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I need your opinions. Our plans for our trip in August have us leaving on a Friday and coming home the following Saturday. The flight times are not that great for our departure at the cheaper rate right now so I've been playing with other options.
With the current offers I'm wondering about adding 2 extra days onto our trip with a room only reservation, we will have to pay OOP for our meals those days, since our original reservation is with the free dining offer. Also we would have to take another day off work & school.
BUT it would save us $200 in airfare if we leave the Monday instead, so it would only be $200 -$300 more + food depending on which resort we pick.
AKL in a savanna room for the 2 nights would only be $312 more.
Beach Club Villa for the 2 nights would only be $266 more.
WDYT do you think it would be worth it? Do you think I could convince DH even though we would be spending more.
We hadn't planned on doing AK this trip but if we stayed the extra 2 nights at AKL we would so that would be a bonus.
I guess the extra 2 nights would basically cut into the savings we would be getting my doing free dining vs. changing our reservation all together and using the new %off room offer. Maybe I should do the math, to be practical, and see which would be best.
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Last edited by DisneyDreamer05; 01-11-2011 at 05:16 PM..
Im always for extra days. See what works. For us, I added 2 extra days to our trip because airfare was cheaper 2 days ahead and it worked out to STILL be cheaper to stay extra 2 days (and play) then fly in later. Goodluck!!
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If we could add 2 extra days to our original reservation and keep the free dining, which I doubt, it would be $294 more than if we left 2 days earlier with the higher airfare.
AKL with the savanna view and adding in $200 for food, would be $382 more.
BCV with $200 for food, would be $336 more.
WDYT?
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Rose Our little family Hook(DH), Tink(8) & Peter Pan(7), & Piglet 28 months or 24 months corrected.
If money is the issue, by your numbers provided, if staying a few extra days would cost you $200-300 more, plus food, but you'd only save $200 in airfare; buying the airfare and sticking with your original agenda is more economical (just not more fun! ).
Plus losing time at work and school "costs" you more too.
I know, that answer is so not the "right" one, but it's the "proper" one, money-wise.
If money is the issue, by your numbers provided, if staying a few extra days would cost you $200-300 more, plus food, but you'd only save $200 in airfare; buying the airfare and sticking with your original agenda is more economical (just not more fun! ).
Plus losing time at work and school "costs" you more too.
I know, that answer is so not the "right" one, but it's the "proper" one, money-wise.
My new numbers include food, does that make it better? LOL I'm trying to reason it.
I know it's still more money in the end but money is really only an issue in so much as DH is a penny pincher so he LOVES to save money. It's convincing DH to part with it.
The extra time off work just means an extra vacation day so it's just one we would not get to use somewhere else in the year.
But you are right in that it is, in reality more money, so it's a question of whether that extra money is worth it and practical. I just hate paying more for airfare when I can use the $$$ to extra time at Disney instead.
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Last edited by DisneyDreamer05; 01-11-2011 at 05:20 PM..
Did you call disney and just see about adding the extra 2 days to your original reservation? You should be able to still get the free dining for those 2 days too unless of course it is before the free dining time starts. I only day this as an option because I did the same thing except I added 2 extra nights to the end of our trip and disney had no problem still giving us the free dining for those days because the reservation number was still the same. Might be worth a call if you really want to add them!
Did you call disney and just see about adding the extra 2 days to your original reservation? You should be able to still get the free dining for those 2 days too unless of course it is before the free dining time starts. I only day this as an option because I did the same thing except I added 2 extra nights to the end of our trip and disney had no problem still giving us the free dining for those days because the reservation number was still the same. Might be worth a call if you really want to add them!
That was my thought!!! You should be able to do this no problem...then the only money you're paying is two more nights at the resort...and if you're saving $200 on airfare, I'd say money isn't really an issue...but more so if you want to miss more school and work.
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