If you want to get a free dining plan at Walt Disney World in 2025, it's time to act.
Disney this morning released details on booking its free dining plans in 2025 - and they open on Thursday. Starting January 2, you can book a free Disney Dining Plan with select Walt Disney World vacation packages.
This offer will be available for booking from January 2 through February 10, for most arrivals starting May 27 through June 26, and then again for arrivals starting July 7 through August 6. You must book a non-discounted stay of at least three nights and three days that includes both an included WDW Resort hotel room and Park Hopper tickets for your family or travel group.
A Disney Dining Plan includes one free table-service meal, one free quick-service meal, a free snack, and a free resort-refillable drink mug for each person over age three in your room for each night of your stay. The Quick-Service Dining Plan subs a second quick-service meal for the table-service meal. More than 200 restaurants and dining locations across the resort accept the Dining Plan, but you may need to make advance reservations to visit popular table-service restaurants.
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Now the Disney Dining Plan may not be for everyone. Other discounts that Disney offers may be a better fit for families whose appetites do not match exactly the two full meals and a snack daily. If you're a fan of noshing around EPCOT dining festivals or splitting meals among the family, for example, you might prefer another form of room discount. Again, that's why we have a travel agent partner to help Theme Park Insider readers find the specific Walt Disney World vacation package that works for them. See our Book a Disney or Universal vacation page to get started.
This year, Walt Disney World will be opening several new attractions and experiences, including the new Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away parade at the Magic Kingdom, a reimagined Test Track at EPCOT, the new The Little Mermaid - A Musical Adventure and Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After shows this summer at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and the new Zootopia: Better Zoogether! show in the Tree of Life Theater at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
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Just remember, this promotion can take a ton of discipline and oodles of experience and mental energy to make it an actual "deal". The first thing to remember is that in order to get the DDP promotion, you have to reserve a room at full price. The next thing to understand, is that there are a lot of rules with the DDP that are constantly changing including a lot of unwritten rules that can be leveraged to maximize value.
I would recommend anyone considering this promotion to plan out your itinerary and think about the specific restaurants you would eat at during your trip. After you've picked your restaurants, look at the menus for each place and pick out the most likely items that you would order if price was no object and then make a second list of items you would order if you were paying out of pocket. After you've added of each of those lists, compare them to the total price of your room. If the "out of pocket" number is less than 20% of your room cost, the dining plan is probably not for you, but if the high number is more than 30% of your room cost, you can probably get good value out of the promotion.
The other important thing is the DDP treats meals the same (aside from differentiating between quick/counter service and table service), which means a quick breakfast at your resort's eatery that might cost $10 out of pocket uses the same single credit as a $20 quarter chicken meal at Flame Tree BBQ at DAK. In other words, it's easy to work the DDP to your advantage, but it requires a lot of planning and forethought to make sure you're not throwing credits away and ensuring that you don't leave any potential value on the table. I don't know how many trip reports I've read where guests are bemoaning getting to the end of their vacation only to realize they have a handful of credits left as they're checking out of their resort. FYI, unlike the previous incarnation of the DDP, the current version will not let you turn QS credits into snacks at your resort's convenience store.