest to the others... So eating at different places at different times is not an issue.

Also (I don't know if this applies to you), while there is a difference between adult and child ts, on the 2007 plan there was no difference between adult and child cs. In our case, we had 2 adults and 2 kids. When I went to our resort to get a print out of our credits it would say 14 adult ts, 14 child ts, 28 cs and 28 snacks. So ordering a child's cs was more an act of honesty on the patrons part rather than Disney keeping track of it. I imagine Disney will figure this one out soon enough...

This is based on 2007 plan...

 

[Colleen27]

Also (I don't know if this applies to you), while there is a difference between adult and child ts, on the 2007 plan there was no difference between adult and child cs. In our case, we had 2 adults and 2 kids. When I went to our resort to get a print out of our credits it would say 14 adult ts, 14 child ts, 28 cs and 28 snacks. So ordering a child's cs was more an act of honesty on the patrons part rather than Disney keeping track of it. I imagine Disney will figure this one out soon enough...

This is based on 2007 plan...

That is only one part of the system, though. The KTTW also lists your party size and make up (2A2C), and at counter service restaurants that offer kids' meals, CMs are supposed to check your order against that notation to ensure you aren't ordering more adult meals than you have adults in your party. Differentiating child and adult CS credits in the computer system, the way they did TS credits, isn't likely to happen unless they add kids' meals at the CS locations that currently don't have them. Otherwise, there'd be no way to use kids' credits at Pizza Planet or Refreshment Port or Main Street Bakery or several other locations, some of which (RP especially - only a kid would want McDs in Epcot!) appeal to children far more than to adults.

 

[Tricia1972]

When we used the plan in April and in October of 2008 it worked as others stated. There would be no problem for your DS and his DGF to use your credits at a signature dining location. You are all in the same room and thus your credits will all be pooled.

The CM must have misunderstood your question.

 

[Mickeycrazie]

What if one in the group doesn't eat enought to be on the DP, but you pay for them to be on the DP, but when the check comes you pay for their meal and save their point for a 2 TS meal later. Do you think it is worth the extra 37.99 a day to have the extra TS to use as we want?

Same for my son that will be coming down 2 days later but we will pay for him to be on the dining plan. Use his 2 extra ts points for Narcoosees.

Hope this makes sense what I'm trying to do, but if it's a big waste of money we don't want to do it. I don't think the 2 day thing is a waste, but 7 days may be.

 

[Tricia1972]

What if one in the group doesn't eat enought to be on the DP, but you pay for them to be on the DP, but when the check comes you pay for their meal and save their point for a 2 TS meal later. Do you think it is worth the extra 37.99 a day to have the extra TS to use as we want?

Same for my son that will be coming down 2 days later but we will pay for him to be on the dining plan. Use his 2 extra ts points for Narcoosees.

Hope this makes sense what I'm trying to do, but if it's a big waste of money we don't want to do it. I don't think the 2 day thing is a waste, but 7 days may be.

So let's say you're arriving on Sunday and your son is arriving on Tuesday. This leaves you with a dining surplus of two credits (Sunday night and Monday night - when your son wasn't there).

You want to use those two extra TS credits for a signature dining experience like Narcoosee's.

That seems like it'd be the best idea for you, and doing this you'd avoid having to check out on Tuesday and check in again (so as to add your son to the plan)


I am not so sure that you'd come out ahead paying OOP for your son after he arrived, and then using his credits for other signature experiences. You could, but it wouldn't be such a clear cut decision. You'd have to carefully look at the menus, see what you'd order and then add up the totals. One nice thing is that the DDP isn't quite as much food as last year, your son may surprise you and eat an entree plus a dessert!

 

[Mickeycrazie]

Tricia,

Thanks for replying back so quickly. Just a little more to the story for more clarification.

the 1st person I was talking about is a cousin that will probably only be there 4 days and will eat very little, so it probably won't be that much out of pocket. She would probably use the cs and qs but it was a waste last year for her to have ts credits. That is why I was wondering if the people in her room could use her ts credits at a 2 pt place and then we could pay for her little meal.

After your comment we will go with adding my son from the beginning. He's a huge eater for such a skinny fellow.

 

[HollyH]

Thanks everyone for posting. I called back and the original CM definitely misunderstood or didn't have a handle on this. We ARE all staying in one rm. A 2bd Villa @ AKV. All dining credits are subtracted from your "room pool". They only need 1 KTTW card if everyone is on one reservation. We are good.

BTW... my big concern, which I failed to mention in the original post, was that at this time the 2 bedrooms at AKV are actually a 1bed and 1 studio together... a lock-off. My concern was this being a 1bd AND 1 studio, would they still consider this as 1 reservation so we could draw from 1 "pool"? It is. Everyone is on 1 reservation with 1 reservation number therefore... 1 "pool".

Whew!!!!!!!!!!!