Priceline Express Deals

[Blumst]

Hey guys, we are doing 8 nights in mid-September. I have a DVC rental at OKW from 9/13-9/20, and I’ve been planning to add a night at Drury on our arrival day (9/12) if no express deals come out. I’ve been plugging in 2 rooms for 9/12 and the two attached deals have recently populated. I think it’s AOA and Grand Floridian. They aren’t good deals, but could this mean better Express Deals are coming?

 

[MarBee]

Hey guys, we are doing 8 nights in mid-September. I have a DVC rental at OKW from 9/13-9/20, and I’ve been planning to add a night at Drury on our arrival day (9/12) if no express deals come out. I’ve been plugging in 2 rooms for 9/12 and the two attached deals have recently populated. I think it’s AOA and Grand Floridian. They aren’t good deals, but could this mean better Express Deals are coming?

It’s certainly possible but no one really knows for sure.
However, one thing you may want to do is search for 1 room. I’ve found that when I search for more than one room, it drastically changed the price in the past. YMMV though.

 

[JJTNY]

FWIW: I was tipped off again today that some resorts on Priceline had big review count changes - looks like several non-Disney resorts had a LOT of reviews trimmed. That caused a few to jump in Guest Rating, even changing between 7 and 8.

Priceline is doing the priceline today and almost all Disney resorts are appearing WITHOUT guest or review ratings so can't tell if those changed. However, AoA did have them listed and the review count only moved up be a small number, so when those ratings reappear I suspect they'll be effectively the same.

The one change I think the most Disneyfied people will care about is the Swan review count dropped from 1,283 to 668 reviews! Guest rating remains at 8 rounded.

I have updated the database with the Bonnet Creek and DS resorts that appeared in my results.

I was away this week (Conrad Orlando on Hilton free night certs - HIGHLY recommend!) and just back home - so hope to catch up more later and look at the UOR resorts to see if there were any changes over there.

Resort Matcher link:
http://bit.ly/JJTPEDeals

 

[JJTNY]

I haven't had time to look too deeply yet, but seeing hidden Priceline deals starting this Saturday (8/09) and into September.
Music form $80s - $110s, CSR as low as $160s, AoA suite for high $200s, even a POR (Not great at $224) and a GF! for high $300s.

Going to try to block out the start and end dates later for a blog post...

 

[Leigh L]

Thank you @JJTNY for all you do and share!

 

[Blumst]

I had been watching these for awhile for 9/12-9/13 on our travel day. I recently took advantage of 10% back through Rakuten to book that night at the Drury instead. We don’t arrive until after 3:00 PM and need to grab our groceries too so the free dinner that night and free breakfast in the morning were a big perk we felt we could take advantage of considering our plans. Plus we plan to drop our bags at OKW in the morning and spend all day at Typhoon Lagoon on our check-in day the next day too.

My date only has AOA and GF…which I probably couldn’t justify the discounted cost on a travel day. Thankfully we didn’t get the All Stars at all, because I definitely would have preferred that for under $100.

 

[Blumst]

I had been watching these for awhile for 9/12-9/13 on our travel day. I recently took advantage of 10% back through Rakuten to book that night at the Drury instead. We don’t arrive until after 3:00 PM and need to grab our groceries too so the free dinner that night and free breakfast in the morning were a big perk we felt we could take advantage of considering our plans. Plus we plan to drop our bags at OKW in the morning and spend all day at Typhoon Lagoon on our check-in day the next day too.

My date only has AOA and GF…which I probably couldn’t justify the discounted cost on a travel day. Thankfully we didn’t get the All Stars at all, because I definitely would have preferred that for under $100.

FYI, AOA was $319 and GF was $422.

 

[BridgetBordeaux]

I haven't had time to look too deeply yet, but seeing hidden Priceline deals starting this Saturday (8/09) and into September.
Music form $80s - $110s, CSR as low as $160s, AoA suite for high $200s, even a POR (Not great at $224) and a GF! for high $300s.

Going to try to block out the start and end dates later for a blog post...

Thanks a bunch....just booked an ED and got AS Music for Sept 7-8.

Previously had an AP ressie at 135 all in.

Now at 109 all in with the 5 percent code "ANYTIME5"

 

[purrenh1]

Does this look like Disney's Grand Floridian Sep 6-10 (shown by guest rating ranking below actual GF)? I can see the Express star rating but not number of ratings. I was not sure how to search JJTNY engine without all factors.

 

[Tom_E_D]

Does this look like Disney's Grand Floridian Sep 6-10 (shown by guest rating ranking below actual GF)? I can see the Express star rating but not number of ratings. I was not sure how to search JJTNY engine without all factors.View attachment 994694

I don't think you can search JJTNY's database without number of reviews. Based on what we can see, including the matching before price, I'd give this listing a 95%+ chance of being Grand Floridian.