2015 FREE DINING THREAD _ All Questions HERE!!

[AKies47]

Just hit 45 mins of dead silence on the phone, although they did say my estimated wait time was 69 mins.

 

[scard192]

Unlike previous years, however, it appears that you cannot start your stay during the promotion and extend beyond the promotion....I'm trying for 2 weeks starting November 8 and it will only let me go to November 19, which is 11 days.

I was able to help my friend book POP for 11/14-21 with no problems. wonder if I should text her to check her confirmation carefully.

Interesting that there were only Standard rooms at POP, would think Disney would be wanting to push people into the more expensive Perferred rooms

 

[jesusluvsu2005]

Does anyone else's email conf say QS when it should be regular DDP?

I just looked, mine does too even though we're at a mod. Hmmm....

 

[Taran430]

lol this is so awkward- no music- dead air. I gave my info like 10 mins ago...how long do they usually put you on hold

I was on hold 23 minutes then operator came on. Don't hang up!

 

[ckret01]

wait time is more than 2 hours LOL

 

[LollieInwonderland]

Just hit 45 mins of dead silence on the phone, although they did say my estimated wait time was 69 mins.

Hey at least you got a wait time lol I am 48 mins and counting now

 

[Taran430]

Just hit 45 mins of dead silence on the phone, although they did say my estimated wait time was 69 mins.

Don't hang up they will come on

 

[disneyfanUSA]

If you are getting silence DO NOT HANG UP!!! I waited for 23 minutes in complete silence before an agent came online.

What time did you initially get through? I got in the Queue at 7:08. Tried right at 7:00 kept being told to call back.

 

[kellief]

Was going to surprise my family with a stay in the contemporary for what will be our 10th anniversary and our sons 7th birthday, but the ONLY free dining that appears to be available is for suites, which range about $4000 MORE than what I've already paid for our reservation. I'm calling to check to make sure, and only had one other option I really wanted to 'move' to, and it isn't looking promising either. I really expected no problems this year. It's disheartening knowing that I could do the same trip at Pop (which we did last year), save almost $3000 off our existing reservation AND get free dining with the upgrade. But I really wanted my theme park view room on the monorail

Have you thought of doing a split stay? We did that 2 years ago..First 4 nights at POP with free dining then 3 nights theme park view at the Contemporary with a RO discount. We used our last free meals the day we changed hotels so only ended up OP for 2 days and our drink cups were length of stay and still worked at the Contemporary (they did have the chip). It was easy switching hotels and made it seem almost like 2 vacations! We took a cab with our luggage for $20 to switch.

 

[petrymom]

I did! CBR Dec 15-22!

How did you book? Phone or online? Did you have a ressie already? or did you book new?

 

[Taran430]

What time did you initially get through? I got in the Queue at 7:08. Tried right at 7:00 kept being told to call back.

At 7:04

 

[aliciadisfan]

Have you thought of doing a split stay? We did that 2 years ago..First 4 nights at POP with free dining then 3 nights theme park view at the Contemporary with a RO discount. We used our last free meals the day we changed hotels so only ended up OP for 2 days and our drink cups were length of stay and still worked at the Contemporary (they did have the chip). It was easy switching hotels and made it seem almost like 2 vacations! We took a cab with our luggage for $20 to switch.

Hmmmmm, that's something to consider....

 

[THEDISNEYTHREE]

I was able to help my friend book POP for 11/14-21 with no problems. wonder if I should text her to check her confirmation carefully.

Interesting that there were only Standard rooms at POP, would think Disney would be wanting to push people into the more expensive Perferred rooms

I got a preferred room at Pop. They are part of the offer.

 

[pmama]

Dang it! My email confirmation for CSR says quick service too. Thus is an error right?

 

[lazer]

Unlike previous years, however, it appears that you cannot start your stay during the promotion and extend beyond the promotion....I'm trying for 2 weeks starting November 8 and it will only let me go to November 19, which is 11 days.

We're booked thru Nov 20th and we have free dining for length of stay.

 

[Mrs Grumpy]

Free dining added for us! POP 9/5/15-9/16/15!

 

[tinkerb]

Well, when did it change when you booked a package that you have to PAY for tickets first???? I thought it was a $200 deposit for a package.

 

[Marnm02]

Either the website is completely glitching out, or I did a search for all FD rooms for Oct. 1-Oct. 9 and came back with 0 availability anywhere...

 

[raider97]

Whew! Thankful that my weather alert woke me up at 3:45 CST. I was able to snag CBR Dec. 18th - 27th, standard room, with park hoppers and free dining. I've also got the glitch. MDE says regular dining plan, but my confirmation email says quick service. If someone calls before I get through to double check please post here. Good luck to everyone else!!

Oh and it's a 5 person room.

 

[Just Love Disney]

I called this morning to try and get FD added to my standard CBR reservation and they were sold out except for pirate rooms (too expensive)

Too expensive for a double bed that is a country mile away from Old Port Royale! We booked a room at POP with TS dining instead. Such a bummer that they were already sold out before 3:00 a.m. MDT for our dates