? about rates for POR June 4-12 ?

[Daydreamer64]

My husband called and made reservations for POR for 8 nights June 4-12, 2005. We are AAA members. He did ask if there were any discounts available with our name ( pins, emails ) and the CRO person said no. So he booked with a AAA discount. We are also Disney Visa Card holders and that is the card that he made the reservations with- maybe we got something special for that?

When he got off of the phone he said ( he had written all the rate quotes down as he spoke to the CRO person ), "we got a AAA discount of $109. plus tax = $121 per night".

Rack rates for thoses dates are listed as $149. / night with AAA discount of 15% that should have been closer to 126 plus tax = $140 per night.

I thought it was regular season ( June ) and that is what I based my rate expectations on.

Has anyone else gotten that rate for a mod with AAA for that time of year.

Are we responsible if the CRO agent put in the wrong codes or something and gave us the lower rate? I don't want to check-in to find that there has been an error and we have to pay more.

TIA

 

[weluvpluto]

That rate is the Annual Pass rate. You may want to call back to confirm your rate

 

[wright1baby]

MAN! I added one (1) extra day to our MYW package and was charged $165 + tax. There was no AAA or anything, but wouldn't "rack rate" apply?? We are staying at POR AB in a standard view room June 10-17. Should I question it, or just let it go? It is just one day.

 

[LittleMermaidsMom]

I just booked POFQ today with a AAA discount for 5/31-6/7 and I was given a price of $126/night ($140.49 w/tax), so you did get a better deal... maybe the AP rate like the other poster stated.

 

[anut4disney]

We are booked for arriving 8/28 and departing 9/3/05 with AAA and our rate is 119.31 per night. I assume that includes the tax. Total for 6 nights is $716.00.

 

[Daydreamer64]

One thing we asked for was ANY mod with a discount rate for that time period- told them we had AAA and the response was that AAA was $109- w/tax = 121- we did the math added back the one day deposit to total $ due and then divided by 8 nights, subtracted the tax and it did come out to $109/night ???

Another thing that we did was to call CRO from our home phone- we don't go through AAA travel because they, in our experience, in person and on the net- hardley ever get a deeper discount- just the standard rate discount for AAA- we were going to make reses on the net but it came up the $126 and I told Dh to call and ask if there was any discount in the system - to which the CRO person said no.

WDW/CRO really confuses me. We ( family ) vacationed with WDW for 9 nights in 2002, for DH and I- we stayed there for a few days in March of 2004 and January of 2005, as well as having a one day trip in the summer of 2004 for the family again. Now we are staying for over a week- maybe we are getting some kind of frequent flyer discount . At any rate, they should recognise thier repeat return customers with some kind of program for discounts!!??

If you are the "right person" you get a post card or email - which we have not gotten in years and then it had someone elses first name on the card . What makes you the right person? I don't know, I wish I knew. Some people on this message board have stated that they ( with codes )are getting mods for around $88 / night for the same time period??? We are signed up for everything disney that we can be to try to get a discount, have visited repeatedly and are Disney visa members as well as AAA members.

I don't know how we got it- I'm glad to have it- I'm just waiting to see if there is a catch like an error or something when we get there. I find it comforting that other AAA members have gotten that rate for the same time period ( another message ).

Good Luck to everyone who calls to try to change the rate- I hope it works for you. Last summer we stayed at a mod and paid $69 / night because of a special code ran in the Savannah newspaper at that time.

 

[Tinkerbelle32]

When I called to make our ressie I was told that we had a pin code attached to our name. We booked Port Orleans for $79 a night. Our trip is June 8th-15th. The thing is that we had never received a postcard or e-mail about it! So, I guess you never know without asking!

 

[Daydreamer64]

OK- here's the deal on our reservation conformation sheet(came in the mail today ) , it says FLA resident- are they extending the FLA residents rate to Ga residents? I know that Royal Pacific @ Universal does this if you book through Loews site and not the parks.
??

I'm going to call and see what's up.

 

[Daydreamer64]

Just got off of the phone with the WDTravel co. I spoke to 2 people at length about the rate and was told it could not be honored becuse we were not FLA residents and that no -they were not extending the rate to Ga residents either.

I was VERY nice and understanding but told them that the difference of $17 per night pre tax ( difference between $109 and $126 AAA) ended up being a $136 "misquote" and that was enough $ to feed all 4 of us for 2 days at counter service food places and that would bite into our budget.

They asked me to hold and then I was told that they would honor the $109 per night price since I called and was nice and since we could have raised a stink and didn't and it wasn't our fault that the agent misquoted the rates and then comfirmed it as a AAA rate. I wouldn't have been nasty anyway but am so glad that someone there had a little extra pixie dust laying around to share!