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Free Dining Back at Walt Disney World
THE RETURN OF FREE DINING TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
Mouseplanet.com is reporting here that Walt Disney World will be opening its Free Dining discount program to the general public.
The program will be available for stays August 28, 2011 through September 24, 2011 and must be booked by August 27, 2011.
Another free dining program covers many dates from October 2011 through March 2012. Click here for this October 2011-March 2012 free Disney dining deal.
More details on Disney’s free dining deal are available on Walt Disney World’s website here.
May 2, 2011 1 Comment
Act Now to Catch Disney World May Discounts
DISNEY WORLD DEAL NEEDS TO BE BOOKED BY APRIL 30
One of Disney World’s current discount packages, which covers dates through May 28 2011, needs to be booked by April 30 2011.
For more on the specifics of this deal, click here.
April 27, 2011 No Comments
Details Sketchy, but Disney Military Salute Extended Well into 2012
DISNEY ARMED FORCES SALUTE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 2012
Update May 24: key details for this Disney military deal are now out!! Click here for more.
Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com is reporting here that Disney has extended its Disney Military Salute until September 2012.
As of now, details are sketchy, Disney’s web page has not been updated to show the new dates, and Disney reservationists cannot book beyond the current deal’s expiration.
As specifics emerge and the reservation system gets updated, I’ll post more about this.
LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
- Military Families at Walt Disney World
- Deals and Discounts
- Shades of Green
- Other Resources for Military Families
April 19, 2011 No Comments
Update on the 2011 Disney Military Salute
OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY FAMILY SAVINGS
My friend Steve at militarydisneytips.com tracks and posts on all kinds of stuff useful to military families considering a Disney trip.
He’s recently posted an update on the 2011 Disney Military Salute and other 2011 Disney Armed Forces discounts.
Helpfully, Steve includes his answers to the questions he’s most frequently asked about these programs.
You can find his post here.
Update–Steve’s post is part of a series recapping discount oportunities for military families all over central Florida–more on Sea World and Busch Gardens is here.
LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD
- Military Families at Walt Disney World
- Deals and Discounts
- Shades of Green
- Other Resources for Military Families
April 13, 2011 No Comments
New Summer 2011 Walt Disney World Deal Offer
NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL, BUT ONLY FOR FORT WILDERNESS CAMPSITES, DELUXE RESORTS, AND DVC VILLAS
Disney World has announced a new discount deal covering dates through August 14, 2011.
The deal applies only to the Campsites at Fort Wilderness, Disney’s deluxe resorts and Disney Vacation Club resorts.
It’s broken into two parts:
- For travel dates “most nights” between 4/22/2011 and 6/14/2011,
- For travel dates “most nights” between 6/15/2011 and 8/13/2011,
There’s two different “book by” dates, which don’t exactly correspond to the deal dates–travel from 4/22 to 5/28 needs to be booked by April 30, 2011; travel from May 29 through August 13 needs to be booked by May 28.
THE NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL FOR LATE APRIL THROUGH MID JUNE 2011
The first part of the deal, covering “most nights” between 4/22/2011 and 6/14/2011, needs to be booked by April 30 2011 for travel dates through 5/28/2011, and by May 28 for travel dates after 5/29.
This deal includes discounts of
- 10% at the Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort
- 20% at the Animal Kingdom Lodge and the Polynesian
- 25% at the other Deluxe resorts
- 30% at the Disney Vacation Club resorts
The value and moderate resorts are excluded from this deal, as are suites and “three bedrooms.” This last clearly applies to Grand Villas; I’m not sure if it applies to the Treehouses…if you know, let me know using the comment form below!
THE NEW DISNEY WORLD DEAL FOR MID JUNE THROUGH MID AUGUST 2011
The second part of the deal, covering “most nights” between 6/15/2011 and 8/14/2011, needs to be booked by 5/28/2011.
This deal includes discounts of
- 10% at the Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort
- 25% at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, Wilderness Lodge, and the Polynesian Resort
- 30% at the other Deluxe resorts and the Disney Vacation Club resorts
As in the first part of the deal, the value and moderate resorts are excluded, as are suites and “three bedrooms.”
This is a particularly good deal after July 16. Deluxe resort prices drop to near their lowest level of the year on July 17, 2011. Another 30% off of this is pretty nice!
For more on this deal, see the Walt Disney World website here.
April 5, 2011 No Comments
More on What to Budget for Walt Disney World
MORE ON HOW TO BUDGET YOUR WALT DISNEY WORLD TRIP
This page brings together to one place key links on budgeting your Walt Disney World trip and related material on this site. It’s part of a series on navigating this site.
LINKS FOR WHAT TO BUDGET FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD
For the basic December trip recommended by this site
- See this for what to budget during the basic December trip
- See this if you are on particularly tight budget, for (difficult) ideas to reduce the December trip budget by more than $1,000
For help getting to much lower budget numbers,
- See this for links to current Walt Disney World deals and discounts
- For basic Disney World budgeting concepts, see Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
- To design a trip around a specific budget target–e.g., what you can do for $2,500–see this
- For reducing your lodging costs,
- See The Tightwad’s Guide to Where to Stay at Walt Disney World
- See this for links to current Walt Disney World deals and discounts
- For reducing your dining costs,
- For ideas on cutting your dining costs compared to what this site recommends, see this
- For a period during which dining is sometimes free, see The Tightwad’s Guide to When to Go to Walt Disney World
- For reducing your transportation costs, see this
For Walt Disney World price seasons,
- See this for resort price seasons
- See this for Disney Dining Plan price seasons
- See this for Walt Disney World theme park admission tickets
THE COMFORTABLE GUIDE TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
- The Most Comfortable Time to Go to Walt Disney World
- The Comfortable Guide to How Long to Stay at Walt Disney World
- The Most Comfortable Place to Stay at Walt Disney World:
- The Most Comfortable Way to Travel to Walt Disney World
- The Most Comfortable Way to Tour the Theme Parksat Walt Disney World:
- Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
- Victoria and Albert’s
THE TIGHTWAD’S GUIDE TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
- The Tightwad’s Guide to When to Go to Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to Which Night to Check In
- The Tightwad’s Guide to Where to Stay at Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to How Long to Stay at Walt Disney World
- Air Travel 201: The Tightwad’s Guide to Cheap Flights to Walt Disney World
- The Tightwad’s Guide to How to Eat at Walt Disney World
- Planning Your Walt Disney World Budget
March 28, 2011 4 Comments
