Frustrated Rant from September Honeymooner
I'm in such a rock and hard place right now.
Married 06-2019, planned to go Sept 2019 but decided to wait for Sept 2020 to save and plan for perfect once in a lifetime trip.
I bought Black Friday discount DisCove and Universal tickets at the end of last year.
I woke up Jan 1 at 5 am to schedule free dining for my trip Sept 12-27, 2020 but then the deal window ended the week before we arrived so I couldn't schedule it.
I got a good deal on a single room for Pop from
UT for the trip (bought back in Feb) but I didn't buy tickets or the second room we needed because I kept thinking free dining will come in April for our dates and I'd wanted to keep it open in case. Used the Pop reservation to log in
mDE and make 180 day ADRs, got some great slots waking up early on exactly 180+10 days out (fireworks timeslot at CG on Saturday night, Ohana dinner, Le Cellier dinner etc an adult foodie paradise).
Saw people were getting free dining for getting canceled in March due to closure, and I dared to have hope.
Woke up early April 24th, no free dining was released due to COVID, went ahead and got a good pandemic deal on B Resort on the two rooms we needed for our party, planned to cancel the Pop room. Thought maybe I'd cancel the B Resort and rebook if Disney ever offered some on-property or Swolphin pandemic deals.
Never got around to buying tickets because I was a little gun shy on something non refundable. Now suddenly, tickets are no longer available, can't change reservations, free dining cancelled for the foreseeable future, all my ADRs gone, no fireworks, park hours reduced, might not have F&W festival, can't make fastpasses, need a reservation to get into the park and can't do that without tickets.
Don't know how reduced the parks will be in hours, experiences and restaurants will be by then. Now I have no idea what's going to happen, who knows if I'll even be able to get tickets and go. We'll go if we can, whatever concessions we have to make because we've got 4 adults with different schedules from two states and it is very difficult to get two consecutive weeks off for this many people.
I would be fine with it all if I just knew that we could still go on the trip but we don't have tickets, nowhere has them anymore and as far as Disney is concerned I haven't been jerked around enough to get any deal on a room or anything. Very unmagical :/