Connecting room rates

[scarlet_ibis]

If I book connecting rooms, is there any discount off of the rack rate?

We currently have a reservation during free dining (need to update my siggie!) and some family members have expressed an interest in joining us. I guess my question boils down to whether we save any money overall by putting them on one reservation with connecting rooms as opposed to having them book their own package.

(Also, does anybody know how to book or price connecting rooms? I can't seem to do it online. How many rooms can connect? Just two?)

 

[kevgraub]

If I book connecting rooms, is there any discount off of the rack rate?

We currently have a reservation during free dining (need to update my siggie!) and some family members have expressed an interest in joining us. I guess my question boils down to whether we save any money overall by putting them on one reservation with connecting rooms as opposed to having them book their own package.

(Also, does anybody know how to book or price connecting rooms? I can't seem to do it online. How many rooms can connect? Just two?)

I do not believe you save anything on connecting rooms, if you are doing free dining you are probably going to be paying rack rate on each room.

Also, remember that you can request connecting rooms, but you are not guaranteed them.

Finally, I've never seen or heard of a setup with connecting rooms where there were more than two rooms connected.

 

[catne]

no discount for connecting rooms (and the only way you'll get connecting rooms for sure is if your immediate family has a bunch of minor children and you won't all fit in one room - then they would assign you connecting rooms because minor children cannot be in a room by themselves)

Otherwise it's just a request and they'll try to honor it; but you're just as likely to get rooms "near" each other. The connecting rooms are just two in a row. You'll have a two rooms next door to each & the inside wall they share has a door in it. There are no options to connect more than two rooms.

If you're getting free dining, that's the only discount you'll get no matter what because they don't allow you to "stack" promotional discounts anyway. And you do pay rack rate on each room during free dining.

 

[scarlet_ibis]

Yeah, we have three minor children, but one is an infant in a crib, so we still technically fit in one room.

I wonder if I can get a connecting room for just part of the stay. I'm guessing probably not. That may seal it.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Yeah, we have three minor children, but one is an infant in a crib, so we still technically fit in one room.

I wonder if I can get a connecting room for just part of the stay. I'm guessing probably not. That may seal it.

What the other poster meant was if you had no additional adults... for example I have 2 rooms booked at pop because I have 4 children 3 and older..and than its hubby and I. so they would try and connect us before they would if you had your family members next door. But you can give it a shot, It can still happen.

 

[kevgraub]

Yeah, we have three minor children, but one is an infant in a crib, so we still technically fit in one room.

I wonder if I can get a connecting room for just part of the stay. I'm guessing probably not. That may seal it.

We got a connecting room on our first trip, and it was another family that we were travelling with next door. Its not that they are all that hard to get necessarily, they are just not generally guaranteed.

We have requested connecting rooms this coming trip as well, and it is my sister-in-law and her family we are travelling with. Our AAA agent said we will probably get a connecting room, but again there is no guarantee.

It won't hurt to request the connecting rooms, and you will probably get them. Just don't have your heart set on it, or you might be disappointed.

 

[RMulieri]

There is no discount on connecting rooms, and connecting rooms ( even with more minors than adults) does not mean a gurantee. There was a HUGE discussion about this on another boards, and the result was ( a cm chimed in) they are never guranteed, but having more minors than adults works more in your favor.