Confused about free dining

[lover_wdw13]

Okay, so if I go during free dining '09, can I just eat at restaurants like normal and just pay normal price?? We will not be on Dining Plan or anything. Can I still make ADR like normal?? Thank you

 

[ArielRae]

Yes if you go to WDW during free dining but do not have free dining yourself you can still go to all your favorite resturants be it quick service or a table service and pay like a normal person. People with the free dining will not have to pay for their food but hand over their room cards and tell cast members that they are on the dining plan. You will find that they will ask you if you are on the dining plan or not. Just let them know your not and they will know to bring you a standard bill at the end of your meal.

 

[TDC Nala]

You don't need to be on Free Dining or even using the dining plan to gain access to the restaurants. I'm going Labor Day weekend without using the dining plan at all.

You do, however, need to think about the fact that it will be very difficult to get reservations for table service restaurants, and realize that unless you have reservations in advance it will be likely that you cannot get into table service restaurants in the parks at all. That is assuming that Free Dining in 2009 operates the same way it does in 2008. If the free diners are getting the counter service plan (it's speculated this may happen), many of them will not need to make restaurant reservations.

 

[mbanks21]

Why are you planning to go during free dining and not be on the free dining plan?

 

[TDC Nala]

I do not want to purchase a room, a ticket, or a dining plan (actually in this case just the room and the ticket). I don't need any of them.

I have a DVC room and an AP.

One of my bookings is at Victoria & Alberts which does not accept the dining plan.

I don't even like using the dining plan. It was okay when the tips and appetizers were included. It's not anymore. I want to order whatever I want from the menu and pay accordingly. If I want two appetizers and no entree I can order two appetizers and no entree.

As to why I would even bother to go during free dining - I could have had the good sense to be born at another time of year, but that's when my birthday is.

 

[Pumbaa_]

so it is really all your mother's fault

 

[TDC Nala]

so it is really all your mother's fault

My dad may have had something to do with it too