What is a snack on the dining plan?

[tortoni]

Are the snacks limited to mickey bars, soda or popcorn? Or can you get a piece of cake at Main Street Bakery, etc?

 

[dgaston]

Mary at www.mousesavers.com has a print out of the Dining Plan in Adobe Acrobat. According to that source, YES snacks are available at Main Street Bakery! Now I don't know what the Bakery would consider a snack, but a piece of cake sounds like it to me!

 

[n2mm]

No cake. There are very specific on the snacks. You can also found a printable dining plan brochure on the disneyworld.com website. click on one of the packages that has dining on it and you will find a link that tells you all about the dining plan. I printed the brochure today (10 pages), but filled with everything you need, plus a nice chart that identifies all locations.

 

[Nora94]

Main Street Bakery did not allow ANY of their bakery items to be counted as snacks. It was the prepackaged items - rice crispy treats, bottles of water, a small fountain soda, piece of fruit - types of things that they allowed.

You can use a counter service there, but you only get 2 items plus a small drink, and this is actually less than you get elsewhere as a counter is normally 3 items (main item, side, dessert) plus drink.

Bummer, huh?

Frozen cokes, frozen lemonades and big pretzels are also not on the snack plan. Nor is scooped ice cream.

Nora

 

[vascubaguy]

We found that the snack items we could get were pretty limited and we didn't feel like eating the mickey ice cream bars. I think we had only used maybe 4 snack credits total in 4 days (that's for 4 people). We ended up using them to get a bunch of Rice Krispy Mickey bars to bring home. I kept telling everyone to use them to buy the water or sodas in the park rather than paying for them, but no one did that. I think I came home with 14 rice krispy bars and gave them to co-workers.

 

[cosmicdaisy]

I am still learning about the dining plan and its features, but I have assumed a snack was:

Your Snack includes your choice of one (1) of the following:
You can find Snack locations throughout the Theme Parks or at Counter Service locations in the Resorts. Most cart locations selling frozen ice-cream novelties, popcorn or Coca-Cola products accept your Disney Dining Plan.

Frozen Ice-Cream Novelty, Popsicle or Fruit Bar
Popcorn Scoop (single serving box)
Single Piece of Whole Fruit
Single serving Grab Bag of Frito-Lay’s Chips
20 oz. Bottle of Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite or 24 oz. Dasani Water
Medium Fountain Soft Drink or Apple Juice

as cut and pasted from the Dining Plan brochure.

However... it could always be at the discretion of the establishment employee I suppose.

 

[vascubaguy]

That is correct, you can get those items at most any location and use a snack credit. There are a few other items that you can get at some locations, but not many other items. For example: you can use a snack credit for the mickey rice krispy bars at the resorts.

Oh, and one problem we encountered at MK... we went to 4 carts trying to get an ice cream and all of them said their wireless machines were not working so they couldn't accept the cards. We finally passed by one and I asked and she was able to get it to work. I think that was the only time we used the snack credits in the park. The rest of the time we bought the snacks we wanted because they weren't on the plan (ie. pretzels)

 

[cosmicdaisy]

okay, never mind that last statement...I need to hit refresh more often

I did see where frozen lemonade was a dessert option somewhere, but I have looked at so many menus today I am at a loss as to which one it was now.

 

[clombardi]

okay, never mind that last statement...I need to hit refresh more often

I did see where frozen lemonade was a dessert option somewhere, but I have looked at so many menus today I am at a loss as to which one it was now.

Frozen lemonade was a dessert option at either tusker house or flametree,

 

[Suzanne74]

Frozen lemonade was a dessert option at either tusker house or flametree,

oh I hope so - those frozen strawberry lemonade's were my favorite, well after mickey bars.

I am surprised pretzels aren't on there but I can understand how bakery items are not - it would be "well this one counts, or this one doesn't etc...)