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- May 5, 2013
I have a rather lengthy question, not sure if this is the right place to post it so feel free to move it where it needs to be!
First a probably too lengthy back story: I have a trip coming up in September (yay!). The original plan was to come in on Thursday and leave the following Wednesday, so we got 7 day tickets so we could play at the parks both arrival and departure day. Well, my travel partner (my mom) has decided she wants to take a flight out early on our last day because many years ago when we used to fly out later in the day the flight ended up being cancelled more often than not and she needs to get back Wednesday so she can teach the next day. Kind of a bummer, but oh well.
Well, in an odd/lucky twist of events, my mom just found out that she may get her old job back, which coincidentally means she gets Wednesdays off. That, plus an unexpected bonus I received at work has us thinking of heading down now on Wednesday and doing Wednesday through Wednesday. One last piece of information, we booked this trip prior to the change in tickets. So finally time for questions:
1. Since we bought our package prior to the recent changes in tickets, can we use the park tickets before our original trip actually starts? Since we're leaving early the last day now the 7 day ticket would still work for us.
2. Our initial thought was to book at Swan/Dolphin that first night since it’s a bit cheaper and next door to the YC where we will spend the rest of the trip so it would be easy to transfer. Is it possible to still take the DME to the YC when we arrive to drop off some of our bags even if it’s the day before our reservation at the YC starts?
3. This is a two-parter. After I found out about my bonus, we discovered we had some wiggle room now in our budget, so are thinking of checking out a different deluxe resort that first night now. First, any recommendations for a deluxe to check out? We’ve stayed at YC/BC, GF, Poly and AKL so far. Second, last year we tried to add a night at the YC to our existing BC reservation and were told we’d have to rebook the whole trip. Did we just have an uninformed CM or do you really have to rebook the whole package even if you’re adding a night at a different resort?
Thank you all so much for reading all of this and hopefully coming up with some answers!
First a probably too lengthy back story: I have a trip coming up in September (yay!). The original plan was to come in on Thursday and leave the following Wednesday, so we got 7 day tickets so we could play at the parks both arrival and departure day. Well, my travel partner (my mom) has decided she wants to take a flight out early on our last day because many years ago when we used to fly out later in the day the flight ended up being cancelled more often than not and she needs to get back Wednesday so she can teach the next day. Kind of a bummer, but oh well.
Well, in an odd/lucky twist of events, my mom just found out that she may get her old job back, which coincidentally means she gets Wednesdays off. That, plus an unexpected bonus I received at work has us thinking of heading down now on Wednesday and doing Wednesday through Wednesday. One last piece of information, we booked this trip prior to the change in tickets. So finally time for questions:
1. Since we bought our package prior to the recent changes in tickets, can we use the park tickets before our original trip actually starts? Since we're leaving early the last day now the 7 day ticket would still work for us.
2. Our initial thought was to book at Swan/Dolphin that first night since it’s a bit cheaper and next door to the YC where we will spend the rest of the trip so it would be easy to transfer. Is it possible to still take the DME to the YC when we arrive to drop off some of our bags even if it’s the day before our reservation at the YC starts?
3. This is a two-parter. After I found out about my bonus, we discovered we had some wiggle room now in our budget, so are thinking of checking out a different deluxe resort that first night now. First, any recommendations for a deluxe to check out? We’ve stayed at YC/BC, GF, Poly and AKL so far. Second, last year we tried to add a night at the YC to our existing BC reservation and were told we’d have to rebook the whole trip. Did we just have an uninformed CM or do you really have to rebook the whole package even if you’re adding a night at a different resort?
Thank you all so much for reading all of this and hopefully coming up with some answers!