White Rose
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2003
Sunshine11, there have been many threads on the merits of "asking" or "not asking" about room upgrades during check-in. If you are a reader of these boards, it seems EVERYONE gets an upgrade, so why shouldn't you ask? The attitude some guests of the World take is that if everyone else gets upgraded from a SV to the Presidential Suite, then by golly they are going to get that too or their trip will be ruined and it's all the mouse's fault! Sorry, doesn't work that way. Yes, pixie dust does happen, it is just that people are more apt to report it when it does then when it doesn't. I am a firm believer that you book what you want and if the Magic happens, then that is great (congratulations White Rose and hope SIL comes to appreciate it one of these years). When it doesn't happen (which is my usual personal experience when we stay), then you are still happy to be getting the room you expect and will live with it for the time you are there. That's not to say that if there are issues with the room you don't go back down and discuss it with the manager, but in my humble opinion, asking for a free up-grade is just bad form.
Katesdad.
I would never ever ask for an upgrade. We would have been happy with what we booked, which is why we booked it. We have been to WDW many times and have rarely been in a different class of room then what we booked, even when on the platinum plan, which supposedly gets upgraded "all the time". It does not happen.
Never go in expecting an upgrade. My hubby says don't even wish/hope for it, but I do that, quietly, to myself, and on here of course....hehe.