Anyone else nervous???? (free dining and no rooms)

[missmun52]

I am not really worried about it. Last year I think I might have been one of the first to call and low and behold I was able to change things around from resort to resort sooooo many times way after and then it ended up being extended.

Even with it being on disney boards, Disney dicount sites, AND the OFFICIAL disney site it STILL did not get booked up! I think that why they have offered it twice already. And if anyone recalls it was also offered in two ways last year the second being the "Little ones travel time" package.

When I was checking in last August I was talking to a nice lady and saying how great the free dining was and she was like WHAT! I did not get that. I dropped it because I quickly realized that if your like the average person you just go on the main site or call and book a room never asking about dicounts because most people dont think Disney offers any (like I did at one time) And the vast majority of the time even if a discount is avalible CMs wont tell you about it unless you ask or have a code

 

[Tink3Belle]

I have a disney visa and didn't know about this unless I looked on these boards. That's how I found out last year. Can't go two years in a row though - too hard on my son who will be going into first in sept. I think it will be fine the was a max wait of 5 minutes everywhere for the rides and one 15 min. expedition everest. Not crowded at all. Wish I could go.

 

[Nurse_Mommy4]

I'll admit that I am sort of nervous. I too am not a Disney Visa cardholder (nor would I really want be except maybe for free dining ).

I understand Disney is a BIG place but FD has already been offerred twice (UK and Bounceback), so I wonder what is really left?

 

[Aimros]

I'll admit that I am sort of nervous. I too am not a Disney Visa cardholder (nor would I really want be except maybe for free dining ).

I understand Disney is a BIG place but FD has already been offerred twice (UK and Bounceback), so I wonder what is really left?

Yeah, I agree with you Nurse_Mommy, I think thats why I'm nervous...people keep saying how they had space in other years, but this year seems a lot different with less availability.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Ditto! Relax! I got my choice of hotels and dates when I stumbled on this at the end of May last year!

This year is different.

They've already offered the plan to other groups.
The number of allotted rooms won't be as plentiful as in the pass. Someone who booked the bounce back plan said she couldn't get her first choice of resorts and dates back in December.

I'm nervous because my dates are set. We'll be there August 22-September 4.
(Free dining 8/26-9/4). Pulling my son out of school for WDW isn't an option.

I'm only interested in staying at PC. We're willing to book All Stars, but really don't want to.

If they hadn't offered the UK and bounce back packages, then I wouldn't be concerned.

 

[ncbyrne]

I'm nervous because my dates are set. We'll be there August 22-September 4.
(Free dining 8/26-9/4). .

IF free dining is offered starting on the 26th, how could you apply free dining to your package?
Our dates are booked and set too...Aug 22-28, POP. I booked with AAA and I specifically asked about free dining. I was told there would be no problem adding free dining IF our dates fell into the right time frame.

 

[disneyjunkie]

IF free dining is offered starting on the 26th, how could you apply free dining to your package?
Our dates are booked and set too...Aug 22-28, POP. I booked with AAA and I specifically asked about free dining. I was told there would be no problem adding free dining IF our dates fell into the right time frame.

I'll have two reservations. The first four nights will be room only and I might purchase 10 day tickets from Ticketmania. Or I may purchase PAPs not sure about this part yet.

The last 9 nights will be the free dining package with one day base tickets.

Once free dining is released, I'll have the two reservations linked. I hope by doing this, I won't have to change rooms when I check in/out on the 26th.

 

[TheRatPack]

I'm not too worried, if they run out of free dining we'll stay offsite and eat like we always have. I would love to have free dining like we did 2 years ago, but we missed it last year and we didn't die LOL I'd much rather take a vacation and stay off site then not take one at all because we didn't get a discount

 

[twinspluscade]

This year is different.

They've already offered the plan to other groups.
The number of allotted rooms won't be as plentiful as in the pass. Someone who booked the bounce back plan said she couldn't get her first choice of resorts and dates back in December.

I'm nervous because my dates are set. We'll be there August 22-September 4.
(Free dining 8/26-9/4). Pulling my son out of school for WDW isn't an option.

I'm only interested in staying at PC. We're willing to book All Stars, but really don't want to.

If they hadn't offered the UK and bounce back packages, then I wouldn't be concerned.

I read that on the other thread too, and that poster was booked with bounceback for EARLY AUGUST--which is quite busy anyway. I would imagine a lot of the bounce back people booked in August if they have older kids--which might explain why they supposedly will be shortening the free dining period for the general public.

