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I should be more thankful, right!!!
So - here's my situation now with the special offers released today. I can stay in my current room in the main building which is the king deluxe CL and pay full price or I can switch to the outer building SL and save $2,836. I can also reschedule my trip for January 2016 when I would hope I could get 30% for the room category we want, although I could end up wrong about that. And in January we won't get to enjoy the pool because then it is a little too cold for our tastes. November is pushing it for the pool but if it's in the high 70's, low 80's during the day then we will be OK in the sun. It's just that GF is a splurge for us and I really wanted to go all out with staying in the main building RPC. I'd even go to a standard CL room if it was included in the discount, but it's not.
I'm not paying rack rate. I love WDW but none of the rooms are worth rack rate, IMO. But, I've been spoiled because the last 4-5 trips they've always released a discount that I could easily apply to my reservation. So this is the first time I planned this far ahead (in order to secure a hard to get room) and then ended up disappointed
I could also wait another month and see if I get a UOC, or if a bunch of other people cancel and more rooms open up under the offers, but I don't see that happening and then I might miss being able to get an outer building CL room with a discount. I did ask the CM if either my DH or I had a UOC attached to our name and she said I did not and neither did my DH or she'd see it under our reservation. But I didn't think that was the case? In the past when I've called for him they always asked his email to see if it was attached to his email and not our address? Of course, things could have changed in their system. I was hoping maybe I'd get lucky and my DH would have gotten an offer and accidentally deleted it in his email but it'd be in the system this morning (wishful thinking).
Tough decisions...what a bummer to start out this Monday morning!
Honestly though, life could be much worse so I should still be thankful that the worst part of my day is figuring out my room category at WDW - LOL!!!
With all that said, Happy Monday!
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So - here's my situation now with the special offers released today. I can stay in my current room in the main building which is the king deluxe CL and pay full price or I can switch to the outer building SL and save $2,836. I can also reschedule my trip for January 2016 when I would hope I could get 30% for the room category we want, although I could end up wrong about that. And in January we won't get to enjoy the pool because then it is a little too cold for our tastes. November is pushing it for the pool but if it's in the high 70's, low 80's during the day then we will be OK in the sun. It's just that GF is a splurge for us and I really wanted to go all out with staying in the main building RPC. I'd even go to a standard CL room if it was included in the discount, but it's not.
I'm not paying rack rate. I love WDW but none of the rooms are worth rack rate, IMO. But, I've been spoiled because the last 4-5 trips they've always released a discount that I could easily apply to my reservation. So this is the first time I planned this far ahead (in order to secure a hard to get room) and then ended up disappointed
I could also wait another month and see if I get a UOC, or if a bunch of other people cancel and more rooms open up under the offers, but I don't see that happening and then I might miss being able to get an outer building CL room with a discount. I did ask the CM if either my DH or I had a UOC attached to our name and she said I did not and neither did my DH or she'd see it under our reservation. But I didn't think that was the case? In the past when I've called for him they always asked his email to see if it was attached to his email and not our address? Of course, things could have changed in their system. I was hoping maybe I'd get lucky and my DH would have gotten an offer and accidentally deleted it in his email but it'd be in the system this morning (wishful thinking).
Tough decisions...what a bummer to start out this Monday morning!
Honestly though, life could be much worse so I should still be thankful that the worst part of my day is figuring out my room category at WDW - LOL!!!
With all that said, Happy Monday!
I looked up some dates in December and I noticed that the discounts are "up to 25%" instead 30%....looks like Disney is slowly decreasing the discounts. RPC wasn't available for the dates I was looking at and Poly CL was discounted just 15%. It looks like discounts are going to be harder and harder to come by as time goes on
If you know you won't pay rack rate for RPC, I think I'd change to SL with the discount while it's available. I would also keep checking on RPC as sometimes other room categories open up and you never know if/when it might become available. Good luck with your decision as I know it's hard trying to decide, especially when your heart is set on a particular room type.
