[krafty]

Back in June my wife and I booked a 7-night stay at OKW for Dec. 13-20 of this year. We were just getting the Dream Maker package, so when Disney announced the Winter Dream Maker package, I didn't think there would be much savings in it for me.

Today I stopped by the travel agent (yeah, I'm old fashioned. I like to sit face to face with someone when booking my vacations) just to see if the package was still available and how much it could save me. I was expecting less than a hundred bucks.

The info I gathered from my agent was that the only resort left available for re-booking was OKW, which was good. She then got the new figure and had a bit of a surprised look on her face. After she finished re-booking the trip and said goodbye to the Disney person ;phone: , she told me... We saved $906 on our package by switching! :wow: Is that cool or what? :)

[jessie]

WOW that is great news!!! I would be very excited too. Now you have extra money to spend.
Have fun.
Jess

[mickaholic4077]

Just think of how many more souvenirs you can buy!!!!!!

[alextina]

Watch out Downtown Disney here comes krafty!!!:laugh

That is awesome. Sounds like you will be having a disney/holiday shopping spree!!:) :p :)

[Dana]

Krafty -

What a wonderful surprise for you. I also took advantage of the "Winter PAckage". I had intentions of going next October and started researching prices. I do this on Disney's site by plugging in every place I want to stay and trying different weeks to see if the amount differ. I finally decided to hit in my daughter's birthday which is 2/8 and see what that rate was. I actually thought that I didn't include her in the rate that's how cheap it was. Then I went a step further and tried the week before that. I was actually stunned at the amount. It was almost half the rate that I came up with for October. I ended up getting AKL , 4 nights 5days, airfare and the whole shabang for just over $1,300. I was so impressed with this deal that I immediately booked on Monday and put a deposit down in fear of losing the price. I don't think I will ever go at a different time a year again. Think of all the extra money I can bring for fun. You should see the rate for the moderates and value hotels for this same week. You will sware that you made a mistake in entry. It must be a very slow time of year for them..... = few lines I hope!!! Anyhoo - congrats on your savings.

[NikkiLUVSMickey]

Dana-

How many people are in your party, and did you book through disneyworld.com? Those rates are fantastic!

That does include your park hopper, right?

[Dana]

my party consists of me and my nine year old daughter. Yes, this includes my passes. I know it honestly is the cheapest trip I ever booked. Yes, I did book through Disney CRO. I got the quotes off their site first. I was able to tell the CM exactly what I wanted and even which flight numbers. This cut my phone call down to around 10min. max. I wasn't able to book online for some reason. I am registered with Disney and have been for years. It just refused to accept my password.....oh well. Check it out, you'll be surprised.