My point exactly eastendlights. I book the room I want because no matter what I am going, discount or not. However it is advised that if you are not going without a discount you are better off not booking until the discount is released. People can do as they please and that is fine with me because to me the discount is just icing on the cake, but for those that will only go if they are able to receive a discount they may end up shooting themselves in the foot. If they book early and resorts are full Disney is not going to offer Discounts for those periods. Even if they do there will be no availability because discounts are only available for open rooms, they aren't applied to a current reservations. As much as we would like to think Disney does these deals out of the kindness of their hearts the fact is it is a marketing strategy to fill vacant rooms. No vacant rooms, no discount offer. That's all I was trying to say. Like I said though, if people do start cancelling because they cannot afford to go without the discount, we may see a new discount offered to help fill those rooms.I am not saying people should not book. We go regardless of discounts as well, in fact, out of all of our trips, I think we paid rack rate every trip* except the last three! What I am seeing is that people are booking many multiple trips in advance in case of free dining to take advantage of booking ADR's 180+. This artificially fills up resorts which then reduces the need for discounts.
*Nor have we ever had a dining plan, free or otherwise.
I bit the bullet and booked; I really wanted to hold out for a RO discount, but availability is sooo low already for the resorts I was looking at, I didn't want to risk being shut out :/
I'll be interested to see when/if late Oct discounts actually show up
Any rumors of room rate discounts being extended past October 7th???
Got an email yesterday from the travel-agency-which-shall-not-be-named-on-this-board and booked a discounted room at the GF through them for 2 nights. All done now.
I get the "he who shall not be named" but what did the email say?
I get the "he who shall not be named" but what did the email say?
Basically discounts available for certain resorts (6 or 7 usually) for specific dates in Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec. The week of Oct 15-22 was excluded. Have to request a quote. My discount was about 30%. Let's see if that is too much info and I get in trouble!
I must be way too new or have really missed something. I do not get the "he who shall not be named" reference. I feel so out of the loop. LOL
Can someone please PM me the name of that travel agency? I see it mentioned a lot and I don't know which one it is!!!
Nothing should happen to your ADR's, I had made a bunch for a planned trip in February that I had to cancel. After I cancelled, all of my ADR's still existed and I had to go in and cancel each one. You may want to link your ADR's to your new reservation though. You can do that in My Disney Experience.