Gotcha - sorry for misunderstanding! I’m guessing we will be making that call at some point, just doing the ‘wait and see’ approach for a bit longer. I am curious as to what the pandemic numbers will look like when phased openings start.
I've never rented points just because of the inflexibility of cancelling. My AP discount is usually not much more anyway. This just insures I never will. I don't know how these places survive if they don't relax their refund policies in the future. People are losing thousands of dollars through no fault of their own.
What I don’t get is don’t you remember in the beginning of this pandemic when the public health officials were repeatedly saying a mask is only appropriate for health care workers in close direct contact with infected people and we should not order n95 masks and none would be beneficial? We all went without masks in their advice for over a month! Now they say wear a cloth not a medical mask even those droplets can get through them! I think this is more of a give the desperate something to make them think they can control an uncontrollable situation and I am mad at myself for not getting the Home Depot shop masks that were n95 when I could have gotten them! We all would have gladly worn masks from the beginning and how many wouldn’t have gotten infected if we had?
Yeah I'm in the never purchasing extra insurance again group. I bought extra that included more medical coverage and trip cancellation and so far no $$.
Yes it was, in a very passive aggressive way. But you can interpret it however you like, as will I.Not one thing in what he said was judgemental
Absolutely not, but I'm not going to make a comment here that could be interpreted as political. The countries with the highest mask wearing have the lowest infection rates/deaths. Anyone who wants Disney/the country to reopen should support mask wearing, which I most certainly do!
Wrong. I showed the rental contract to my lawyer, and he explained that the nonrefundable policy means the guest cannot choose to cancel and expect to get a refund. There is no clause in the contract stating that if the resort is closed, making fulfillment of the reservation in any form impossible, that the guest forfeits the money. And that clause would have to be in there for the owner/rental company to have a leg to stand on in court. If you pay someone for a service or product, and they don't deliver anything in return, they owe you the money back. Legally it's a simple concept. "Nonrefundable" never legally means "I got your money, so tough luck if I don't make good on my end of the bargain."
In most cases I've heard everyone has read the contracts that were in place. Maybe too much at this point. They just weren't specific enough for this situation.
I think the reason why they were not encouraging people to wear masks is because there wasn’t enough even for the healthcare workers. The number of times that you should change those, requires the need for thousands probably millions of them in the healthcare industry. My daughter works as a nurse, and even though I think everybody agrees that if you’re working even with the potential of coming in contact with a coronavirus patient you should have an N 95 mask. The problem was they did not have enough of those, so nurses had to wear regular ones which do not provide the best protection against getting the virus. I understand everyone’s frustration, but people forget this is much more contagious than the flu and the risk is our healthcare industry gets overrun. Time will tell with the relaxed restrictions what it will lead to.
I understand that and it's exactly why I don't rent. As I said, my AP discount is close enough that I'm willing to pay a little more if I have to, for the guaranteed refund. But I just disagree that if you don't get what you paid for, and you didn't cancel, that you should just be out your money. I'm just glad I'm not in that position and I feel for anyone who has to deal with it. Regardless of how rare this was, buyers are going to be much more leery when making reservations and I have no doubt this will cut into their business. Just out of curiosity, I checked a rental site and it would appear a 5 night rental for a 1 br at Riviera would cost me over 4500. I'm paying $2300 directly through Disney. I double checked to make sure I had dates correct, but that's shocking to me.
