JLS
Avs Fan / DVC Member
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2000
Somebody posting here said "if you want use credits to treat a friend or a stranger, you can" (or something like that). Just want to emphasize that it is NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. Technically, the DDP is non-transferrable and there are CMs who will hold you to the number of people you have on your card, no matter how many credits you have left.
Back at the end of May, I posted a thread about my experience at the Yachstman Steakhouse that got a lot of responses. The gist of it was that my party on my DVC room (2 bedroom) was 3 adults and 1 child. We had saved up our credits to eat the Yachstman on our last night (2 credits each). We also invited my friend to dine with us on that evening (she was not on the dining plan), so our party was 4 adults and 1 child for eating purposes. We had had no problem at other places with our friend eating with us (sometimes on the DP - most often for CS, and sometimes OOP), but when the bill came at the Yachtman, even though we had enough credits to use for everyone, the manager REFUSED to allow us to use more credits than stated on our room (3 adults, 1 child). It was a very late dinner and my son (age 3) had already eaten and did not eat at the restaurant, and the manager basically accused us of wrongdoing by trying to use "child's credits" to pay for the 4th adult. His argument did not make logical sense because even if we were using child's credits for my son's meal, he still supposedly would have denied us the use of credits for someone not on the room card, and also, he had no way of knowing where we had already used so-called "child's credits" or whether my son's were already used up (or, on the flip side, whether all 10 of our remaining credits were "child's credits"!) Even though that manager made the issue about the number of people on the room, I believe that his real issue was that people were trying to use child's credits to pay for adult meals in "his restaurant."
When I posted here, the consensus was that the DDP is non-transferable, so be careful when trying to treat a guest who is not registered to your room. I don't think it would be noticed at CS, but at TS some places might balk. I really don't understand why it makes a difference to Disney who eats the food, as they have your money (free dining excluded, obviously), but..... that's the rule as I understand it. Whether it is enforced is another matter.
Back at the end of May, I posted a thread about my experience at the Yachstman Steakhouse that got a lot of responses. The gist of it was that my party on my DVC room (2 bedroom) was 3 adults and 1 child. We had saved up our credits to eat the Yachstman on our last night (2 credits each). We also invited my friend to dine with us on that evening (she was not on the dining plan), so our party was 4 adults and 1 child for eating purposes. We had had no problem at other places with our friend eating with us (sometimes on the DP - most often for CS, and sometimes OOP), but when the bill came at the Yachtman, even though we had enough credits to use for everyone, the manager REFUSED to allow us to use more credits than stated on our room (3 adults, 1 child). It was a very late dinner and my son (age 3) had already eaten and did not eat at the restaurant, and the manager basically accused us of wrongdoing by trying to use "child's credits" to pay for the 4th adult. His argument did not make logical sense because even if we were using child's credits for my son's meal, he still supposedly would have denied us the use of credits for someone not on the room card, and also, he had no way of knowing where we had already used so-called "child's credits" or whether my son's were already used up (or, on the flip side, whether all 10 of our remaining credits were "child's credits"!) Even though that manager made the issue about the number of people on the room, I believe that his real issue was that people were trying to use child's credits to pay for adult meals in "his restaurant."
When I posted here, the consensus was that the DDP is non-transferable, so be careful when trying to treat a guest who is not registered to your room. I don't think it would be noticed at CS, but at TS some places might balk. I really don't understand why it makes a difference to Disney who eats the food, as they have your money (free dining excluded, obviously), but..... that's the rule as I understand it. Whether it is enforced is another matter.