Disney Dining Price

[JKMJ441724]

I see from Disney's website that the price is $45.99 per night per guest. Will sales tax be added to that amount? My mom is joining us this trip and rather than have Disney split the charges, we want to figure it out ahead of time and just have her write me a check for her part.

TIA for your help.

 

[MDsMomma]

No there will be no tax added. It will be the $45.99 x however many nights your doing it for.

 

[JKMJ441724]

Thanks! That's what I needed to know.

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[Mambo Junkie]

If you are going for a week, you don't have to buy the plan for 7 days? You can buy for 4 or 5 days?

 

[disneynutz]

If you are going for a week, you don't have to buy the plan for 7 days? You can buy for 4 or 5 days?

Not any more. Segmenting was discontinued effective 9/6/2011.

Bill

 

[papamouse1]

If you are going for a week, you don't have to buy the plan for 7 days? You can buy for 4 or 5 days?

NOt anymore you can't. DIsney strikes again! As of Tuesday they have discontinued the ability for DVC owners to segment/split their stay and get DDP for partial stay. You must now buy DDP for your entire stay.

Awesome, huh? Now I really wish I had paid for my DDP 6 months in advance when I booked a ton of ADR's for my trip. NOw I have no idea how I am going to do our trip.

 

[castleri]

The only additional charge will be tips when you actually use the plan and that is based on what the meal would have cost if you paid OOP. We paid all out tips with cash this time for the 3 meals we had on the dining plan. It worked out easier for us than one person paying and the others then having to reimburse them.

 

[bakenatj]

NOt anymore you can't. DIsney strikes again! As of Tuesday they have discontinued the ability for DVC owners to segment/split their stay and get DDP for partial stay. You must now buy DDP for your entire stay.

Awesome, huh? Now I really wish I had paid for my DDP 6 months in advance when I booked a ton of ADR's for my trip. NOw I have no idea how I am going to do our trip.

Buy one AP and then buy a TIW. It comes out pretty close to the same dollar wise, maybe a hair cheaper with TIW depending on what you order.

 

[papamouse1]

Buy one AP and then buy a TIW. It comes out pretty close to the same dollar wise, maybe a hair cheaper with TIW depending on what you order.

This sounds good in theory but here is the issue with it...

We usually get to come for 5 days only... plus we don't want to eat big meals twice a day for 5 days, thus the reason we usually get DxDDP for 2-3 days, then just eat light the other days. TIW would work for us (being DVC) if they offered it to us, but when you add in extra expense for an AP and the , I believe, $350 it takes to break even... then add that to the extra $300 for one AP ($221 for 5 day pass or $552 for AP), then that is basically $650 worth of food before you actually save any money.

Not knocking TIW, but realistically it simply isn't a catch-all solution like many try to make it out to be. It only works if you eat alot, drink alot or stay alot

 

[annnewjerz]

Not any more. Segmenting was discontinued effective 9/6/2011.

Bill

Our 8 days at WDW are broken down into two reservations under different confirmation numbers---can I just get the DDP for one reservation and not the other?

 

[got4boys]

Our 8 days at WDW are broken down into two reservations under different confirmation numbers---can I just get the DDP for one reservation and not the other?

Yes. I called today and confirmed that it can be done.

 

[papamouse1]

Our 8 days at WDW are broken down into two reservations under different confirmation numbers---can I just get the DDP for one reservation and not the other?

I confirmed this as well. We had booked 2 separate ressies at 2 resorts, but then decided to wait list and try and stay at same resort for both stays. Got our wait list request, but then their computer took the 2 and made them into 1 and they told me I couldn't get DDP on the the 1st one anymore since they were no longer separate. But since my second stay was just for 1 night at end of stay, they worked it out for me and I booked DxDDP for the my 1st ressie alone.

 

[JKMJ441724]

NOt anymore you can't. DIsney strikes again! As of Tuesday they have discontinued the ability for DVC owners to segment/split their stay and get DDP for partial stay. You must now buy DDP for your entire stay.

Now that it's too late anyway.....



What is segmenting your stay?

 

[papamouse1]

Now that it's too late anyway.....



What is segmenting your stay?

"segmenting" means making multiple segments out of 1 ressie. SO let's say you are staying 7 days... then you can break your stay into several separate segments like 1nt/2nt/1nt/3nt. The idea was you could treat each segment like its own ressie, but in reality you only had one and you stayed in same room the whole time. SO people were taking the above example and ordering their DDP plans different for each segment ex. DDP/DxDDP/no DDP/DDP
According to the CM I spoke to ( so take it with a grain of salt) it was this behavior that made them eliminate the option because of the mess it was creating.

On a side note, I was told that we still will be able to do split stays in the future and you can still get DDP on each stay the eway you want since in reality they are 2 ressies, not 1. In a split stay, you book 2 totally separate ressies, either at different resorts ( our preferred method) or at same resort. When doing this you will run the risk of having to check out of 1st room and go to another room for 2nd ressie. We actually have always used this method and have always just booked DDP for one of the ressies so we aren't "commando eating" for our whole trip

 

[JKMJ441724]

OH. I've done split reservations before - usually at 2 different resorts. I had no idea that you could have (past tense) gotten the dining plan however you wanted. It would have been nice. Although, I'm pretty sure I would have only split it in 2 at most, probably the deluxe dining and then cs/snack dining half and half.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I added the Deluxe plan..split stay. The CM never mentioned, it no longer be done. I guess, it doesn't matter, since I've always request separate confirmation numbers.