Welcome, Elyse! You must be so excited about the opportunity to visit Disney World next month! Thanks for asking about the
Disney Dining Plan!
The Disney Dining Plan is available as part of a Walt Disney World Resort vacation package. This includes a stay in a Disney World Resort hotel and theme park tickets. Guests staying off property and visiting for one day are not eligible for the Disney Dining Plan.
While not the answer you were probably wishing to hear, please know that, as a Guest, you can enjoy delicious dining at Disney World, including the theme parks and the resort hotels! All Guests can enjoy dining at any of Disney World’s quick-service or table-service locations – including character dining! And, you don’t need to be staying at a Disney World hotel to enjoy dining options that are available within that hotel!
Guests who would like to make table service or character dining reservations can do so 60 days before their visit. This means you are within your reservation window for your mid-September visit! Head over to the Disney World website to explore all the tasty
Disney Dining options available to Guests!
Elyse, if you’d like to send us another question letting us know which theme park you plan on visiting, my fellow planDisney panelists and I would be happy to make some recommendations about quick-service, table-service, or
character dining options at that specific park or at nearby Disney World hotels!
Dreams do come true!
Jonathan