Discount codes released - change or not?
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| Sun, 11-05-2006 - 5:25pm |
We have a Disney World vacation booked at the All Star Music family suites. Kids are 12, 9, and 6. I found out today that there is a discount offered for while we are there but not for a family suite, just regular rooms. The fellow on the phone said something about guarenteeing an adjoining room. For 2 rooms, it would save us between $600 and 850. BUT I've always heard that you can *request* adjoining rooms but they are not *guarenteed.* If we do not get adjoining rooms, I would sleep in one with the girls and dh would sleep in the other with ds. (Not much of a vacation for he and I in that respect.) Part of the reason we like the family suite is because we could put the kids to bed and he and I could stay up in the other room without keeping them up. The guy on the phone said we'd only miss out on the microwave - no biggie there.
So WWYD? Save the money and hope for the adjoining rooms or spend the money and know you will have an arrangement where you get to sleep with hubby?
TIA! (It will be in January and we are going at all so I can run the marathon if that makes any difference.)
Cheryl
(Sorry I haven't been much in the past few months and now I drop in with a big question!)

My browser kept locking up on me last night. I'll try to be short so I don't get so frustrated if I lose it again. Please forgive how crypic it is.
Disney will not garuntee connecting rooms. Ever. They are pretty good about it when the # of adults is less than the # of children but they won't ever garuntee anything. It's CYA. If they don't promise it, the guest can't be upset when/if they don't get it.
Have you considered a cabin? With the discount it should be less than the suites and
I hail to Sonya as the all-knowing Disney TA, but I think I've gotten confirmations before that have said "guaranteed connecting rooms" because my immediate family cannot fit in one room. I know that they usually say they cannot guarantee for parties travelling together (family in one room, grandparents in another, etc.) - and at WL, they could not guarantee connecting bunk bed rooms, but I think that they did guarantee connecting. And when we checked into WL one April it was totally over-booked, even DVC owners were being told their rooms were not available (they were being offered DVC suites at OKW...and the two parties I saw were NOT happy...but I digress) and even then, though we checked in later in the evening - we had connecting rooms.
I will look to see if I have any of my old confirmations. But I know that I've had connecting rooms for 3 different stays and I really believe that all of them were guaranteed because the number of children outnumbered the number of adults. I stress out about the "unknowns" on Disney vacations, but I've never worried about not getting connecting rooms - it must be because I had it in writing somewhere.
Anyway - if I can find "proof" I'll post again.
Mara