Yes, if only I hadn't booked my flight. Even though changing dates wouldn't fall on our lovely week of celebrations, being able to still go would have been great. I normally wouldn't have bought the plane tickets, but the prices we were seeing were crazy good...as in good enough we could actually afford them, but if they went up we would be driving. We bought tickets for $230 a person roundtrip. We watched flights for a week or so and they were creeping up in price. We bit before they would be too much to afford. I checked the fees for switching this morning...Airline fee of $200, and Orbitz fee of $30 per person...so we would basically pay double airfare to change dates.
Our reservation is for 8days/7nights at POFQ (we have only stayed at All Stars before and thought we were really being fancy this time) We have 6 days of park tickets, and they are base tickets due to saving money wherever we can. Then the dining plan puts us at $4,420.28 for a garden view room.
I called and freaked out a cm from all the crying while asking how much it would be if we switched to All Stars and it would bring it down to $3,742. Still $1,000 more than I budgeted for and not at all where I wanted to be. This trip was supposed to be the big one...the special one. I also asked of my father still had his pin that he could have used. (We both went on a trip in March 2012 and I booked both of them...my email received his pin and we didn't receive one. He isn't going again. But, I still asked if it had expired yet, because I thought I could talk him into going again and let him book for us...nope...expired already so missed out on that way.)
I'm so sorry to sound so whiny. I'm usually not a whiny person, but I'm devastated about this, and I have no one to talk to about it. My head hurts and I'm up to my ears in corn trying to put it up...and I just can't get ahold of myself. I understand these numbers may not be a big thing for some...but we do the best we can with what we have and every dollar in our household must be accounted for if we are to have anything.
Does anyone know of any possible way I can find a
free dining pin? I don't want to go on the vacation if those special ADRs I made so carefully to celebrate our bdays and anniversary are gone. I think the whole time we are there I would be disappointed, thinking about how it would have been.
I wish I had read more on the disboards before now. I recently started reading a lot, but it was too late...I wouldn't have booked before the dates were announced...if I had only read.