YES!!! Disney World has just announced a FREE DINING OFFER for 2020! Free Dining can be one of the best deals to nab at Disney World, so if you’re thinking of booking your trip, now might be the time!
Free Dining
With the free dining offer, guests are offered a free Disney Dining Plan with the eligible purchase of a Disney World vacation package!
Disney World Free Dining 2020 Travel Dates
The Disney World Free Dining offer is available to guests ARRIVING for their Walt Disney World vacation on the following dates:
- June 27-28, 2020
- July 5-7, 2020
- August 29-September 8, 2020
Booking is available NOW through January 16, 2020.
There is a minimum stay needed for this offer (4 nights from our mock-bookings), and your package must include a room at select Disney World Resorts and a park hopper or park hopper plus ticket option.
Click here for all the answers to your Free Dining FAQs!
Disney Resorts Participating in the Disney World Free Dining Offer
If you stay at a participating Value or Moderate Resort, you’ll receive the Quick-Service Dining Plan for FREE. (Note that you can upgrade to the standard or deluxe dining plans by paying the difference in cost per night.)
If you reserve a participating Deluxe or Deluxe Villa Resort, you will receive the Standard Dining Plan for FREE. (You can upgrade to the deluxe dining plan by paying the difference in cost per night.)
Note that some resorts are excluded from this offer, and others will sell out quickly. If you’re having trouble booking the package you’d like online, contact Disney directly to see if your dates and resort are available.
To see the full list of resorts taking part in this offer — click here!
Important Details to Remember about Disney World Free Dining…
- The number of rooms allocated for this offer is limited.
- Theme park tickets valid for admission beginning on date of check-in and must be used within a limited number of days, depending on the length of stay and ticket.
- Advance reservation required.
- Some table-service restaurants may have limited or no availability at time of package purchase.
- Children ages 3 to 9 must choose from the children’s menu, if available.
- Gratuities are not included.
- Cannot be combined with any other Disney discount or promotion.
- Everyone in the same room must be on the same package.
- Offer excludes some room types.
If you’re ready to book the Free Dining Package, be sure to get a no-obligation quote from Small World Vacations!
And remember that free dining can be COMBINED with Small World Vacations’ special gift card offer (which you can read about here) with the code Giftcard20.
Our favorite people over at Small World Vacations are ready to help you save time, headaches, and best of all, money, when you book your Disney trip or cruise.
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We’re thrilled the free dining offer is back, and it could save your family a LOT of money on your next Disney vacation. We break down the costs and savings in our DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining e-Book and help you determine if Free Dining is the right deal for YOU!
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The new plans prevent ordering 3 adult qs to feed 2ad 2ch. This was a tip from dfb to save a quick service credit for breakfast. Am I right this would no longer work?
HIP HIP HOORAY! Our “Fairy Godmother” (aka our travel agent) told us that we qualified for the free dining!
Now, even with the upgrade to Standard Dining, we have a bit more money to spend on our September vacation.
Free dining has always been a deal breaker for us, it makes a big difference for our planning. I am shocked at how super rectrictive the dates availability is, as well as the super short booking period. We are taking a break, after 10 yearly trips! Love WDW, but need a break too!
Any advice on how to split a stay? My original trip is from 7-4 to 7-10. I can rebook to get the free DDP for the 5th to 10th but not sure what to do about our arrival day. Thank you!
Tracy, talk to the Disney rep when you rebook to get Free Dining. Or, if you’re trying to book Free Dining online, do that, then give Disney a call about 7/4, that way you don’t miss out on Free Dining.
Karen, the policy has long been stated this way: that kids need to order from a kids’ menu when it’s available. Disney could enforce that policy more stringently at any time, so it’s something we’ll have to keep an eye on.
How does the free dining plan work?
Annoying it makes you get the park hopper…
Doesn’t seem like that is a free perk as well? I didn’t do the math, but just a hunch.
I wonder if Disney will release more dates later this year like they did last year? These dates are so restricted. Wow!
I’m really lucky that my dates fall in the window in September! Took a while navigating the website this morning, along with a couple of phone calls, but I managed to get the promotion for my trip! (Now I gotta really hit the gym beforehand- need room for all those snacks!)
I got the email before 5 this morning from my wonderful travel agent! We qualified and actually were able to get the park hopper and still saved us over $1,000 from our original travel plans! This is beyond exciting for us being it’s our first time going!
Wow, Jessica!
Mike, we definitely advise people crunch numbers because you’re right that it might not be a great deal for everyone.
Are these dates typically “slower” times for Disney?
When I looked at the table service restaurants in Disney Springs participating for 2020 in the dip I was surprised to see that most were not participating. Is this an error on Disney site or a major change in dining plan?
I’ve had my reservations since July 5th and we’re going on Oct 4th – 10th and staying a Caribbean Beach Resort. Hope those days will open up for the free dining as well.
Arlene, most will likely be added; sometimes these restaurants operated by entities other than Disney take some time to finalize contracts for DDP. We’re checking into them!
Kirk, that’s the idea. Although many will argue there’s not “slow” season anymore…
We are arriving on 9/6 through 9/15. We were able to get the table service free dining for entire trip. We are staying at All Star Sports. We had stayed there before, we like it very much. Saved a lot of money $$$.
Do you know if this is available to uk residents please
Joanne, Disney typically designates certain offers to UK residents, including (at times) free dining. YOu’d want to give Disney a call to see if you can book the standard free dining as a UK resident.