Miffy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2002
Thanks for your reply, @namelessoracle.We did Standard view (but still got to see Giraffes when we woke up, I hear thats pretty lucky), and it was about 360 a night, where as Portofino was 700 a night. (so more than 250 actually) We used a special they did in January/February (early in the year) to get the Animal Kindgom lodge room discounted. Its my understanding Disney regularly does that early year discount and people look forward to it to plan their trip for the year.
The only comparable discount I know of is Annual Passholder rate, and those rooms go super fast, (they have a small pool of rooms at that rate) where as Disney was just giving everyone who booked a room the discount to any deluxe when the special was going on.
We don't chance standard view at AKL since we love seeing the animals altho we sometimes stay pool view. Yes, there are some partial savanna view standard rooms, but you do have to get lucky to get them.
I'm surprised the price was so low. Is this post-pandemic? We stayed there (savanna view) last December on an AP discount and it averaged out to nearly $700/night. Pre-pandemic the AP and general public discounts were much better, and we always used to get a bounceback rate, which was also excellent. Thanks for answering my questions!
ETA: Sorry! I read your original post and see that you were there at the end of June. I assume you mean this year.