Have just got off the phone from Disney - we have a 14 night stay booked at CBR Sep/Oct 2017 - to cut a long story short, I'm not flying 3000 miles halfway across the world to stay in the middle of a construction site. It sounds like this is not the same as a simple pool closure or room refurbs which will affect one block at a time - it looks like major resort wide upheaval.
The call handler was unable to find any information on this construction work - not surprising really if the details of it are not yet confirmed. I would expect they will be the last people to tell.
I have reluctantly agreed to a switch to POR as there is no availability at CSR which would be my preference.
The problem is, there are only water-view rooms available at POR for our dates, which adds an additional £500 / $650-ish to the cost of the vacation. Not best impressed with Disney, as I would really expect to be comp'd the upgrade charges - I don't really see it as an upgrade.
We are only changing resort to avoid this potential construction. When I booked this in April 2016 the cost for POR/CBR/CSR was roughly the same. I think CSR was identical price and POR/POFQ came out £80 more expensive over the fortnight.
I have already sent a lengthy email to customer service. I took the change on the phone and hopefully we can sort the details out later, I was just concerned that with no availability at CSR and with POR fairly full that availability for a longer stay may be limited if I didn't take the other reservation now. I'd much rather take the switch and argue over the details after.
What do others think? Would you have switched resorts at this stage? Or am I over-reacting?
Construction within a park is understandable and to some extent only has an effect on a small part of a vacation, but I feel something like this at the resort could really detract from the vacation.
