Difference b/t booking seperately vs. land/sea -- WOW!

[NJFabFour]

We booked seperately 8 days at Dolphin and a 4 day cruise . . . out of curiosity, I just looked back on a quote I had received for the land/sea package. With 8 days at the Dolphin + the 4 night cruise, we are spending $700 less than we would have for 3 day/4 night cruise land/sea package!! I couldn't believe it! Might be helpful for anyone looking into whether or not to book package or seperate!

 

[ulstergirl]

We just returned from our stay at Dolphin and then the cruise, and we did the same thing. Booking each part of the vacation separately really saved us a lot of $$ also. Hope you have a great trip.

 

[sewfruf1221]

Pricing depends on when you're traveling, # of people in your stateroom and what type of room you booked.........if you got a qoute on an inside room and staying at a deluxe hotel then the pricing would definitely be different

 

[irisbud]

I think it must be dependant on a lot of factors.

We are doing a land/sea in December of 2008, with a category 7 and staying at the Poly. Of course the L/S includes tickets as well.

Just for fun, I priced things out the exact same way (Same cruise, category &, same nights at the Poly, GV, same tickets to the parks). We are saving $800+ by booking the package!

Glad that you could save money by NOT booking the package, though!

 

[CSwan1]

I also feel alot can effect the price. We booked in February for our May 2008 land/sea package. At this point WDW hadn't released prices for 2008. (we were considering doing the dining plan so that was a big push to book seperatly) Once the prices were released (not that long ago), I did go back and compare and it was much more to book seperately at that point because the cruise price had gone up quite a bit. We booked a catagory 6 and staying at the AKL. To get close to the same price when I was comparing, we would have had a catagory 12 and staying at a value resort. I'm glad we did the land/ sea combo. Extra bonus: Now land and sea cruisers can add on dining plan and we did the day it was announced here on DIS!!

 

[Blue Knight]

Well, just to add some fuel to the fire I too did a cost comparison between my 4 nite land / 3 nite sea package and "a la cart" for the same time and my package is the savings for me.

Package; for 2 ppl Cat 5 stateroom incl transfer, no Insurance = $3333.00

a la cart; 2 ppl, Cat 5 stateroom, incl transfer, no Insurance = $1923.62
4 nites Poly $1687.00
7 day park hopper pass @ 2 adults $562.32
Total: $4172.94

Savings with package: $839.94

 

[pumpkin5156]

I might as well:


We saved $1000 booking the package through an outside website. I compared the package rate to DCL website, and it was only like $200 difference. When I compared a la carte, it a $1000 difference. Crazy!!

I'm even saving money by not doing the DDP.


BUT I am glad you saved however it happened!! have fun