DVC and free dining

[ckdsnynt]

Can someone with more experience answer this?

We are using our DVC for the first gtime this Christmas at BLT. Free dining was just released for our dates. Can free dining be used with DVC reservations?

Thanks.

 

[zalansky]

You can but the regular plan and pay cash OOP. Yeah, we know it stinks! But its all we've got. The only way to get free dining is to book a full rack rate room with I believe 5 days park passes" Someone more knowledgeable should chime in any moment now...waiting...buelleur? Anyw=one?

 

[ckdsnynt]

You can but the regular plan and pay cash OOP. Yeah, we know it stinks! But its all we've got. The only way to get free dining is to book a full rack rate room with I believe 5 days park passes" Someone more knowledgeable should chime in any moment now...waiting...buelleur? Anyw=one?

That really does stink. It's not like we got our rooms at a discount rate when we paid to be DVC members!

 

[DebbieB]

That really does stink. It's not like we got our rooms at a discount rate when we paid to be DVC members!

You don't think you are getting a discount with DVC? If so, then why did you join?

Take a look at the rack rates required for free dining. For BLT in value season, a standard view studio is $385 plus tax. An MK view is $450 plus tax. You can pay that and get "free dining".

 

[ckdsnynt]

You don't think you are getting a discount with DVC? If so, then why did you join?

Take a look at the rack rates required for free dining. For BLT in value season, a standard view studio is $385 plus tax. An MK view is $450 plus tax. You can pay that and get "free dining".

I just asked a simple question. There's no need to get snippy. This place used to be a place you could ask a simple question without someone jumping on you.

 

[adminjedi]

I would much rather get the rooms with dvc and no free dining. If we paid cash for our 2br suites at AKV concierge or VGC, they would cost $1700-2400 PER NIGHT!!!!! I'll take that over free Mickey Head ice creams!

 

[rentayenta]

I would much rather get the rooms with dvc and no free dining. If we paid cash for our 2br suites at AKV concierge or VGC, they would cost $1700-2400 PER NIGHT!!!!! I'll take that over free Mickey Head ice creams!

Totally. Our 2 bedroom villa at the GCV last month would have cost about $10,000 for the stay. I am positive it would take us a year to eat $10,000 in food, not 5 days, even at Disney's prices.

 

[starstruck93]

Totally. Our 2 bedroom villa at the GCV last month would have cost about $10,000 for the stay. I am positive it would take us a year to eat $10,000 in food, not 5 days, even at Disney's prices.

True..... our stay at BLT this December.....1 bedroom, MK view would've cost us $4400! So, no, I'm not worried about the free dining at all!

 

[Crystal_27]

That really does stink. It's not like we got our rooms at a discount rate when we paid to be DVC members!

Well, we too are staying at BLT during the holidays and our room, had we been paying rack rate (which you have to do in order to receive the free DDP), would have cost $7,700 plus tax. Given that the DDP only costs $1,300 for the duration of our trip, I'd say we are coming out waaaayyyy ahead with going DVC.

 

[JimMIA]

No offense, but the "Free" Dining debate is really silly.

DVC owners have exactly the same access to "Free" Dining that everyone else does -- pay the price, get "free" food.

Where we do get a discount is on the paid DDP, which is most of the year. We can purchase that for the same price as anyone else, but we don't have to purchase park tickets we don't need. And during those peak periods when they jack up the price of DDP even more, we still pay the "regular" price.

Our family hasn't used DDP since Disney Dining gutted it a few years ago and the food variety went away. We find eating offsite much better and less expensive.

But we DVC owners really get a much better deal on DDP than anyone else.

 

[ckdsnynt]

No offense, but the "Free" Dining debate is really silly.

DVC owners have exactly the same access to "Free" Dining that everyone else does -- pay the price, get "free" food.

Where we do get a discount is on the paid DDP, which is most of the year. We can purchase that for the same price as anyone else, but we don't have to purchase park tickets we don't need. And during those peak periods when they jack up the price of DDP even more, we still pay the "regular" price.

Our family hasn't used DDP since Disney Dining gutted it a few years ago and the food variety went away. We find eating offsite much better and less expensive.

But we DVC owners really get a much better deal on DDP than anyone else.

Thank you so much! This is the analysis that puts it in perspective. Once I thought about it and put a pencil to it, yes, our DVC rooms are alot less than rack rate. (Don't know how I could have forgotten that selling point!) We have 4 2br villas reserved for Christmas for a party of about 28 and there is no way I could afford to give my family this treat if I had to pay oop. The free dining would have been icing on the cake but we'll take our cake as it is and eat it too!

Again, thanks to those who helped me.