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It’s Back- Disney Free Dining 2015 is here!

By MainStreetTales2 on April 27, 2015 in 2015, Dining Plans, Disney World, Fall Discount, Free, Free Dining

While other blogs are anxious to report rumors, we hold off until Disney announces an offer. There’s no reason to get all excited over what may come to be. BUT NOW DISNEY FREE DINING 2015 IS HERE!!! We are as excited as you are! When you use Trips To The Mouse as your travel agent, they have you covered on all offers so you don’t have to worry about the rumors. You sleep in and know they are hard at work for you!

The Disney free dining offer has a few twists this year. The first is the requirement you must have a park hopper or a water park & more park ticket for your stay. Excluded hotels are: Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, The Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort(only the Little Mermaid rooms), campsites, and all 3-bedroom villas. There appears to be limited availability and possibly exclusions for Disney’s Port Orleans French Quarter and Riverside as well as Disney’s All Star Movies as well. For value resorts you will receive the quick service dining plan and for moderates and deluxes you will receive the plus dining plan. You can upgrade as well if you want to go from the quick service to the plus or from the plus to the deluxe. It is reported you must have a six night stay but that has yet to be confirmed if it is being enforced. Honestly, we can’t imagine staying less than six nights anyhow so of course that’s a non-issue.

The promotion is for most nights arriving:

August 28-October 2, 2015

October 25-31, 2015

November 8-November 19, 2015

December 15-December 21, 2015

The availability for this promotion is extremely limited. We encourage you to complete a quote request form Trips To The Mouse and include as much information as you can so they can secure a courtesy hold on your booking. Please include all names of the travelers as well as the children’s ages and your preferred resort and dates. Remember when you book with Trips To The Mouse you get so much more service. They handle your dining reservations, your fast passes, and provide you with a custom itinerary.

Happy Monday everyone! Where will you be staying for Disney Free Dining 2015?

Should I use a Disney Vacation Planner?

By MainStreetTales2 on September 10, 2012 in Disney Vacation Planner, Free, Travel Agent

YES!!!

First things first, not all planners are created equal when it comes to Disney. Disney requires that vacation planners complete a training course called Disney’s College of Knowledge. Once you have completed that you are eligible to become a Disney Travel Planner, however in my opinion that isn’t nearly enough to do an effective job. You want to check to make sure that your agent is working with an agency that is a Disney Earmarked Authorized Vacation Planner agency. This is a separate designation to Disney’s top agencies. Those agencies require more of their planners. For example, Mouseketrips, the one I work with, requires that you have real life hands on knowledge of Disney. So their agents have been to the parks, on cruises, experienced Disney weddings, etc. They also require their agents go through a more extensive training program than College of Knowledge. When choosing an agent, choose a Disney’s College of Knowledge graduate and one working with an Earmarked Disney Authorized Vacation Planner. (hopefully ME but if not me, then make sure they do have these qualifications)

Now that that is out of the way, some people think it will cost them more if they use a travel agent. Not true at all. A Disney Travel Agent should always be FREE. How is that possible? Disney pays the agencies a commission and the agencies pay their planners. This is another area in which not all agencies are created equal. One of the things that I led me to choose Mouseketrips is the attention to customer service. We make sure that we are only recommending the options that are truly good for your family and your budget. I personally feel that you are going to be a happier, and hopefully repeat client if you have received a great value for your vacation and that means only the options you need.

You receive one on one attention when you book with a planner. Instead of calling into a call center and getting someone different every time, when you choose a vacation planner like myself you have direct contact with that person. My clients have my cell phone number and my email address and they know when they contact me I already know what they are celebrating, who is going, and all other important details of their trip.

In addition to all of those reasons, I also give my clients a personalized vacation itinerary. It has all the information they could possibly need to have the most magical trip so they just get to sit back and countdown the days to their vacation!

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