Hey Howdy Hey Valene and welcome to planDisney!
I am so excited to hear that you are all set and ready to book your Magical vacation for next year. What better way to experience the Magic of the Walt Disney World Resort than by taking advantage of Special Offers! Thank you for your question about booking with a Special Offer. I will be happy to give you more information on the details.
Special Offers with vacations to the Walt Disney World Resort are great when they are released. They can help so much make planning a vacation much easier on the budget and allow more financial freedom when in the parks. In the past, Special Offers did seem to come at a fairly predictable pace such as with Free Dining. As the
Dining Plan has recently made its return, the suspicion is that the dining offers will return as well. We did see this earlier in the year with Free Dining for Disney+ Subscribers being offered as you mentioned. Considering that the Dining Plan did just recently return, we don't quite yet know if the discounts will be following a similar path as in the past. Without official word from Disney on specifics of Special Offers, we can only speculate if and when they return and which details may be required to qualify for them.
One thing that I can tell you for a fact is that if you have a vacation booked with Disney and a Special Offer is released and your vacation qualifies for the details, you can rebook your vacation to have this offer applied. You can do this yourself through your
My Disney Experience account or you can
call Disney and speak to a Cast Member about having the offer applied.
If rebooking yourself, you want to log into your My Disney Experience account and look for your reservation under the "My Plans, Reservations and Tickets" section. You should see an option to "Modify Reservation" next to it which you will click on. Once you do, you can search for your exact same booking however under the Disney Resorts Collection option, you should see an option to book with the Special Offer. Go through the steps and you will end up at a confirmation screen which should run down your entire selections, price and discounts applied. As long as it looks right, hit confirm and your vacation should be updated with the Special Offer applied.
I hope this is helpful to better plan your vacation for next year. If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach back out, we are always happy to help!
Have a Magical day,
Nick