Ya'll I'm sorry that I haven't posted much this evening. John and I were sitting outside watching Hunter play in the yard with Oddball and started talking about our vacation. He really wants to go back to the Caribbean Beach Resort. He's had reservations about the Pop Century every since I booked it.
I had called Disney Travel back in May and they said I could transfer my buy 4/get 3 promo to CBR for about $500.00. I didn't do it back then because....I don't remember why.
but I didn't.
Anyway, I got on the phone with Disney Travel. Let me change that.....I hold forever for Disney Travel and finally get a castmember who tells me I can't change over to the CBR under the previous promo. He said I had booked with the buy 9 get 3 free promo. I knew this guy didn't know what he was talking about because that wasn't how I booked and I don't even think there ever was such an offer.
I asked if he could check the new offer than I received an email about. He asked what special offer. I said the 35% off moderate resorts booked 8/9/09 through some later date. He said he had no idea what I was talking about. Ugh! Does this guy not read the Disboards?
I asked him to give me a quote with no promos, no anything, for the CBR for our dates. The price was over $900.00 what we are paying for Pop Century.
I finally just told the guy that we'd think about it and I'd call back later.
I came inside and played around on the computer to get some quotes. Of course, the first thing I found on the Special Offers page was the 35% off moderate resorts but it said room only. No tickets or dining plan.
So, I called them again. This time, the guy wasn't much more knowledgable. I had to, literally, get on their website and tell him where to find the Special Offers. Then, I had to tell him about the offer I was looking for complete with the code. Now, I understand if I had received a "random pin code" that was specifically for me, I would have had to tell him that long pin code number. But, this was a public special offer that was clearly displayed on their site.
Sorry, venting....moving on.
After I told him where to find the code, what the code was, what the inclusive dates were, etc. etc. etc., he gave me a quote of $2,278.69 for 6 days at the CBR, 9 day tickets with water park and more and the dining plan. Then, the first 3 days would be $646.89 with no tickets or dining plan. This would be $333.13 more than what we are paying at Pop and we would have to pay for three days of dining out of our pocket. But, we would have to add Lacey to the plan (I'm waiting until she knows for absolutely, postiively sure she's going to get to go back to the college late to add her.) With the buy 4/get 3 promo, it would have cost $660.00 to add her. To add her to this package would be even less.
I told the guy don't book anything and I'd call back tomorrow. I then thought I'd see if he knew what he was talking about and I asked him how long the 35% of moderate offer was for. He said he had "absolutely no idea. I didn't even know about this offer." I did know the deadline to book but didn't tell him. (It's 8/8/09 by the way.)
Long story short (oops! too late to make it short but anywhooo), we are now thinking that for an additional $500.00 or so, we could bump up to the CBR. We'd have to have two reservations and there's a chance we'd have to change rooms but we might just do it.
I am not confident that either of these two guys knew what they were talking about so I am going into work tomorrow and punching the numbers myself. I don't want to rely on what these two dumb bunnies were telling me because I'm not really sure that the guy got the right tickets on the package quote.
I'll let you guys know what I find out in the morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we can upgrade for $500.00 or so. But, I am not getting my hopes up yet.
I split a Target sized bag of cutting with my BFF and we both have an abundance of potato vine! I see it as being super GREEN (thumbed)
) Our county in on water restrictions and we can only water on 2 set days a week.
I'm not saying everyone should do it or else Disney would be plucked bald.
. I need all the help I can get. I would love to be a photographer.
I'll try and put them to good use because I know your pictures are always so good. I haven't seen a bad one in your whole bunch.
