******Official 2017 Free Dining Plan Watch, Wait, and Dream

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Hi everyone,
Just in case anyone is interested we are on hold and plan to cancel a music (preferred room) with FD reservation for Nov 25th-Dec 9th. They said it would be a 90+ min wait 45 minutes ago...

Wow I can't believe it's still this long a wait after it's been open for like 15 hours.
 
Finally, after trying for 14+ hours, was able to get the button to change my reservation online and.....all values are completely sold out of FD rooms for our dates. :headache::sad:

Maybe try a moderate with the room discount?
 
Well we didn't get it. Tried for 8/26-9/5 at either POP or All Stars. First time we have ever gone without free dining :( Our TA will keep trying.
 


Well okay then. Maybe I'll just keep this preferred!! I don't love noise. Do you remember where your room was? Now going to look at what breakfast we can grab since we will be close to melody hall.
We were in building two on the ground level of jazz near the center of the building. Our room faced the back not the front of the resort. I would love to stay in that building again, but they don't have a lot of connecting rooms in preferred so i thought I would go standard again. We usually end up in rock when we stay standard.
 
I am feeling rather grumpy today. I checked out the FD offer and, as expected it didnt work out for me- Nothing available at POR and only higher cost rooms at other resorts on my list and I was not willing to spend more to get FD.

I had expected my TA to be trying to book me the room only discount for my current res. They talk about how they will work hard to book a discount when they come available so, since I didnt have her trying for FD for me (I was checking it out on my own) I expected her to be booking me a room discount. Well...not only did I not get FD I also didnt even get the 20% off on my room. I now am stuck with rack rate :headache:. I am grumpy, grumpy, grumpy! and I dont feel like my TA was working hard for me after all. Had I known that my TA wasnt up early trying to book me a discount I would have made sure to do it myself first rather than wasting time poking around the FD offer that I was already pretty sure wasnt going to work for me. grumpy>:(
 
I am feeling rather grumpy today. I checked out the FD offer and, as expected it didnt work out for me- Nothing available at POR and only higher cost rooms at other resorts on my list and I was not willing to spend more to get FD.

I had expected my TA to be trying to book me the room only discount for my current res. They talk about how they will work hard to book a discount when they come available so, since I didnt have her trying for FD for me (I was checking it out on my own) I expected her to be booking me a room discount. Well...not only did I not get FD I also didnt even get the 20% off on my room. I now am stuck with rack rate :headache:. I am grumpy, grumpy, grumpy! and I dont feel like my TA was working hard for me after all. Had I known that my TA wasnt up early trying to book me a discount I would have made sure to do it myself first rather than wasting time poking around the FD offer that I was already pretty sure wasnt going to work for me. grumpy>:(

Sorry. I hope it works out..when things die down I have been able to pick something good up in the past.
 


I am feeling rather grumpy today. I checked out the FD offer and, as expected it didnt work out for me- Nothing available at POR and only higher cost rooms at other resorts on my list and I was not willing to spend more to get FD.

I had expected my TA to be trying to book me the room only discount for my current res. They talk about how they will work hard to book a discount when they come available so, since I didnt have her trying for FD for me (I was checking it out on my own) I expected her to be booking me a room discount. Well...not only did I not get FD I also didnt even get the 20% off on my room. I now am stuck with rack rate :headache:. I am grumpy, grumpy, grumpy! and I dont feel like my TA was working hard for me after all. Had I known that my TA wasnt up early trying to book me a discount I would have made sure to do it myself first rather than wasting time poking around the FD offer that I was already pretty sure wasnt going to work for me. grumpy>:(

See I know there's good TAs (I have only used one and she was/is spectacular!) but stuff like this would annoy me to no end. If your TA isn't working as hard as you are... then they are worthless.
 
Well okay then. Maybe I'll just keep this preferred!! I don't love noise. Do you remember where your room was? Now going to look at what breakfast we can grab since we will be close to melody hall.
I forgot to say we loved breakfast at the resort. We didn't use our meal credits, but they had snack credit we used on biscuits and gravy. We also paid out of pocket for the kids waffles. We didn't want a lot because of lunch. We are going the same week as you. We go that week every year. It's such a good time to visit.
 
I hope no one gets too worried about not getting what they want. This is only day #1, there are many many many more days to try to get what you need. People WILL be cancelling, ( I'll be cancelling one of my ressies) and things WILL become available. Try in 2 or 3 more days, many more ressies should open up, then keep trying after. Hopefully everyone will get something they can be happy with.
 
Hopper is one cost good for your entire stay unless that has changed from years past. 2 days 7 days--same cost. Someone correct me?
you are right it is one cost no matter how many days it is. I think it is $75.00 so if you got a one day ticket $75.00 dollars or a 10 day ticket it is still just $75.00
 
How late are the phone hours open and when do we think room discounts will come out for those of us that our TA wasn't able to get us FD?
 
Everyone keep checking for availability. I was able to modify my res this am first thing and get POR preferred for sept23-oct7. I just checked about an hour ago and was able to change again to standard at POR saving about $700. things will keep opening up as the days go on! Just stay in top of it! Pixie dust everyone eventually gets what they want!!!
 
How late are the phone hours open and when do we think room discounts will come out for those of us that our TA wasn't able to get us FD?

Room discounts came out this morning-RO discounts for all mods during (9/30-10/7) my stay are already gone.
 
We ended up cancelling our CBR with GC because they didn't have anything with FD available and our dates can't be changed. And the main reason was because last night DH drops a bomb that he doesn't care if it's Value or Deluxe or where but he wants a suite so we can have two bathrooms and we can have our own room. So I booked a suite at AOA(somewhere I've always wanted to stay) but it depends on what else comes out in the next few weeks if we stay there or not.
 
How late are the phone hours open and when do we think room discounts will come out for those of us that our TA wasn't able to get us FD?

Room discounts were already released at the same time as Free Dining. They've been mostly all claimed already, just like FD. I wasn't able to snag either one for our 14 night stay in early September at Pop. Hopefully more availability pops up...
 
Just wanted to recommend that anyone who modified via phone goes back and double checks their confirmation email/ invoice. Mine was off by $700. When my TA called to get it corrected she was told by the CM that their system had been glitchy and causing errors all day.
 
Everyone keep checking for availability. I was able to modify my res this am first thing and get POR preferred for sept23-oct7. I just checked about an hour ago and was able to change again to standard at POR saving about $700. things will keep opening up as the days go on! Just stay in top of it! Pixie dust everyone eventually gets what they want!!!


Is that using the modify button? We used a travel agent so I think that is why I don't have that button so I am just constantly checking the website as a new reservation. Would I be better to call or just do what I'm doing. I worry that my TA isn't checking as much as I would.
 
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