Split Stay MYW+Dining $$$ double the price?

[jules121605]

Has anyone tried to book a split stay, 2 resorts, MYW + dining, I dicovered that you cant really do it without paying about 400 dollars additionally per ticket because they have to split it up with 2 4 day passes, so in reality your paying for your MYW ticket twice, when if it was a 8 day strait ticket it would be the 446$.. I know this is confusing, but I know that someone out there must understand what Im talking about and if there is any way around it PLEASE share, it just seems so silly to me that Disney hasnt figured out how to do this,, its really discouraging.

 

[DebIreland]

I just want to say I agree with you. It's ridiculous that they can't do it as *one* package regardless of how many resorts you stay in. They're all Disney resorts, it shouldn't matter which ones or how many. The only suggestion I can think of is if you only do the dining plan for part of your stay? Whichever resort you're staying in longest (perhaps they're half and half). That way you can still get the 8 day tickets with the package reservation and just get a room-only, no package for the other resort and pay for your meals during that portion? Not ideal but at least you could get to sample the dining plan.

 

[sters]

If you can do without the dining portion on the last part of the stay, I THINK (am trying to verify) that you can get the tickets for longer than your first stay. So, for example, if you have 5 days with room/dining and get 10 days ticket you can a room only for the other five with the cheaper per day tickets... but no dining.

I agree with the othe posters. It's RIDICULOUS that you can't resort hop and enjoy the benefits of the dining program. You're still staying at their hotels. I hope that over time this can be resolved.

 

[Lewisc]

Get passes for your entire stay. You might ask a CM when you check in at the second resort if they can do anything to add the meal plan for the second part of your trip. Have them check with someone in the back.

Some of the rules can be bent at the front desk and some can't. I haven't heard of anyone trying yet.

Some people have the opposite goal. The only want the meal plan for two days of their stay. This works for them.

 

[beth_cam]

You could cut that extra cost by reserving the first part with a ticket that covers your whole stay (or one day short although at that many days there isnt much of a price difference) then getting the second room with a single day ticket per person (about $50 each extra instead of 400) although I just looked at that idea online and it didnt work with 1 day but did with a 2 day ticket. 1 day just said we can not do it at this time. Anyway then you would have 2 days for the future - expensive days though.

 

[blueberry22]

This is something that I've wondered about. If you order a one day ticket as part of a package is it good forever or just 14 days from when you check in? If you book two packages- one with the total number of days you need, you could book the second with just one day so that you qualify as a pakgage. If you don't have to use it within 14 days just keep it for your next trip. If the one day pass won't work (because of the 14 day limitation) get a 2 day non expiring and again just save it for your next trip. On your next trip you can add days- all the way up to 10- so you still get a favorable ticket price and your not wasting the cost of the ticket- just sort of prepaying.
we found the meal plan saved us about $25 per person per day.

 

[LSUDis]

We are in the same boat.....so, we are doing the package for the nights at one of the resorts. Since the dining plan is good from when you check in to midnight of the night that you leave the first resort, you could save some of your meals or share some meals to save up and use them for the first day of your new resort. Then, you'd only pay for the 3 remaining days????

Also, do your more expensive meals on the days that you are on the dining plan. Use your counters and snacks and buy items that can be stored (bottled colas,etc.) in the fridge of your second resort.

Buy your tickets for the entire stay.

 

[MeredithJ]

The tickets are good for 14 days from "first use", so if you don't use them during your trip, you can save them for your next trip. Also, up until about 2 weeks ago, you could do the 1 day ticket and get the dining package, but now it looks like the site won't allow you to do it with less than a 2 day ticket, which is probably because people discovered that loophole, so they are trying to make it harder to do. The 2 day tickets are quite a bit more expensive than the one day tickets too. The thing that makes me mad is that all of the promotional materials on MYW states that a package includes "any" length of ticket, which is now obviously not true. I just wish they would stop changing everything, I keep having to re-work all of my numbers.

Good luck trying to get the dining with your split stay. If it were me, I would do maybe 3 days at the 2nd resort without the dining package, and you "could" have meals on that first day left over from the first resort's package which don't expire until midnight on the day you checked out of the first resort (assuming you don't use all your meals on the previous days). You will probably be so full you can "lighten" up on the last two days when you have no meals, or do counter service. It would be nice though if you could do the continuous package at two resorts. Oh well.

