I paid off our room/tix pkg off on 3/15 to take advantage of a AAA offer that refunded $100, along with the AAA discounts. According to the TA if a better discount comes along before Oct like FD, or if we want to change things before the 45 day window, we can still do so.
You just have to be a member for their room discounts and pkg discounts, we had called WDW directly before going with the TA and had a RO discount with AAA. But booking with the AAA TA gave us the extra $100 off the balance on a pd off pkg (room and tix discounted too) because that was a deal they were offering at the time. It made no difference since we have the $$ set aside, but we also used our Disney Visa for the pts, so we have the 6 months 0% vacation financing if we want to use that. We can still make changes, any upgrades we might want to make, take advantage of new discounts, etc. The res is held by WDW, which is also comforting in case we need to make changes - it also allows us to book our ADRs directly.
Oh ok....we booked a pkg too so I guess it wouldn't help me either. I'm hoping Disney has a dining discount. That's the discount that will really help me out
Interesting how our experiences were flip flopped! My discount would have been in the 200's. But with any luck, a Fall room discount or FD will will come out which will be bigger savings.
I really hope FD is offered, or at least a great deal with the DDP that would offset a rack rate room for the pkg. If a new package deal with dining is more than $500 what we've paid with the discounted room and tix with AAA, I'd be better off paying OOP for dining.
My discount on the RO (booked through Disney) was 15%, same with a package that we rebooked with AAA TA, and the tix were also discounted slightly - it's something for now. The extra $100 refund they were offering with the pay off helped too - saved about another 3-4% that way. Needed it to offset airfare.
