Originally Posted by
Goes4FastPass
I won’t go so far as to say I hate the “Free” Dining Plan – I just it could all be a lot less crazy.
It seems like the ADR Wrangler in each family has to calculate 180 days from the start of the first day of resort check-in or something then sets an alarm to be caller number 7 so when a reservationist answers, the excited vacationer is ready to fly through a list of restaurants and dates and times s/he has been charting on a spreadsheet for the past 2 weeks!...
If first choices aren’t available, s/he calls back and checks online day after day, time after time until a reservation becomes available. Then the victorious ADR seeker dances around singing, Zip-a-dee doo dah, zip-a-dee-ay, Lucky me, I got Le-sell-ee-ay!
And darn it, I like free dining. I book stays during free dining. But please, just because the Disney Travel Company calls it "free" do we have to call it "free" during this discussion? We book a WDW stay far in advance and agree to pay rack rate for rooms and purchase MYW admissions and pay for the whole thing 45 days before we arrive and for this we get, during specific times of the year, included dining.
It's fun but it sure ain't free.