All I can tell you is what I am seeing. I have a second deal, saved the same way as the first ... AKL March 21 through March 28, standard view, 8 day Park hopper passes (no water park), no flight, no ground and magic your way plus dining. Pre 4/3 offer is $4040.70, post 4/3 $4001.36. Break it down ... the room prices were jacked up when they offered the 4/3. Again, par for the course. I'm not saying it is a ripoff, a discount is a discount, but the saving is not what it is touted as being no matter HOW you slice it.
Trullclan, without your mentioning the number of people in your party and the ages, it is hard to see what your cost
should be.
Inputting just 1 adult and 2 children under 10 using the regular pricing comes to
$4101 with all the options you mentioned. (It's the closest I could get to your pre 4/3 price of $4040.70) The same thing using the 4/3 deal would Total:
$2,829.21 for a savings of $1272. That works out to $153.86 for 2 child dining plans, $279.93 for 1 adult dining plan totaling $433.79. Hopper for 1 adult for 8 days (5 day hopper cost) is $289.68 and 2 children's total $504.82. Add this to dining to get $1228.29 so far. That leaves $1600.92 for 4 nights standard view, or $400.23 including tax per night. That's a huge savings and sounds about right. If I were you, I'd call Disney back or run the numbers on Disney.com.
My 4/3 was a savings of $1800 off rack and more than $1400 off my
AAA rate during Easter week at the Poly, with no change at all to room or Hopper days. Changing to 8 day hoppers would only add about $10 more to the package below.
April 11-18, 2009
7 nights / 8 days
2 adults, 14 & 8 yr old
Polynesian garden view
Including tax, discount and 7 day park hopper tickets
Total $3,295.74
Sounds like something was off in one of the prices the ran for you. Let us know if you get the 4/3 deal for a better price. Your dates in a standard view are still available on the WDW website. Good luck!
Editing to Add: I see that the
first time around, you mention prices at the Poly,
Originally Posted by Trullclan
We priced rooms online for Poly for our trip in March before the 4/3 deal and I saved the offer ... at that point the room worked out to $385 per night before tax. When I went back after the 4/3 deal, the rooms had gone up to $520 per night. While it is an overall savings, it seems to me Disney jacked up room rates when they decided to do the 4/3 deal. Par for the course, but kinda sad if you ask me.
and the
second time you mention prices at the AKL. (The opening quote in this post.) The Poly runs $485-$505 before tax from Feb 16-April 3. No way you had $385 there. AKL- yes. Poly- no. Are the quotes for the same resorts?
This doesn't make sense to me. I have a copy of the 2009 published rates since they came out last August. Nowhere is a room 385. I have 485 during peak season (March) for a garden view Poly. I do have $520 for regular season (April 19-July 2), lagoon view. Did you maybe punch in your dates wrong somewhere? Or maybe somehow ran it with a discount the first time through? Accidentally got the wrong resort? Are comparing different views? Or some combination of the above?
