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| Tue, 02-20-2007 - 4:35pm |
I'm wanting to book, but feeling like this is like buying plane tickets. What if the price is better tomorrow? What if they come out with a better promotion tomorrow? I know most of you will say book book book our hotel or we risk not staying where we want. But if we book our hotel and get our tickets, and a promotion comes out in a few weeks/months... can we still take advantage of that? If we book thru disney, do they let you call up and apply a discount code after you are booked?
We are 90% sure we are going to go late August. Dh thinks we should wait to see if free dining is an option this year, but that won't be announced until late spring. What should we do? Book hotel and tickets now, and if no promotion is announced, add on dining in July before we go?
We're probably going to go either way.... but I hate to 'lose' out on saving $600 or so!
Thanks for your thoughts. You guys have all the answers.
Laura

I think you can call and apply a discount after you have booked. I know my SIL did this with the free park hopper/water park deal. She was booked for mid April and I called to tell her the special. She called Disney and applied the special to her reservation without a problem. If you are sure what time you want to go, regardless of discounts, I'd go ahead and book it now. If when you go depends on a discount, I'd wait until they announce the fall discount (which I think has been in April).
For what it is worth, both last year and our upcoming trip we have not booked until 2-3 months prior to the trip and have not had too much trouble. I did not get my first pick for hotels this time only because there were no discounts available when I called for that hotel. However, if you keep a watch on the Disney sites for the discounts and call as soon as you know of one, you'd probably OK.
Hope that helps!
Charis
I just answered this for a client the other night so I'm going to copy paste what I emailed her.
Until Disney announces the discounts, no one knows what they will be. We only know what they have been in the past. The trend has been that the specials have changed every 2-3 years, but again, that’s just based on the past, unfortunately we don’t get any advance notice of what deals will be out. The past two years when free dining was offered it was only available for mid August through Sept 30.
Sonya, thank you. That answers it for me. We can then indeed book now and call later and try to apply a discount... I understand they are limited to only so many rooms per resort. If the promotion happens and we get lucky, great. If not, we still have our first choice room.
Thanks!
Laura
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