Alcohol is included in the Fantasmic dinner pkg. I am at Mama Melrose right now!!
Does the Fantasmic dining pkg still include an appetizer?
Alcohol is included in the Fantasmic dinner pkg. I am at Mama Melrose right now!!
This is interesting. So you can’t share a credit if you aren’t on the plan?
My mother in law will have the deluxe dining. My son and I are in a separate room and do not have dining. She had planned to use some of her credits to pay for our meals. Can my son and I split a credit? Thinking of Sci Fi and Tony’s. We’d have an app, entree, and dessert, which is plenty for the two of us.
Under the new dining plan does the alcoholic beverage take the place on the nonalcoholic? Before the addition of the adult drinks on the dining plan, I would often order a Diet Coke as my dining plan drink and also order a bar drink at TS restaurants. Under the new plan, will I need to plan on paying OOP for the Diet Coke?
I think I have this right, but just asking for clarification. I have the deluxe plan. Two friends are joining me for the day, and are not staying onsite with a dining package. I would be able to use 3 of my credits to buy lunch for myself and my two friends.
Curious - were the milkshakes actually supposed to be included on the DDP, or was that a bending of rules?I'm curious about say 50's for example where you have always been able to have a milkshake as your drink instead of soda and they only have one specialty drink for kids that's in the souvenir cup, will they now give the drink in just a regular cup. I hope that made sense, lol.
Curious - were the milkshakes actually supposed to be included on the DDP, or was that a bending of rules?
I'm curious about say 50's for example where you have always been able to have a milkshake as your drink instead of soda and they only have one specialty drink for kids that's in the souvenir cup, will they now give the drink in just a regular cup. I hope that made sense, lol.
Curious - were the milkshakes actually supposed to be included on the DDP, or was that a bending of rules?
I'm curious about say 50's for example where you have always been able to have a milkshake as your drink instead of soda and they only have one specialty drink for kids that's in the souvenir cup, will they now give the drink in just a regular cup. I hope that made sense, lol.
Is Paddlefish on the list for dining plans in 2018?
someone reported on the "actual experience" thread
They always have, in our experience. You just have to ask. A lot of the souvenir cup drinks aren't even anything special - Minute Maid fruit lemonade from the soda machine, for example - but they just happen to only be mentioned on the menu in conjunction with the souvenir cup. We've ordered them often, for kids and for Disney-adults, without the souvenir cup (because I don't care how cute it is, the mugs are already more plastic cups than we need floating around here!) and have never been told no or had to pay OOP. The only specialty drink I ever remember paying cash for was a smoothie at one of the Landry's restaurants, T-Rex I think, or maybe Yak & Yeti. Everywhere else, my kids have been able to order whatever specialty drinks are on the kids' menu (and occasionally, one that isn't - servers at California Grill love to suggest Shirley Temples for the kids!) without an upcharge. So @sharonabe is right about kids, Disney-adults, and non-drinkers really not getting anything new with the changes to the beverage inclusion. There may be some small differences at non-Disney-owned restaurants, but for the most part the change just makes a long-standing unofficial policy official for the first time.
Could you share this thread? I'd like to get as much information on the Dining plan as we leave soon.
Under the new dining plan does the alcoholic beverage take the place on the nonalcoholic? Before the addition of the adult drinks on the dining plan, I would often order a Diet Coke as my dining plan drink and also order a bar drink at TS restaurants. Under the new plan, will I need to plan on paying OOP for the Diet Coke?
At menu based restaurants, it seems that way. At a buffet/family style....I'm hearing conflicting stories. I'm being told the paperwork makes it seems as if a person gets a beer, they then have to pay for their coke. However, I know at least two place, sorry I'm not saying specifics, that are not following this. Their management is going based on this.... Before, the dining plan covered the buffet/family style meal. A coke was included. The price of the dining plan went up, and guests are now allowed an alcoholic drink. So they can now get the buffet/family style meal with a coke, and an alcoholic drink.
You have to understand, the training of this whole new thing from higher ups to restaurant managers has been sort of a "we will see what happens" type thing. Things could change in the next week or so, but that's what I'm hearing right now.
It's incredible to me that a large company like Disney would take such a slapdash approach to training their people on this, with the potential to lose revenue if people institute the policy the wrong way, and to cause guest dissatisfaction if there's inconsistency. To me this suggests that Disney is already making so much money off the dining plans that it doesn't matter to them how it's implemented.....they're still going to make a huge profit.
Hahaha, if you only knew how much money the company wastes. I'll give the easiest example. When a server prints a check, it prints two versions. One is for guests not on the dining plan, or is for the dining plan providing a blank to write in the tip. Figure maybe 20 tables a server, 20 servers a restaurant, 2-3 shifts a day times how many restaurants? All those extra receipts just thrown away. How much paper is wasted a year? This has gone of for years.