******Official 2017 Free Dining Plan Watch, Wait, and Dream

[PracticallyPerfectPoppins]

So it is 3 night 2 day park tickets minimum?
I read 5 nights at first.

Well guess that one article that someone referred to as "rubbish" was not after all.

The offer just doesn't work for my sister and I this year though especially because the flights are waaaay too high for our dates and she's not flexible because she's a teacher.

Oh well we are going to DL in late June so there's that.

We'll save the money and definitely go to WDW next year!!!

It's a 3 night minimum. The ad is deceiving.

Yeah I had heard 3 night minimum,2 day PH or PH+

I was pretty sure of my source so was confused when it said 5 night. Where in the fine print do you see 3?

It doesn't acutally seem to say a minimum night stay but if you go to book you'll see that as long as you pick a resort room that is available you only have to stay 3 nights.

I was able to snag FD for an AOA suite for our 3 Night/2-Day PH tickets with no issue. If you click to view "details" in the Special Offer, it will tell you the 2-Day PH. The details, copied from the site:

Valid Travel Dates

• August 21 through September 30, 2017
• November 14 through November 20, 2017
• November 25 through November 27, 2017
• December 8 through December 23, 2017

Package Includes

• Room
• Theme park ticket(s) with Park Hopper or Park Hopper Plus Option
• Dining Plan (Disney Quick-Service Dining Plan with Value and Moderate Resort hotel packages; Disney Dining Plan with Deluxe and Deluxe Villa Resort hotel packages)

Important Details

• The number of rooms allocated for this offer is limited.
• Advance reservations required.
• Tickets and options must be used within 14 days of first use.
• Children ages 3 to 9 must choose from the children’s menu, if available.
• Some table-service restaurants may have limited or no availability at time of package purchase.

Ticket Requirements

• Minimum 2-day Magic Your Way ticket with Park Hopper or Park Hopper Plus Option

Offer Restrictions

• Cannot be combined with any other discount or promotion.
• Excludes alcoholic beverages and gratuities.
• Everyone in the same room must be on the same package.
• Offer excludes the following room types: campsites, 3-bedroom villas, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort – Little Mermaid Standard Rooms and Bungalows at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows.

 

[darlak]

Up at 5 central time, the Modify button wouldn't load. Started calling at 6. Finally got through at 3 minutes before 8. Message said that current wait time is 2 1/2 hours.

 

[mowork48]

For those that booked through a TA and was able to get it how does the reservation look in MDE? Can you tell you have it by anything? Trying to determine if ours has changed.

My TA emailed me at 6:00 EST to tell me she had gotten free dining for our 2 rooms at POP and had upgraded to park hoppers and upgraded to TS from QS dining zas I had instructed her to do. I checked MDE immediately and mine was updated with everything. I don't know if that is always the case. I know I have read about a lot of people, not TA's, that have made changes or added FD to their existing reservations and their MDE has not updated but they had gotten emails from Disney. Good luck. Hopefully you will hear from your TA soon. Waiting is horrible.

 

[Taylor F.]

*sobs*

My Poly standard... I'm booked for a stay, but no FD availability at this time.

So if you're going to cancel between sept 17-23rd and have FD for a Poly standard let me know first.

 

[dolewhipdreams]

Is anybody else getting this ridiculous message?
I can change my reservation online then it takes me to the checkout screen then when I click Purchase, this pops up. I have no other tabs open!

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

My TA emailed me at 6:00 EST to tell me she had gotten free dining for our 2 rooms at POP and had upgraded to park hoppers and upgraded to TS from QS dining zas I had instructed her to do. I checked MDE immediately and mine was updated with everything. I don't know if that is always the case. I know I have read about a lot of people, not TA's, that have made changes or added FD to their existing reservations and their MDE has not updated but they had gotten emails from Disney. Good luck. Hopefully you will hear from your TA soon. Waiting is horrible.

Thanks, hopefully we have it. He told me he wouldn't be sending out emails until after he has helped all his clients which I can understand. We already had the dining and park hoppers on the package so trying to see if there was something else there that would show me it had been switched to free dining. We were booked at POP with a standard room and nothing has changed there either. I have a feeling we didn't get it.

 

[mamamelody2]

We booked four rooms at ASSP with dining upgrade for Nov 14-21 everything went smooth this morning after Goofy went away. Now planning for 13 people ages 7 to 70, let the fun begin!

Hey, we went with a group of 13 aged 7-70 last year, too!!
It was great, but I am SO SO looking forward to this year with just DH and I.

 

[Rickat96]

So I had 2 rooms at CSR- This trip the goal was dining package shows- ROL, Fantasmic and CP. So FD with upgrade to Delux saved me about 1000 bucks. Esentially, i'll save 700 after I purchase MVMCP tickets.

The 12am crew that was on until 6am- Hope you all got some rest-If your at work-get coffee!

 

[mamamelody2]

Just checked POP again, now our dates are sold out for FD.
It says POP has been booked 1279 times in the last 24 hours! Wow!

 

[Marianm]

Woohooo! Free dining!

 

[karaintn]

*sobs*

My Poly standard... I'm booked for a stay, but no FD availability at this time.

So if you're going to cancel between sept 17-23rd and have FD for a Poly standard let me know first.

I couldn't get fd at the Poly 11/18 - 11/25 either. Guess I'll just keep looking. So are you going to check every day, multiple times a day, etc? I've been fortunate to never be in this situation.

