Poly pricing question

[Christian Lefebvre]

Am I just not finding the proper deals for the Poly, or is it really that good and worth the high prices?

For November, a Standard room works out to about $480/night + you have to pay for Park Hopper and get in return free dining plan.

 

[aaarcher86]

Am I just not finding the proper deals for the Poly, or is it really that good and worth the high prices?

For November, a Standard room works out to about $480/night + you have to pay for Park Hopper and get in return free dining plan.

If you're US, the free dining plan requires you pay the full room rate. There are room discounts but you wouldn't get the free dining plan. It's one or the other.

Worth is subjective. People do pay those prices.

 

[wdwrich]

Yeah, that's the catch with the "free dining" promotion- you have to pay full rack rate for the room to get it.
Run the numbers both ways (room discount vs. free dining) to see which works best for you. Many times, especially at at deluxe Disney resort, a room discount saves more $$ than the free dining deal.

 

[thisismyusername]

The value of free dining depends on a couple of factors, but the primary one is whether you have 5 Disney "adults" (anyone who is 10 and above) in a room who like eating fixed priced or high cost meals, or whether you have a couple in the room who like to eat light meals. Even if you are a couple with a baby, or a couple with kids under 10 can affect the value of free dining. We jump on free dining when and if we can get it because there are 5 of us, four of whom are considered "adults" by Disney, and, rarely, but occasionally, we do want to eat at buffets. When we don't have free dining, we never eat any fixed price meal at Disney: It just financially doesn't make sense to pay adult prices for our two kids who eat like kids (both in quantity and meal preferences), and we prefer to eat lighter, higher quality meals than what Disney offers at a fixed price (e.g., it's cheaper for us to eat at a Signature restaurant than to eat at a buffet).

 

[LJSquishy]

Yes, people do pay those prices. Year round. Personally, I wouldn't even pay $300 per night to stay there (or any studio at WDW for that matter). I rented DVC points from a member to stay at AKV for somewhere around $120 per night. The other half of our party rented points to stay at BCV at around $240 per night which is too expensive to me, but is a great price for that resort. I'd rather pay $200 per night and have to stay Moderate than to pay $300-$500 for a Deluxe studio.