Ok folks, I had a bit of a bombshell dropped yesterday. We’ve been planning our trip for 2 years & a huge part of it involves staying at The Beach Club; however, when chatting with them yesterday about the processes on 25th, it transpires that already there are no rooms left at all there for end August/beginning September & the only deluxes available at all were Animal Kingdom Lodge & The Grand Floridian, neither of which appealed to us. There were very few moderate choices either.
So, we’ve now changed plans and are going in May, as there were a few rooms available at BC then, and have booked already. Apparently, the rates for rooms being shown now are much reduced from what they will be when DD comes out as they don’t offer reduced room prices & free dining at the same time & the total package may end up more expensive with free DD than booking now & adding DD on.
However, I’ve been given the best of both worlds as they’ve said that if there’s availability next week & the free DD package works out cheaper then they will amend the booking to the reduced rate with no fee if I call them.
Might be worth bearing in mind.