Disney World Cancels Free Dining & DDP, EMH, FastPass+ & Restaurant Reservations
Following the big announcement that Walt Disney World will begin the phased reopening of its theme parks in July 2020 and Disney Vacation Club Resorts would open in June 2020, it’s been a roller coaster couple of days for a variety of WDW reservations that have been cancelled or temporarily disappeared.
First, the online booking system closed to new resort, dining, FastPass+, and experience reservations. Then, existing bookings disappeared from My Disney Experience…before reappearing. Next, Walt Disney World removed verbiage from its website that its non-DVC hotels would reopen on June 15, 2020. It was believed that many of these were glitches occurring as Walt Disney World did IT infrastructure updates to prepare for the roll-out of the online advance reservation system.
During the first phase of Walt Disney World’s reopening, this reservation system will require guests to pre-book theme park visits online (if you’re sitting on pins and needles waiting for this, sign up for our free email newsletter as we will send out a notification immediately when the online reservation system for visiting the parks goes live). The new system is going to cause big changes, and now we have official confirmation that Walt Disney World will be cancelling a range of reservations, from FastPass+ to Free Dining…
Beginning May 28, 2020, all dining reservations, experience bookings, Disney Dining Plan, and FastPass+ selections will be automatically cancelled. Guests with existing resort hotel reservations will have priority access to the new park reservation system when it becomes available.
The FastPass+ service will be temporary suspended, and Walt Disney World will use additional queue space to manage capacity at our attractions and maintain physical distancing. Also upon reopening, Extra Magic Hours will be temporarily suspended.
Walt Disney World will reopen dining and experience bookings with more limited capacity closer to when the theme parks reopen. Disney will also shift from a 180-day booking window to a 60-day booking window for dining and experience bookings going forward to allow guests to make their plans closer to their visits.
Additionally, when restaurant and other experience reservations resume, guests who had existing bookings will receive priority access to rebook.
Guests who purchased a Disney Dining Plan and tickets for travel dates between May 28, 2020 and September 26, 2021 will receive an automatic cancellation and refund of their Disney Dining Plan. (That’s not a typo–cancellations of the Disney Dining Plan are being made through next September.)
Guests who booked resort hotel reservations with a Free Dining package for dates between May 28, 2020 and September 26, 2021 will receive an automatic cancellation of their Disney Pining Plan. These guests will be able to rebook their vacation for a later date with a 35% room discount instead.
(UPDATE: Disney has since removed all mentions of the 35% room discount, as well as an end date for cancellations. It’s unclear why the verbiage has changed, and whether the 35% discount will still be offered.)
When Walt Disney World’s theme parks reopen, park attendance will be managed through a new park reservation system. To enter a park, both a park reservation and valid admission for the same park on the same date is required. More details about this new reservation system will be available soon.
At this time, Walt Disney World is temporarily pausing new ticket sales to focus on guests with existing tickets. Existing ticket holders and Annual Passholders will be able to make reservation requests in phases before new tickets are sold; Walt Disney World will be reaching out to these guests soon to provide additional details. New ticket sales will resume after that period of time.
Florida Resident Discover Disney Tickets may be used through September 30, 2020. Guests who have purchased tickets for Disney After Hours, Disney Villains After Hours, Disney Early Morning Magic and Disney H2O Glow Nights through the end of the actual closure period will be automatically refunded.
Unexpired multi-day theme park tickets with unused days, or date-specific theme park tickets with a valid use period beginning March 12, 2020 through the end of the actual closure period will automatically be extended to use any date through December 15, 2020. If you are unable to visit by December 15, 2020, you may apply the value of a wholly unused ticket toward the purchase of a ticket for a future date.
In terms of commentary, the cancellation of the Free Dining bookings for over the next year is the big surprise here, and what’s likely to cause the most outrage. This is far and away Walt Disney World’s most popular promo of the year, and it was recently being offered as a recovery deal to those who rebooked trips during dates that were cancelled.
A lot of Walt Disney World fans put tons of effort, research, and telephone time into securing the Free Disney Dining Plan deal, and we can’t imagine they’ll be completely understanding. Nor do we blame them–this is a big blow that really stinks.
The silver lining here is that 35% off room-only discount being offered as an alternative. As we’ve long stressed, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, which is to say that you always need to do the math on Free Dining.
