2015 FREE DINING THREAD _ All Questions HERE!!

[DisneyDad79]

I'm at 1:24 right now. Feeling kind of queezey.

 

[noahsketomom]

I ended up just booking Pop Century, upgraded the dining plan and saved ~$300 vs. our estimate for Standard View CSR. Very bad business model by Disney to not release more Standard Rooms at the Mods.

Worried I won't get one either. When were your dates?

 

[Disneylvr]

I am still waiting to hear from my TA (Dreams) but I know that MDE is still down and probably the TA line as well. If I would have booked it myself I would already have it. SO FRUSTRATED right now.

 

[CatKel1202]

oh my word. I have a TA working on adding my free dining. I just looked at our MDE and nothing has changed. I am so worried that we will not be able to get this...ugh

I'm in the exact same boat. I should have known better than to book with a TA...I'm too much of a control freak!

 

[MissMaryQC]

Glitchy morning for us down here: got a preferred at POR but it's still showing as a CBR on MDE... can't call cause the world is calling. Any suggestions? I'm cool with CBR but when I nabbed that POR I was psyched!

 

[gonecamping67]

Was able to get in for Sept 4-12 @ POR, had to change my room from standard to garden. Still happy!

 

[disneynutsss]

Does anyone think there might be a small chance that they might add a few more rooms at the various resorts that have limited or no bookings left, in a day or two? With only Pirate rooms at CBR, no availability at Pop Century, and having to book 6 nights /7 days instead of the 4 nights /5 days that we originally planned ,makes this offer not very appealing to us. I am maybe willing to add nights and rethink my vacation, but would like some sort of resort preference. Looks like we may postpone Disney until 2016.
Happy for those that this works for though.

as for the 6/7 days... i booked a 5/6 with free dining in sept with no problems

 

[themommy]

The only things I know is that they did NOT upgrade the size of the beds when they did the rest of the resort. Pirate rooms are still full size instead of queen and they are really far away from the food court. Two huge negatives in my mind so we booked preferred POP instead.

They are going to do a referb on the pirate rooms. I can't remember if it is supposed to be completed by Aug or Oct though. Don't know if the beds will grow like the other other referbs they did though.

 

[Jewel3k]

Nothing in a moderate category was available for my family of 5. It looks like the Beach Club with free dining is only $500 more than our bounce back price at the Caribbean Beach. I might have to snag that. Decisions, decisions.... I didn't expect for it really to drop today and everything was unavailable by 6:45 am.

 

[Aubrav]

Did anyone see a standard room available at POP for the beginning of October?

 

[Choozee]

On dead air space for 53 min now

 

[disneynutsss]

Did you do it? Upgrade I mean.

no, i didnt, couldnt afford it. but i did snag FD at CSR for my dates

 

[themommy]

I gave up and hung up I was at an hour and 34 mins but is anyone still an hour + on the phone?

An hour and 3 minutes and still dead silence after I entered all of my info on the phone.

 

[amberlina29307]

I'm in the exact same boat. I should have known better than to book with a TA...I'm too much of a control freak!

When I first booked along time ago, I didnt know about DISboards and being able to do everything for myself!! I have learned alot and the next time, I will know better.

 

[themommy]

no, i didnt, couldnt afford it. but i did snag FD at CSR for my dates

Good for you! I can't find a moderate to book. Oh well. lol Except for the pirate room and I'm not doing that.

 

[lazer]

Nothing in a moderate category was available for my family of 5. It looks like the Beach Club with free dining is only $500 more than our bounce back price at the Caribbean Beach. I might have to snag that. Decisions, decisions.... I didn't expect for it really to drop today and everything was unavailable by 6:45 am.

I WOULD love to switch from CBR to Beach Club. I think it's totally worth $500, but that's my dream resort as we spend tons of time at Epcot.

 

[disneydoll87]

I am having so much trouble with mydisneyexperience.com... I see the modify button but there are no Standard rooms available at the WL with free dining (just the upgraded views)... so I try to call like 20 times, am on hold for 40 mins and then get disconnected. Just logged back in on mydisneyexperience and NONE of my reservations are there! What is going on?! Please send some pixie dust my way lol

 

[SouthJersey]

Pop Century w/ Free Dining Upgraded to Deluxe
Booked for December!

Had availability at 8:18am when we booked. Girlfriend talked me out of a deluxe/moderate, we rent a car and literally only showered and slept at the resort, never used any amenities or services at the resort. Still woulda rather had Wilderness

 

[cate2]

Yes, me too for the CBR.
Thank you so much for pointing that out as I hadn't even noticed that what was confirmed in the email was not the same as what I booked!

 

[babydoll65]

My TA is on hold trying to change our reservation. Anybody had trouble getting early weeks in september?? I've never been good at the waiting game.....

I already had an existing reservation at pop century for Sept 12-19( booked two rooms) but because the other family traveling with us are on a budget we ended up switching to all-star sport's resort which saved us 70$ per reservation. Once I added on the water park we only ended up paying 165$ more at sports. It would have been 250$ at pop century. I was able to do this on mde at 5:30am and thank god it only took about 15min to do. There seemed to be enough availability at pop, all star music and sports.