Free Dining Plan Returns in 2025!
There is nothing like a visit to Walt Disney World. We provide a wide variety of ticket, dining and hotel options and promotional offers during the year to help families save on their vacations. In particular, we’ve heard from so many of you who have enjoyed special offers featuring our dining plans in past years, and by popular demand, we’re introducing our latest deal to help you save and enjoy your favorite Disney eats on future 2025 vacations!
Available for booking beginning Jan. 2, you can get a free dining plan with the purchase of select Walt Disney World vacation packages, for travel dates starting just in time for the summer! ICYMI, there will be tons of new things to do this summer, so get that vacation idea out of the group chat and start planning!
The Details
- From Jan. 2 to Feb. 10, 2025, you can get a free dining plan with the purchase of a non-discounted 3-night, 3-day (at minimum) Walt Disney Travel Company package that includes a room at a select Disney Resort hotel and a ticket with a Park Hopper option.
- This offer is available for most arrivals starting May 27 through Jun. 26,and Jul. 7 through Aug. 6, 2025.
- Psst…this year, you can enjoy this free dining plan offer during most of June! Early summer vacationers and June birthdays, rejoice!
- Visit DisneyWorld.com/dineoffer on Jan. 2, 2025, for more details.
Dining plans are great for those who want to enter vacation mode with less worries and make the most of their trip. Whether you’re a family with young kids or a group of foodies, you can eat almost any kind of meal – from chicken fingers to filet mignons – with the Dining Plan.
Also beginning Jan. 2, we will have even more offers available, including deals on select Disney Resort hotel rooms. Visit DisneyWorld.com/SpecialOffers for more information.
So, What Is a Dining Plan?
Think of our dining plans as a way to say hello to delicious eats and goodbye to on-the-spot budgeting for food. We have two options, the Quick Service Dining Plan and the Dining Plan, which include a certain number of meals and snacks based on the number of nights you stay. You purchase the dining plan as part of a vacation package before your trip, so when you’re on vacation, you can enjoy your meals with your loved ones without looking at the price tags. Like before, the dining plan included in this offer depends on the Disney Resort hotel you choose.
We compiled tips and little-known facts to help you make the most of your dining plan. Check them out!
Learn more at DisneyWorld.com/dining/plans.
Walt Disney World Is the Place to Be This Summer
- In 2025, guests staying at a Disney Resort Collection hotel can enjoy admission to a Disney water park on their check-in day*. You can immediately make meaningful memories at the start of your trip.
- Fans of nighttime spectaculars will want to spend the day at Magic Kingdom this summer as “Disney Starlight,” a brand-new nighttime parade, will debut with beloved characters from “Peter Pan,” “Encanto,” “Frozen” and more.
- A delightfully wicked stage show is coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios this summer! “Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After” will keep you on your toes with the most fiendish of foes.
- If you’re more of a Disney Princess fan, then “The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure” is for you! Opening this summer at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the Walt Disney Animation Studios classic “The Little Mermaid” comes to life on stage with all-new sets and stunning visuals.
- At EPCOT, get ready for a thrill as Test Track presented by General Motors makes its return late summer 2025. Featuring an all-new storyline, you’ll want to buckle up for an adventure.
Contact INTERCOT’s official travel partner Magical Journeys today and start planning your next Disney vacation!
About the Author: John Yaglenski
I assume this will hold the same stipulations as the offer(s) from the last few years – Deluxe/DVC get the ‘Standard’ DDP and Moderate/Value get the ‘Quick Service’ DDP?
I don’t do Summer trips to WDW or Florida in general, but always liked not having to worry about budgeting for meals when visiting. Yes, I know you pay full price for your resort to get this, but it can still be a money saver for a booking of 2 or more people. [Now here come the ‘beat downs’ on my opinion. LOL]
I have tried the DDP twice, and both times I tracked it METICULOUSLY to compare my package cost (or the opportunity cost of using free DDP versus a % off deal) versus posted menu cost paying out of pocket. Both times I was within $30+/- of it being a tie. I think it’s fine if the budgeting aspect appeals to you, but my only problem was that my family didn’t always eat consistently in a way that guaranteed we didn’t leave credits unused. That created stress for me, as I was NOT about to give Disney a freebie! But if they gave it to me for free I complain very little!
I’m personally not a huge fan of the dining plan but know people love it. I think it all depends on what and how you eat. I’m always on the go and do quick serve too much. Don’t think I’d see the value others might.
I agree that the “Standard" DDP is a bit much – both in quantity and in time consumption, but the “Quick Service" DDP suits my visiting style to a ‘T.’ Fewer reservations and I can time meals out as I desire.As you said, it all comes down to what and how you eat while on vacation.
We’ve been solid “free" dining plan people for years. However, it really does come down to how you eat while on vacation. Our last couple of trips had the “free" dining gift card instead of the dining plan, and I much preferred it. I like the prepaid feeling and a bit of savings, but we found we shared meals and snacks so much more without the dining plan, since that is what we were really hungry for.
Still, with the cost of Disney going up so quickly, I’ll take anything that helps save a few dollars.