What's scarier is that, for a very short time, when online reservations first became a reality. it was the ONLY way to book and get a Passholder rate, AND those restrictions were all in place. Plus, if memory serves, the vacation you booked had to be a certain number of weeks away, which would've severely curtailed passholders who liked to take spur of the moment trips. It all began last year, when attendance records were constantly being broken, and I think WDW was trying to do its best to limit any discounted rates without flat-out saying "No more passholder discounts." But that's the sort of thing that winds up biting them in the butt later, ticking off a core crowd that, discounts or not, spend more money at WDW than most others, taking a trip or more a year when many families would only go occasionally, or just once.
