Can I add a person to my free Dining reservation after the window has closed?

Walt Disney World
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Sorry to ask this here but the wait on Disney CS was over 45 minutes. Does anyone know if you can add a person to your free dining reservation after the booking window has closed? We are wanting to take my niece with us and have space in our room

2

I have added and deleted a person from my reservation for free dining in the past. If she is over 18 there will be a nightly charge.

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Thanks, when I went to do it online they wanted me to re-book the entire thing and lost the free dining plan.

Edit this should say we would then lose the free dining

4

Hmmm. That should not have happened. You should have been able to add a person no problem if all else on the reservation stayed the same. Although it is unlikely they can do anything, I would call in and see what they can do.

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They have been getting stricter about rebooking if the dates change especially, going by reports on various forums. Wouldn’t totally surprise me if the same were true of adding guests.

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They are strict. We added a day to one of our reservations (should be a good thing for them) and we could not modify it in any way, without calling them.

7

You should not have rebooked?

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I did not rebook. I just canceled out. I will see if we can add her on the phone, otherwise we will just buy her tickets from a third party and have her stay in our room. That will probably be cheaper anyways. But we will have less meal credits, but oh well

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Why not call? Or do online chat?

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I did online chat, and now have to call. The wait was long this morning. I will try at lunch and let you know. I just didn’t want to wait on hold if you guys knew I would not be able to do it.

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Thanks for your help, I am encourage to know, they have let you add in the past.

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They would not let me add her.
I might try to call again tomorrow and see if I get another answer. They don’t seem real consistent.

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What is their reasoning? You are not adjusting days.

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He said the booking window for that has closed. If I want to add her, I will have to pay the full amount.
I asked for her or the entire party. He said the entire party.
He apologized. No other reason given.

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I would call back.

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I am planning to.
We have had really bad experiences this year with reservations and modifying them.
I don’t know if it is all the loop-hole closing they are doing or what, but during the booking window we had to make 4 calls to add a day to our reservation. I also had to call to upgrade to DDP. I keep having to beg them to take more of my money. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: