AAA Members - Double Check Your Rate!

[jennibug]

Hi all,

Just thought I would share this. I booked my January trip today and I spefically told the CM twice that I had AAA. She spit out a total of around $92 a night for a value resort, which confused me because we are going the first week of January, one of the slowest times of the year and there was no discount!?! Then she asked me how many days I wanted on my tickets. I told her we weren't sure and that I didn't think you could get a package with the AAA discount. She checked anyway and told me there were no discounts available for that time. I asked her again to check for a room only rate and low and behold it came back $65.60 a night (which I knew was the correct amount). I don't know if she didn't know what she was doing or if she forgot to add the discount or what but I'm glad I made her check again. If I had been uninformed I would have just excepted what she told and not thought anymore about it.

 

[lcoug25]

The dates are not out for february yet though. I wonder if we went in the last day of january if we would get the january rates now . I am looking from januaryish 310 feb 5.

 

[lcoug25]

How did you know the AAA prices were 64.50 for a value resort? Is there a particular site. I am looking for a deluxe or moderate price.

 

[clombardi]

I have a AAA room-only rate for Feb 6- Feb 10 booked through CRO. For a standard at the POP, it was $65.60/night before taxes. After taxes and fees, it came to $72/night.

 

[clombardi]

How did you know the AAA prices were 64.50 for a value resort? Is there a particular site. I am looking for a deluxe or moderate price.

I would just call Disney Reservations and get AAA room-only quotes for the resorts and dates you're interested in. After my experiences booking through AAA, it seems so much faster to deal with Disney directly.

 

[Eeyore's My Favorite]

How did you know the AAA prices were 64.50 for a value resort? Is there a particular site. I am looking for a deluxe or moderate price.

For those of us in Florida that have AAA you can go to www.aaasouth.com and sign in to your account. Then you can look at the hotels for Walt Disney World and it will tell you what's available and what the AAA rate will be. I always do that before I call WDW reservations to book my room only. We have AP's so we don't do the packages.

Hope this helps!!

 

[fla4fun]

Don't forget that AAA will book (and show on their website) availability at rack rate if their discounted rooms are sold out. You can usually tell by the per night room rate. If it's an even dollar amount, it's rack rate. If it's an odd dollars and cents amount, it's a discounted rate. Also, the rates shown on the AAA website do not include taxes (they add that in as part of the booking process). The Disney website does include taxes in the total shown at the top of the screen, but not in the per night rates it shows below the room description.

So, for example, if you are on the AAA website and see Pop for one night at $95.00, that's rack rate without tax. It would show up on the Disney website as a total of $106.88, but the rate below the room description would also read the $95.00 rack rate.

Just didn't want someone to be comparing the Disney with tax rate to the AAA without tax rate and thinking they were getting a discount, or think that just because AAA shows availability, that it's discounted availability!