 

[shruley]

For those that booked through a TA and was able to get it how does the reservation look in MDE? Can you tell you have it by anything? Trying to determine if ours has changed.

I logged into the website, and I could see that my reservation had changed. I was at CBR in a preferred room, booked as a package with parkhoppers, but no dining. Now I have a standard at CBR (yay, I was not happy I was paying extra to be CLOSER to the construction) and I now have QS dining added. I assume it would look the same on MDE, but due to some Disney IT problem I am locked out of my account, (called IT last night but they had some "unmagical news" that the ability for anyone to change a password, including them, is down, not that mine was every wrong in the first place) so the MDE is not working for me. I could see it online by logging in as my husband. I haven't gotten the email from my TA but seeing it online made me feel better!

 

[dolewhipdreams]

Is anybody else getting this ridiculous message? View attachment 233030
I can change my reservation online then it takes me to the checkout screen then when I click Purchase, this pops up. I have no other tabs open!

Update (in case anyone else was having this problem): I got it to work. I was signed in on my phone and on the computer at the same time so I signed out of both then went back through and was able to confirm.

That means one king bed FD room just opened up at CBR from 8/31-9/5 if anyone needs one!

 

[lacy1101]

Thought I would share my experience . . .
Set alarms for 1:00am, 2:00am, 3:00am, and 3:30am. Just stayed up at 3:30am since speculation was it would drop at 4:00am. Waited patiently like the rest of you for the drop and when it showed up, had AKL in my cart (not my first choice, but best I could do at the time) and when I went to check out, it would not let me select the 4th member of my party, giving an error message of "At least two or more attending guests have the same name. Guests must have unique names." I continued to get this message despite talking with 3 different CMs on chat (everytime I went to my F&F list as they suggested I lost the chat). Then, when they suggested I just choose a random person from my list that I could go back and change later, every time I hit "checkout," it just reloaded my cart page. Fought with this for over an hour and a half. Waited til I got to work to try again, and its doing the same thing. Of course, by now, the first room I had in my cart is gone, and the 2nd and 3rd rooms I put in my cart are gone. Did anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[KTwiegs]

I didn't modify. I wanted an extra night so just made new ressie. Got ASMu preferred 11/27-12/7. No standard was available. It's gone now with 11/26 or 27 check in but with 10 nights. Maybe still available shorter.

But I got it!!! A little extra for preferred but no different than standard at 12/8 which was back up plan. Couldn't be happier!

We moved from the 12th to the 26th check in. And our original ressies (moving check in to the 14th) I can't even add FD so if was meant to be! I think I am happier with this change too due to research I have done about crowds! And I will be way more in the Christmas spirit after thanksgiving!

 

[mercydisney]

I was up at 5am and I was able to book my ASM!!

 

[Srbright]

That's what I'm going to do. I had read somewhere that the ticket prices won't go up if you booked previously so maybe it's another glitch. I might wait until the end of the week but if anyone manages to call and find out, please let us know!

I would check, mine went up. When I clicked the offer to modify it said my tickets in the old package were no longer available. The price came out $12 different than I had calculated so I know it charged me the new price for both the tickets and the dining plan.

Stacy

 

[robinb]

So I got free dining at CBR 9/15-9/23 but for $3700, which is outrageous. That is with upgrade to regular dining from quick service, and park hoppers of course to qualify for the deal. CBR also has the Enchanted Escape Room offer, which makes the room only $1200 for 8 nights!! (Without tickets).

I don't know if we are going to keep the free dining, because it's not really free at all

@ChiCat, It is NEVER is free, which is why I always call it "free" dining. It is a discount. Your discount is the price of the QSDP for 2 people which is 2x48.20 or $96.40 per night. Rack rate for your room (Pirate Room, no tickets, no DDP) is $2115 ($2420 with tax) for 8 days or $264.37 per night. If you apply your discount of $96.40 per night to rack rate, you get $168 per night. Multiply that by 8 to get back to your length of stay and you get $1344.

You are paying $134 MORE for "free" dining.

 

[mowork48]

Thanks, hopefully we have it. He told me he wouldn't be sending out emails until after he has helped all his clients which I can understand. We already had the dining and park hoppers on the package so trying to see if there was something else there that would show me it had been switched to free dining. We were booked at POP with a standard room and nothing has changed there either. I have a feeling we didn't get it.

I understand..we had dining...not park hoppers. Then, of course, you can't see the change in price on MDE. In the email, our TA showed us the price for the pkg with the adjustment of free QS and upgraded to park hoppers...still amounts to about $1000 a room for 2 rooms. Keeping fingers crossed for you

 

[disorganizedchaos]

I had a CBR reservation with GCs but with having to upgrade to PH, upgrade to the DDP from QS, and then to a pirate room it's probably not worth it. I'm going to hold on to the reservation until the end of the week or so, hoping a standard opens up. I booked an additional reservation using FD at Sports for about $1000 cheaper as our backup.

 

[DiaryofaDisneyKid]

I think I am going to just keep my November POR standard room and regular dining plan with the Canadian ticket deal. It works out to be $10.99 cheaper than FD at ASMU suite. I did book my room and added dining in January before the prices increased. I think more will open up this week for everyone after people figure out what they really want. There hopefully will also be a second Room Only release for November and December sometime in the summer like last year!