My favorite place! It was so sweet before everyone knew how great it was. Eventually the secret was out, which prompted WDW to start excluding it from all the good promos because they knew it would fill up anyway. We used to go every year for free dining and stay at POFQ. Deal of the century!
I had a boss in my old line of work who loved USair and hated the Southwest cattle call (as he called it). So when he traveled with me we'd have to take USair... The boarding would start and it would of course be Super Mega Platinum firstI'm with you. I only fly other airlines for work now and it drives me batty how they do boarding. It takes twice as long as SW and invariably I manage to get on flights where they still reseat people after. I was so happy a couple years ago when they added SW to the travel portal we have to use. I still don't always get to pick SW but that's my first tryThey are certainly not luxurious but they seem the most efficient.
, then Super Gold Elite, Silver, etc... Every time they called another boarding group the hoard of people would take one step closer to the gate agent 
. 
Finally they'd get to group 37 or something ridiculous
(which included me) and it felt like Walmart on black Friday 
. Elbows thrown...body odor galore...personal space = 0 
...and then we get on the jet bridge and stand...and wait 
. Of course I'm exaggerating slightly with this story but I for one have learned to prefer the cattle call 
to the stampede 
.
I'm pretty sure I saw that commercial during March Madness and it was the hotels.com thing. Sorry but I think dreams may be crushed
haha.
I had a boss in my old line of work who loved USair and hated the Southwest cattle call (as he called it). So when he traveled with me we'd have to take USair... The boarding would start and it would of course be Super Mega Platinum first
Because we're only allowed to fly steerage for work, I was of course in the very last boarding group. And insult to injury my carry on had to be checked because they're now out of carryon space by group 3 and no they won't gate check it I have to waste time picking it up at baggage claim
Agree with all of this!!OMG we may have been on the same flight! That's exactly how I remember my last flight on USAir
(slightly OT, but I totally don't get everyone who hops up out of their seat when boarding begins just to stand there for 20 minutes waiting until your group is called. I noticed some people who boarded with me had hopped up and barricaded the entry to the gate agent right after they called the Super Mega Platinum Elites. I'm going to be standing long enough in the jetway and the aisles, (to get to my assigned seat!) I don't need the extra before handing over my boarding pass too)
I was pretty sure it was a Disney hotel but I wasn't 100% which one, though it said the 'last person got POFQ'. I'm pretty sure BLT was coming up for what would have been $210 walk out, and as tempting as that was, I was afraid it would make me really sad.
I have never had one of their beignets!! I cannot wait
Oh and I did read somewhere here on the DIS, someone said they got Dolphin for $70 night (obviously before all the fees and probably taxes) for Sept. Your $82 for POFQ was great! I was psyched about $116 (can't remember the before tax price...I think $92 maybe).
so far on whats reported.
We've all been there
it's just for hotels.com purchases. A more important thing for you though: "miles" doesn't mean what you think it means. Capital one miles are not Discover miles are not United miles are not Delta miles, etc. Miles/Points that transfer to other mileage/point programs are unique- off the top of my head right now those are Chase ultimate reward points, American Express membership rewards points and Barclays miles. Each only transfer if you have the right premium card (read: credit card that you pay an annual fee for) and each only transfer to certain companies they've partnered with. And that's not the whole story! Often times miles don't transfer at a 1:1 ratio. Chase's claim to fame is a 1:1 transfer ratio. Amex has all sorts of transfer ratios but periodically runs specials on certain ones bringing the rate down, Barclays recently came out with some pitiful looking transfer ratios where it will cost between 1.4-1.7 Barclay miles for 1 airline mile (of their select airline partners). (Fwiw- Cap 1 miles were never going to transfer to United anyway.) It's enough to leave anyone's head spinning!
