I've been posting different scenarios for my family's upcoming 11 day trip. Everyone has been extremely helpful helping me tease things out and being a sounding board for me. To recap: We are traveling with friends that have a party of 5 and they always stay at POR. DH insisted he wanted to stay there. I've stayed there before and loved it...but the amount of walking made me nervous as I have recently recovered from being severely disabled/crippled from a horrible case of lyme disease and babesia. I offered up the FQ suggestion and he was "meh" wanting to stay at POR then maybe move to a family suite at all star music. We had a PIN code to complicate it even more looking to get the best deal.
Well, I haven't discussed yet with DH, but I think I found the winner for us! I was able to book with our PIN, FQ from 11/10-11/15 at 169/night. Then I put in our check in date of 11/5-11/10 and I was able to get a preferred room at POR!!!
So, basically we should both be extremely happy. I get the preferred room at Riverside and he gets to stay there with our friends which was very important to him. Then we will move to the FQ have way thru, get to use the pin, and still basically have a "preferred" room location due to the size of the resort. Sounds like a Win-Win to me.
But, it's not totally silly/stupid to switch is it? I know people split stay all of the time, but it's usually a more distinct switching of resorts, like say a value then deluxe or a monorail resort followed by an EPCOT area resort. I am waiting very impatiently for DH to get home to share my excitement. I've been playing every scenario around for days and this is it...I hope he agrees. Any thoughts before I go overboard with excitement?! Do people ever split between the sides of Port Orleans?
Well, I haven't discussed yet with DH, but I think I found the winner for us! I was able to book with our PIN, FQ from 11/10-11/15 at 169/night. Then I put in our check in date of 11/5-11/10 and I was able to get a preferred room at POR!!!
So, basically we should both be extremely happy. I get the preferred room at Riverside and he gets to stay there with our friends which was very important to him. Then we will move to the FQ have way thru, get to use the pin, and still basically have a "preferred" room location due to the size of the resort. Sounds like a Win-Win to me.
But, it's not totally silly/stupid to switch is it? I know people split stay all of the time, but it's usually a more distinct switching of resorts, like say a value then deluxe or a monorail resort followed by an EPCOT area resort. I am waiting very impatiently for DH to get home to share my excitement. I've been playing every scenario around for days and this is it...I hope he agrees. Any thoughts before I go overboard with excitement?! Do people ever split between the sides of Port Orleans?
If I was able to get a preferred at POR the entire stay, I may have likely done that. It is nice to be able to take advantage of our PIN code offer. And if Disney releases a RO discount for POR in a preferred room for our dates I will save even more. If not, I am very happy with what I got. I'm think the beignets might just win him over.
