booking for next year

[xitaliax]

hi i have already booked this year for november which i have kept quiet from my DS V hard! lol anyway i wanna do it again for a surprise bday present for my mum in may! is best to book now with the 15% or wait for a better deal? i wanna book before end of year cheers

 

[kizzabel]

I think we're going to wait a bit longer. We want to book for May too but I think they will do a bit better then 15%. I hope so anyway. I remember better deals for the last two years in may.
March 2011 was approx €400 for 2 adults/1 kid at the SF for 3days/2nights
May 2010 was €502 for 2 adults/2 kids NPB May 25th-27th. 3 days/2 nights.
March 2011 was €418 fro 2 adults for 4 days/ 3 nights.

 

[jothp]

I'm afraid it is really a guessing game as to what offers might be released when the summer brocure comes out properly. To give you an idea I have priced up two rooms in the sequoia and two rooms in the Cheyenne with the 15% off and the cost is coming up about the same as they would have been last summer with the 30% discount. A family room in the Newport Bay however is coming up about £150 more expensive.

 

[xitaliax]

the price atm sounds alright compared to what im paying this year but my own fault for booking DLH! it wont do any harm waiting as i said im not in a hurry the worse case is it stays the same i mean it cant get any dearer can it?

 

[DLPdaft]

although I have booked under the early bird offer before, I personally think 15% discount for this offer will be bettered later (because the early bird offer in the past has been a reduction of £100 per room, regardless of which onsite hotel you are booking - and for example, for the Santa Fe in the past, this has meant around 33% discount). I'm not saying the % discount might get that high, but I'd be looking for 25% to be extended to those Spring 2012 dates later.

 

[kizzabel]

Thats it Elaine, im sold on waiting it out a bit longer. I reckon around Sept/Oct should see a better offer. No prices released in Ireland yet but am going to work out the prices thru the link to the brochure here and convert back to euros and see just how possible it is to book HNY for us in May.

No second ticker for me yet but hey ho.
Its looking like booking thru the uk site would work out at €785 at current exchange rates as opposed to €826 at the 1.18 euro per pound rate set by Disney.

 

[jothp]

I think if we definately decide to go for June half term we will book.

If there will be 2 adults in your room then the winter prices with 15% off are working out about £50-£100 more than last years summer prices with 30% off (for a four night stay).

We need 2 interconnecting rooms and have to pay a single adult supplement on each. Because the supplements are so much less on the winter prices, the price for two rooms with 15% off is working out a few pounds less than it would have been with 30% off last summer. That seems like quite a good deal to me

 

[DLPdaft]

thats what I do too - compare what Disney are offering now to 3 things - what I'm prepared to pay, what I've paid in the past for a similar trip in a similar time period, and what it would cost me to go offsite with APs.

So far, I have to say, offsite with APs is looking very favourable - but as you say, it depends on how many in your party/ages/how many rooms/when you want to go etc.

 

[jothp]

thats what I do too - compare what Disney are offering now to 3 things - what I'm prepared to pay, what I've paid in the past for a similar trip in a similar time period, and what it would cost me to go offsite with APs.

So far, I have to say, offsite with APs is looking very favourable - but as you say, it depends on how many in your party/ages/how many rooms/when you want to go etc.

Last year we paid £1193 for our family room in the newport bay. I can book 2rooms in the sequioa lodge for next year for £1332 which seems good considering our middle daughter will have turned 7 during the year so we need to pay for her too.

I keep thinking about offsite but we love EMH. I know we could get dream passes but am a bit worried about getting to the parks in time.