Anyone Having Trouble Getting FD on Extended Dates?

Happy Mom2

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I already have reservations for December (my dates are not blocked out), and I called this morning (on phone now) to get the free dining, and am being told my dates are completely booked and they have no FD left. I went online at the same time and FD was available for my dates. I have been on hold for about 30 minutes (poor CM keeps coming back and apologizing). He is trying to figure out what is wrong. Just wondering if anyone else is having problems. CM said he is trying to get in touch with a different department, but he is having trouble getting them so he was going to physically walk over there.

CM just came back and said that the FD is completely booked for one of our first days there so it is not available to us. :sad2:

I'm upset, but it will not stop us from going. I'm going to play around online and see what I can do.
 
Update: I called back, and got the FD with an upgraded room. I still saved $500 total!!

Lesson learned: If you don't get what you want, try again!
 
Having the same problem right now. Tried to get Pop Century, but all standard rooms are booked. He is now trying for one of the other value resorts, and "it's" not letting him book it. Right now, I'm on hold with guest services. Feels like I've been on hold forever! I hope we get free dining!
 
We are going Nov 28-Dec 6, we had to switch our already booked ressie from our beloved Pop to AS Music as Pop was totally booked for FD
 

Same here. Had to switch from POP to ASMu...sigh....but we have FREE DINING :cool1::cool1::cool1: We upgraded to the regular dining plan and are staying one extra day, and we are saving around $400 compared to our original booking of one day less and paying OOP for the regular dining plan:thumbsup2:thumbsup2:
 
Same here. Had to switch from POP to ASMu...sigh....but we have FREE DINING :cool1::cool1::cool1: We upgraded to the regular dining plan and are staying one extra day, and we are saving around $400 compared to our original booking of one day less and paying OOP for the regular dining plan:thumbsup2:thumbsup2:

If you are looking at Pop as it appears we are going around the same time, but as of right now they have both preferred and standard rooms available with the FD ( we also upgraded to reg dining) We are back to Pop Century!!
 
Consider a moderate...

Depending on your party size (2 adults and 2 juniors), upgrade to a mod is not much. For us, going 12/20-26, it was about $200 on a mod, than staying at a value, upgrading dining and renting a fridge (could not get anything under the fridge swaps)

And, (at least on the coronado) the beds are queen size instead of double.

It seems there's PLENTY of availability as folks are canceling and moving around. Remember this offer was extended way before than typical. In fact, I smell more offers will be coming out...
 
It seems there's PLENTY of availability as folks are canceling and moving around. Remember this offer was extended way before than typical. In fact, I smell more offers will be coming out...[/QU


:goodvibes I have already changed our ressies to FD but I love the waiting to see what good offers are coming out to everyone else. I hope everyone is pleasantly suprised!!:goodvibes
 
UPDATE: I checked the wdw website today and they show availability at POP for free dining in Nov/Dec! So I moved from ASMu to Pop :cool1:
 
I booked yesterday during what was supposed to be a blackout date. Still at Pop with upgraded free dining.
I had to talk to 4-5 cm's (and about 4 hours later) before someone did it. Now, I was not trying to force their hand or anything, I just had to keep making changes because of flight schedules, etc and one of the things that kept popping up was changing the check-in date. I was ready to pull my hair out, and had already been denied the request previously for the blackout time frame and then had to call again and now they COULD do it. Arrrgggg!!! I swear I almost wanted to cancel the whole trip. It was sooooo not worth the pain in the a** it caused!
Of course today I am glad I did it, but yesterday I wanted to say to heck with Disney! Pfffttt!
 














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