For most parties, a room-only discount on a Deluxe Resort was superior to Free Dining. That usually was not the case on the lower tiers, as the room-only discounts were lower for Value and Moderate Resorts. Getting 35% off those less expensive rooms could bridge that gap–many parties may even come out ahead with the hotel deal. Still, not everyone will be so lucky.
The most likely explanation for the cancellation of Free Dining is significantly reduced dining capacity. We covered this in our last post about a potential second wave of Free Dining (which now seems highly unlikely…at best).
Walt Disney World will reopen with less than half of its normal dining capacity, and that’s assuming that all resort restaurants, Disney Springs locations, buffets, and character meals reopen. It’s likely many of those locations will not reopen or will do so in a modified form, leaving Walt Disney World with 35-40% of its normal dining capacity.
In such a scenario, Free Dining would be difficult to navigate. This announcement goes a step further than that, suggesting Walt Disney World will temporarily suspend even paid forms of the Disney Dining Plan for the next year-plus.
The other big development here is the cancellation of FastPass+ reservations. This isn’t nearly as much of a huge surprise. About a month ago, Walt Disney World started seriously limiting the daily allotment of FastPasses, which didn’t make a ton of sense given that heavy use of virtual queues was already rumored at that point.
Even then, it was safe to assume the options were leaning even more heavily on FastPass+ or moving to a Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance-style virtual queue and boarding pass style system. From a social distancing perspective, the latter offers advantages in being able to dynamically make adjustments and pulse guests through queues at a better-managed rate. Based on tonight’s announcement, it would seem that this approach won out.
One downside to this is it all but eliminates the benefits of staying at on-site Walt Disney World hotels, aside from transportation and proximity to the parks. As we covered in “Is Walt Disney World’s On-Site Advantage Disappearing?” this has been a gradual erosion.
Now, without Extra Magic Hours, the Disney Dining Plan, or priority booking windows, there’s even less of a point to paying a significant premium to stay in a Disney resort. Unless you really value the transportation, theme, or location. (Or, unless Walt Disney World starts releasing some really good discounts to lure guests back!)
If you’re looking for an upside to all of this, it’s probably easier to see one if you didn’t take advantage of the Free Dining deal or aren’t a fan of the Disney Dining Plan.
In our view, the main advantage is the return of spontaneity in the Walt Disney World park-going experience. We’ve long decried the degree to which planning is necessary, noting repeatedly that we aren’t spreadsheet or binder people. (See our Being Spontaneous at Walt Disney World post.)
We far prefer the Disneyland approach, and all of these changes are basically making Walt Disney World more closely align with that. What we love about this is that it doesn’t require knowing where you want to eat 6 months in advance or planning your day down to the minute. It allows making day-of decisions without being shut-out of marquee or popular experiences.
With that said, it still offers plenty of room for planning strategy and using various tips & tricks to see and do more than the average guest. Essentially, it’s a new approach to master–and one that requires far less homework and months-in-advance planning. We suspect that once the initial shock of the change wears off, many Walt Disney World fans will likewise come to prefer the temporary, Disneyland-style strategy.
These are just some of our initial takeaways from these announcements. As we said when the park reopening plans and dates were announced, it’s likely that there’s a lot more to come, and that policies will continue to be tweaked. While we’ve stressed patience and flexibility throughout this, we also understand that this is frustrating for many of you who have poured considerable time, energy, and emotion into the planning process. We wish there were some reassuring words we could offer here, but the reality is that ‘certainty’ in vacation planning is going to be in short supply for the coming weeks or months.
One thing we will stress is being kind to Cast Members if you call to voice your frustrations, rebook, or cancel your vacation. The phone reps with whom you interact have literally zero say over Walt Disney World’s policies, and you’re not going to change anything or magically get Free Dining back by being rude to them. It’s one thing to calmly voice your displeasure, it’s another entirely to verbally berate or take your frustrations out on someone who did not cause the problem. If that doesn’t convince you to be nice, remember: you catch more flies with honey than vinegar…
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Do you have a reservation that has been cancelled as a result of the policy changes? What do you think about Walt Disney World cancelling Free Dining for 2020 and instead offering a 35% off room discount? Upset that your plans continue to change? Optimistic that things will be “back to normal” at Walt Disney World sooner rather than later? A variety of viewpoints are welcomed here, but we will not tolerate insults, arguing, or politically-charged comments. Additionally, please do not debate the efficacy of health safety policies—all such comments (for, against, otherwise) will be deleted. Those arguments are played out and isn’t the appropriate forum for that. (Saying you will or will not visit in light of certain measures is fine.)
