Is free DDP really free? (If offered!)

[Bozza]

We booked 10 nights at OKW (1-bed, not studio) for 2 adults and 2 kids (although both kids count as Disney adults) incl. 14 night tickets and free DDP for this July - August.

We paid: £5,276
To book now with no dining: £5,790
To book now including dining: £7,629

We've just changed the above booking to Beach Club instead of OKW.

We paid: £5,636
To book now with no dining: £5,169
To book now including dining: £7,008

[Chris7cc]

The best way to find out is to price up room only with tickets and DDP and then see what it is come mid April when it is released.

I personally would say no as to me it is just another offer replacing a different one and biased on last year prices went up the same time as DDP was released (but as someone said they did there annual increase the same time).

[sprocket]

Swings and roundabouts.
ie. Supermarket offers a cabbage one week at 50% off and the following week on a buy one get one free. Is the cabbage in the second week 'free'?

[LOU,]

Originally Posted by loves2plan

I've been tracking prices since 2012 and Disney do not inflate prices to cover free dining. What's showing now, should pretty much stay the same. There may a be a slight increase here and there, but some prices have even been known to go down!
Last year it did look like Disney had increased their prices as they did their annual price increase at the same time they released free dining. Normally it's done beforehand when prices for that year are released. However, the increase was still nowhere bear enough to cover the value that free dining saves you.

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Do we know if the annual price increase has already happened, or will it happen With the offer in April? Thanks x

[f1girly]

Ticket increase has happened, not sure about room rates,

[mollysmom]

In my opinion well worth it even if a little bit more expensive . Family of 4 with teenage girls with good appetitive s. On free Disney dine we ate in amazing places such as Coral reef and California grill where they were eating £80 steaks - we would never have booked a place like this on our normal budget ! Don't be scaremongered about the tips either - we covered a lot of ours wi.th a free £100 voucher and no one batted an eyelid if we left less than the recommended - hopefully looking forward to it if released soon for 2020 !

[derbylass]

the last time booked on 2017 the price actually went down when the dining was released, not by much perhaps only by £50 per person but we definately experienced free dining and will definately be booking again for next year with free dining