Free UK Dining and Drinks 2027 offer: cost to upgrade free dining packages

The UK’s free dining and drinks offer for 2027 has officially gone live, but can you upgrade your free dining and drinks offer to a different dining package? Yes, is the answer. You can pay to upgrade to get a better dining package, without changing where you stay, but there is a cost involved. You pay an extra amount per person, per night, and the price you pay changes depending on which plan you upgrade to and which resort you choose to stay in.

Free dining and drinks 2027 upgrade cost?

Disney are transparent with the value they give the free Dining Plan at each resort level. The upgrade cost is found by subtracting the value of the free offer from the normal price of the dining plan. As a sum it looks like this:

cost of dining plan at full price per night - value of free dining and drinks offer per night = cost of upgrade

The key is knowing how much Disney value each free dining and drinks dining plan offer at in 2027 for each resort level, per person, per night.

An example: This means if you want to upgrade from the free value resort dining and drinks offer in 2027, you get £19.99 off the cost of any dining plan per night if you are 10 and over, or £6.99 off the cost off any dining plan option per night if you are aged 3-9.

An important not to remember is that the children in your party are only classed as children by Disney if they are aged 3-9. Anyone aged 10 or over is classed as an adult for pricing purposes. This is important to remember as you pay adult prices to upgrade dining plans for children aged 10 and over.

As the dining plan is worth different amounts depending on where you stay and there are different dining plan upgrade options available at each resort, the cost to upgrade varies. Let’s take a look at how this works in more detail, to get the free dining and drinks upgrade prices at each resort level.

Free dining and drinks 2027 upgrade costs from a Value Resort

What you get for free in 2027

Booking a Value hotel with the free drinks and dining offer gives you:

• 1 free quick service meal and 1 free drink per night of your holiday.

For 14 nights, this gives you 14 free quick service credits and 14 drinks credits per person.

Upgrade options and costs per night

Upgrading from a Value resort has the most options, as the free dining and drinks offer at Value level is only available when this offer is on. To get one of the 3 Dining Plan packages you will pay the following per person, per night to upgrade the 2027 offer:

Here are the costs per night to upgrade for different UK families:

To work out how much an upgrade will cost for your holiday, just multiply the numbers above by the number of nights you want to stay

Price difference between upgrade cost and original price

Here are the price differences between the dining plan paid for out of pocket at regular price vs the saving made when upgrading using the free dining plan offer:

You’ll notice that you always make the same saving of £19.99 per adult and £6.99 per child. this is the amount Disney World say the free dining and drinks offer is worth per night for Value Resort guests. This saving makes upgrading worth it for many UK families want to have more dining experiences as part of their holiday. A table service character meal per day would cost more than the cost to upgrade to a Table Service Dining Plan for example.

Free dining and drinks 2027 upgrade costs from a Moderate Resort

What the free Moderate dining offer in 2027?

Booking a Moderate hotel with the free drinks and dining offer in 2027 gives you the Quick Service Dining Plan for free, which includes:

• 2 free quick service meals and 2 free drinks per night

• 1 free snack per night

• Free resort refillable mug for the duration of your trip

For 14 nights, this gives you 28 free quick service credits, 28 drinks credits, 14 snack credits per person to use at any time during your holiday, plus a resort refillable mug to use for the whole of your stay.

Upgrade dining plan options from Moderate hotels and prices

If you want to experience table service dining, you can choose to pay more to upgrade your free dining plan. In 2027, there are now two table service dining plans to choose from, as the Deluxe Table Service Dining Plan has returned for 2027 bookings. Here are the amounts you will pay per night in 2027 to upgrade from the free dining and drinks offer available to Moderate guests:

Here are the per night upgrade costs for different UK families:

Price difference between upgrade cost and original price

The differences between paying for table service dining plan options without the offer, and the saving the offer gives you:

The amount you save when upgrading is the exact amount that the Quick Service Dining Plan is worth per night when paying out of pocket. This shows that Disney are fair with the offer, giving UK visitors a like for like value.

Free dining and drinks 2027 upgrade costs from a Deluxe Resort

Deluxe Resorts and Villa free drinks and dining offer 2027

Booking a Deluxe hotel with the free drinks and dining offer in 2027 gives you the Table Service Dining Plan for free which includes:

• 1 free quick service meal per night

• 1 free table service meal per night

• 2 free drinks per night

• 1 free snack per night

• Free resort refillable mug for the duration of your trip

On a 14 night holiday you get 14 free quick service credits, 14 table service credits, 14 snack credits and 28 drink credits to use at any time on your holiday. You also get a free resort refillable mug to use for the duration of your stay.

However, if you want to upgrade to the Deluxe Table Service Dining Plan, to get an additional Table Service meal per day and drink on top of everything included for free in the Table Service Dining Plan you can.

Cost to upgrade to Deluxe Table Service Dining Plan

Upgrading to a Deluxe Table Service Dining Plan from the free dining plan on offer when you stay in a Deluxe resort in 2027 costs:

Here are the per night upgrade costs for different UK family configurations:

Price difference between upgrade cost and original price

Here is the cost difference :

Notice that the saving is the exact price of the Table Service Dining Plan per night.

Magic in a minute

Upgrading from the free dining and drinks 2027 offer is easy to do when you book, but working out the costs is the hard part. For UK visitors it’s easy to do with a simple equation:

cost of dining plan at full price per night - value of free dining and drinks offer per night = cost of upgrade