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I wonder if a similar crash happened when they announced the Disney Visa discount for the summer a few days ahead of the general public? I had a heck of a time and ended up getting charged twice for the same reservation (okay, she booked me twice but I think it was a system glitch and we were able to get everything sorted out easily).
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It probably was Melissa. I just know the phone lines were giving busy signals for days and no one could log into their accounts. I would have freaked if it had been my ADR day during that.
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Congrats on all the savings!! And extra days..SCORE!!
I read the description you wrote about yourself and your husband to my DH, and how you woke him up that evening to discuss your FD discovery, and he laughed and said, "OMG..that sounds just like us!!" And yes..he is sooo right
Congrats on all the savings!! And extra days..SCORE!!
I read the description you wrote about yourself and your husband to my DH, and how you woke him up that evening to discuss your FD discovery, and he laughed and said, "OMG..that sounds just like us!!" And yes..he is sooo right
Hahaha! It is good to know that there are others like us out there!
And then the morning of May 14. Again I was awakened in the middle of the night. I had no idea why. I knew that Southwest was releasing their flights for our time frame. It was 2:30. Nothing yet. I restlessly slept. The alarm went off at 5:30 a.m. They were up! I got on as quickly as I could. Ugh. The prices were a bit higher than I had hoped and there was nothing in our price range coming home the 29th. We took a few minutes to research other airlines and quickly went back to Southwest. We knew in order to do this we would have to cut a day off the end of our trip and come home the 28th. We had two flights in our cart, noticing that the prices seemed to be going up $50 every five minutes. As we went to check out one of our flights was no longer available at the price in our cart. I had to start all over. My hands were shaking. The flight home we originally scheduled was way out of our price range now. We had to get an early morning flight. Not ideal but we had to get something. I put it in our cart and was able to check out. I got back on 5 minutes later, and that same flight had gone up $75. An hour later another $100. Two hours later, all flights for that day sold out. I know it is crazy because it is a holiday weekend, but in all my years purchasing flights, which has been quite a few, I have never seen anything as crazy as that. We came in $400 over what I had budgeted. I wasn't really happy about that. Also, at first I was sad because essentially we were cutting two days of our trip. But as I got to thinking about it, it is probably a good idea we were coming home to give us time to do laundry and rest before we head back to work. We were still able to do what we wanted. It would all work out. Then, when I called to cancel that last night at the resort and take off another two days of tickets we would no longer need, I saved another $400. So, as you can see, it all came out in the wash as far as that is concerned.
Life has a way of doing that. Southwest still flys free bags!! That is also a plus!! We still think that they beat any other airline and take them whenever we can. I hope everything works out for you guys!!
Life has a way of doing that. Southwest still flys free bags!! That is also a plus!! We still think that they beat any other airline and take them whenever we can. I hope everything works out for you guys!!
Tara
We do like that Southwest has free bags. That helps a bunch! Everything will work out. One way or another. I will tell you this. It has opened my husband's eyes to the planning of all of this. That was one crazy morning!
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You are going at an awesome time of the year AND saving money!!! 
Your trip sounds wonderful so far!! 
Previous trips: POFQ 2005 & 2007, Boardwalk 2008, BCV & AKLV 2009 (our honeymoon) & 2012, BCV & BLT 2011, BCV 2013, AKLV 2014
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