Bounce back Offers????

[LivinWitTheLand]

Has anyone heard if bounce back offers for 2009 free dining are being left in resort rooms yet this year?

 

[imamouse]

Ive been wondering (hoping!) that they will offer free dining to the general public next year for around the same time as the past couple years.

Does anyone think this is a good sign that they will offer it again?

Getting the DDP free is the only way I will use it, if I have to pay I can save way more on my own. We are going to book our Sept. 09 trip in a couple months, and I am going to watch the web like a hawk until they announce free dining for the rest of us.

^^You might have a long wait. The 2008 free dining dates were announced in April of this year.

 

[WDW-LUVR]

Here's my question. When you book the bounce back offer...does the 2009 reservation HAVE to be in the person's name who booked the 2008 room?

Example: I'm staying w/a friend next month and the room is in her name, would she be the only one able to take advantage of the offer or could I book in my name?

We Were there in Dec. and the had a bounce back promo going on and I was able to book 2 rooms 1 in my name and 1 in my mother in-laws who wasn't at Dinsey. So I'm guessing yes you should be able to.

 

[crassmonkey]

^^You might have a long wait. The 2008 free dining dates were announced in April of this year.

Oh I know that, this will be our second trip with the free dining. Im going to go ahead and book a regular stay with no dining, and then upgrade to the free dining when it comes out.
:slurp:

 

[Computer Magic]

For the bounce back offer, do you have to stay at the same resort?

 

[Lucky]

I'm starting to wonder if they only plan to offer the CS version to foreign travelors while offering the regular DP to domestic tourists. The point of the free dining plan is to offer an incentive to travel to WDW during the least crowded time of the year...with the US Dollar as weak as it is, and the Pound and the Euro much stronger (though believe they are starting to weaken), there is less incentive to offer it to foreign tourists since they are still more likely to travel than Americans are...so they don't really need the extra incentive. Just a thought.

Excellent point.

 

[Lucky]

For the bounce back offer, do you have to stay at the same resort?

Nope. Any one you want.

 

[Computer Magic]

Nope. Any one you want.

Thanks, I read your wonderful thread after posting. We leave in 14 days but I really want to stay at AKL next year...

 

[Lucky]

Thanks, I read your wonderful thread after posting. We leave in 14 days but I really want to stay at AKL next year...

We stayed at AKL - our only deluxe stay - back in September 2003 when the big promo was pay for 4 nights at any resort and get 3 more nights for free. Since then the room discounts don't seem impressive enough for us to afford a deluxe, unless we cut our stays from 7-8 days to 4-5.