ashleyteira77
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2016
Booked FD end of August at Pop! Just purchased airfare-4 round trip tickets for $480 total!! It's real now! Going to be hot but we are going to make the best of it!
Curious what are you asking the supervisor to do? I was under the impression that if there were no rooms available there wasn't anything they could do. I have standard room at Poly but those aren't available. I'd love to know if the supervisor can help you.
Frankly, I don't think that people who book months in advance counting on the fact that they can modify to FD are doing themselves any favors. Disney will offer resorts and room types that are underbooked and if enough people have certain rooms booked there is no reason for Disney to offer them at a discount.It is not stupid and regardless of when you book, nobody is entitled to it. I understand that you are disappointed, I get that, but the purpose is for Disney to fill empty rooms.
Mousesavers says that the RO discount for most of fall came out 4/25 last year...a little ways down the list there was another nov/dec discount though, which must be the one that came out in August. Really hoping I don't have to wait until August to see RO discounts for the rest of October, I'm ready to get my final cost figured out!Just reading through last nights thread now so I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet but last year they had 2 Fall Room only release dates. They did a 2nd Room Discount release for most of November and December in August.
Thank-you! It is so hard not to jump in and get FD but it's actually cheaper for us to stay at POR. I agree the exchange rate is horrible right now. 2 Orlando trips sounds fun!FWIW I would do exactly the same as you are doing. We just can't swing the extra for POR this year considering the exchange rate and two Orlando trips in 3 months. But POR is our favourite, and you will have the better dining plan!
Frankly, I don't think that people who book months in advance counting on the fact that they can modify to FD are doing themselves any favors. Disney will offer resorts and room types that are underbooked and if enough people have certain rooms booked there is no reason for Disney to offer them at a discount.
If you upgrade and pay $200 more for your stay, but food would cost you $600 out of pocket, it is still a win.
Yep. Glad I had my room at Yacht Club booked - there's currently no availability of any sort at YC during the first 11 days of November except lagoon view club level, and that's a bit rich for me ($812 a night).There's no FD at all anywhere in October. And the first FD day in November is the 14th.
Yeah, that's how the plan works. You take the rack rate (which you did) and subtracted the cost of the dining plan (QS only, which is correct) and came up with $1334. The RO (no dining plan) cost was $1200. To add the dining plan to the room only you would need to add the cost of the dining plan (the same $96/ night)No, they DON'T get food for that $134. Follow the math. I subtracted the cost of the QSDP from the rack rate.
I haven't followed your posts so this may already be answered. But why allow this woman to make money off your reservation when she is doing basically NOTHING to get you the discount? Go online, book what you want and cancel with her IMO. She rolled in at 9 on the biggest promo day of the year?! She's not doing you a favour.. she's supposed to be working for your business.I feel sick to my stomach! I called my TA at 9 a.m. and she wasn't in the office yet, finally got her at 9:20. She's not as hyped up over FD as me, understandably. She tried to modify online and it wouldn't let her, so now she's on hold with the TA line and there's a 45 minute wait. I think it's going to be close, if I get FD at all. She asked if we were willing to upgrade from Value to a Moderate and I said go ahead, so long as it comes in under our original package price. No sense paying for FD if it makes the trip more expensive. My Zen approach from last night is not working anymore-I'm officially freaking out.
I feel sick to my stomach! I called my TA at 9 a.m. and she wasn't in the office yet, finally got her at 9:20. She's not as hyped up over FD as me, understandably. She tried to modify online and it wouldn't let her, so now she's on hold with the TA line and there's a 45 minute wait. I think it's going to be close, if I get FD at all. She asked if we were willing to upgrade from Value to a Moderate and I said go ahead, so long as it comes in under our original package price. No sense paying for FD if it makes the trip more expensive. My Zen approach from last night is not working anymore-I'm officially freaking out.
Thought I would share my experience . . .
Set alarms for 1:00am, 2:00am, 3:00am, and 3:30am. Just stayed up at 3:30am since speculation was it would drop at 4:00am. Waited patiently like the rest of you for the drop and when it showed up, had AKL in my cart (not my first choice, but best I could do at the time) and when I went to check out, it would not let me select the 4th member of my party, giving an error message of "At least two or more attending guests have the same name. Guests must have unique names." I continued to get this message despite talking with 3 different CMs on chat (everytime I went to my F&F list as they suggested I lost the chat). Then, when they suggested I just choose a random person from my list that I could go back and change later, every time I hit "checkout," it just reloaded my cart page. Fought with this for over an hour and a half. Waited til I got to work to try again, and its doing the same thing. Of course, by now, the first room I had in my cart is gone, and the 2nd and 3rd rooms I put in my cart are gone. Did anyone else have a similar experience?
Hopefully it will be released earlier this year!Mousesavers says that the RO discount for most of fall came out 4/25 last year...a little ways down the list there was another nov/dec discount though, which must be the one that came out in August. Really hoping I don't have to wait until August to see RO discounts for the rest of October, I'm ready to get my final cost figured out!
Ok...I received a confirmation email with the new updates. Still not sure why they aren't showing up under my reservations though.
My kids are the same. The closer the trip gets , they get more and more excited . But it takes awhile for it to settle in their heads. So I get a smile and "That's great" but they won't be super pumped up until it gets closer.I was able to get POP standard pool view for our dates at the end of August... I'm very happy! Told my husband and he was super happy too; told my kids and they are like 'oh.' I think the dread of going back to school after their 11 day Easter break overwhelmed their ability to be happy this morning
So I made my changes 2 hours ago and MDE is still not updated. At what point should I worry? I have an email from Disney confirming the change (I changed my existing reservation), so I should be ok, right?
What's weird is, my previous reservation was a split stay: CBR 11/26-11/30, CSR 11/30-12/3. I had DDP linked to both. This morning I changed the CBR reservation to free dining, which we'll get the first leg of our trip. But the site isn't giving me the option to change my CSR reservation and still shows the DDP linked to both reservations. Ugh this is complicated.