NO FREE DINING with campground?

[originalrabbit]

Just called to make reservations for a campsite. Smart a** reservation guy says no free dining with campsites - never has been and never will be! Is this true or did I just find someone having a bad day?

 

[DisCamper]

Disney sometime offers free dining for cabins but never for campsites

 

[freshlybarked]

Free dining is NEVER an option for campsites. We can have 10 people at site so Disney does not offer us free dining. I do think they could offer it for up to 4 people or I would be happy if they offered it to just 2 people.

 

[CSHaydt]

I was told the same thing - There are 6 of us and we were staying in a campsite and we ended up upgrading to a cabin to get the free dining and we didn't pay much more for the upgrade then we were paying in the campsite when you took the food off our bill.

it also ended up saving us money in gas from pulling our camper down from PA. I hate it when they are rude! i've gotten 2 rude people when calling. It wouldn't be so bad if they were at least nice about it.

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

If you're diligent about it, I've heard you can scoot around the Fort and find lots of crockpots left unattended on picnic tables...isn't that the Fort version of free dining? And I also believe TCD has found a way to score hamburgers off site 617, if you prefer grilled food.

 

[JoShan1719]

I've heard they do this because the campsites are so cheap people were booking them to get the free dining, EMH, etc., but staying off site?

 

[DisCamper]

I think it has something to do with have 10 people on sites and lots of campers stay 2 week –months at a time Disney would lose money

 

[Born 2 Fish]

I've heard they do this because the campsites are so cheap people were booking them to get the free dining, EMH, etc., but staying off site?

At one time, (at least as long as we have stay'd there), the Fort had reasonable site prices, not so anymore,,not much difference in price of sites and a room at a resort now'a dayz.

 

[mnsprk]

At one time, (at least as long as we have stay'd there), the Fort had reasonable site prices, not so anymore,,not much difference in price of sites and a room at a resort now'a dayz.

But the atmosphere is a heck of lot better than a Value Resort and the fact that FrIENDS are at the Fort makes it all worth it...IMHO

 

[Born 2 Fish]

But the atmosphere is a heck of lot better than a Value Resort and the fact that FrIENDS are at the Fort makes it all worth it...IMHO

then of course there is that,,

 

[ms_missy66]

The no free dining rule bums me out. Our sweet little family of four...the same amount of people who would stay in any old stinky hotel room...love our RV! I choose it any day over other accomodations. Like someone else said, I wish they would just limit the number of free dining passes, so to speak, rather than say "never has been, never will be." Boo Disney.

 

[ftwildernessrick]

The no free dining rule bums me out. Our sweet little family of four...the same amount of people who would stay in any old stinky hotel room...love our RV! I choose it any day over other accomodations. Like someone else said, I wish they would just limit the number of free dining passes, so to speak, rather than say "never has been, never will be." Boo Disney.

Or if they would even just give us a discount on each DDE for every member of your party. It just does not seem fair that we are excluded. Like Born 2 Fish says, there is not much price difference anymore between the Fort a value resort.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

It just does not seem fair that we are excluded. .

1) With the price of a campsite, there is no profit.
2) They would actually PAY YOU with more than 3-people on the site.

 

[TrueLove's1stKiss]

It is a major bummer & I agree, the prices between a value & campsite are so close now, so why not? But the nice thing about camping is you can easily cook your food while you are at the fort. Somce vouchers for the park days would certainly be nice though!

 

[Diamond Girl]

If you're diligent about it, I've heard you can scoot around the Fort and find lots of crockpots left unattended on picnic tables...isn't that the Fort version of free dining? And I also believe TCD has found a way to score hamburgers off site 617, if you prefer grilled food.

Oops! There goes my plan on using crockpots to cook our dinners. LOL

 

[MMFanCipher]

At one time, (at least as long as we have stay'd there), the Fort had reasonable site prices, not so anymore,,not much difference in price of sites and a room at a resort now'a dayz.

I'll have to respectfully disagree with this. I've priced a value stay and a FW stay; same time frame, tickets, everything; and the FW stay was roughly $2k cheaper than the value.

 

[YodaGirl]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with this. I've priced a value stay and a FW stay; same time frame, tickets, everything; and the FW stay was roughly $2k cheaper than the value.

I just priced it on Disney's site.

I priced a stay from 10/4/10 - 10/9/10 with 6 day tickets.

You can stay at a tent site at FtW and pay for QS dining for $1659.41.
$1289.56 w/o dining.

Or you could stay at Disney's All-Star Music for $1643.20 w/o dining.

If you go to WDW during free dining, you would be paying more to stay at the campground and pay for dining.

 

[DaveInTN]

I might be in the minority, but I'm glad they don't offer free dining with campsites. Here are 3 reasons:

1. The Fort is busy enough. I'm afraid free dining would just pack them in more and make it harder to get a site.

2. With free dining, I'd feel all that planning pressure to score ADR's for all the meals, when in reality one of the things I like about camping is coming back to the site in the late afternoon, popping a beer, and firing up the grill. It's more relaxing to me than planning my days around all those ADR's. I do enjoy a few meals out during our trips, but like the majority of my meals to be homecooked.

3. I'm fat enough.

JMHO of course.

 

[TinaLala]

I think no free dining with campground is crap!!!

People need to get a deal - having a trailer is an expense, not only buying the trailer, the insurance, the gas to get to Disney, the upkeep of the trailer and the aggrevation of having to deal with your family while you drive there! Now they're going to add pain to injury and take away free dining.

HELLO I'm staying on disney property! I'm utilize your services! I want to eat at your restaurants! I'm paying for the tickets to go to our park! What more do you want from me!!!

We were planning a trip to go next August with our trailer, but we're NOT going until 2013 now!

 

[retired and happy]

I agree with DaveInTN. It's hard enough to get reservations now without the lure of free dining. And they aren't taking free dining away. It was never there. And I have a motorhome and a grill so I CAN prepare many of my own meals.