Room Discount Strategy Question

[Jedimike]

There is a current 30% discount off select resorts for the first half of 2012 (through mid June something like that).

I'm an annual passholder (as of this month) and notice that the AP discounts are only good through sometime in March.

If I plan on going back to the World in early June, and I make a reservation using the current 30% discount, can I completely change resorts / room types if I see a better deal with the AP discount at some time in the future?

 

[mickeynut1]

If I plan on going back to the World in early June, and I make a reservation using the current 30% discount, can I completely change resorts / room types if I see a better deal with the AP discount at some time in the future?

Yes, you can......provided the resort/room type you want is available with the AP discount .

 

[bowbat]

There is a current 30% discount off select resorts for the first half of 2012 (through mid June something like that).

I'm an annual passholder (as of this month) and notice that the AP discounts are only good through sometime in March.

If I plan on going back to the World in early June, and I make a reservation using the current 30% discount, can I completely change resorts / room types if I see a better deal with the AP discount at some time in the future?

Yep! I did that for our February GF reservation -- I had booked it with the Disney Visa discount, but changed it to the slightly higher AP discount after we bought our passes. And just today, I booked a room at AKL using the spring offer, but I'm definitely going to watch for a better discount & change it if one comes available!

 

[fla4fun]

The only advice I would give is to be flexible. Sometimes either your dates or your original resort choice are not available when the AP discounts come out. So long as you are willing to change one or the other (or both), then it can most definitely be done.

Most of the time I haven't had to change resorts or dates, but it has happened to me a few times. Once I bumped my vacation down two weeks so I could keep my resort choice, and maybe 3-4 times I've changed resorts because my original resort wasn't included. More often I've changed room types at the same resort, either upgrading for the same cost, or downgrading to save even more. There have also been one or two times where I've kept my original reservation because I really wanted that resort on those dates and I couldn't get it under the new offer.

I was booked on a bounce back for December 2011, and changed later to the AP discount. I didn't have to change resorts, but I did add more days that hadn't been covered under the bounce back. The rate itself stayed the same for that trip.

 

[TaraPA]

You're not really "changing" when you switch discounts, you're cancelling one and re-booking another. It sometimes happens that the better discount isn't available at your resort, or for the category you previously booked (standard, garden view, etc.) or for your exact dates, so like others have said, you need to be flexible.