Ap discounts / room quality

[sxeensweet]

I have a very silly ? to ask. Do you think the resorts are less accomadating to your request and getting a nice room due to getting deep discounts like the Annual Passholder ones that just were released yesterday for the Oct -Dec. I know they should not discriminate b/c of you gettting really good discounts on your rooms but just wondering if anyone has had any problems with this. We have a savannah view booked at Kidani Village and want an upper floor that is quiet and with one of the better views. Just trying to debate waiting on using the public discounts that will come out or the AP discount that is out now. They may think that just b/c your an annual passholder that you come often so they dont have to win you over for you to come back like the regular public. Crazy I know but some places do stuff like that. Hopefully WDW does not. lol Thanks for any info in advance!!!
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[Rob562]

When I stay on-site I'm almost always staying under some kind of discount (AP, Free Dining, etc). I've gotten my requests about 80% of the time.

Occasionally I won't be assigned to something that meets my requests at first, but often they're able to move me at check-in. On my trip last month to Pop Century, I requested Buildings 6, 10 or 9. We ended up being placed at the far end of Building 7. I asked, and the CM at check-in was able to move us to a ground-floor room in Building 6. (And I hadn't even asked for a ground floor room)

-Rob

 

[AGentlRose]

I worked at the front desk of a Disney resort in the 1990s and we were more than happy to fulfill guests' requests. I don't think it has anything to do with discounts, more to do with what is available at the time you're checking in.

Out of our last three trips, all at the Polynesian, two times out of three, we were given the location I requested. I always noted my requests when I phoned Disney reservations, but on the two visits that we did get our requests, I had phoned the resort the day before, and requested to speak to the room assignor, I did get the location I wanted. The time I didn't phone ahead, I didn't.

 

[Master Yoda]

I do not think that I have paid rack rate for a room at Disney since 1998 and I have never noticed any negative effects from being booked under a Fl resident or AP discount.

 

[sxeensweet]

Thanks everyone!!

 

[krankenstein]

I have never paid rack rates (AP, GA resident, and public discounts). Getting my requests has never been a problem, nor have I ever been stuck in a far off corner of a resort.

 

[durangojim]

The only requests I've never had fullfilled have been requests for specific room numbers, not type. Other than that, they've always been accomodating, even if it mean switch rooms after seeing what the room actually looked like after we checked in (if I pay for a MK view room at MK, I'd like one with a view of the castle, not one with a view of a tree which has the castle behind it).

 

[DougK]

They do not "punish" you for using a discount. We used an AP discount lasr year at the Contemporary Resort. We had booked a Bay Lake view for the first time, we ALWAYS book a Magic Kingdom view but I decided to save a few bucks and I knew it would be a wonderful view anyway. Well, we got upgraded to the 15th floor, MK view upon check in! So they obviously did not go by what rate we were paying! But I don't think it was a silly question either.