Has anyone that actually paid for the dining plan had it cancelled yet? My dining reservations were cancelled but my dining plan is still showing. Just curious as to when that will be canceled and when I should be expecting my refund.
Tom,
I have reservations for July 7 with free dining offer from January promotion. Am I eligible for the 35% off? I still have not gotten any emails but other people further out have gotten emails.
I’m not Tom and Tom, please correct me if I am wrong. From the way I understand the 35% Off is giving anyone that had free dining that wants to keep their reservation as is minus the free dining, as long as your dates fall within the new reopening dates. If your reservation happens to be prior to the re-opening, your reservation will be canceled and a full refund will be given approximately seven days prior to your reservation date. My understanding is that it is not for people to reschedule for a later date.
Admittedly I’m confused on why cancelling dining that was already booked but opening up 60 days prior and have everyone on trying to schedule dining, fastpasses, and other events seems like the best way to handle from the Disney side. It’s going to result in a lot of frustrated folks and missed opportunity. If the restaurants were not already at half capacity, then leave it and stop new reservations.
I’m also a little concerned about the folks with tickets getting priority over others – my family of 4 has 3 with annual passes and one that will be 3 years old on our next visit so doesn’t have admission yet. Will we be forced out because only 3 of us have a park reservation since I can no longer buy my little one admission? Also have grandparents that would like to go depending on the virus situation but they are also in the boat of no admission. We’ll have to wait and see – most likely have to cancel (again).
We are a military family and bought our park tickets through our base MWR (a special they were offering in conjunction with Disney this year). We spent $1700 on park passes for our family of 12; the non-refundable passes expire at the end of the year. We were booked for Aug this year, but moved our visit to next year. Will Disney still honor those passes next year?
From Update on WDW Resort Operations page on disney world.com “you may apply the value of a wholly unused ticket toward the purchase of a ticket for a future date.” So worst case scenario if they don’t extend the expiration is you can apply the value to new tickets. I’m hoping your military family gets an even better promotion next year.
Thank you for your service.
thank you for the quick response. k
Not sure if this applies to your situation but I have complimentary Disney passes, the kind they donate to non-profits. I paid over $1,000 for these tickets (to the non-profit as a donation of course). We had a trip planned for Aug but we’ve cancelled for now. I did talk to someone at Disney hoping the expiration date might be extended as we aren’t planning on going till next year but it was a no go.
Just got an email from Disney yesterday with my new reservation. We had a bounce back offer for the free dining from last year. We had our reservation for the last 2 weeks of August with free dining. My new reservation is the same hotel (Riverside), same park tickets (10 day park hopper plus) but minus the free dining. Disney gave me a credit of $2600 from my remaining balance.(How free was the free dining). Not sure if we are still going though, waiting to see if hotel pools will be open along with water parks, & if masks will still be required.
I booked a bounceback for August also with free dining. Staying at Pop. I’m still waiting for my email. I’m anxious as I’m a type A planner snd the not knowing what is going on is driving me nuts. Did you book direct with Disney or a travel agent? I used a travel agent.
Wow! My reservation is July 21 for 7 days at POP with the park hopper plus water park and I only got $548. They haven’t given me my credit for the park hopper plus yet. I am still waiting for that since water parks won’t be open in July and no park hopping.
The discount wasn’t refunding the amount of the dining, it was suppose to be 35% off your room onlyto compensate for them canceling the free dining plan. Sounds like you got a bonus!
Hi Wendy , Yes I booked directly with Disney from the hotel room while on Disney property. My Reservation is for August 14th to 28th it was 14 nights at Port Orleans Riverside.
Hey GamiTS, the $2600 back actually equaled out to 35 % off , we are family of 3 adult tickets (my daughter is 13), so for 14 nights it was originally $7500, (for Port New Orleans Riverside preferred room, 10 day park hopper plus w/ free dining) now it’s $4900 , which equals out to 35 % off, the total of the whole package. But it says I still have park hopper plus. Maybe by August water parks will be open.
