Three Questions

[tiffjewel]

I have three questions about the Quick Service Dining Plan. These are just some options I am looking at for being able to use the child credits:

1.) My 9-year-old daughter is not a big eater, but does not usually like the choices on the children's menu. We have a total of 5 with only 1 child. Would they allow me to use 5 adult credits at one time? I'm sure I could find another way to use the children's credits for breakfast, snacks, etc. I realize I would run out of adult credits by the end of the trip which would be fine.

2.) Kind of like the question above, but could I use 5 child credits at one time to get breakfast for us since we are not big breakfast eaters.

3.) If I order 4 adult meals, and one child's meal. My daughter and I could just share her child meal and my adult meal. This way she could get what she wanted. I assume Disney would not have a problem with this, right?

 

[catne]

Technically, the answer is no: you're paying for the child's plan, you're supposed to order child's meals with it when child's meals are available (that's why the child's meal plan is so much less expensive--they expect you to be ordering the less expensive child's meals.)

That said, they do not actually separate the kids/adults credits on the counter service meals, BUT your KTTW card will specify 4 adults 1 child right on the card. So when you hand your card over to pay, the counter service people may or may not refuse to ring up 5 adult meals at once (since they can plainly see on the card that there are only 4 adults in your party.)

However, people have reported both scenarios happening -- that they had no issues with ordering more meals than the card lists, or that yes, they have been turned down at the cash register (and told to pay OOP for one of the extra adult meals.) The same would be true of trying to get 5 child meals at once when card list 1 child...may or may not be allowed to do this.

Your 3rd question -- of course you can get the 1 child meal & then share your adult meal. Once the food is rung up, they don't really care or monitor who eats what.

 

[TDC Nala]

According to Disney's policy, child credits must be used to order children's meals. They may or may not enforce it, but that is the rule.

 

[brymolmom]

Don't worry too much...With that many adult meals - I'm betting there will be plenty around to share. Or consider getting a couple snack credits to help share the adult meals.

Also look carefully at the menus and choose places with the most varied kids' offerings. Between eating at POP food court, Sunshine Seasons, CS in Mexico in EPCOT, Wolfgang PUck Express, Main Street Bakery, and some credits on CS breakfasts....my kids will only end up with the 'same old' nuggets or mac n cheese options once or twice on the trip. We're both Ok with that as long as every meal isn't that!

 

[DCDisney]

On our last trip we had one child aged child and we used most of her credits for breakfasts. We usually shared 1 adult meal and 1 kids meal for breakfast among 4 of us. My other child was a WDW adult (barely) and they would typically share his adult CS for lunch. It all worked out very easily and well for us. There are a few places with no child menu we also ate at as well as a few places with much larger kids menus like Sunshine Seasons and Wolfgang Puck Express. With all of the extra snacks and so many desserts there was always more than we could eat and no one got stuck eating yucky mac and cheese at every meal