This is so true.I think they always intended to offer free dining. The way I see it, it’s a huge money maker for them.
People book like crazy at inflated rack rates and they take their perceived savings and book a slew of extras, like dessert parties and extra ADR’s and then in the end, they go home with a ton of extra unused credits. It’s a win for everyone.
This! I found availability to be awful, looking at different dates, so definitely only some rooms in some resorts in some dates that have not booked well. They put out an offer, get people enticed, looking at a Disney vacation and then they fill whatever has not sold well.It means that hotel bookings were down so they want to entice everyone to come back. To hedge their promotion they increased the rack rate of some (or most) rooms and released several promotions on the same day. If I hadn't already had a room booked for my Fall trip to which I could apply the AP discount, I would have had to spend more money when booking yesterday.