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BuzzLightyear · 03-01-2005

What do you think about this folllowing "quirk" in the dining plan?
I don't know if I'd go through these lenghts, but my first reaction would be how could it even work if the child is suppose to be ordering off of a childrens menu.

"Using your Children as a License to Print Money As mentioned above, the entire family's meals are grouped into a single pool that can be used at any time by any family member. If you've got at least one child ages 3-9, it's possible to exploit this feature to make dining at a "Disney signature" restaurant a very good deal. A mother of two boys from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania explains:

Since all meals are pooled, you can pay for the kid's meal separately, and use their points for an adult meal at a two-point signature restaurant instead. This makes it a much better plan. We did this with the previous Disney dining plan, and we loved it.

Here's how it works, assuming a family of three adult diners and one child ages 3-9. On day 1, the entire family eats at a regular sit-down restaurant. The adults follow the plan, and order an appetizer, entree and dessert. The child orders from the kids' menu, where dinner prices typically range from $5 to $7. When it comes time to pay the bill, the family uses three meals from the plan to cover the adults, and pays for the child's meal out of pocket. This saves one sit-down meal in the family's plan account, at a cost of around $5-7.

The family repeats this process two more times, until it has three extra sit-down meals in the plan. At this point, the family can dine at a Disney signature restaurant and use the three extra meals to cover the cost of each adult dinner.
Instead of each adult dinner costing $50 plus tax under the plan (assuming each adult sit-down dinner is worth $25), the dinners now cost around $29 plus tax - $25 for the one adult sit-down dinner used, and around $4 for the one child sit-down dinner used by each adult. At the Disney signature California Grill, the savings would be $14.74, $24.46 and $42.39 each, for diners ordering the least-expensive, median, and most-expensive menu items.

If you're able to use this quirk in the plan, the savings make affordable several of Disney's better restaurants."

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BuzzLightyear MB Cast Member ® Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Space Mountain Posts: 3,911	Dining plan....interesting quirk?? What do you think about this folllowing "quirk" in the dining plan? I don't know if I'd go through these lenghts, but my first reaction would be how could it even work if the child is suppose to be ordering off of a childrens menu. "Using your Children as a License to Print Money As mentioned above, the entire family's meals are grouped into a single pool that can be used at any time by any family member. If you've got at least one child ages 3-9, it's possible to exploit this feature to make dining at a "Disney signature" restaurant a very good deal. A mother of two boys from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania explains: Since all meals are pooled, you can pay for the kid's meal separately, and use their points for an adult meal at a two-point signature restaurant instead. This makes it a much better plan. We did this with the previous Disney dining plan, and we loved it. Here's how it works, assuming a family of three adult diners and one child ages 3-9. On day 1, the entire family eats at a regular sit-down restaurant. The adults follow the plan, and order an appetizer, entree and dessert. The child orders from the kids' menu, where dinner prices typically range from $5 to $7. When it comes time to pay the bill, the family uses three meals from the plan to cover the adults, and pays for the child's meal out of pocket. This saves one sit-down meal in the family's plan account, at a cost of around $5-7. The family repeats this process two more times, until it has three extra sit-down meals in the plan. At this point, the family can dine at a Disney signature restaurant and use the three extra meals to cover the cost of each adult dinner. Instead of each adult dinner costing $50 plus tax under the plan (assuming each adult sit-down dinner is worth $25), the dinners now cost around $29 plus tax - $25 for the one adult sit-down dinner used, and around $4 for the one child sit-down dinner used by each adult. At the Disney signature California Grill, the savings would be $14.74, $24.46 and $42.39 each, for diners ordering the least-expensive, median, and most-expensive menu items. If you're able to use this quirk in the plan, the savings make affordable several of Disney's better restaurants." __________________ 86,92,96 Offsite * 2002 AKL * 2003 BCV * 2004 Contemporary * 2005 WL * 2006 BWV* 2008 CSR * My Disney Countdown Counting down to: Next trip to Disney World!! Just back 8/30. Next trip unsure........... Last edited by BuzzLightyear; 03-01-2005 at 06:28 AM.