DisBuckMan
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- Apr 14, 2015
Did you get FD on top of those other discounts??
I would bet not, Disney has not been one to allow stacking of discounts in the past.
Did you get FD on top of those other discounts??
Never trust a TA to do something that you can do yourself.
I haven't seen it so bad with room discounts. However, those are offered more frequently and spread throughout the year. I have added the room discount to reservations for 3 trips now with maybe a 15 minute wait at most. The last one I had the Disney Visa, so I got to do it a little early.
Agree. Especially in a situation such as this, where there is the possibility of exremely popular limited time perks. Let's face it...YOU, in making your own reservations, have your own best interest at heart. A travel agent who may have 50-100 clients booked at Disney, all of whom want the same perk, has many people to look out for. Where would you fall in their "priority" list amongst their other many clients? I wouldn't want to take my chances.
Somehow yes we did.Did you get FD on top of those other discounts??
One word ...Disaster!! Our TA originally told us you could not add Free Dining to an existing reservation if it became available, so advised us to wait until early May when the promotion is typically announced! She emailed me yesterday at 9am...told me it was available for Visa holders now and general public on Thursday and that POFQ was included! I then found out through my own research ( Disney website and here!) that the offer became available somewhere between 4 and 6 AM, POFQ was NOT included, and our 2nd choice (Caribbean Beach) was also now no longer available (as of today)! Decided to call Disney on my own...had to try a couple times, once got through on hold but wait was over an hour. Hung up and tried again later and hold time was less than 5 mins!! Ended up booking a 1 bedroom villa at Old Key West for 4 adults with the Free Dining and actually worked out to be less than $100 per person more than doing 2 rooms at a moderate resort! I'm still waiting on a quote from the TA!! Lesson learned - next time I'll just do it myself!!
Sounds like you need a new travel agent!
Yup, free dining isn't really free. Hotel discounts are better.The quote from my TA was $2000 higher than our magical deal so new free dining for us. There is no way two people would eat $2000 worth of food.
This happens all the time. Last time it was when ADR's opened for BOG. Every time DCL itineraries are announced it the same thing. It's amazing that they implemented MDE with such lousy software.It's amazing how one promotion killed their entire computer system. Why can't there be a separate line for FD folks and then another for people who have other inquiries? It makes no sense.
I booked our trip - 9/9-9/18 at CBR today at 3pm Eastern.Really? I just checked again for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th week in September and all mods were sold out and the only value was ASM. Plenty of ridiculously priced club level deluxes though.