Get a FREE dining plan when you purchase a non-discounted package that includes a room at a select Disney Resort hotel and theme park ticket with Park Hopper or Water Park Fun & More Option.
Offer valid at select Disney Resort hotels for arrivals most nights:
- August 23 through October 1, 2016. (August 14 for Disney Visa and foreign guests)
- November 15 through November 21, 2016
- November 26 through November 28, 2016
- December 10 through December 21, 2016
Book through July 8, 2016.
Explore the Disney Resort hotels and Disney dining plans eligible for this offer in the chart below.
Moderate, Deluxe and Deluxe Villas – Free Disney Dining Plan
Value Resorts – Free Quick Service plan
You may pay the difference in cost for a more expensive Dining Plan!
The number of rooms allocated for this offer is limited. Everyone in the same room must be on the same package. Some table-service restaurants may have limited or no availability at time of package purchase. Advance reservations are required. Tickets and options must be used within 14 days of first use.
A Dining Plan Is Included with Your Package
With a Disney dining plan, every person in your party can enjoy 2 meals and one snack per person, per night of your stay.
- Disney Dining Plan:
If your package includes a Disney Dining Plan, you’ll enjoy one quick-service meal, one table-service meal and one snack per person, per night of your stay. Table-service meals can be redeemed for Character Dining, Signature Dining and dinner shows. Plus, each person in your party gets a Resort-refillable mug. - Disney Quick-Service Dining Plan:
If your package includes a Disney Quick-Service Dining Plan, you’ll enjoy 2 quick-service meals and one snack per person, per night of your stay. Plus, each person in your party gets a Resort-refillable mug. - Or, upgrade to the Disney Deluxe Dining Plan for even more satisfying options!
Offer Details
- Book Through
July 8, 2016 - Valid For Arrivals Most Nights
- August 23 through October 1, 2016
- November 15 through November 21, 2016
- November 26 through November 28, 2016
- December 10 through December 21, 2016
Package Includes
- Room
- Theme park ticket(s) with Park Hopper or Water Park Fun & More Option
- Dining Plan (Disney Quick-Service Dining Plan with Value Resort hotel packages; Disney Dining Plan with Moderate, Deluxe and Deluxe Villa Resort hotel packages)
Important Details
- The number of rooms allocated for this offer is limited.
- Advance reservations required.
- Tickets and options must be used within 14 days of first use.
- Children ages 3 to 9 must choose from the children’s menu, if available.
- Some table-service restaurants may have limited or no availability at time of package purchase.
Offer Restrictions
- Cannot be combined with any other discount or promotion.
- Excludes alcoholic beverages and gratuities.
- Everyone in the same room must be on the same package.
- Offer excludes the following room types:
3-bedroom villas, campsites
Disney’s Art of Animation Resort – Little Mermaid Standard Rooms
Bungalows at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows.
We are really wanting to visit WDW again the week before Christmas, 2017. Free Dining has been available in recent years during this time, including this year. We are very interested in the Free Dining. Any idea when the dates will be released for this? Also, after reading some of these posts, you guys make it sound like it is not easy to get. Is this indeed the case? We have been to WDW 5 times, but never during a Free Dining period. Are there any tricks or tips that I need to know?
Disney hasn’t announced another round of Free Dining at this time. I’ll post, if I hear anything.
Thank you. So, how hard is it to get the free dining? Is it not as simple as reserving during the given dates?
So, how different is it to make a reservation that includes free dining?
No different. Same process. You just tell the server you have Dining Plan when you pay
For anyone who is looking for the free dining plan, I suggest to keep checking. We originally could not get the dining plan free for the dates of Sept 30-October 8 for any of the moderate. I stalked the Walt Disney website and the free dinning came available for Coronado Springs so we switched from Port Orleans Riverside to Coronado. Yesterday free dining rooms for Port Orleans Riverside for our stay was released and we were able to change back to our original. It saved us around $1100.
Glad you found what you were looking for!
And Canadians…
I heard that it opens for Disney Visa holder on August 14th…not sure if you are one or not though..
True
Hoping more discounts open up. Our agent tried to get our PO Riverside room with an October 1st checkin changed to the free dining with no luck.
I couldn’t get PO Riverside either with check in of Nov 26
Me either for September :(
Hi Kenny, You may want to double check the start dates of the offer. I just booked Free Dining for friends who arrive August 14th!!
That came from Disney
Okay. Just saying the Disney website now says August 14th on their offer page and I can confirm that Free Dining can be booked from Aug 14th onwards.
Thanks!
Sorry, just found out the dates are different for Canadians but it’s not advertised anywhere that’s why the dates I was seeing were different. Please feel free to delete my comments if you can Kenny. I would if I had the ability. Thanks,
Really limited number of rooms. Did finally get all 3 of our rooms booked but we were working at 4:30 this morning by 7 almost everything in the moderate range hotels during our mid September stay was gone. Ugh
More will be released later. Always does
Do you have a date for when more will be released? I had no idea they were so limited and I needed to get on it at 4:30am. :( Thanks Kenny!!
Seems to happen randomly in blocks
Hey Kenny again and always thanks for the posts! Will there be some kind of notification on when more rooms are open or will I just need to keep checking in?
You have to keep trying unfortunately.
When you say more will be released later, do you mean more rooms for various resorts?? Port Orleans Riverside is excluded from free dining after Oct 1st. Should I keep my reservation there, and hope for the best or switch resorts??
I have not been able to get through on the phone (all circuits are busy). As far as I can tell standard view rooms for the 3 monorail deluxe resorts don’t have anything available for FD dining for a lot of time periods as well.
Thanks for the update Kenny. I just was able to rebook my dec 10-17 trip and saved $1,100. We had 2 rooms at Pop and had to switch to All Star Music but it was worth the savings. No rooms available for the Pop.
This deal so far sucks. I arrive 9/23 at pop. Only AOA suites open value and even up grading to moderates no rooms then. Wtf
Ok one cup of coffee later I called back got someone good on the phone. Switched to all star and got the deal for both reservations
I had a similar thing happen. My travel agent said that if rooms are already booked during your stay or almost fully booked, they won’t offer any sort of discount. It’s part of the “limited availability.” We had to look at switching hotels which we didn’t want to do. We also had to add park hopper, since we didn’t already have it, which reduced the potential savings.
Wow Kristen! Talk about a bait’n switch! That’s awful.
We check in on 8/21 for an 8 nt stay at Polynesian. Based on the free dining dates does this mean free dining will start for us on 8/23 and we pay out of pocket for 2 days or that we can’t take advantage of free dining at all? I hate to miss out on such a huge savings because of a 2 day difference.
Just FYI – the website is showing 5 night stay minimum but TAs info is that it’s a 3 night minimum stay.