How long is Dining Plan?

[I_heart_Tigger]

I just had a quick question about the Dining Plan. Is the number of meals dependant on the number of nights you're there or the number of days you have park passes for?

So, if I am staying at a resort for 7 nights and have MYW passes for 8 days do I get 8 days of meals or 7 days of meals?

thanks for your help

 

[Monty]

It's nights in the resort. 7 nights, 7 sets of credits.

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Maybe someone could clear this up for me too?

When I travel next year I'll not be checking in till around 7pm. Given the time difference from the UK, my missus is never hungry enough for a big meal so my Dining Plan credits will go unused for the first night.

The documentation we have received states that the Dining Plan will expire on our last night but we will still need to check out next day and would like to have the above credits to sit down to a nice lunch before we head off to the airport for our 3pm flight back to the UK.

I have read elsewhere that credits are still valid up to midnight on the day you check out. Can anyone confirm this for me please?

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

Your Dining credits cease to be available after midnight on the day you check out

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

That's good to know. One more question though as this will be my first visit to a WDW resort. If my park ticket and dining plan are on my room key, how do I use them after I have checked out?

 

[Ghall]

When you check in, you'll receive a Key to the World card that serves as your hotel room key, park ticket, and meal ticket and if you leave a credit card number at check-in, you can use your key to the world card to charge any purchases you make.
Every time you use your meal plan your card is swiped (only one person from the party need to have card swiped, all the meals are pooled) you will get a receipt telling you how many credits you have left. When you check out you don't have to hand back your card, we always keep them as a souvenir. You can still use your card to gain access to the parks, use it for meal credits and as far as I can remember still charge to it as they still have your credit card number which they will charge to. This is of course if you have any meal credits left on your last day and if you still have valid park entry.

 

[sbkline]

Once you check out, the park ticket and dining plan part of your card are still available. The park tickets expire 14 days after the first use and the dining plan expires at midnight the day you check out. So even if your card is no longer available to get into the room (because you've checked out), the other two features still work until their own designated expiration times.

 

[Monty]

That's good to know. One more question though as this will be my first visit to a WDW resort. If my park ticket and dining plan are on my room key, how do I use them after I have checked out?

Your room key will stop functioning to get you into the room at Check-out time [11AM], but you get to keep the card and the park tickets and dining credits will still be available. The dining credits expire at midnight that night as has been said and the park admissions expire 14 days after first use.

You can stay in a resort for five nights with DDP and have a 10-day park pass on your room key, the room key will work for for the five-night stay, the DDP will expire the sixth night at midnight and the tickets will be valid for two full weeks. Obviously, you'd have to stay somewhere else, but folks do that.

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Many thanks for the quick replies, you've certainly cleared up a few things and have put my mind at rest.

I put these questions to my travel agent and all I got was a :shrug: so it's nice to know that I'm surrounded by experts whenever I'm here.

Yet another question regarding one of the answers I've received. The Travel Agent (Thomas Cook) have informed me that my tickets will either be issued as a voucher or I'll have to pick them up from the rep (which means a trip to I-Drive on the first day and ruins my plans for breakfast at MK). With the ticket\voucher, can I present this to the front desk and have it transferred to my room key?

 

[Monty]

Many thanks for the quick replies, you've certainly cleared up a few things and have put my mind at rest.

I put these questions to my travel agent and all I got was a :shrug: so it's nice to know that I'm surrounded by experts whenever I'm here.

Yet another question regarding one of the answers I've received. The Travel Agent (Thomas Cook) have informed me that my tickets will either be issued as a voucher or I'll have to pick them up from the rep (which means a trip to I-Drive on the first day and ruins my plans for breakfast at MK). With the ticket\voucher, can I present this to the front desk and have it transferred to my room key?

The voucher should work at the front desk. I don't think it's any different for UK Travel Agents, when I book a package deal I get a voucher for the room with DDP and a voucher for tickets, they are all already on the booking and are all on my KTTW card.

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Thanks Monty, with a little luck (or is that pixie dust) everything will already be on my room key and I can stay with the plan of an early breakfast at Crystal Palace on day one. I just know that an almost empty Main Street with an unobstructed view to Cinderella Castle will be the perfect way to bring a smile to my wife's face and start off our park visits.

EDIT: I've just received a call from the Travel Agent (who I've pestered and pointed out the errors in their information) who say that my DDP and tickets will indeed be on my room key. Happy days. Never underestimate the power of pixie dust. :sohappy:

 

[Ghall]

Maybe someone could clear this up for me too?

When I travel next year I'll not be checking in till around 7pm. Given the time difference from the UK, my missus is never hungry enough for a big meal so my Dining Plan credits will go unused for the first night.

The documentation we have received states that the Dining Plan will expire on our last night but we will still need to check out next day and would like to have the above credits to sit down to a nice lunch before we head off to the airport for our 3pm flight back to the UK.

I have read elsewhere that credits are still valid up to midnight on the day you check out. Can anyone confirm this for me please?

We have the same problem arriving from Ireland with the 5 hour time difference you just don't get to eat dinner on the first night. As when you arrive at the resort at 7pm it's really 12 midnight to us. Don't waste your table credit for the first night. Book an ADR for one of the signature restaurants like the California Grill or the Flying Fish which are 2TC. You will get a great meal and won't waste a credit.

 

[ThinkTink721]

It goes by the # of nights you have booked.

 

[Rob562]

It goes by the # of nights you have booked.

Just thought I'd point out (because it's kind of a peeve of mine on forums like this) that the question was already answered very completely in other posts. Your one-line answer to the OP was unnecessary, so please *read* an entire thread before replying.

If your reply had been posted within minutes of someone else's reply, it's one thing. (Virtually simultaneous replies happen quite often on these forums.) But your post was more than 90 minutes after follow-up posts asking other related questions, and about 13 *hours* after the original question had been answered.

-Rob

 

[gspin2k1]

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