Mollygirl21
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- Jul 5, 2016
We're going to WDW in Feb 2020 and hoping for a great Cdn resident promo - am I correct that they have offered free dining during that time period in previous years?
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Me too, Feb 8 -15/20, but I'm not holding my breath with SWGE opening this year. Hoping for some pixie dust though.We're going to WDW in Feb 2020 and hoping for a great Cdn resident promo - am I correct that they have offered free dining during that time period in previous years?
Thanks!
That depends. If you want a certain room type and are willing to pay rack rate, and your dates are set in stone, then go ahead and secure your room. If the only way you are willing to take that room is with a discount then you should probably wait. Yes, you can cancel and rebook when a promo comes out. But Disney releases promos to fill rooms and the promo is only for a limited amount of rooms. So if they see a certain room category or resort is all booked up, there's no need to release a deal for that room. I'm not too picky so I tend to go where the discount is and I'd never pay rack rate just to have a certain resort. But everyone's different. I just think there's a misconception sometimes that if you have a room booked and a discount comes out that you'll automatically get it because you already reserved your room, but that's not the case.Oh boy. I'm a big newbie, planning on a Feb 2020 trip as well. I was planning on getting my room only booking on the 18th when they become available. Should I do this, or should I wait to see if any of these offers come out? If I book a room, and something better becomes available, then I guess I have to cancel and rebook? I've been on some pretty complicated, planning-intensive vacations before, but Disney takes the cake, for sure. I'm almost not excited because it seems so stressful!
I guess from my point of view, I don't even know whether to be picky because we've never been there. I'm pretty set on staying at Pop Century, but I don't particularly care about what room, though I have some ideas about what we'd prefer in terms of getting a quieter room because my son has trouble sleeping in hotels as it is. Having said that, if a major discount became available at the same resort but for a different room, I wouldn't mind switching. I just don't know how difficult switching would be on my own or if I should be booking through a travel agent and let them handle that. There's also the issue of these discounts not coming out until after the initial dining reservations. I don't know that we'll do any table restaurant dining, but I still want the option to think about it over the next couple months.That depends. If you want a certain room type and are willing to pay rack rate, and your dates are set in stone, then go ahead and secure your room. If the only way you are willing to take that room is with a discount then you should probably wait. Yes, you can cancel and rebook when a promo comes out. But Disney releases promos to fill rooms and the promo is only for a limited amount of rooms. So if they see a certain room category or resort is all booked up, there's no need to release a deal for that room. I'm not too picky so I tend to go where the discount is and I'd never pay rack rate just to have a certain resort. But everyone's different. I just think there's a misconception sometimes that if you have a room booked and a discount comes out that you'll automatically get it because you already reserved your room, but that's not the case.
Oh boy. I'm a big newbie, planning on a Feb 2020 trip as well. I was planning on getting my room only booking on the 18th when they become available. Should I do this, or should I wait to see if any of these offers come out? If I book a room, and something better becomes available, then I guess I have to cancel and rebook? I've been on some pretty complicated, planning-intensive vacations before, but Disney takes the cake, for sure. I'm almost not excited because it seems so stressful!
Thanks for all this info. I was aware that you could call to make a room reservation. I thought I'd just wait until it was available online, but maybe that's not such a good idea because the rooms might go quickly. Maybe I will call tomorrow. One day before haha. Do you need to already have a Disney account or how do you access it online afterward?FYI, room only reservations can be booked 499 days out by phone, and then once they release the actual rates for that year, online. You don't need to wait.
What they do before the new year's rates are released is the reservation is done and deposit taken at the current year's rates and then adjusted up or down once the actual rates are released.
We booked our fall 2019 trip by phone as soon as we were able to at the 499 day mark as we wanted to ensure we had the room type we wanted. While it would be nice not to have to pay rack rate, we booked a resort and room type we would be ok with paying rack rate for if no discounts become available [which we figure is likely with SWGE].
If a room only discount later becomes available and MDE will let you, and there is availability, you can change your reservation to it online [by doing a change/modify reservation NOT//NOT a cancel] or by calling Disney.
Note that just because your resort is included in those with the discount, doesnt mean there will be availability for the dates or room type you want -- they are often very very limited in # of rooms that the discount can apply to. And it is not automatically applied, you have to actively have it applied to your reservation.
If the discount is for a package, then you need to make a new reservation and would then cancel the room only. I recommend making the new reservation first so you know you have it and then cancel the one you no longer need -- you don't want to cancel first and then find there is no availability left at all !
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