andrewilley
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I have a river view room booked for one night June 14th. Since I don't want to be in the Mansion Bldg's, should I change to preferred location and give up the river view to guarantee Alligator Bayou.
There are plenty of River View rooms in the AB section, and the locations are generally really nice, so personally I think I'd leave it as it is and put in a suitably heartfelt plea for AB.
I am surprised, but it appears that is the case. I found a Disney UK website which indicates the terms and conditions, and mentions loss of deposit if you change and specifically does not allow changes from a standard package to a discount package if one becomes available
This does not surprise me at all, as booking "with Disney in the UK" is not the same thing at all as booking a room with WDW directly via the US website. The UK's "Walt Disney Travel Company" might be run by Disney, but in all practical terms it is more of a commercial travel agent which sells Disney holidays. You generally book 'packages' with them (flight, rooms, tickets, etc), and with the same type of cancellation or modification conditions that you get with the likes of Virgin Holidays, Thomas Cook, etc.
Also, they are allocated certain numbers of rooms for each resort in advance, in the same way as the other major operators, and you don't get to see the full current availability that really exists (e.g. for a long time they didn't let parties of 5 book for Riverside as their system was set to limit all rooms to four people).
There are pluses to booking with the UK (some different discounts, dollar spending money cashback offers, free dining almost all year round) but if you just want a flexible room-only booking, definitely look into the options of making a direct US booking which you can modify or even cancel with a full refund right up to 6 days before you arrive.
Andre