Discount possibility?

[SGT623]

I've been waiting for months on a good deal for the mid October week I am going (14-22) I wasn't 120 days out when the Annual Pass Best Rate deal was offered and I was pass 60 days when it was changed, so far I'm in that weird time frame where I know WDW is no where near full, but no discounts are avalible, save for residents. I hoping this new deal will include my needs as it's under three weeks to go and I am room less and starting to freak out about it!

 

[New2WDW]

Has anyone else broken it all down or am I the only insane one? Maggie

I would say your INSANE but I run numbers all the time and I would be in that category also. My family is going down in a week with the Free Dining so I quite crunching #'s for now. Actually a lot of people from my area have the week of October 3rd off from school and are heading to WDW! Watch out - mass exodus of Georgians heading to the world this next weekend!!!

 

[JPVonDrake]

So, I took our dining itinerary and went over the menus with my honey and added in taxes, tips, snacks, extra fluids, and anything else that I could think of. We will need roughly $526 dollars to pay for everything out of pocket. The MYW dining plan would cost us $420 (I have not factored the tax on the $420 into all of this) during our stay and we would be left with $128 out of pocket, which math says is actually $2 more expensive than paying totally out of pocket. Also, my meals were planned with additional items that we most likely would not have gotten if I was not budgeting for the MYW dining with the appetizers and desserts being covered. I don't think that I could eat that many desserts in a week.

Do note, the cost of the dinning plan is:
$35 per adult, $10 per child (age 3-9) per night, for arrivals in 2005
$38 per adult, $11 per child (age 3-9) per night, for arrivals in 2006
plus the cost of the room and Magic Your Way Park Tickets
the above price INCLUDES taxes, no need to add them on again...

Depending on how you eat, you may save more money paying out of pocket, but over 80% of guest who use the dinning plan do save over 30% on their total food cost. (statistics are directly from Disney Research) As for your deserts, remember you do have a refrigerator* in your room, and deserts do make a great midnite snack!

* Refigerators are included in all Deluxe, Moderate, and Vacation Club Properties. There is a $10 nightly fee for Value Resorts.

By changing to a package deal from a room only booking, we would lose our ADR's and have to start over.

No need, any advance dinning reservations you made will stay. Dinning reservations use an entirely different system then room reservations. If you cancel / modify a room reservation, it will have NO affect on any of your dinning.

Hope this helps! :sohappy:

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

and deserts do make a great midnite snack!

Really? I would think that deserts make a terrible midnight snack...or any other time of day for that matter. I'd much prefer to have a dessert...

Sorry, it's the teacher in me coming out, but don't fret, your message is hardly the only one with a mistake in it.

 

[mousermerf]

No need, any advance dinning reservations you made will stay. Dinning reservations use an entirely different system then room reservations. If you cancel / modify a room reservation, it will have NO affect on any of your dinning.

Hope this helps! :sohappy:

Hmm.. unless it was made 90+10 and their ressie is rebooked to the point of getting a new res number. Then there might be an issue.

 

[JPVonDrake]

Hmm.. unless it was made 90+10 and their ressie is rebooked to the point of getting a new res number. Then there might be an issue.

No issues, as the two systems are not connected, there is no automated system to cancel Dine reservations if a room reservation is cancelled or modified.

There is a manual audit process in place to monitor dine bookings and contact guest if their Resort reservation cancels and the guest is not found on a new reservation. As long as you are rebooked, your dine reservations will NOT change or cancel.

Hope this helps! :sohappy:

 

[mousermerf]

No issues, as the two systems are not connected, there is no automated system to cancel Dine reservations if a room reservation is cancelled or modified.

There is a manual audit process in place to monitor dine bookings and contact guest if their Resort reservation cancels and the guest is not found on a new reservation. As long as you are rebooked, your dine reservations will NOT change or cancel.

Hope this helps! :sohappy:

Hmm.. not quite. But whatever blows your hair back.

 

[disneyagogo]

Hmmm, I just rebooked our room-only for Nov. 3-7 as a package because the dining plan was the best for us. I am pretty sure that I booked with the 90+10 out for all of our ADR's. The CM said nothing would change for dining even though the reservation number is changing which is what JP Von Drake indicates. If this isn't quite the way things work, could Mousemerf please elaborate? I would hate to have to rebook all of our dining.

Thanks for all of the information.

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[wannabeBelle]

If JP Says it is OK then I am sure it is. If you would prefer to be safe just call and confirm all of your dining, but Im sure it would be fine. Disney's computers tend to not have a habit of talking to each other so I would tend to go with JP's info!!! Belle

 

[Kingdom Konsultant]

I have already done this for a couple of clients and no their dining did not cancel out, so please don't worry. JP is correct.