I'm SO sorry this happened! I agree with everything that has been said here...about Disney lowering their discount amounts and about them being careful or they will lose loyal customers! I'm surprised they haven't phased out the discounts altogether! Anyway, I called this morning to see if I could get any discount for my dates. I fully expected for there to be no discount available since the website isn't even showing any RPC rooms available for our dates now (any category). But guess what?? I got a 25% discount applied to my current reservation! I was hoping for more discount, and maybe I'll be able to apply an AP discount later and get a better discount... But right now, I'm just happy to get any discount. Obviously, my dates had something to do with my being able to get a discount. So, if you really had your heart set on RPC, can you change your dates to a time that the discount would be available and work around that? I know you've already got all your dining booked for the other dates, but I guess you would need to decide what is more important to you. The discount in SL would obviously still cost less, so if you think you would be happy with that, then book it. The prices at Disney have really gotten out of hand, so we may be changing the way we do our trips (book the deluxe resort with the best discount). At least that would allow us to try different CLs. That's why we are trying BWI (a good discount)! I really hope your day gets better.So - here's my situation now with the special offers released today. I can stay in my current room in the main building which is the king deluxe CL and pay full price or I can switch to the outer building SL and save $2,836. I can also reschedule my trip for January 2016 when I would hope I could get 30% for the room category we want, although I could end up wrong about that. And in January we won't get to enjoy the pool because then it is a little too cold for our tastes. November is pushing it for the pool but if it's in the high 70's, low 80's during the day then we will be OK in the sun. It's just that GF is a splurge for us and I really wanted to go all out with staying in the main building RPC. I'd even go to a standard CL room if it was included in the discount, but it's not.
I'm not paying rack rate. I love WDW but none of the rooms are worth rack rate, IMO. But, I've been spoiled because the last 4-5 trips they've always released a discount that I could easily apply to my reservation. So this is the first time I planned this far ahead (in order to secure a hard to get room) and then ended up disappointed
I could also wait another month and see if I get a UOC, or if a bunch of other people cancel and more rooms open up under the offers, but I don't see that happening and then I might miss being able to get an outer building CL room with a discount. I did ask the CM if either my DH or I had a UOC attached to our name and she said I did not and neither did my DH or she'd see it under our reservation. But I didn't think that was the case? In the past when I've called for him they always asked his email to see if it was attached to his email and not our address? Of course, things could have changed in their system. I was hoping maybe I'd get lucky and my DH would have gotten an offer and accidentally deleted it in his email but it'd be in the system this morning (wishful thinking).
Tough decisions...what a bummer to start out this Monday morning!
Honestly though, life could be much worse so I should still be thankful that the worst part of my day is figuring out my room category at WDW - LOL!!!
With all that said, Happy Monday!
I looked up some dates in December and I noticed that the discounts are "up to 25%" instead 30%....looks like Disney is slowly decreasing the discounts. RPC wasn't available for the dates I was looking at and Poly CL was discounted just 15%. It looks like discounts are going to be harder and harder to come by as time goes on
) I've changed resorts before, but not rooms within resorts. Since there's a lag between checkout and check in time, plus we will be at Epcot that morning until around 1 pm, do we basically just take our luggage to bell services on our way to EP, then retrieve them when we get our second room assignment? We will be using ME, I wish there was a way to alert the people delivering the ME bags to just bring us one bag we've prepared for a nights stay and hold onto the rest until the next day. Seems like a lot of extra work for everyone involved. Any suggestions to make it go more smoothly?
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. We are a family of 4 and once you pay for a hotel, park tickets, food, and airfare, it's a small fortune. Add higher resort rates and eventually it'll be out of reach for a lot of people 
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. I was sort of shocked to see the highest discount being just 25%, but I guess it's not a surprise as there has been talk about Disney slowly decreasing discounts. . I was really surprised to see the Poly offered at just 15%. I know people have been talking that discounts would be lower with the new bungalows and all the other new things at the Poly, but I was hoping that wouldn't be the case. I don't remember the GF getting a lesser discount when VGF were built, but then no regular rooms were taken out of inventory to make room for DVC units like they did at the Poly. I guess decreasing the number of regular rooms will make it easier to fill the resort 
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It looks like we will be staying our first night in a GV and then moving our remaining 6 nights to a LV (boring convoluted story, don't ask
. It looks like we will be staying our first night in a GV and then moving our remaining 6 nights to a LV (boring convoluted story, don't ask
I would not hold your breath on that
The AP discounts lately have been the exact same as the public discounts, another cutback by WDW. They are squeezing us out Smaller discounts, less room categories discounted, less EMH and on and on and on... Next thing you know they will install a fare-box on the buses, Monorail and boats.
