Jaime
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2000
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Hi Lisa,
Dreams will let you put a min of $100 US down at any given time...I've been doing it...I've been keeping a close eye on the dollar the past few months and if it is higher then normal I put $100 down. Dreams told me I can get a full refund up until final payment is due no questions asked. We will be waiting until summer before we decide if we will cancel. Another option to save some money is your room category...we were booked last year on the 4 day in a Balcony room but switched to the 7 day cruise in a cat 12 for less $$ then the 4 day in a cat 6. We really wanted a balcony but figured 7 days is better then 4. We were upgrade to a deluxe inside room and found it to be good...even with small children we didn't spend a lot of time in the room. We priced a balcony room for the 4 of us for the 09 cruise and it was almost $2200US more so we decided to get a cat 12 again. The cruise was the best...even with our inside room. I do the same as Kathy with my credit card...I started doing it when I decided to take time off to stay home with the girls. It makes a big difference and here most stores also offer points cards which works great...we get some of our "toys" this way. We got the Wii for free using our grocery store points. Another tip that worked really well for us last year is once your cruise is paid in full you are allowed to put money in a onboard account for spending...whenever our CN$$ was high we would put money in the account. Whatever we didn't spend DCL put back on our credit card. Doing a grocery stop on the way to the Magic also saved us alot of money...we got wine, wine coolers, water and drinks for our room. We had no problem bringing it onboard. A case of water onboard was $35 at the gocery store it was $5.