Pam :wave:

 

[mickeysaver]

No need, any advance dinning reservations you made will stay. Dinning reservations use an entirely different system then room reservations. If you cancel / modify a room reservation, it will have NO affect on any of your dinning.

Hope this helps! :sohappy:

Well, this is good news. I thought like someone else posted that the 90+10 thing was going to wipe our ADR's because they were supposed to be tied to the room reservation number. I am glad to know that this will not affect the ADR's if we choose to upgrade to a package. Thanks! Maggie

 

[mousermerf]

I have already done this for a couple of clients and no their dining did not cancel out, so please don't worry. JP is correct.

Pam :wave:

Dining wont auomaticly cancel out - that's true. I didn't have time before to elaborate.

99% of the time it's a non-issue. However not all ressies are made by Disney or in Disney's own systems.

If your reservation number changes (for any reason), it is your responsibility to update your 90+10 dine ressies with a proper number.

An example: You book with Disney. You cancel with Disney and buy a package through Travelocity because the airfare is so much cheaper in a package deal through them. Disney has no access to the new ressie but sees that your Disney-res was canceled. It is the responsibility of the guest/TA to update the ressies.

If the audit finds that ressie then there will be complications.

I'm not trying to scae anyone, but it is the responsibility of the ressie holder to keep the ressie up to date. They should not assume action by WDW either way.

 

[mickeysaver]

I'm not trying to scare anyone, but it is the responsibility of the ressie holder to keep the ressie up to date. They should not assume action by WDW either way.

Ok, so if I have a change in my reservation number, if I change to the package deal, do I then need to call dining to update my information. My reservation is through Disney with the AAA discount applied by Disney to my room. If I change to a package, it will be through Disney. UGH!

 

[mousermerf]

You're on the safer-end of this, but with any 90+10 it is your responsibility to keep things up to date.

It's really not hard to do, just hope you booked everything under the same reference phone number and they can update it all in under a few minutes. The person doing your room ressie has a 50/50 chance of being able to do it themself.

 

[mickeysaver]

I just heard on another board that the computers are down at Disney reservations. Could this mean they are loading the new information? PLEASE?!?! Maggie

 

[Thrawn]

I just heard on another board that the computers are down at Disney reservations. Could this mean they are loading the new information? PLEASE?!?! Maggie

No, probably just a computer problem. It would be stupid for Disney to have a system that would need to take their reservations offline during a business day.

 

[SANDKRUSER]

I've been waiting for months on a good deal for the mid October week I am going (14-22) I wasn't 120 days out when the Annual Pass Best Rate deal was offered and I was pass 60 days when it was changed, so far I'm in that weird time frame where I know WDW is no where near full, but no discounts are avalible, save for residents. I hoping this new deal will include my needs as it's under three weeks to go and I am room less and starting to freak out about it!

I, too, am in the "black hole" time period. We're going October 13-21. I actually sent an e-mail to guest relations and got a call from a cast member named Yolanda, who was very understanding of our "situation" but could offer me no hope for any type of discount for this time period. She explained that they send all the complaints to those "higher up", but that doesn't help us now. I don't want to get anyone started, we've all be over this before, but you would have thought they would not have left this void in the middle of October - that they could have run the Best Rate Program from October 5 until whenever it is now. I couldn't even book my stay when it came out. I still have my room only reservation I booked long ago and paid one night's deposit but am holding off, still thinking something may come out, but it doesn't look promising. Again, I understand everything is IF, IF, IF but it would have been nice to at least had the option.

 

[New2WDW]

Mousesavers posted an interesting dialog today about this possible discount saying that nothing has appeared yet and to check back to see if anything does. So check out the site on a regular basis!

 

[Computer Magic]

Mousesavers posted an interesting dialog today about this possible discount saying that nothing has appeared yet and to check back to see if anything does. So check out the site on a regular basis!

Well if their statement holds true, Pam will be very busy...

 

[disneyagogo]

Thanks for all of the feedback. I am feeling pretty confident about the dining not being lost due to the change in reservation number. If a discount or free dining is offered and we get it then I will :sohappy:, but even if we have to pay rack rate we will be at WDW and that's enough for me.

BTW, kudos to Mary Waring for posting the explanatory note about her teaser at Mousesavers.com. It is amazing at how much discussion she created. If I were an imaginative marketing person, I would wonder if "the powers that be" planted the teaser to see what the devoted community wanted most and what would get the best response. But then, I would pay someone like JP Von Drake :wave: to belong to boards and post accurate information to counteract some of the rumors that get out of hand.

Just my wonderings.

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