A Mickeyfan said:
are you sure they were 50% off?? I really do not ever remember getting 50% off ... only time I did was when I was a cast memeber.. I know I have gotten 40% and then in that January time frame when it is really slow... I did get 60% of as a CM , but only 45% (I want to say) for AP...
The rates are getting pretty high. I can only afford them now during value season with an AP or FL resident rate... gone are my days of staying at Deluxes for several days.. more like only value resorts for me lately... hey, better than nothing
I agree, a little exageration here. Been an AP holder since 1995 and discounts just didn't exist for us from 95-98 (before 95 I have no idea about room discounts). I remember when you got 20% off of deluxes, but only during lower season and never a discount at values resorts (I probably still have the newsletters/mickey monitor from then). From 1998 to 2005 we enjoyed CM discounts of 50% off or higher, and the AP rates were never as low as our rates--but sometimes close. I remember paying $38 a night for an A/S resort (CM rate), while AP holders were paying $49 a night--and saying to myself, why does hubby bust his butt, when I could get the AP rate almost the same as our discount. Of course, now he's no longer a CM and the AP discounts are not as great. However, I think part of it is that there doesn't seem to be a percentage off, just a dollar amount off, which is great for the lower price rooms, not great for the more expensive rooms, plus add in that the prices for rooms are so much higher then they were in the past (my first visit to CBR was in 1989 and the rack rate, regular season-May-was $69 a night, no discounts, that was the regular price and the waiting list was 2 years). With that in mind, the discounts for CMs is not as great either. They are now only 50%, 40% and 25%, and there are a group of each catagory of rooms, so when the cheaper rooms are gone, then you have to select from the next discount group. (Of course, nothing beats the CM holiday discount from Dec - Jan, which we used many times = 60% off). Of course, this doesn't affect us too much now, since we bought into the
DVC with hubby's CM discount before he left the company. There will always be APs IMO, but will they be FL resident only, or continue to be available to all. The room discounts just are not important to us, when we need them, they are just to add a day here and there, or book a room for friends and family, as we pretty much bought enough DVC points for our 4-5 vacations a year and still have leftovers. We are the minority folks who only buy our APs for park entrance and nothing more. We visit the parks now only about 40-50 days a year, so an AP fits our needs for a park ticket.
