Booking the Poly -- Direct Disney vs Travelocity

[jaykorf001]

I'm looking at the last week in September. A standard view room is $352 on Travelocity and $396 booking direct thru Disney with the Sept discount (average rate). Is it typical to have that much of a difference? It's been years since I booked thru Travelocity as I felt we always got a bad room location.

 

[OKW Lover]

Are you comparing apples to apples? Same room type? Taxes included on both quotes?

 

[jaykorf001]

Yeah, pretty sure I'm looking at standard view rooms at the Poly pre tax. However, I went back and looked more carefully on the Disney website and now it seems the Poly is only at a 20% discount. I could have sworn it was at 30% when I looked a couple days ago. Ugh. I guess I gotta make up my mind.

 

[jperrot1]

I see your concern as it is very easy to request a room location direct, where as when you book with traveloscity (and please someone correct me if I'm wrong) you can't state a room preference at the time of booking.

If you use travelocity for the $44 per night additional savings, may I suggest calling the Poly directly about a week before check-in. They might have your reservation in their system by then. And then you can make your building/room request at that time.

 

[flamark]

Unless I'm wrong, and I don't know if this is a concern to you, most third party sites charge your card the entire amount at time of booking, whereas Disney will only charge you 1 night as a deposit. That was what held me back last month when they and expedia had really good sales going on.