Any May discounts yet?

[monkeybug]

If not when do they usually release discounts for those dates? My brother and his family are thinking of going during that time.
Thanks!

 

[Seahunt]

None yet. You might check mousesavers list of historical discounts to see about when they usually show up:

http://www.mousesavers.com/historicalwdwdiscounts.html

 

[havoc315]

No current offers. *IF* there are going to be any offers, you would have expected them any time from August 2011, up to April of 2012.
Note that October 2011 people were expecting their discounts announced in August... and they are still waiting. (with October now just a couple days away).

I'd say the most likely timeframe would be between March and April.

 

[pooki1]

Historically the mid april-early may discounts have come out in late december/early january,fingers crossed!

 

[padawans]

The last 2 years they have been out the first week in January. I read an ariticle on another Forum that stated that disney deluxe resort bookings were down this Fall so hopefully the no room discount experiment fails.

 

[mickeystoontown]

The last 2 years they have been out the first week in January. I read an ariticle on another Forum that stated that disney deluxe resort bookings were down this Fall so hopefully the no room discount experiment fails.

I, too, am hopeful that they phasing out of discounts is an experiment that fails. We've traveled to Disney the last week of May through the first week of June for the last several years and I have never paid full price for my vacation.

 

[audrey2580]

MickeysToontown - that's when we are planning to go: May 30-June 7. How have the crowds been the past fews years when you went those days? Any insight for that time of year would be appreciated.

 

[mickeystoontown]

MickeysToontown - that's when we are planning to go: May 30-June 7. How have the crowds been the past fews years when you went those days? Any insight for that time of year would be appreciated.

Our dates for the last three or four years range somewhere between a start date of May 23rd and departure date of June 6th. Last trip, we were there May 26th through June 5th which included the Memorial Day holiday. The crowds have always been manageable. We aren't rope drop people but do arrive at the parks within the first 1/2 hour to hour of opening and make use of the Fastpass system.

I have seen the wait times for the major attractions like Soarin', Test Track, Expedition Everest, Splash Mountain, etc. be posted at 60 minutes or more. Having said that, those times were usually late morning/early afternoon and weren't quite as bad later in the day. Again, we use Fastpass for the major attractions and are able to bypass the long wait times.

This past trip, we were very pleasantly surprised by the wait times. On the days leading up to Memorial Day, most were under 30 minutes and most were less than that. I even sent a text to several of my Disboards friends telling them how short the wait times were. (We are of the mindframe that a 30 minute or less wait time is not worth wasting a Fastpass on.)

We did go to Star Wars weekend and it was busy but we had expected that. There were a few things that we didn't get to do because we were doing Star Wars Weekend related things.

Oh and we didn't go to a park on Memorial Day itself. We used that day as one of our "down days" and spent the day at the resort and ate at DTD.

 

[THERESA522]

MickeysToontown - that's when we are planning to go: May 30-June 7. How have the crowds been the past fews years when you went those days? Any insight for that time of year would be appreciated.

I've been twice during that time period. Last year was the 1st time I got the kids up to make it to the parks for just after opening - and it was worth the lack of sleep! There were barely any crowds early in the morning. On the early days, we'd head back to the resort after dinner to swim and call it a night.

 

[MickeyEars]

We go every year end of May first of June and have never paid full price. We're booked for May 30-June 8 with no discount and I must admit I'm getting a little nervous.

I sure hope Disney releases some type of discount for out dates.

Carla

 

[mickeystoontown]

We go every year end of May first of June and have never paid full price. We're booked for May 30-June 8 with no discount and I must admit I'm getting a little nervous.

I sure hope Disney releases some type of discount for out dates.

Carla

I've never paid full price either. This year, I was able to take advantage of free dining but I am not thinking that will happen again for 2012. I couldn't believe it was offered this year. From the various threads I have been reading, it looks like Disney is waiting until the last minute to post special offers. With the way the economy is now, Disney should realize that people are having to plan their vacations way ahead of time and that last minute trips are few and far between now-a-days.

 

[MickeyEars]

We also had free dining this past May and I also could not believe it!!! It was the first and only time we have ever had free dining. It saved my family of 4 Disney adults $1655 so we loved it!!!
I'm really afraid Disney won't offer it for that time frame again.


Carla

 

[mickeystoontown]

We also had free dining this past May and I also could not believe it!!! It was the first and only time we have ever had free dining. It saved my family of 4 Disney adults $1655 so we loved it!!!
I'm really afraid Disney won't offer it for that time frame again.


Carla

We had four adults too and it saved us a ton of money....over $1,500! I'm not getting my hopes up that they will offer any sort of discount for our travel dates (May 23rd to June 2, 2012) but I'd certainly take advantage of it if they did.

 

[audrey2580]

Thanks for all the info! We are rope drop people and swim in the afternoon people so hopefully we should be okay with crowds.

Now if only Disney would release those discounts!!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Thanks for all the info! We are rope drop people and swim in the afternoon people so hopefully we should be okay with crowds.

Now if only Disney would release those discounts!!

I think you will be fine. Just get there early and make use of the Fastpass system and all will be well.

 

[vinotinto]

MickeysToontown - that's when we are planning to go: May 30-June 7. How have the crowds been the past fews years when you went those days? Any insight for that time of year would be appreciated.

We were there May 31-June 5 this year, after spending Memorial Day weekend in the dark side (PBH) because our school district is out by then and we have Memorial Day off. You know what, it was crowded, but it was not insane, and we were able to do/see everything we wanted. Also, we were able to get many great last minute ADRs, it's not typically free dining period and there seemed to be much fewer people in the dining plan. I booked that trip just under 90 days out. Restaurants weren't as busy. I thought it was just slightly more crowded than our trip in mid-September 2010, and slightly less crowded than Columbus Day weekend 2009 (October).