DDP without booking a package?

[Bobo912]

I recently made reservations and booked the room and park tickets separately. The CM asked me if I wanted to add the DDP. I wasn't ready to commit, so I told her no. She said if I wanted to add it later I could. It didn't occur to me at the time, but isn't the DDP only available for packages? But she offered it to me, so maybe I'm mistaken.

 

[RMulieri]

I am pretty sure you need a MYW package with dining ...

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Just heard that as of 2/20, AP holders can book room-only plus dining to take advantage of dining without having to buy a separate MYW ticket. Not sure if you're an AP holder and that helps...

 

[Bobo912]

I plan to upgrade to an AP when we get to WDW, since we're planning another trip in Sept. I had already made the reservations when the AP rates came out and debated changing my reservation for several days. Then my son says he wants to do character dining this time, so I figured we should get the DDP. I called and you do have to have a package to get DDP, so the first CM was just confused, I guess. Couldn't change the reservations to use the AP + DDP rate because there were no rooms left. CM checked value and moderate. I don't mind, since we got a decent rate anyway. I'm trying to talk the kiddo into waiting for the Sept trip for the character dining, and maybe we'll have the free dining offer by then. I mentioned the character meet & greet at Epcot for Disney Rewards Visa cardholders to him and I think that may satisfy him for now. If he really wants to do it for the May trip, we'll do it anyway, but I suspect that when we get there he won't care. He's usually not very interested in spending a lot of time eating and he very rarely wants to have his picture taken with the characters in the park.

 

[Tink3815]

That would be great if this is true. You are still paying for the room and basically with the AP you have already bought the tickets. I did notice something on the Disney web site. I was checking prices on a one night stay. Added a 1 day basic ticket. The option then came up to add the dinning plan, which I did and it took it. I always was under the impresssion that a to get the dinning plan you had to do a 3 night package. Does anyone have any more info on this?

 

[Allison]

She probably would have converted everything to a package if you told her you wanted the dining plan and meant that you could still add it if you wanted but it would convert everything to a package.

 

[aubriee]

When the AP codes first came out this week. I called and booked a room only. Two days later I called back and asked to add the dining. The CM had to cancel my first reservation, refund my credit card, then booked another reservation, gave me a new confirmation number, and recharged my credit card. He also gave me a cancellation number for the first reservation. He said they had to do this because adding the dining plan made the reservation a pkg, which was then subject to the pkg rules (paid in full by 45 days out and penalties for changing, etc). My room only confirmation number was a 12 digit number, whereas my AP room with dining confirmation number is a 8 digit number. He said it was because the 12 digit confirmation numbers are for room only and the 8 digit confirmation numbers are for packages. He also told me that I could make changes up to 45 days out without penalties, but if I made any changes after that that I would have to pay a change fee (unless I did something that would make the price go up, in which case the change fee would be waived, i.e. upgrading from the regular DDP to the DxDDP or upgrading to a more expensive resort).

 

[Luv2Roam]

booked the room and park tickets separately. The CM asked me if I wanted to add the DDP.

Agree with pp, the CM would have sold them together, as a package, as the DDP is a part of a WDTC package. Sounds like currently you have a room only (that is not WDTC) and tickets.
Even if you bought tickets somewhere besides Disney, the CM may have mentioned it because many buy a one day MYW pass for each person in their package in order to book a WDTC MYW package with dining. Then they save the ticket portion for another trip.

 

[Bobo912]

Yes, she was probably talking about cancelling and rebooking. When I finally decided that we wanted the DDP afterall, that is what I tried to do. But by then all the AP rates for our dates for value/moderate were gone. We're only going to do 1 character dinner at LTT. Other than that we'll probably just do counter service, so we won't spend all that much on food. This is just a 3 1/2 day trip. We'll get DDP for the next trip in Sept and save the more expensive dining for then. Hopefully, the free dining package will materialize.