Are Disney's Special Offer discounts becoming as hard to book as Free Dining?

[uccats97]

I've been looking at various dates to take advantage of the Spring room discount offer but finding it to be "sold out" over and over. I can still get a room at rack rate, just not with the discount. It is so frustrating when you see that there are rooms available but that the number of rooms blocked for the promotion are filled. It's very disappointing.

I decided to call Disney in hopes that they could magically find me a room with the discount that I couldn't get myself online. I asked the reservations CM if I had a unique pin code, and I did! Yippee! Never mind the general discount, my pin code is better. Oh wait, nope. All of the rooms blocked for using the unique pin code are booked too. Seriously?

Anyone else encounter situations like this too? I hope these room discount offers don't begin to become as sparse as free dining.

 

[scard192]

I've been looking at various dates to take advantage of the Spring room discount offer but finding it to be "sold out" over and over. I can still get a room at rack rate, just not with the discount. It is so frustrating when you see that there are rooms available but that the number of rooms blocked for the promotion are filled. It's very disappointing.

I decided to call Disney in hopes that they could magically find me a room with the discount that I couldn't get myself online. I asked the reservations CM if I had a unique pin code, and I did! Yippee! Never mind the general discount, my pin code is better. Oh wait, nope. All of the rooms blocked for using the unique pin code are booked too. Seriously?

Anyone else encounter situations like this too? I hope these room discount offers don't begin to become as sparse as free dining.

Disney had stated that they will cutting back on discounts. Does seem like a lot fewer rooms are available for the discounts than there were 2-3 years ago.

you might want to post on the discount codes and rates boards here:

http://www.disboards.com/forums/disney-discount-codes-and-rates.93/

 

[Marionnette]

I've been looking at various dates to take advantage of the Spring room discount offer but finding it to be "sold out" over and over. I can still get a room at rack rate, just not with the discount. It is so frustrating when you see that there are rooms available but that the number of rooms blocked for the promotion are filled. It's very disappointing.

I decided to call Disney in hopes that they could magically find me a room with the discount that I couldn't get myself online. I asked the reservations CM if I had a unique pin code, and I did! Yippee! Never mind the general discount, my pin code is better. Oh wait, nope. All of the rooms blocked for using the unique pin code are booked too. Seriously?

Anyone else encounter situations like this too? I hope these room discount offers don't begin to become as sparse as free dining.

Disney blocks their special rates off in different lengths of stay. So, if you're looking for 5 nights, and they have a 7-night blocked off for the resort, it will show up as unavailable. That makes it more difficult to book the deals if you don't jump on it the day that it comes out.

And as the PP mentioned, they are making fewer and fewer rooms available with the discounts because they are not having a problem filling them right now.

I suggest doing a search on Orbitz (use the code TRAVELHAPPY for an extra 15% off). Or hotels .com or Expedia. They often have blocks of discounted rooms available that Disney has already sold out.

 

[uccats97]

Disney had stated that they will cutting back on discounts. Does seem like a lot fewer rooms are available for the discounts than there were 2-3 years ago.

you might want to post on the discount codes and rates boards here:

http://www.disboards.com/forums/disney-discount-codes-and-rates.93/

I posted over there. Thanks for the link.