Summer Plans

• With a Summer Flex Plan you never have to worry about carrying cash or using a certain number of meals per week.
• Your Flex Dollars may be used in any allotment and at any time throughout the summer session.
• Whenever you make a purchase with your account, the remaining balance is shown on your receipt.
• If your Flex Dollar balance gets low, you may purchase Flex Addition Dollars to add buying power to your plan.
• You will receive a 50 percent discount in our à la carte facilities and at least a 67 percent discount in our all-you-care-to-eat dining center (D2) when you have a Flex Plan.

A word of caution about the Flex Plan: The 7 and 19 Meals Plans guarantee that you have a set number of meals per week, every week, throughout the session. Since the Summer Flex Plan offers a certain amount of Flex Dollars per summer session, it is possible to run out of Flex Dollars before the session is over. So if you choose the Summer Flex Plan, budget your Flex Dollars carefully.

Flex Addition Dollars offer students with Summer Flex or 19 Meal Plans the opportunity to add buying power to their plan and receive the same Flex discounts. Additional money deposited into a Flex Dollars account is accessed automatically through your Hokie Passport ID once the initial Flex Dollars are used. You never have to wonder about your balance because it will appear on the register display every time you access your account. Flex Addition Dollars will receive the Flex discount as long as you have a Summer Flex or 19 Meal Plan. Flex Addition Dollars revert to Dining Dollars if you have the 7 Meal Plan. Since Flex Addition Dollars can be used only in our dining centers, parents and guardians can be sure that this money will be spent only on food and beverages.

Flex Additions may be added at any time during the year at Hokie Passport Services  (located at 100 Student Services Building). You can also make deposits at a cash-to-card machine, which can be found at:

— Squires Student Center

— Student Services Building

— West End at Cochrane Hall

You can also add Flex Additions online through Hokie Passport. As long as you continue to purchase a major dining plan, Flex Additions deposits carry over from year to year and remain stored on your Hokie Passport until you graduate or resign from the university. If you do not purchase a Major Dining Plan in a given semester, your Flex Additions will revert to Dining Dollars which also remain stored on your Hokie Passport until you graduate or resign from the university.

If the account is not used for a period of 6 consecutive months, it will be closed according to state policy.
Dining Plans and Policies

If you do not spend all of your initial Summer Flex Dollars by the end of the first summer session, they will carry over to the second summer session and receive the same Flex discount as long as you purchase a dining plan. Similarly, the remaining Flex Dollars from the first and second summer sessions will carry over to the fall semester as long as you purchase a dining plan for the fall semester.

Carry over/ roll over Flex Dollars will not appear in your account until the current semester's initial Flex Dollars are used. Initial Flex Dollars received with the purchase of a Major Flex Plan (either Summer I, Summer II, fall or spring semesters) must be used by the end of the spring semester.

Flex Addition Dollars purchased carry over from semester to semester as long as you are a student, and they will continue to receive the Flex discount as long as you have a dining plan.

Meals-per-week dining plan prices are based upon a concept called the missed-meal factor. We know that most students do not eat all their meals each week, so we calculate our rates accordingly. This helps to keep the cost of your dining plan lower. When a new week begins (Tuesday at breakfast), your total number of meals available restarts (7 or 19). Therefore, there are no refunds or carryovers to the next week for meals not used. Meals Plan holders may only use one of their guaranteed meals during each designated meal period (breakfast, lunch, or dinner).

Meals-per-week plans can only be used at D2 at Dietrick Hall, our all-you-care-to-eat dining center. However, you may add Flex Dollars to the 19 Meal Plan. You are not eligible for Flex Addition Dollars with the 7 Meal Plan.