OK, I crunched my numbers a little better. We were considering 2 different time spans for our tripbeginning of June and end of August.
This deal would only be for the free hotel daysno gift card for us; no way we could swing a trip before June. We were just there over Halloween and are going back for Thanksgiving. We have APs, so the tickets are worthless for us, until 2011 or 2012 (I have some one day base tickets for upgrading already since the best deal we got in October was for a package). Anyhow
If we do go in June, it would save us (including having to purchase tickets) $340.53 to have 7 day base tickets. If I say forget the tickets since I dont really need to sit on them anyhow and buy 1 day base tickets, it would save us $1033.83. I went ahead and booked the latter. I figured I have about 6 months, so I can easily cancel if a better deal with an AP comes out or if we decide to do Augustwith a better deal. This deal saves us $493.75 with 1 day base tickets over rack rate in August room only. If I did get the 7 day tickets, it would *cost us* $199.55 over an August trip at rack rate room only.
I dont know. What do yall think? Besides that this is so not a huge deal. Or juicy. Its a deal, but Ive done better in recent times.