@Christopher
But the 35% off was only suppose to be off the room portion only not the entire package so looks like you got a bonus 🙂
This is the info from the letter that was sent out:
“As an accommodation, the price of the package will be adjusted to reflect a 35% savings on the room portion. ”
I did talk to a CM today (we all know they aren’t always providing the correct info), she said the water parks will not be open during my trip in July. We still aren’t sure that we will be going either.
Kevin you’re absolutely right Disney lost billions of dollars and we do understand. Let’s understand Disney offered FDP, Disney took away FDP. Disney needs to first make a plan, second let the public know what it is then stop changing the plan.
We have reservations at CSR for late November. Friday was our day for DDP reservations. I tried to make the reservations but was blocked from doing so. Friday night I got the e mail from Disney cancelling our DDP. I have time to watch and see what happens before I purchase park passes or decide to cancel. We usually eat dinner at Epcot so we are waiting to see how that works with the park reservations. Lots of questions unanswered that will drive future decisions. Park hopping is still another question! I feel for those who have reservations closer to the opening dates.
I have a reservation for December With the deluxe dining plan, and nothing has been cancelled yet! I am however, going to make another reservation to take advantage of the 35%discount, just in case.
The 35% discount is what is being given to everyone that currently has the dining plan and keeps their existing reservation. It is not a booking/rebooking discount. My reservation is July 21-28 and they have changed my “DisneyBB Free QS dining” discount promo code to “Disney Recovery2020” discount code and credited me $548 for a 7 night stay at POP.
My friend had the Dining plan for End of November into December and she got her email last night showing her credit. Unfortunately it’s coming, just not all at once. My dining reservations are still showing up in my Disney experience but I know they will be gone soon. Who knows what restaurants will even be open, if we decide to take this trip. This is really crazy.
I have questions about the dining plans going away and reservations for entering parks. Is that permanent or temporary?
I am OUTRAGED over the cancellation of free dining! It is the ONLY reason we rebooked, and I believe they should have to honor it. We told our four kids we were going, and we’ve all been anticipating for months. The 35% hotel savings instead is a joke! It’s actually more like an insult. It will save our family about $1,000, whereas if we’d paid for our dining plans they would’ve cost over $3,700. So they take away an almost 4K benefit and “replace” it with a 1k one! So if we want to break even on our trip we would have $1,000 to spend on food on 6 people for 9 park days. I am livid. Of course I won’t direct any vitriol on Disney cast members as they have NO power. (In fact, the one I talked to was just as outraged as me and told me it was low and made NO SENSE! ) But there’s no Covid justification, in my mind, for cancelling a quick-service dining plan. OBVIOUSLY they will be selling food in ALL the parks and Disney springs, so if they remove our free dining plan it just seems they want to gouge us more. I’m heartbroken about the whole thing. Feels like a betrayal to this lifelong fanatic!! They’ve put us in a really bad situation of needing to really let down our kids (who have had SO MANY hurts and disappointments already, as we all have!) or spend way more to get a still lesser experience than we were anticipating. Which we can’t afford. It just sucks. Disney, please fix it!!!
Same here! 35% room discount does not pay for 7 days of dining. They should have credited us the cost of the dining plan!! There would have been zero complaints!!
Agree 100%. Our reservation is at POP for 7 nights, July 21-28. A $548 credit is absolutely ridiculous and no comparison to the free dining bounce back that we booked back in September.
Unfortunately Disney isn’t giving up how they will handle meals when the Parks open. Hopefully the guests that go to the Parks first will share their experiences and we can make up our minds what to do.I hope it works out for them.
I think the thought behind it is they lost billions as a corporate entity with the Covid situation and this is a way to recoup money that was lost during that time as well as visitors that will be lost since it can reach full capacity. Like it or not we need to understand.
This is nuts this is why I booked the trip and I cant afford to go and my kids are looking forward to this
I think a big issue is that Disney has priced themselves out of the Middle Class market. Anyone planning a trip is usually saving for years or taking a plunge with hard earned dollars. This kind of thing really hurts when there’s no more $ to sink into your trip. It’s gotten out of hand. Maybe the super think tanks could conceive of a way level the field of affordability and of course, still make money. Instead of gouging, make it a plan for slow and steady growth.
