Hey Sherry-
When are you going? Glad to hear you made a reservation. It was good that you mentioned to folks to hurry up and book if they want to use the pin deal, because I'm sure it is really filling up by now. There were no dates at the lowest rates when I was calling several weeks ago.
Hey, Lynda!
Um, let's see. I booked almost one week ago, using the phone number on the Pin Discount email, and at that time, the lowest rate I could get was $159 for PPH (they didn't have anymore of the $149 rooms), city view. I booked for October 3 - 5, BUT that was not the preferred weekend. My friends really want to go on Oct. 10 - 12, but there were no rooms available for that weekend. Well, let me clarify - there were none of the PIN discount rooms available for that weekend. I think that Disney blocks a certain number of rooms specifically for the PIN offer, just as they block certain rooms for conventioneers, and the WDTC blocks rooms for their packages and things like that. So there may very well be rooms available at the PPH for Octobber 10 - 12, but at the regular 'off-peak- rates, which are substantially higher than the PIN discount rates. The girl who helped me told me that most of the rooms were booking up all during that August - December PIN offer period. So their 'off-peak' season is going to be much busier than usual.
So I got 10/3 - 10/5, BUT I was told to keep calling and checking periodically to see if something suddenly opens up for October 10 - 12. Apparently, people cancel all the time, or they get one room with one discount and realize they can get a better discount elsewhere, so they cancel. OR, perhaps the people with rooms on courtesy hold suddenly change their minds about going and their rooms open up. In any case, I can keep checking back and hope to pounce on a room for 10/10 and they can switch me over. That's another thing - perhaps it was just this girl on this number that I called, but she was telling me they are not doing the 7-day courtesy hold. HOWEVER, I suspected that if I called the number YOU called when you booked your GCH room for December and got a different person, they might have told me differently! In fact, I might try calling a different number for reservations just to see if, by any chance, they can find a room available for 10/10/08! You never know. Those CM's could be sitting a few feet from each other and give you totally different information!
Oh, and they didn't give me a hard time about using the discount with my friend's name on it. After all, it was my address, phone number and e-mail in their system so they had BETTER let me use it!
Now, my wheels are spinning as to how to swing a December trip.
I want to get in as many trips as possible before Los Angeles crumbles to the ground in a quake!
