Change room to lower category, pay higher price?

[leannak]

I see a room available that I like better than ours. It's a lower category but prices have gone up since we booked so it's currently priced higher than what we paid. I know if you book UP in category you pay the current price... but what if you are switching DOWN a category?? Would they really make me pay more?

 

[AquaDame]

They would... they changed the policy on this somewhat recently but switching categories means paying the prevailing rate now. The only price "locked in" is the category you booked.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Wow, that really stinks. Not that we changed cabins very often but it was nice to know we wouldn't pay prevailing rate if we did. Anything to make a buck.

 

[cwis]

Maybe you could try to call and ask for a “one-time exception”. The yield team might want to have a stateroom of your original category free better than one of the category you'd like to book.