Holy cats batman!

[soarinup]

What rock have I been under? The WDW website is offering value resort room plus free dining and tickets for 80 something dollars a person? Thats a good deal.......isn't it?HMMMmmmm maybe I had better do the math

 

[TinkWink]

Be sure to check the details...the commercials I've seen say it's for 4 people - 2 adults, 1 junior and 1 child. So that adds up to more than it would be for just 2 people.

 

[kaffinito]

Where is that? I couldn't find it so I could play with my dates.

ETA - never mind, should have looked a little harder.

 

[vicki_c]

What offer is that? I haven't seen anyone post about anything with all those things - free dining and tickets?

I thought there were 2 current offers: kids stay/play free (no dining with that deal) or room discounts. Where is there free dining?

 

[shalecesjourney]

I found this on the Disney website:

Value in Dining: Room, Ticket and Dining
$89 USD Per Person, Per Day
This 6-night, 7-day vacation package for a family of four includes a dining plan that can save you money on dining. It includes a stay at a select Disney Value Resort, with Disney Theme Park tickets and a Disney Quick Service Dining Plan for $89 USD per person, per day for stays most nights during select dates listed below.

Total package price is $2,480 USD.

The price is based on 2 adults, 1 junior (age 10-17) and 1 child (age 3-9) occupying one standard room. The number of rooms available for this package may be limited. Tickets are for one theme park per day and must be used within 1 days of first use.

Select Dates

•January 2 - February 16, 2011
•February 27 - March 10, 2011
•May 1 - June 2, 2011
•August 14 - November 18, 2011
•November 26 - December 22, 2011

 

[shalecesjourney]

Here is the link for the information I posted above:

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/vacation-packages/

 

[wdwmaw]

Looks like rack rate to me. We have free dining booked for June 1-12 and when I price this package out you are being charged for dining plan. Looks like a play on words to entice bookings.

 

[vicki_c]

That page has no special deals on it. I agree, you've been sucked in by the great Disney marketing machine. You have to go to the Special Offers page to get whatever discounts are being offered. The page cited above is just regular prices. The dates though do cross seasons, but the wording says "as low as", so going with the assumption that the lowest price per day is based on value season:

6 nights @ a value during those dates - $82/weeknight, $92/weekend - let's say Sunday through Saturday check-out
($82 x 5) = $410 + ($92 x 1 ) = $502 for lodging

Dining plan for 3 adults and 1 child, as in the example:
Quick-service - $34.99 night adult x 3 adults x 6 nights = $630
$11.99 child x 1 child x 6 nights = $72
Total dining = $702

Tickets - base MYW tickets
7 day MYW adult = $263 x 3 = $789
7 day MYW child = $244
Total tickets = $1033

Total amount = $2237 divided by 7 days let's say = $319 per day
Divided by 4 people = $79/day per person

My example doesn't count taxes and rounds, Disney's example totals to $2480, so I'm sure they are generally the same.

So confirming - no deals to be had there. A free dining offer (not available right now) would save you $700 over that. Kids play free offer would save you $244 with one child. Room discount of 30% would save you $150.

 

[a1tinkfans]

That page has no special deals on it. I agree, you've been sucked in by the great Disney marketing machine. You have to go to the Special Offers page to get whatever discounts are being offered. The page cited above is just regular prices. The dates though do cross seasons, but the wording says "as low as", so going with the assumption that the lowest price per day is based on value season:

6 nights @ a value during those dates - $82/weeknight, $92/weekend - let's say Sunday through Saturday check-out
($82 x 5) = $410 + ($92 x 1 ) = $502 for lodging

Dining plan for 3 adults and 1 child, as in the example:
Quick-service - $34.99 night adult x 3 adults x 6 nights = $630
$11.99 child x 1 child x 6 nights = $72
Total dining = $702

Tickets - base MYW tickets
7 day MYW adult = $263 x 3 = $789
7 day MYW child = $244
Total tickets = $1033

Total amount = $2237 divided by 7 days let's say = $319 per day
Divided by 4 people = $79/day per person

My example doesn't count taxes and rounds, Disney's example totals to $2480, so I'm sure they are generally the same.

So confirming - no deals to be had there. A free dining offer (not available right now) would save you $700 over that. Kids play free offer would save you $244 with one child. Room discount of 30% would save you $150.

I am always so impressed when people can rattle off this info on the savings, I am always so "lost" when it comes to this My DH would love ya............

 

[jackal]

What rock have I been under? The WDW website is offering value resort room plus free dining and tickets for 80 something dollars a person? Thats a good deal.......isn't it?HMMMmmmm maybe I had better do the math

I got duped by the same thing. I thought it was a discount as well until I talked to a specialist. It actually made me mad that Disney would try to market this as an actual discount. We are going to Universal instead. Not like disney cares, they will get someone to pay rack rate, but it leaves a sour note for me as far as bookings in the future.

 

[vicki_c]

I got duped by the same thing. I thought it was a discount as well until I talked to a specialist. It actually made me mad that Disney would try to market this as an actual discount. We are going to Universal instead. Not like disney cares, they will get someone to pay rack rate, but it leaves a sour note for me as far as bookings in the future.

I don't know why people would think it's a discount. It doesn't say that anywhere. There is a separate page for discounts and usually there is also a large box on the Disney landing page that has the special offers highlighted with a link. I don't think they are marketing it as a discount, they are just presenting it (price per person per day) in the way that is the most favorable to them. It's Marketing 101 and nothing more or less than that.

In fact, only the one offer (that we discussed above) even suggests a deal - it has the word "value" in the title. Most likely that refers to the value resort. And the language even says "that may save you money on dining". That's less misleading that marketing spiel I've seen in the past where it seems to promise a 30% savings on dining, leading people to believe it's a 30% discount on the DDP, when all they really meant was that you could potentially save 30% by getting a dining plan vs. paying OOP.

 

[shalecesjourney]

I don't know why people would think it's a discount. It doesn't say that anywhere. There is a separate page for discounts and usually there is also a large box on the Disney landing page that has the special offers highlighted with a link. I don't think they are marketing it as a discount, they are just presenting it (price per person per day) in the way that is the most favorable to them. It's Marketing 101 and nothing more or less than that.

In fact, only the one offer (that we discussed above) even suggests a deal - it has the word "value" in the title. Most likely that refers to the value resort. And the language even says "that may save you money on dining". That's less misleading that marketing spiel I've seen in the past where it seems to promise a 30% savings on dining, leading people to believe it's a 30% discount on the DDP, when all they really meant was that you could potentially save 30% by getting a dining plan vs. paying OOP.

I agree. That's why I posted a link to the page, so the OP could see that it is just the regular rate - not a discount.

 

[JanineandMike]

you shouldn't have to go through the special offers link to get the best deal for your trip, but that's how disney does it. i don't think that is fair, but that's just my opinion. two people can book the same exact trip on the same day, but since one went through the main page search and another knew to click on special offers first they should pay less? just give the best available rate no matter how someone searches for their trip. it just seems shady to me. i just checked a week using both different ways and it was over a $450 difference for the same exact trip, oh well.

 

[DCDisney]

They are running a commercial with this deal now too. Just saw it run on American Idol tonight.

 

[sharona]

This "cost per day" method of presenting the value may be their way of competing with the cruise lines who have been using this to market their afford-ability for a while.

Cruising comes across as a good value for families when they market it as a per day all inclusive price - even though that is misleading as there are many extras costs involved in cruising.

The per day/per person way of looking at things reminds me of a car salesman selling you on your monthly payment rather than the total cost of the car.