Been trying to pull a family vacation together with DW's side of the family and was finally making some of the resort reservations for our 12/9-12/15 trip and was rather surprised to find out that just about everything is fully booked.
And not just that the discount codes weren't available, there wasn't *anything* available at the moderates other than a couple of king-bed rooms at Coronado. Deluxes only had 1 room at Saratoga Springs and some of the Fort Wilderness Cabins. Even the values were just about gone with some preferred view rooms at ASMo and some standard rooms at ASMu. So I went ahead and snagged 4 rooms at ASMu, but I'm beginning to wonder if we even want to go if it's actually going to be that busy there.
Granted we've not been in early December since '05, but that always used to be one of the nicest times to go since it wasn't at all crowded and everything was done up for Christmas. So are they really this busy now? Is this because of the several discount codes that are available to the public? They almost always have discount codes available during this time but I've never seen it this busy. Or is there a major event or two or ten going on during that time? Or was it just hard to find something from the 12/9-12/15 timeframe and the world isn't actually at full capacity?
Sort of torn here. We really don't like to be there when it's crowded (April, October, and early December having been our preferred times) and we'd really like for Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt & Uncle & Cousin to have a good time since this will be only their second trip there. But in all my time going to Disney, I've never run into having that kind of limited availability, so I'm questioning whether we want to go or not. Don't want to not go since I've been waiting anxiously (as always) but also don't want to have it be incredibly crowded and have the extended family not enjoy one of their very rare trips. But may or may not be able to get everyone coordinated to go again anytime in the next year or two. Sort of a now or never thing and I guess I can live with never (or at least a indetermined wait) if it's going to be so crowded that it would impact the fun of the trip.
So anyone know if it really is that busy in early December this year? Is this some oddity to this year or is that no longer a quiet time to go?
Sorry for the length and rambling, but as of yesterday I was going to Disney with the family in a few months and today maybe not. Sigh....
And not just that the discount codes weren't available, there wasn't *anything* available at the moderates other than a couple of king-bed rooms at Coronado. Deluxes only had 1 room at Saratoga Springs and some of the Fort Wilderness Cabins. Even the values were just about gone with some preferred view rooms at ASMo and some standard rooms at ASMu. So I went ahead and snagged 4 rooms at ASMu, but I'm beginning to wonder if we even want to go if it's actually going to be that busy there.
Granted we've not been in early December since '05, but that always used to be one of the nicest times to go since it wasn't at all crowded and everything was done up for Christmas. So are they really this busy now? Is this because of the several discount codes that are available to the public? They almost always have discount codes available during this time but I've never seen it this busy. Or is there a major event or two or ten going on during that time? Or was it just hard to find something from the 12/9-12/15 timeframe and the world isn't actually at full capacity?
Sort of torn here. We really don't like to be there when it's crowded (April, October, and early December having been our preferred times) and we'd really like for Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt & Uncle & Cousin to have a good time since this will be only their second trip there. But in all my time going to Disney, I've never run into having that kind of limited availability, so I'm questioning whether we want to go or not. Don't want to not go since I've been waiting anxiously (as always) but also don't want to have it be incredibly crowded and have the extended family not enjoy one of their very rare trips. But may or may not be able to get everyone coordinated to go again anytime in the next year or two. Sort of a now or never thing and I guess I can live with never (or at least a indetermined wait) if it's going to be so crowded that it would impact the fun of the trip.
So anyone know if it really is that busy in early December this year? Is this some oddity to this year or is that no longer a quiet time to go?
Sorry for the length and rambling, but as of yesterday I was going to Disney with the family in a few months and today maybe not. Sigh....