We stayed at Gaylord Palms in very early January, 2005 for one night before our DVC checkin at BWV. Actually, I believe we arrived on New Years Day. I did get a nice package price with that stay in conjunction with the ICE show that the Gaylord presents every year......don't remember the pricing, but, it included room and tickets to ICE. The hotel is very nice, but, without some type of discount I wouldn't pay their rack rates. I believe a large portion of their business is convention groups (at least I know the Gaylord in Nashville caters primarily to conventions because I've attended several there)