Free Dining Plan for Fall 2014?

[mcdonald]

Any information, or educated guesses, as to potential dates for free dining plan for Fall 2014? We're planning a large family gathering for mid-September to late September, and free dining plan availability would be a big key for us selecting dates. Thanks for any help that anyone may have.

 

[figment_jii]

There is really no way to know if FD will be offered next year because they've been trying to scale back the discounts.

Still, you can look through Mousesavers.com's list of historical discounts and their release dates to get an idea of when the discounts for the fall have been historically announced.

http://www.mousesavers.com/historical-information-on-walt-disney-world-resort-discounts/#codechart

 

[yankebabie]

We took advantage of a free dining bounce back offer when we were there this past September for free dining in September 2014, so maybe that is a good sign for free dining to be offered again for the general public in sept 2014

 

[mickeynut1]

Any information, or educated guesses, as to potential dates for free dining plan for Fall 2014? We're planning a large family gathering for mid-September to late September, and free dining plan availability would be a big key for us selecting dates. Thanks for any help that anyone may have.

As the pp said, there's really no way of knowing what (if anything) will be offered, but FD has been offered in September for quite awhile. It used to run mid August through September, but has lately been decreased to just the month of September. With that said, I would say your chances are pretty good that it will be offered (although that's just my opinion as Disney can stop discounts at any time). If it is going to be offered, it will probably come out around March or April.

 

[TDC Nala]

September is the only time for which a general public free dining offer has been out consistently since 2003 when they started free dining offers.

So your chances are quite good with a check-in date in mid-September, although it can't ever be called a certainty.