Unbelievable news about free dining at Walt Disney World

In what is a completely unprecedented move (in my 11-year memory at least!) Disney seem to have gone nuts and are offering free dining right through select dates in SEPTEMBER 2011! Yes, you read that right - more than a year of potential free dining dates to book!

We already knew that the free dining promotion was valid for arrivals most nights most dates up to the end of December this year:

•  Oct. 1-7, Oct. 22-28, Nov. 12-18, Nov. 27 — Dec. 2 and Dec. 10-21, 2010,

But here are the new dates for 2011...

• Jan. 1-5, 
• Jan. 9-13, 
• Jan. 21 — Feb. 3, 
• Feb. 11-17, 
• Feb. 25 — March 3, 
• May 27 — June 2 and 
• Aug. 19 — Sept. 29, 2011.

CRAZY!!!

Booking window is from today through 20th December, but, as always with the Free dining promos, the number of rooms is limited, so it is better to book earlier. There is no down side to booking early...

And that's not all.

In subsequent posts, I'll summarise a couple of more limited offers also announced today, that also may appeal to you. Although these other offers cannot be combined with the free dining, they fill in some of the dates that are not offered with free dining.

"Basic Packages" are now available for 2011 travel to Walt Disney World...

Some of you will know that we have been waiting to get proper pricing for bookings for 2011 at Walt Disney World. "Packages" (tickets, meal plans etc) are not yet available (and will probably not be out til some time mid-August)...

Well, as of this past weekend we now are able to offer "basic packages" which, slightly confusingly, are almost like room-only bookings, but not quite.

• Up to this point any bookings made for 2011 - and I have made several already - have had fictional pricing, based on high-season room pricing.
• Now with the basic package, we can now offer correct room pricing (based, correctly, on the actual dates of the booking).
• We still can't price packages including meal plans and/or tickets. 

FYI: For my clients that were booked before this changeover, I do not plan to swap you all over to the basic package, seeing as I will swap you over to the full packages of your choice once they are available in August. There just is no need to do all the work twice more...