CDolacki2003
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Since I am not going until October 2013, I hope that there will be some form of discounts then. I am glad to hear you all having such nice savings.
As much as I wanted Free Dining, I still managed to get something I believe is better...it's like I got free dining and some money back with the RO discount("Z3K"). Went from a package at CSR and upgraded to AKL....and still managed to spend $110 LESS than the rack rate at CSR.
Here's what I posted in another thread:
Seriously!!Hmmmm. We may need to change this from the 2013 Free Dining Watch to the 2013 Any Discount Is Better Than Nothing Watch!
chikabby said:I finally got in touch with our TA, and neither of the special offers help us out too much. We're doing a split stay -- 4 nights in a 1 bdrm at BLT (only studios are included for the offers), and 3 nights at AoA in a Cars Suite. I think with the room only we save about $140. If we want to use s/p/d, we have to downgrade to a studio at BLT, or move to another hotel. She priced out a 1 bdrm villa at WL, and we save about $700. The problem is with a split stay, we have to do separate base tickets for each hotel, so that adds about $340 to our ticket price?
Free Dining is really the only offer that would have made a serious difference for us and we were really counting on it. Stupid, I know, but I am really bummed. We have a ton of ADRs, so it looks like we'll be hitting up the grocery store for snacks, breakfast foods, etc. to save money that way! I didn't realize there were so many restrictions on how these offers could be used and we're already pretty set on where we are staying for this first trip. We have a baby, so we would love that extraa bedroom, and a little adult time at the end of the day. WL looks awesome, but the extra travel time and weather concerns at the end of January and a boat seem a little iffy. Any chance at all they'd still offer FD on top of these other discounts? Has it ever happened?
I'm very excited for everyone who is getting to utilize the new discounts!
I just wanted to remind you all that there are 2 discounts being run. S/D/P & room only discount. I was working on a couple reservations, for friends, and have found that the room discount has worked out to be a better deal with huge savings....
This is for a standard room at Poly, 8 day base ticket and DDP
Jan 24-31, 2013
Regular price - $5225.72
S/P/D - $4537.55 Savings - $688.17
Room only - $4038.86 Savings - $1186.86
Just wanted to share so that all of you save as much as possible. If you are using a TA they should be checking both offers for you! Good Luck
I finally got in touch with our TA, and neither of the special offers help us out too much. We're doing a split stay -- 4 nights in a 1 bdrm at BLT (only studios are included for the offers), and 3 nights at AoA in a Cars Suite. I think with the room only we save about $140. If we want to use s/p/d, we have to downgrade to a studio at BLT, or move to another hotel. She priced out a 1 bdrm villa at WL, and we save about $700. The problem is with a split stay, we have to do separate base tickets for each hotel, so that adds about $340 to our ticket price?
Free Dining is really the only offer that would have made a serious difference for us and we were really counting on it. Stupid, I know, but I am really bummed. We have a ton of ADRs, so it looks like we'll be hitting up the grocery store for snacks, breakfast foods, etc. to save money that way! I didn't realize there were so many restrictions on how these offers could be used and we're already pretty set on where we are staying for this first trip. We have a baby, so we would love that extraa bedroom, and a little adult time at the end of the day. WL looks awesome, but the extra travel time and weather concerns at the end of January and a boat seem a little iffy. Any chance at all they'd still offer FD on top of these other discounts? Has it ever happened?
disneyfantotheend said:Unfortunately, you have to choose which discount is best for you. You cannot combine a RO discount and free dining.
Why would you have to buy separate base tickets. You should be able to buy a 7 day park pass to go with your Bay Lake stay. And I would then get room only (and dining if you want it) for both resorts. I don't know the full details but those are my thoughts. But it does stink that you only get a deluxe studio for a choice for either of the offers at BLT.
DisneyFEB2013 said:Anyone out there think they will release free dining for early 2013? Still hopeful we can knock another $500 off of our total.