My wife's self-employed, so we pay every year. This year, though, due to COVID, and the cancelling of all of her music gigs, we actually got money back.
Sorry you didn't make it to the finals.
I've been thinking a lot about this over the last year, as this is one of the times of the year I've been looking at heading down. Having said that, I've only been down in the World in August, but thinking is that March is usually spring break time for colleges and public schools, not a hard fast rule, but usually the case. As a result, and I'm guessing here, March will be busy with spring breakers. As I said, that's just a guess, but I think a good one. I would love to hear from other people, though