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Old 18 Jan 18, 04:51 PM  
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Free Disney Dining

Do prices go up when free DD is available?
Is it worth it.
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Old 18 Jan 18, 05:05 PM  
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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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Old 18 Jan 18, 05:31 PM  
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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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Old 18 Jan 18, 05:38 PM  
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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.
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Old 18 Jan 18, 05:50 PM  
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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!
well if you managed to bag the $200 gift card on top of that, it was not only genuinely free to you ... you got paid $200 to book it :p
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Old 18 Jan 18, 06:02 PM  
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well if you managed to bag the $200 gift card on top of that, it was not only genuinely free to you ... you got paid $200 to book it :p
I keep forgetting about that, you’re right! 😀. And with 5 in a room, free QSDP is worth £1800 or so I think so a great deal! We upgraded to DDP for just under £600 (for 13 nights, three adults two children).
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Old 18 Jan 18, 07:00 PM  
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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.
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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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Old 19 Jan 18, 11:08 AM  
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well if you managed to bag the $200 gift card on top of that, it was not only genuinely free to you ... you got paid $200 to book it :p
I booked last year for this August and got the $200 with the free QSDP at POR. We do this each time we go and found it saves us quite a bit of money.

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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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