This is the part I find maddening. If Disney were interested in protecting guests from Coronavirus, they would have kept the dining plan. Using your dining credits to pay for food and drink is completely contactless. Reservations allow Disney to see which guests will be in which park or resort and when. If you’re savvy enough to make reservations you can probably handle mobile ordering at quick services locations too, reducing the need to queue in food outlets. If Disney wants to protect guests they should expand the mobile ordering process and stop allowing table service walk-ins. Folks with table service plans who haven’t made dining reservations yet should be downgraded to the quick service plan and refunded the difference. Surely they would recover the income they’ve lost if they offered INCENTIVES instead? I’m going to have to cancel my £3550 booking at Port Orleans Riverside because I have no way of finding the additional money we’d need to eat at the parks. Instead of losing the £1K or so that free dining is ‘worth’, they’ve lost 3 times that by forcing us to cancel. How does that make sense?!
Regardless of whether people have free dining or not, it changes nothing. People will eat the same number of meals at the same times regardless. The only logical explanation is that canceling the free dining will push many people to cancel their reservations thus thinning the crowd. They want to make you cancel your reservation so they don’t have to come up with a plan to selectively cancel reservations themselves. Sounds like this may work; however, they may have underestimated how dedicated Disney fans may react in the future. There are many other vacation options that will gladly accept our money.
“Regardless of whether people have free dining or not, it changes nothing. People will eat the same number of meals at the same times regardless.”
That’s not an accurate assumption. For one thing, the DDP offers far more food than many people would naturally eat if paying out of pocket.
Beyond that, the DDP changes the where and how of dining. Without the DDP, people might do more grocery delivery, opt to eat off-site, or choose more counter service meals over table service ones.
I don’t know how this will play out or the motivations for it, but “it changes nothing” is a massive oversimplification. The Disney Dining Plan is a huge revenue generator for Disney that keeps people on-site. They would not be giving it up unless there were no other option.
Has there been any word about Park Hopper + tickets? I purchased mine before all this. I’m assuming they are shutting down park hopping? Are they refunding that?! Any chance we’ll be back to hopping by September? So many questions. I so want to keep our trip. But half of our party are newbies and it’d be a shame for this trip to leave a bad taste in their mouth.
Hi I had a reservation for the last 2 weeks of August that had free dining & park hopper plus. Disney emailed me yesterday with my new reservation. They removed the free dining but everything else is still the same. So I still have the 10 days Park hopper Plus on my new reservation.
Barbara had an excellent point we still have to eat. I’ve not heard what we can we expect about our meals when we get to Disney. Has Disney thought this out . Disney needs to get their act together and share with us what we truly can expect during our Disney experience.
Thanks Neil. It’s common sense that people still have to eat. I don’t get why they would cancel dining plans booked with a package.
People have to eat but they had to cancel the dining plans because restaurants will be at much lower capacity. That’s why they hit the reset button on reservations also. Can’t have so many people at the same time as in the past. To me this is pretty clear. Even with quick service–can’t have everyone eating at once and maintain social distancing. So no dining plans and reservations only sixty days in advance. Everyone will still get to eat, just not at the same time and there will be fewer people in the park so it will all work out. Canceling the dining plan probably eliminates a lot of guest disappointment and onsite arguments too.
Mobile ordering of food and limited reservations available for table seating will be all anyone can get for eating! I don’t see anything changing soon as they’re preparing for a possible resurgence of this or a cure, whichever comes first.
I received my re-confirmation email just 2 days after I got the email saying my DDP was being canceled. We still plan on going August 1st for a week. Looking forward to how the virtual line system will work and park reservation system. Our tickets still say “park hopper option” however.
The virus, the pandemic actually, is driving Disney’s decisions right now. They’re trying to make the best ones to keep us safe and the best ones for their business as well. The virus changes decisions constantly, not just Disney’s. Of course the Disney Experience won’t be the same for quite a while. Will it ever be the same as it was? Who knows. Just have to make the best of a terrible situation. We’re just going to wait it out.
@Belle very well said. People are acting as if Disney has more control over a lot of this than they actually do. Disney would not cancel dining plans if they had a choice, or do any of these changes. It’s the pandemic and state and local measures…I am not usually a Disney apologist but in this case they are putting health and safety first.
