Always play with your trip dates......

[jgates]

Taking DD to Disney for her graduation gift. Her boyfriend is going along. I had the PIN code to get a discount on rooms.

I originally booked Coronado for 5 nights 5/10 to 5/15 for $756. Chose no view, no preferred room. However, when I went to book airfare I was unable to use my Delta $99 companion certificate to come home that Sunday. So we would have been paying $398 per person for airfare.

Did a bit more digging. Turns out the flights on Monday were about $130 less. PLUS I could then use the $99 companion certificate (plus taxes). Regardless, by the time I got done booking I had 3 flights for a total of $710 plus approximately an extra $150 for an additional night at CS. So net savings of about $400 when I did real totals.

And I know we will have extra food costs for that additional day, but it won't be $400!!! We may not even use the extra day to go to the parks - maybe go to Blizzard Beach or something or just veg by the pool. We still have a waterpark option on two old non-expiring tickets.

 

[living20057]

That's great! I always play again with my dates. For the airport, I always look at three closest airports around you. Sometimes it is worth the difference.

 

[phred52]

I like the way you think outside the box!

 

[shortbun]

Yeah, never let yourself be boxed in. I used to save people hundreds of dollars by playing around with their dates.

 

[MEG&MINNIE]

For the past 5 visits to Disney ...always in the summer months , I have always been flexible with my dates.
As a rule, I tend to book the room around the cheapest flts. I can get. Usually Tues- Tues. etc, since flying mid week seems to much less expensive than weekends .
It pays to be flexible !