Meredith

 

[biz410]

We are doing exactly what Meredith said.

-Staying 7 nights at WL on the MYW plan with dining. We got 9 day park passes with the package (added $20 to price for family of 4).

-Then at Poly for 3 days. We will purchase our own meals and have 2-3 days left on park passes. We are planning to spend one day at the resort.

 

[tclowe]

I did exactly what Beth Cam suggested. We have 2 days at 2 different resorts (with postcard pin number). Nice CM on the phone was able to fix our reservation by cancelling old ressies, put 1st resort stay with dining and 1 day base tix, and put 2nd resort stay with dining and 10 base tix w/ no expiration (what we really wanted to purchase). The new reservation is under only one confirmation number.

Didn't mind paying for the one day base tix since we can keep our postcard pin room rate.

Good Luck

 

[mybgirl]

Has anyone tried to book a split stay, 2 resorts, MYW + dining, I dicovered that you cant really do it without paying about 400 dollars additionally per ticket because they have to split it up with 2 4 day passes, so in reality your paying for your MYW ticket twice, when if it was a 8 day strait ticket it would be the 446$.. I know this is confusing, but I know that someone out there must understand what Im talking about and if there is any way around it PLEASE share, it just seems so silly to me that Disney hasnt figured out how to do this,, its really discouraging.

I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT , WHAT THEY DID FOR ME AND MY DS WORK OUT GREAT FOR US

OK I HAVE AND 8 DAY PARK TK HOPPER + WATER PARK
6 NIGHT'S POFQ
6 DAY MEAL PLAIN
3 NIGHT'S POLY ROOM ONLY ( FIRST TIME AT THE POLY SO HAPPY)

IF YOU GET THE MEAL PLAIN AT ONE RESORT YOU DONOT HAVE TO BUY TWO SET'S OF TK


HOPE THIS HELP'S


TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS

HAPPY EASTER

MARY

 

[pezpam]

Has anyone tried to book a split stay, 2 resorts, MYW + dining, I dicovered that you cant really do it without paying about 400 dollars additionally per ticket because they have to split it up with 2 4 day passes, so in reality your paying for your MYW ticket twice, when if it was a 8 day strait ticket it would be the 446$.. I know this is confusing, but I know that someone out there must understand what Im talking about and if there is any way around it PLEASE share, it just seems so silly to me that Disney hasnt figured out how to do this,, its really discouraging.

It does get confusing.

The dining portion should not be a big deal since it's a flat rate per night. It sounds like it's the park tickets that are causing the problem since their per-day cost goes down with an incereased length of ticket.

If you're planning on coming back, I'd consider getting a ticket with your first resort ressie that covers the whole stay, then getting another ticket with the second ressie - since you could use it on another trip, you could go ahead and get a 10-day ticket. Your next trip would have to be room-only, but that could be an advantage if you can get a good room rate.

If you're not planning on coming back, maybe the 8-day ticket with the first ressie and the 1-day ticket with the second ressie that someone else mentioned would work. It'd be worth pricing out to see if 8+1 is cheaper than 4+4.......

 

[mybgirl]

It does get confusing.

The dining portion should not be a big deal since it's a flat rate per night. It sounds like it's the park tickets that are causing the problem since their per-day cost goes down with an incereased length of ticket.

If you're planning on coming back, I'd consider getting a ticket with your first resort ressie that covers the whole stay, then getting another ticket with the second ressie - since you could use it on another trip, you could go ahead and get a 10-day ticket. Your next trip would have to be room-only, but that could be an advantage if you can get a good room rate.

If you're not planning on coming back, maybe the 8-day ticket with the first ressie and the 1-day ticket with the second ressie that someone else mentioned would work. It'd be worth pricing out to see if 8+1 is cheaper than 4+4.......

I DID NOT PAY MORE JUST LESS DAY;S ON THE DP

WELL IT DONE WORK, OUT FOR ME
AND I DID ASK'S THEM THE SAME ? MANY TIME'S , BUT THEY DONOT LET YOU ,
SPLIT UP THE DP

THIEIR LAW


GOD BLESS
AND HAPPY EASTER

MARY