2016 Free Dining Watch ~ Part 2

[damskipi13]

Back from work. I have 38 pages to catch up on, and I expect I will fall asleep doing so! Looking to get back some of that sleep I lost last night. Hope everything is still going well. A quick check on the Disney website shows there may be some availability still? And I glanced at a few posts during the day that showed people are having some luck as time goes on. Hoping to sift through this and by the time I get caught up maybe everybody will have what they wanted

PS did you guys notice the "Booked here xxxx times in the last 24 hours" on the Disney website? Those numbers are HUGE!!!

 

[sahm2two]

Was anyone with a party of 5 able to get their first choice at a moderate,(other than the Cabins) during the time frame of 9/27-10/3 (or somewhere close)?

I am trying to see if anyone had any luck for that time frame.

I'm 9/30-10/9 and wanted a 5 person moderate (POR or CBR) and no luck after staying up all night to get it done. Starting to think they didn't have any 5 person rooms under that discount....

Yes but what are the dates I've gotten no hits on 9/28-10/4 I'm going anyway AoA family suite but would've loved to move to a mod with free dining or just keep what I had with free dining

That seems like a bad time for families of 5...

I prepaid when I booked a while back because it was the easiest thing to do. I think you can call to make the reservation and explain that you're on the dining plan to waive the fee, but haven't personally ever done this.

We had the ddp on our account and didn't have to prepay for CRT so it may not make you prepay since you have the FD

 

[wdw4rfam]

Ok thanks. My TA is working on it. Poor girl she's been on the phone all day for her clients.


Side note- someone said they applied for a Disney visa online, got approved and used it to secure FD today?? Should I dare?!? Right now I'm looking at $2,000 more than we were planning which is.... A lot of money.

If you are signed in and use the link on their page to apply, it will link as soon as you get approved and you can use it right away. Don't forget, you can apply for the premiere and they give you a $200 statement credit. Even after they charge the $49 annual fee that gives you $150 toward your trip.

 

[DISbot]

Dates?

I'm only looking at the early window. (Specifically Sept 9-17 - haven't seen POR for that full window yet... )

Looks like POR for the extra DV dates hasn't been totally snagged yet, and I saw one or two others pop up.
CBR appears to be for most/all of the first window open online.

 

[anneboleyn]

Since I had already paid for the dining plan and was able to book Free Dining this morning, I am getting a refund...does anyone know how long it takes to get refunds from Disney? I plan on using it for the Halloween party tickets and Memory Maker so I am itching to spend it lol

 

[Kd241710]

Since FD wasn't available for our dates (grr Disney, no late October love!) I am very happy that we scored a RO discount (25%) at Animal Kingdom Lodge. I've only ever stayed Value or offsite before so this will definitely be a nice visit I do wonder how busy it will be in October - the Deluxe RO discount was 30% in August-September and 25% in October...however, I like to remember how fortunate I am to have gotten ANY discount. Realistically, even though FD might have saved us money 'on paper', I have to say that having been on the DDP before, it is more food than I would normally eat, so really, would I have been saving money if it was money I wouldn't have spent anyways? Sigh, trying to talk myself into the RO being better than FD...

Next up: what will I obsess over now?! ADRs, FPs...

Something has been up with late October for several months. There has been basically no availability at any of the non club level deluxe resorts for 4 weeks or so at least. None of the crowd calanders are justifying this lack of availability so there is either a huge conference that is off the radar or an artificial distortion to available inventory.

 

[mbarber]

I'm only looking at the early window. (Specifically Sept 9-17 - haven't seen POR for that full window yet... )

Looks like POR for the extra DV dates hasn't been totally snagged yet, and I saw one or two others pop up.
CBR appears to be for most/all of the first window open online.

Ok! I'm looking for 9/25-10/1 and I'm not having any luck lol

 

[Kd241710]

Anyone able to score a RO discount at Poly at the end of October? I'm seeing absolutely no rooms available at the discount.

It's not just the Poly. They all pretty much show no availability and have been since before the RO window. I am very curious to see if we are going to be buried in a sea of people in late October or if there are inventory games afoot.

 

[kaymil]

Phew! I finally got something. Had to change from Beach Club to Boardwalk but got free dining there and an additional day for less than what we had. Also had to change from our beloved POR to CBR though. Someone convince me that we're going to love CBR as much as POR!

 

[Duckiedee]

Dl99, we were very disappointed with the POR selections. Only RR's available and we don't like them so our second choice was CBR, but they only had Pirate Rooms, so we turned that down and at the moment we have standard at CSR. If things don't change for either of us I'll buy you a drink at CSR the last week in August.

We are there the last 2 weeks of August too! We love CSR!

Tried for Standard but they only had water view left. Not sure if we'll try to change or not.

 

[Pippi201672]

When making dinner reservations do I include an infant in my count??

 

[cshell624]

Can you still get a PIN or UOC if you already have a resort reservation or would the system already recognize your reservation and omit you from the list of who to send PINs to? Thanks

I booked with a pin in May 2014 and got a card for same pin in June.

 

[Sharongal74]

Apparently I do not function on little sleep any-more, I feel hung over without having a drink haha

Hubby wanted to try ASSp so I booked it we are there from Aug 26-Sept 4th, previously we stayed at Pop. I am curious about the Magic Bands? How do I chose ours? When I go under my account it says I need to link my reservation, but I can see the reservation under my profile. And when I go to re-link it I get the message to contact myself

Quite possibly I am missing something and I will blame that on being overtired

I am having the same issue. I figure it's some glitch that will work itself out. If not guess I will call......in a few days so I'm not on hold forever.

 

[PaulyB18]

Keep in mind: last year, it seemed like all of these rooms were gone and sold out. After a few days when the madness died down, quite a few rooms were made available and people got their first choices. Keep checking!

Thanks - going to keep checking!

 

[cshell624]

I'm currently trying to decide between CBR or Pop. CBR is just over $500 more. Would love your thoughts on why it would be worth the additional $500. Thx

Did you upgrade your dining plan from QS to TS at POP?

 

[Wood Nymph]

Apparently I do not function on little sleep any-more, I feel hung over without having a drink haha

Hubby wanted to try ASSp so I booked it we are there from Aug 26-Sept 4th, previously we stayed at Pop. I am curious about the Magic Bands? How do I chose ours? When I go under my account it says I need to link my reservation, but I can see the reservation under my profile. And when I go to re-link it I get the message to contact myself

Quite possibly I am missing something and I will blame that on being overtired

You'll have to have a little patience. The option to customize your MagicBands might not appear right away. You'll have months to customize those bands.

 

[wdw4rfam]

Phew! I finally got something. Had to change from Beach Club to Boardwalk but got free dining there and an additional day for less than what we had. Also had to change from our beloved POR to CBR though. Someone convince me that we're going to love CBR as much as POR!

We liked it more. It's our new favorite. Don't worry, and don't read all the negative stuff. I was starting to get cold feet last year after reading all the bad about buses. We had probably the best buses in years, and we were there 10 days. I still like POR, but CBR is our new favorite moderate. Don't worry!!

 

[wdw4rfam]

When making dinner reservations do I include an infant in my count??

Yes, they will need a space for them.

 

[Jax335]

They found me an Ohana! Super awesome.

i have been trying to get ohana dinner for a month! im jealous....how did you do it!?

 

[were45]

I have a Disney Visa and haven't gotten any info for FD. When I go to the Disney Visa website it doesn't list FD under current special offers. What am I doing wrong?