Recent content by Chris M

If you plan on eating in the parks every day, the dining plan saves you significantly more than the hotel discount. For instance, I'm staying at the Caribbean Beach for 10 days. The 20% hotel discount would save me $362 bucks. The dining plan would have been an extra $1400. Again, everyone has...

If Disney really only made a handful of "free dining" rooms available at certain hotels, the least they can do is add the ones that are "full" (and I use that term loosely) to the excluded list on the special offer page. I know as of yesterday, there are no more free dining rooms at the PO...

If I booked some stuff myself already, is it too late to use a travel agent? How does that work?

Thanks for all the added insight. Keep it coming. :) I'm not expecting anything, but I still have a glimmer of hope that I can get a PO Riverside room for 10/21-10/30 WITH Free Dining (I had a room there that I booked yesterday online, so it isn't full). Any good travel agents who see this...

Does Marie know if they will ever open any additional blocks of rooms for this promotion?

Wow, Disney's website and phone system is totally inadequate. So after booking a PO Riverside room early yesterday morning online (while the system was half crashing), we called to get the free dining plan put on at around 11AM. We were told the system was down and to call later. Fast forward to...

This morning their phones were jammed - couldn't even get through. I was luck enough to get a reservation in for the Riverside via their website before the reservation system went down. After getting through later this morning via phone, we were basically turned away by the representative. They...