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I was able to add free dining to my CBR standard view reservation. Original dates were 11/28-12/6, but I had to change to 11/27-12/5. Just DH and me on the trip: 25th anniversary celebration. We stayed at CBR on our first trip, too.
Congratulations on being able to get Free Dining for your Anniversary Trip & on 25 years.
I was up off and on all night Sunday, checking to see if it had dropped. It went live around 4 am, but I snoozed until 4:30. Luckily I was able to snag FD for our dates and for the resort we wanted. (CBR)
It had very limited availability this year, apparently. It seems like they're trying to phase it out.
Considering all the packages they released yesterday and reading where people are able to get rooms, I'm thinking it's not necessarily getting phased out, I think Disney is just trying to fill the All Star Resorts with it. If you think about it, every year, just here on the boards, people are booking all the other levels of resorts and hoping to get Free Dining. If Disney is seeing those rooms already booked, why do they need any kind of incentive for people to stay there? They don't. This year it seems that they have a lack of people willing to stay All Stars and that's where people are having to go - even from Pop.
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Congrats to those of you who got the free dining package!
I looked briefly at the offer, and I didn't see an option where you could get a room discount instead--I thought Disney usually offered a choice. Did I miss something?
(This is just idle curiosity on my part )
Congrats to those of you who got the free dining package!
I looked briefly at the offer, and I didn't see an option where you could get a room discount instead--I thought Disney usually offered a choice. Did I miss something?
(This is just idle curiosity on my part )
There are room only discounts out now for the dates of 8/1 - 11/5. Up to 30% off at select resorts.
Very frustrated with the whole FD thing! Found out about it last night and logged in to run some numbers, we would have to change our dates by a week, but figured it'd be worth it. My prices kept increasing as I checked new resorts and then checked back in with the original one, which I didn't understand. In the end, I ended up with 4 price quotes for the same resort. Tried calling on my way to work this morning, 60 minute wait. Never got anyone by the time I reached work. Logged into my iPad on lunch and all the rooms at CBR are gone. I'd be happy with a room discount, but so far, they are only good through early Nov.
Very frustrated with the whole FD thing! Found out about it last night and logged in to run some numbers, we would have to change our dates by a week, but figured it'd be worth it. My prices kept increasing as I checked new resorts and then checked back in with the original one, which I didn't understand. In the end, I ended up with 4 price quotes for the same resort. Tried calling on my way to work this morning, 60 minute wait. Never got anyone by the time I reached work. Logged into my iPad on lunch and all the rooms at CBR are gone. I'd be happy with a room discount, but so far, they are only good through early Nov.
I'm so sorry about all the aggravation trying to get free dining. When the news went out early yesterday morning it was CRAZY! I use a travel agent and she was able to get us into CSR but not the exact room category I wanted so she's going to keep trying. I read that there may be more rooms opening up in a few days so don't give up. You might just luck out!
Very little availability and I priced it out for my stay at ASSports and it came out to be $200 more expensive for the "free" dining then if I just paid rack rate plus the same tickets. So I would be paying $200 for the "free" dining. Something was fishy there. I triple checked all the prices on it too.
Plus side is I got the "back to school" promo and now am staying at ASMo and am paying $50 less plus got upgraded to a premium room. Thinking of adding a night. LOL as if 10 nights are not enough.
Congrats to those of you who got the free dining package!
I looked briefly at the offer, and I didn't see an option where you could get a room discount instead--I thought Disney usually offered a choice. Did I miss something?
(This is just idle curiosity on my part )
Disney did release a room-only offer yesterday. Up to 30%. Today, there were also package deals available for Fall, but they didn't seem to offer better deals than the room-only (although I'm terrible at comparing the package deals).
I took advantage of the room-only and moved up from Pop to CSR for my October trip.
Can you do free dining with a room only ressie? We have APs (this is our first time to have them), so was curious.
Nope, you have to get at least a 2 day ticket(either with hopper or WP&M on it). I had an AP last year and to get the free dining I had to get the 2 day hopper pass, which I had them keep on a separate ticket. I still have that ticket and will be able to use it (or its value) next trip. You can also use the value of that ticket to renew your AP but you can only do it in person at WDW.
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