Shocked by new pin

[TheDisney411]

Shocked, surprised, pleasantly surprised...whatever!!!

Seriously, I think it depends on the travel dates people are looking for and the amount of flexibility people have.

I absolutely did not believe the whole "cutting back on discounts" chatter I heard last year when I was looking to book a trip. UNTIL, I could not get what I wanted and we skipped Disney last year!!!

Even though my kids have the whole week of Thanksgiving off of school, Disney adjusted the blackout dates making it impossible for us to get any discount without taking kids out of school. Even Disney 411's predictions for this year did not include November 22 or 23rd - which was the check-in dates we needed. Not that I'd seen those posts anyway as I was not on here looking for any discounts right now, because last year the discounts were not released for that time period until July, Aug and Sept.

Geesh! It does seem like there are snippy replies on here! I know that I opened my email and thought "Oh my gosh, I got a PIN for the dates I need - that were blacked out last year! I can't believe it!"

Hope that clears it up for those of you wondering why anyone could possibly be "shocked".

Where ya having your Thanksgiving dinner OP? We've done Thanksgiving at the Fort and Brown Derby in the past. Looking for a new place this time around......

That's strange, I didn't find any of the posts in this thread snippy, well excepts yours ;-)

 

[3boys4me]

Shocked, surprised, pleasantly surprised...whatever!!!

Seriously, I think it depends on the travel dates people are looking for and the amount of flexibility people have.

I absolutely did not believe the whole "cutting back on discounts" chatter I heard last year when I was looking to book a trip. UNTIL, I could not get what I wanted and we skipped Disney last year!!!

Even though my kids have the whole week of Thanksgiving off of school, Disney adjusted the blackout dates making it impossible for us to get any discount without taking kids out of school. Even Disney 411's predictions for this year did not include November 22 or 23rd - which was the check-in dates we needed. Not that I'd seen those posts anyway as I was not on here looking for any discounts right now, because last year the discounts were not released for that time period until July, Aug and Sept.

Geesh! It does seem like there are snippy replies on here! I know that I opened my email and thought "Oh my gosh, I got a PIN for the dates I need - that were blacked out last year! I can't believe it!"

Hope that clears it up for those of you wondering why anyone could possibly be "shocked".

Where ya having your Thanksgiving dinner OP? We've done Thanksgiving at the Fort and Brown Derby in the past. Looking for a new place this time around......

We have done Ohana in the past and really liked it. We have also done nothing, just counter service. We usually do a Thanksgiving meal with my MIL before we leave. How did you like Thanksgiving at the Fort? I think last year we just had a turkey dinner at AoA.

 

[pigletto]

Yes I was a little shocked. Why? Because the last week of August was included in that offer and was NOT included in the just released Free Dining offer. So I was happily surprised. Free dining may come out for some of the dates on that pin OR they'll do what they did with August and see how many pins, bounceback and regular bookings they get and see if they need to release it all. I think all of those saying it will absolutely become a public offer need only to look to the last week of August and see that even though they offered it the last 5 or more years they didn't this year. It's not a sure thing.