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18 Jan 18, 04:51 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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Free Disney Dining
Do prices go up when free DD is available?
Is it worth it. |
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18 Jan 18, 05:05 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Jan 17
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We booked in September and for free QSDP for 3
Same package now would could £550 more (that’s with free nights offer) So for us, it was well worth booking then
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18 Jan 18, 05:31 PM |
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Getting Excited
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I tracked prices this time last year, and for our stay at Port Orleans this August the price was exactly the same on the Disney website before free dining and during. Seemed genuinely free to me!
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18 Jan 18, 05:38 PM |
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Proud to wear my Ears
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AKL is now £434 cheaper compared to what it was when we booked.
Considering we have 2 Adults and 2 Children on with Free Disney Dining (with a value of £1,931.44) - I can live with that. |
18 Jan 18, 05:50 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Dec 12
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18 Jan 18, 06:02 PM |
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Getting Excited
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18 Jan 18, 07:00 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: May 17
Location: Sussex
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No they do not go up due to free dining. Some even go down, OKW and SSR have typically offered good room discounts (20-40%) on top of the free dining deal.
As for whether it's worth it, there's no single right answer. All depends on what room/resort category you're staying in, how many of you there are, how many meals you intend to eat on site, etc. Typically, for a family of 3-5 staying 2 weeks in a moderate or lower tier deluxe, it's almost always the best deal going. But to use my own booking as example... as a couple staying at a higher tier deluxe, it would have been cheaper to rent points at BCV and pay for dining instead of booking free dining at B&YC. However, we prefer the resort side (specifically YC) out of the three properties, so it didn't come down purely to money. However free dining was better value than the free nights offer that followed later, as B&YC were only on 1 free night per week. The savings for this was considerably less than the dining plan for a week. When we were considering SSR though, free dining worked out better than points rental due to the discount already mentioned. My advice is always to price up the holiday prior to the offer coming out, then you know if it's a genuinely good deal. |
18 Jan 18, 10:14 PM |
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VIP Dibber
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Generally depends how many are in the room. For two I’ve found deluxe rooms without free dinning but with free nights cheaper and when taking spending money to match the free dining cost about a break even or a couple of hundred cheaper but in a deluxe not a moderate resort. The more in a room, the better the deal free dining is likely to be. Increase that value if there are more over 10’s in the room.
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19 Jan 18, 11:08 AM |
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slightly serious Dibber
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19 Jan 18, 12:19 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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we didn't book until the very end of free dp offer so no gift card for us (plan was to save for 2019), it's now 2 nights free (approx. £336 cheaper) and tickets are £150 cheaper however no availability for a family of 5 for our dates at CBR (cheapest option now is Cabins at FW) and qsdp would cost £1759!
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