Yankeeslover- Did you try calling to see if there was a pin attached to your name? I totally miss FD by 1 stinkin week, but I still have a discount code that they applied to my rooms. Call- you never know!!-theres some dust for ya!
OK, not that pathetic..but I just ask. Also, check your spam (not the mystery meat)....thats where I found my 30% off summer code.
If you look at the past Free Dining discounts for the last 8 or 9 years, they have really only had free dining in mid-August 3 times, the rest of the years it has been the last part of August. Also, for the last 2 years they have offered a lot of free dining dates outside of the August/September time frame and I know a good bit of my teacher friends have been able to take advantage of those deals. I had some teacher friends who have booked on the last day of a Free Dining offer in mid-November and got free dinign for the whole week of Thanksgiving, which our district has off. Also, this year they had a number of March free dining dates and even included our school districts Spring Break vacation. I think almost every teacher we know is going with their family in a couple of weeks on that free dining promo. I'm not saying that every teacher can use every free dining offer, because they most certainly can't. But, it is possible. I don't know if your district has the week of Thanksgiving off, but they usually have a free dining offer up until the Thursday before Thanksgiving, so you may be able to book that deal and only have to take one day off. I know a lot of districts are different about personal days and such, but I do have a friend that is planning to try to do that this year and she teaches 4th grade. Anyway, sorry these dates didn't work for you this year.I am also very surprised and disappointed that they aren't even including at least the third week of August for the current FD promo which should be released to the general public on Monday. This may cause a lot of people who are teachers or don't want to pull their kids from school to look elsewhere for deals. I am strongly considering doing a Y.E.S. program class or going through AAA for discounted park tickets and getting a condo at Windsor Hills or Wyndham Bonnett Creek. It looks like Disney is changing up how they are running their promos so a lot of people may end up changing how they do their Disney trips
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DH is suggesting we go somewhere else in FL since we have our airfare booked 
so we're discussing an option of maybe renting a car to have some flexibility with dining &/or go to the beach a few days 
I hate ya'll can't take advantage of this year's free dining discounts. I know how much it means because we now take all of our trips around free dining dates, looking at these past free dining dates from Mousesavers, the August dates don't look that different from many of the past years discounts. Also, looking at these dates, to me it looks like they offered more Free Dining dates last year, and the beginning of this year, than ever before. I'm anxiously awaiting the October - December free dining dates:I was referring to third week of August which to me is more towards the end of August; and since value season has traditionally began around mid August it seems the past free dining offers for Aug/Sept have usually included at least the third week of August. Out my way, our school districts don't get fall breaks, spring breaks (except for a few days before Easter), or the entire week of Thanksgiving off so August free dining was a great promotion for those out my way who don't want to or can't miss school; and considering the high/peak resort prices Thanksgiving week, even if we were to take advantage of trying to catch the tail end of a free dining offer the week before Thanksgiving by checking in on a Friday, the high/peak resort prices that begin that Saturday before Thanksgiving week would negate any money we would save with free dining if we went over Thanksgiving. The fact that they are offering free dining so late in August now compared to what they have offered over the past few years is a sign to me that Disney is changing up how they run their promotions or may in deed be scaling back on them; but thank you for your feedback though
KEEP calling! I called for approx a month--sometimes 2-3 times aday. A few weeks ago I called Monday AM (just called Sunday PM & nothing) & wahla I had a FD pin for the beginning of August. I have NO idea how the night before I had nothing & first thing in the AM I did.. Who knows, but Im not complaining!
Good Luck & DON'T give up!
When I call, I say I'm looking to book for 10 days naming a different resort, they'll look up my info & say, "Oh, we see you're already booked a room only" to which I acknowledge & say, "Yes, but we're thinking about adding 3 days & rebooking at a mod & changing it to a package if there's a pin attached to our household 
I don't know if I can do this everyday, did you really call every single day? The constant no's are so discouraging 
