sjs314
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I totally agree with your post. The extremely limited availability was probably due to a large number of double bookings. I don't understand why you would hire a travel agent and turn around and book your own reservation. Why hire the agent???
I can only speak for myself but I booked with a TA for first time ever back in May for 2 reasons #1 she was a Friend & #2 she was able to get me an agency exclusive discount at the Poly for Jersey Week.
I did feel uneasy as I am a bit of a control freak making my own ADRs etc.
As the rumors of the RO discounts started surfacing and I was seeing 30% at the Poly I did the Disney Math and started thinking about upgradeing to CL.
Fast Fwd to Thursday 2:00-3:00am, I am up seeing the promos live online, No Poly CL but my backups WL CL and BWI CL both available. I woke up DH at 3:30am and he said he'd rather stay BWI CL than Poly Std room.
Rather than wait to contact my TA and maybe miss out I booked online then emailed my TA to cancel my other reservation.
I found out booking with a TA is not the best option for me, I need to be in "control"

I'm sure once everyone is done shifting resorts and room catagories Disney will re-evaluate the % of room bookings and release more rooms into the pools of rooms for both FD and RO.
Just keep Checking online and don't hesitate book it if you see it!