I agree. I do think that Disney could have communicated much better. They seem to operate in secrecy and are not very transparent with peoples money at stake. But i agree a one in a century pandemic forces everything to change for some time.
I disagree- dining plans allow guests to order food with their contactless MagicBands and advance dining reservations allow Disney to plan for the number of guests who will be in one place at any one time. Both measures that (along with increased mobile ordering to reduce queues) would surely help to prevent the spread of the virus. Money is their priority, not guests’ health.
We have a trip booked for late August and I purchased QS Dining in anticipation of a free dining promo in the spring…ha ha jokes on me!!! Being from Canada I am not even sure the borders will be open by then but I will likely cancel my trip anyway…just too many questions and concerns about safety and the “experience”. With news of dining plans being canceled and virtual queues for rides I am wondering about being able to actually get something to eat if we go. I agree that restaueant capacity will be limited but if people have quick service dining that should not be impacted. I dont want to have virtual boarding for a ride and then have to stand in a line up of 200 people to get a burger for lunch. It just makes me wonder if Disney will be able to feed all the people in the resorts and the parks.
It looks like we will be having to cancel our Trip as i am not going to pay the vast amount of money to not get the full experience we were due to go in October 2020. The fact they are canceling all our dining resurvations and taking away the Disney Dining Plan, the Fast Pass reservation system and Memory Maker along with Extra Magic Hours also we go in october to do the Mickeys Not So Scarey Halloween Party that wont be happening. Then look at the fact of No Parades, No Fireworks, No Meet and Greet with Characters, No Bibbidi Bobbdi Boutique, means i cannot justify the vast sum we would be spending as was due for 5 of us to stay at Disney Yacht Club Resort for 2 weeks followed by Hard Rock Hotel for 4 nights with us going to Universal. Along with us wanting to do Discovery Cove means we will more than likely have to book for 2022 as this issue is running up till september 2021 and 2021 will be rammed with people rebooking and with the aniversary Gutted put so much effort into this holiday was meant to be a massive holiday i turn 40 and mum turns 60 this year.
I don’t understand the logic behind cancelling all Disney Dining Plans that were made as part of vacation packages. If you’re opening the parks, people still need to eat and they certainly can’t afford to feed their families without the dining plan because the prices are ridiculous.
Not so for our middle class family of five. Always worked better to take the room discount and budget for meials–putting the money on a Disney gift card helped. The one time we had free dining it was a race at the end to buy snacks and gifts with the unused credits. However I know families that do a lot of character meals sometimes do come out ahead with the dining plan. We are from NYC so the prices maybe aren’t quite as shocking to us…
With so much lower capacity permitted right now they had to cancel the dining plans. Better to cancel them all across the board…otherwise “not fair.”
Hi again Tom
Will resort reservations with free dining not from impacted reservations but from January promotion be offered the discount. Other blogs are saying only the impacted reservations are.
From what I have been told by a CM (which we all know is not always accurate) and from the email that I got, ALL dining plans are being canceled whether they are free dining from promo, Bounceback or from the impact of covid. There will be NO dining plans at all. The CM I spoke to today did say that they are still trying to work everything out and there will be more changes coming. Once everything is finalized anyone with a reservation will be contacted. My trip is scheduled for July 21-28 so I am anxiously waiting to see if there is anything they can offer that will be worth us keeping our trip. We have a bounceback with free dining and park hopper + at POP. I agree that 35% off room rate is a slap in the face compared to the money we would save with our FD for a family of 5. 35% off our entire trip may compare, but just off the room is not even a close comparison. We will also have to remove our park hopper+ since there won’t be any park hopping. Maybe they will just feed us all free since we are choosing to come with none of the Mickey extras
We shall see.
Agree that this is huge blow to our family too. We haven’t cancelled yet but will once contacted. 14 days every year late August for husband and me -pop w/ 2 adult kids booked same time; bounce backs w/ free dine upgrade to DDP.
So sad. We maximize the DP- 20+yr olds eat lots and We enjoy cocktails and nice dinners. Always come out way ahead. Also food wine snacks….
We didn’t see the 2021 date initially so thank you for that info. Free dine has been a wonderful upgrade for us…not sure we will be doing these long trips again.