I'm hoping September is still super slow, and will have lots of availabilities! We'll be going regardless, but I'm so not a crowd person--I'm hoping it's like when we went last year, and DEAD !

 

[nbodyhome]

I would be that as well, if the bounceback started in August for this year. I remember last year, the most popular timeframes for taking the free dine seemed to be August 13th and September 29th/30th. Very beginning or very end. The middle didn't book up so fast.

 

[Alisha's mom Sarah]

I'm a bit newrvous only because I'm so excited . I have a Disney Visa so I keep checking every day hoping to find something.. We're going to my in-laws tomorrow for the weekend and they have dial-up so I'm afraid I might miss something

 

[CarolA]

I'm not a disney cardholder so I'll have to wait about a week later to book my room. I'm scared there won't be any available w/ all the chatter here, and all the ones who are anxiously waiting-plus the ones that have already booked in anticipation of free dining. Anyone else nervous??? Or am I the only one?

(where's the chewing nails smiley??? )

Remember the DIS boards do NOT reflect reality.... Cruise other Disney boards... NADA. The 100 folks on the DIS boards having panic attacks and obsessively calling Disney don't reflect the majority of the Disney world.

 

[Budahman]

I AM a Disney visa card holder, and I am STILL nervous. I am planning on coming Sept 22- Oct 2nd and with a larger group of about 1-12 of us. We'll be staying at POP probably and it'd be nice to be able to get in on that deal.

Not to mention I'm also nervous that the dining ressies will be gone even before free dining is announced. LOL

 

[Aimros]

NOW IM SUPER NERVOUS! HAHA now its been confirmed and I have to wait until Thursday I'm going to go nuts! This is worse than a kid waiting for Christmas morning! I have this bad feeling that all the Disney Visa holders will call on Monday and take all the rooms and there won't be any left by Thursday! OK, someone calm me down! I'm so excited/nervous!

 

[Aimros]

I knew I should of applied for a Visa card!!!!

 

[twinspluscade]

NOW IM SUPER NERVOUS! HAHA now its been confirmed and I have to wait until Thursday I'm going to go nuts! This is worse than a kid waiting for Christmas morning! I have this bad feeling that all the Disney Visa holders will call on Monday and take all the rooms and there won't be any left by Thursday! OK, someone calm me down! I'm so excited/nervous!

I'm pretty sure you'll be fine.

Keep in mind that Disboards is a small proportion of everyone going to WDW. Most people will have no idea about free dining. And....most people "not in the know" already planning to go during September will probably have booked a while ago. Plus late August, early September is such a hard time for many people to go, so many won't. Just check all the threads on here about disappointed people who can't switch their dates for free dining.

I have a feeling when free dining is released--for Visa and general public--90% of the people calling will be DISsers. .

Oh, and you know what (can't believe I'm admitting this here...)? Last year my family went during September...and PAID for the dining plan....because I had no idea free dining was being offered! I wasn't "in the know" back then, and the general public is going to have no idea about free dining.

Kelly

 

[Aimros]

Hmm good point. Do you think we can shut down the Disboards to any new members so no one else can find out? Just kidding, that would be very selfish!!

 

[Reese]

NOW IM SUPER NERVOUS! HAHA now its been confirmed and I have to wait until Thursday I'm going to go nuts! This is worse than a kid waiting for Christmas morning! I have this bad feeling that all the Disney Visa holders will call on Monday and take all the rooms and there won't be any left by Thursday! OK, someone calm me down! I'm so excited/nervous!

Same here. Also I already have the plan for Thursday. I have to take DH to work for 7 and than I'm going to sit in the parking lot and phone at exactly 7. We aren't telling the kids about it until we get on the airplane so this way I don't have to worry about anyone overhearing too.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Well, now I'm wavering. We're going for a week in late October and were going to add on the dining plan. If I move that up three weeks, we can eat for free, but it's totally going to screw with my work's travel schedule. My boss is mad, but he said we could work it out.

It basically comes down to saving $566 versus heat, crowds, no ADRs left, etc.

 

[seven dwarfs]

I applied for a card a week ago when I thought this might happen. The link said use card now! Then when I was done it said 30 days to see if approved!!!!

Maybe Disney will release a certain amount of rooms to card holders and then a certain amount on Thursaday for the rest of us. Kind of how they do CRT. I am a little nervous. Only becuase a lot more people know about this deal then in the past. But, it is still a lot of money if you had no plans to go. And it is a bad time to go for school aged kids. I will be glad when it is all over. It is amazing how much stress this all is! LOL