BuffaloGal
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2006
The above should be fine.
I don't see why it wouldn't be.two adults who both have purchased the plan would use only one adult credit at e.g. Kona Cafe. Is this still possible??
They surely can share the food.If they go to lunch together and my DD uses her TS credit and her friend pays OOP for her drink and entree, she isn't allowed to share the appetizer or dessert with dd who can't eat all that much food?
While I was not planning on "cheating" the system, I was worried about how to make "date night" meal at Yachtsman Steakhouse work for me and my hubby (2TS restaurant - so 4TS credits). We are a family of 2 adults, DD12 and DD6 - therefore 3 adults and one child according to Disney. I was going to be possibly one adult credit short near the end of our trip, so I was going to have to pay out of pocket at some meal during our stay - or risk getting to that dinner and being in trouble - not enough adult credits and too many kids credits.
We are doing an adult night out at Jiko, which for DH and I will cost 4TS. We plan on doing Breakfastsaurus and will just pay for our adult meals and charge the kids meals to the plan. Thus leaving us with the necessary credits for our Jiko night.
What changes? The first round of menu changes took place more than 45 days ago and from what I understand, the latest changes are for the better (more options). Kids CS meals have been pretty limited for even longer than that. So if you didn't think your kids would eat the kids meals when the changes ocurred you had time to cancel DDP. If you are referring to using child credits for child meals only, that has always been the rule, no change there, just a crack down on enforcement. If you knew the kids wouldn't eat the kids meals and planned on using their credits for adult meals I'm sorry I can't emphatize with you. Everyone knew it was a matter of time before the loophole closed - I would have planned on not having it and if a CM had offered it, probably taken advantage, but if that was the only way my kids would be happy, I wouldn't have bothered with DDP.
My personal favorite for transgressions was in 2006 when the free DDP promo was offered and people were creating make believe kids to put on the reservations so they could get the meal credits. All they had to do was pay for a single day park ticket and they could get extra meal credits for their entire stay. Of course they also had to blatantly lie when they made the reservation and at check in time. I think that was about as extreme an abuse as you could get.
My favorite exploit (I won't call it a transgression, because I think it is perfectly legal) was the one where folks staying off-site would book rooms at the All-Star Resorts (that they had no intention of sleeping in) for four adults. So they'd be paying $78 per night for free dining for four, a $152 value.
Actually based on marketing from Disney not reviews here on the DIS, the DDP and the child's meals are very widely liked.
No one is forcing the DDP on anyone and everyone can still visit without it.
And as people have said before - if you and your kids don't like the kids food available don't get the DDP. The new menus have been around long enough for people to cancel DDP for trips this year if the menu doesn't suit them.
None of my four children like cold chicken...sorry chilled...and the mac & cheese looks & tastes like rubber. on ddp or off....
akrake
It should of been this way from the start. Because it was so easy to abuse the system.
Thanks Sammie.
BTW, "my who are these people" was rhetorical. I don't post much, but I read a ton of threads and have seen some of the beat the system tactics and posters.
Actually, they're the ones who spend weeks training their kids to create a noisy distraction, loudly claim the cashier shortchanged them and browbeat the cashier into giving them more change than they were due...and then giggle about it all the way out the door.I'm guessing these are the same people who when a cashier gives them too much change they just keep it without regard to the ramifications to the cashier.