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makingplans4WDW · 11-08-2012, 10:10 PM

What a wonderful review! Thank you for taking the time to write it all down.

The details of your sharing adventure are going to help us a great deal in the spring when we travel with my parents. They eat like birds, and we were wondering if they would be able to split some of their TS meals... Now we know!

elaine amj · 11-19-2012, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by makingplans4WDW

What a wonderful review! Thank you for taking the time to write it all down.

The details of your sharing adventure are going to help us a great deal in the spring when we travel with my parents. They eat like birds, and we were wondering if they would be able to split some of their TS meals... Now we know!

I knew we wanted to do some sharing but had a bit of a hard time figuring out how we could make it work. There were a small handful of sharing reviews on here which really helped me in visualizing how it would work. The trip before this we had shared CS meals but didn't share any TS meals.

Glad it was helpful for you!

Grammy4Lizzy · 11-20-2012, 01:12 PM

How did you get food through the security check? I thought that you could have food but it has to be purchased after security.

elaine amj · 11-28-2012, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Grammy4Lizzy

How did you get food through the security check? I thought that you could have food but it has to be purchased after security.

You cannot bring WATER through security check. But you can bring any and all kinds of food. I've bought sandwiches to eat on the plane. Whatever you'd like really. I always travel with snacks in my bag of some kind.

A tip for flying: I always bring an EMPTY water bottle through security. Then I just get the air hostess to fill it on the plane. One trip I was smart and I filled it at the fountain in the terminal before I boarded. This means I'm not reliant on their serving me small cups of water and I don't have to keep annoying them. We really try to keep hydrated when flying because it's very drying. Plus it helps with jet lag when we cross time zones.

GMU MOM · 02-20-2013, 11:36 AM

Thank you for sharing your experience. We are also a family of 4 (2A and 2 kids) and we usually like to share meals as 3 meals is more than enough food for all of us. On our last trip we shared all our CS meals but never did so for our TS meals. However, for our August trip, I already have it planned out to share some TS meals (where possible) and I was able to get 8 TS meals out of the 7 credits per person. I just made sure to go over all the menus and try to guess what we would probably order and if it could be split or not.

elaine amj · 02-20-2013, 04:55 PM

Glad u enjoyed the review! I think it will be a good reference for me for future trips too. What I did find is that it is not always that easy to share credits. If u are not careful, u can easily end up with leftover credits that are too hard to use. It takes some planning especially when juggling kid and adult credits. For us we had many days and lots of TS credits to play with, which helped a lot.

pumba · 02-21-2013, 08:15 AM

thank you for taking the time to do this review...
I am STUFFED...hahaha...sounds like you had a
great trip to the House of the Mouse...
Some of your restaurants I havent been to yet.
and we are going on almost 30 trips...
Thanks again

elaine amj · 02-23-2013, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by pumba

thank you for taking the time to do this review...
I am STUFFED...hahaha...sounds like you had a
great trip to the House of the Mouse...
Some of your restaurants I havent been to yet.
and we are going on almost 30 trips...
Thanks again

Lol! So were we!!! We're all about getting the best bang for our buck and man did we get it! We had so much fun trying so many different restaurants. We did a lot of resort restaurants too and managed to explore many of the resort hotels, which was a blast.

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elaine amj DIS Veteran Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,032	Glad u enjoyed the review! I think it will be a good reference for me for future trips too. What I did find is that it is not always that easy to share credits. If u are not careful, u can easily end up with leftover credits that are too hard to use. It takes some planning especially when juggling kid and adult credits. For us we had many days and lots of TS credits to play with, which helped a lot. __________________ August 2012 Dining Review: A lesson in sharing or how to turn 12 TS credits into 14 meals Last edited by elaine amj; 02-20-2013 at 05:03 PM.

02-21-2013, 08:15 AM	#37
pumba DIS PUMBARIZER I have a smile on my face a mile wide Let’s just say that Mr. Feeney came out “well done” Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 24,390	thank you for taking the time to do this review... I am STUFFED...hahaha...sounds like you had a great trip to the House of the Mouse... Some of your restaurants I havent been to yet. and we are going on almost 30 trips... Thanks again __________________

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02-20-2013, 11:36 AM	#35
GMU MOM Mouseketeer Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 303	Thank you for sharing your experience. We are also a family of 4 (2A and 2 kids) and we usually like to share meals as 3 meals is more than enough food for all of us. On our last trip we shared all our CS meals but never did so for our TS meals. However, for our August trip, I already have it planned out to share some TS meals (where possible) and I was able to get 8 TS meals out of the 7 credits per person. I just made sure to go over all the menus and try to guess what we would probably order and if it could be split or not.