Adding Dining Plan to existing booking help please

[Tracykph]

Hi

We booked early as got a good a price for AoA, May 2020, Tui high street, love the theming and have the gondola transport. Originally we thought we would not need any of the dining plans going on past eating habits when staying off site. However DH has now said after taking a good look at the restaurants he suggests we take the dining plan (1 x main 1 x table service) So my question is what would be the cheapest way in your opinion, pay to add on or look at other onsite accommodation with free dining? We appreciate we may get stung for an admin fee to change the booking. We are going to the travel agent next weekend after the plan is released.

Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

I am not sure what you mean by “1x main, 1 x table service”. I would wait until the 25th and just ask TUI to quote you for either the cost of dining plan or for different accommodation. No way of knowing for sure which would be cheaper.

[Caroian]

As you have booked through an agent, this is something you will need to talk to the agent about. Once the free dining plan offer is released you may be able to cancel (likely forfeiting your deposit) and then rebook with the free dining, but if you stick with a value resort you will only get the free breakfast offer (1 QS credit) so would then need to pay to upgrade to the full DDP - given that you might well lose whatever deposit you've already paid, this may not work out financially any better than just paying to add the dining plan to your existing booking. However, agents can charge different prices than those quoted by Disney for adding the dining plan (or sometimes seem to say it isn't possible at all) so this is why you ned to discuss costs with them. You cannot add the dining plan directly through Disney if you have booked through an agent.

If you are lucky, Tui may not make you forfeit your deposit and you could look at booking a moderate and upgrading the dining plan, or booking a deluxe which comes with full DDP - but the costs for this are agent dependent so it is impossible to say what would be cheapest. In general I think it is often cheaper to stay at a moderate and upgrade the free QSDP than stay at a value and upgrade the free breakfast plan - other users here will have better records of cost than me though!

[Andybear]

Originally Posted by Caroian

As you have booked through an agent, this is something you will need to talk to the agent about. Once the free dining plan offer is released you may be able to cancel (likely forfeiting your deposit) and then rebook with the free dining, but if you stick with a value resort you will only get the free breakfast offer (1 QS credit) so would then need to pay to upgrade to the full DDP - given that you might well lose whatever deposit you've already paid, this may not work out financially any better than just paying to add the dining plan to your existing booking. However, agents can charge different prices than those quoted by Disney for adding the dining plan (or sometimes seem to say it isn't possible at all) so this is why you ned to discuss costs with them. You cannot add the dining plan directly through Disney if you have booked through an agent.

If you are lucky, Tui may not make you forfeit your deposit and you could look at booking a moderate and upgrading the dining plan, or booking a deluxe which comes with full DDP - but the costs for this are agent dependent so it is impossible to say what would be cheapest. In general I think it is often cheaper to stay at a moderate and upgrade the free QSDP than stay at a value and upgrade the free breakfast plan - other users here will have better records of cost than me though!

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Just to add to this very good response - if it's a Little Mermaid room at Art of Animation then the OP won't get the free breakfast anyway as it's not included in free dining.

[Tracykph]

Thank you all for your comments.