Rumored changes in resort booking and pricing

[Praying Colonel]

Lou Mongello on his 6/10 WDW Radio podcast touched on rumors related to an upgrade in Disney's computer system which will reportedly affect resort booking and pricing:

--The upgrade will now reportedly permit Disney to charge a different rate for the same room if the stay occurs while seasons change. For example, under the current system starting your stay on 12/19 (the last day of Value Season) means that your room will be at the Value Season rate for your entire stay, even if the rest of your stay falls during Holiday Season. Now, Disney will charge you 1 day of Value Season rate on the room and the rest of your stay will be at Holiday Season rate.

--Disney now will reportedly start charging more for weekend resort days, same as DVC rooms cost more points during the weekend.

According to Lou, these rumored changes will go into effect 6/23.

 

[rodkenrich]

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[DisOrBust]

I am at the point of just not caring...call me DOBLandBaron.

 

[YoHo]

What kind of useless computer program do they currently have that it doesn't already do this? I mean every single hotel I've ever booked online or over the phone has been able to charge different rates based on weekend vs. weekday.

 

[All Aboard]

Disney now will reportedly start charging more for weekend resort days

This seems quite odd, as we have heard for years that weekend occupancy is no greater than weekday occupancy at WDW resorts.

 

[YoHo]

A B, that poses 2 questions, or observations

1: The Occupancy rate hasn't changed, they just figured out that they could screw the guests because most wouldn't know it.

2: The shift from "Vacation of a Lifetime" to DVC/AP place to spend the weekend has become so bad that their weekend occupancy has changed.

In an environment where short/Multiple stays are becoming the norm, you're simply going to get more weekend guests.

 

[raidermatt]

They have some significant limitations now. We have a 4 night stay booked at the CR, and it took 3 separate reservations to do it. One at the standard rate, one with the AAA rate, and a third in a different room category because that was all that was available. When the category we wanted was later avaiblable, they still had to keep it as a separate reservation.

 

[YoHo]

Well, but that's a function of you being a simpering disney freak.

No normal person would ever book that way.

Unless, again, normal people aren't booking as much any more and it's just the freaks. In which case, maybe fixing the computer wouldn't be as important as finding so normal people to start showing up.

 

[raidermatt]

You're probably right about me, but I didn't ask to book that way. All I wanted to do was book 4 nights with the AAA rate, if it was available. All heck broke loose from there.

 

[Mermaid2sea]

Do you think they reduce the rate the longer you stay the cheaper the nightly rate??

 

[YoHo]

No. Are you kidding me? That's not the kind of thinking that's going to get Wild Hog's 2: Stockyard Hijinks! made.

 

[Praying Colonel]

After posting this, I saw that a multi-page thread had already been started on this on the resorts board. My apologies for posting a dupe.