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The restaurants at WDW have to renew their Disney Dining Plan Contract each year. (Basically, they have to agree to the new year's dining plan.) They are not included on the list until Disney has their signed contract back. However, if you ask the CMs when making ADRs, they can usually tell you if the restaurant you want will be on the dining plan. Typically, the restaurants that are on the current plan, will be on the next year's plan.
Some restaurants ALWAYS drag their feet when it comes to re-signing their contracts with Disney -- so, it can sometimes take until January for all of the restaurants to be signed up to accept the Dining Plan. (It's in their best interest to do so, so I'm always amazed that they're slow about doing it.)
Don't worry -- the current brochures are only updated to June, but they'll be constantly updated them over the next few months to include signed restaurants.
Teppan Edo has always been on the DDP, so I'm pretty darned tootin' sure they'll be there in 2012.
What I am looking for is a list with the best use of your 2011 snack credits. Basically, where do I get the best "bang for the buck".
That is a good question. There is another thread about a mug of soup from Friar Tuck's in MK. I was wondering if that is on the snack list as well. If anyone has an idea of a "best bang for your buck" snack list, please share with us.
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Quick question that I can't seem to find an answer for....are the counter service credits on the DDP broken up into child and adult. We have not used the dining plan in a couple of years and I seem to remember that all were pooled with no distinction. Thanks for any help!
Snack credits are pooled without distinction between child and adult. The table and counter service credits are divided between child and adult though.
They are pooled, but you aren't supposed to use them interchangeably -- you paid for the adults as a separate price from the kids.
A watchful CM won't let you order more CS meals than what the Keys to the World card tells them. (It will say "2A 2C" for a family with 2 adults and 2 children on the Dining Plan. If you were to go to a counter and ask for 4 adult CS meals, they are supposed to stop you.)
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We have never used the dining plan before and we are planning on going the end of January when there is free dining. We are looking at the regular dining plan, 1T, 1C, 1S per day. We have 5 people in our room. 3 adults and 2 children. 1 child has special needs and 1 adult had gastric bypass. If there are days when they are not up for TS can they use their TS as CS? Does the whole group have to eat together?
The whole group does not have to eat together. You can eat when and where you want (assuming you have dining reservations or can get a walk-up table at the table service restaurants.)
The restaurants are managed as individual entities, so whether a restaurant will accept a table service credit for a counter service meal is up to the management. Some will allow it, others will balk. Just ask and see what they say.
I just noticed on the Disney website that they have added restaurants to the dining plan that have not been on it before....I have wanted to try Rainforest Cafe at DTD...now that it says it is on the dining plan, maybe I can this time.
I just noticed on the Disney website that they have added restaurants to the dining plan that have not been on it before....I have wanted to try Rainforest Cafe at DTD...now that it says it is on the dining plan, maybe I can this time.
I just checked the Disney website an I don't see where it is showing DDP as accepted at Rainforest Cafe?
I first saw an update on Easy WDW. It said they have also added Portbello and a few others. I don't know how to attach a link. It was on the first page after the pictures of the Polynesian.
I first saw an update on Easy WDW. It is listed after the Polynesian pictures on the first page. It also listed Portobello and T-Rex among a few others. It had a link to the dining plan page on the Disney website. I don't know how to add the link to my reply.
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