Martin Luther King Weekend is now a "holiday" rate period. That higher pricing kept us from trying to go that weekend, though when we started calling, two weeks ago, rooms were also almost booked up already.
We decided to try the weekend before, but then realized Disney's new weekends cost more rate schedule is now in effect for 2008, so we opted to come Sunday, Jan 6 - Friday, Jan 11.
I think the days of coming to the World on weekends and holidays is over for us. Rates have priced me past my comfort zone. We were actually able to get an Annual Passholder discount on a King bed room at the Caribbean Beach for our dates, for only $115 a night. Not our first choice of resort, but calling at this late of a date, to get an AP rate at all at a moderate, and then to get a King bed room, I think that's a sign our dates will be fairly uncrowded.
MLK weekend will be I think much heavier this year than in the past, just because it's been the "thing" on the DIS this year for people to talk about how great January is a time to go! You know if one person is thinking it, then another 50,000 have the same idea.
