#1218 - Disney Dining Plan Back in 2024, Park Reservations Gone For Many, Genie+ Pre-Planning Coming & More
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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05/09/23 - In this episode, Disney announces changes to Walt Disney World in 2024 including the return of the dining plan, reservations being dropped for date-based tickets, the ability to book Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane before the day of your visit, plus more, as well as Disney making changes to restaurant modifications.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the Dismplugged episode, 1218 for the week of May 9th, 2023. |
| 0:25.5 | I am your host Rhino today and I am joined by a lovely bunch of coconuts. See, I told you I would say it. I even wrote it in the script like Erica Resnick. Hi friends. |
| 0:35.5 | Teresa Eccles. Hello. The master coconut himself, Craig Williams. Oh boy, boy. |
| 0:43.5 | Before we get started, I remind everybody that this and everything that we do here is brought to you by dreams unlimited travel. |
| 0:49.5 | I am an expert sale, you plan the perfect Disney vacation and when you book with them, it cost you nothing extra on your trip. |
| 0:55.5 | You help support the channel and all the content that we produce and you get the services of a wonderful dreams agent, much like Teresa Eccles on your side. |
| 1:03.5 | So check them out, dreams unlimited travel, debt cam. Can't have both, wonderful or me. Wonderful or me. |
| 1:09.5 | I actually have in my notes to say something nice to you today. It's way down here on like page two. |
| 1:13.5 | Wow, I can't wait. Get ready. It's coming. Julie Baldera is out last time. So I don't think we're going to get on that level. |
| 1:19.5 | Oh, Lord. Yeah, I just berated her for like an hour, but I didn't. But okay. Before we move away from dreams too much, we should probably talk about we have an upcoming |
| 1:29.5 | Disney Land event this August. John has updated the specifics for how to book a room for the Dizz and Dreams Unlimited Travel event that is happening on August 4th, 2023 in the event thread that you can find in the podcast section of Dizzboards.com. |
| 1:45.5 | Here's what you need to do. You're going to reach out to a dreams unlimited travel agent to book your room. |
| 1:51.5 | Reach out. Reach out. Touch faith. And if you don't have an agent, you can email John at Dreams Unlimited Travel. |
| 1:58.5 | Dreams Unlimited Travel.com and he can set you up for one set you up with one. Sorry. As for the details in case you didn't see them over there on Dizzboards.com, we have rooms held at both Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, which is my favorite. |
| 2:13.5 | And excuse me, I cut off the end spa and Disneyland Hotel. The room nights we have held are for August 3rd through August 6th, 2023. |
| 2:23.5 | Rooms may be available at the group rate before August 3rd and after August 6th, as long as the group's department allows these could go away at any time. |
| 2:35.5 | So make sure your agent knows if you want to extend your nights either before or after the weekend and they'll quote you accordingly. |
| 2:41.5 | So that's some pricing here. |
| 2:43.5 | First up, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel Spa is going to be $585 per night plus 2% ATID assessment fee and 15% occupancy tax or $684.45 total per night. |
| 3:02.5 | Disney's Grand Hotel is $440 per night plus 2% ATID assessment fee and 52% occupancy tax for $514.80 total per night. |
| 3:14.5 | There are limited number of rooms at these prices at both hotels, so act fast. |
| 3:19.5 | Also, remember, it doesn't have to be just you. You can grab three friends. |
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