peanutgirl
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- Jul 16, 2004
Got my email. We are booked for Christmas and now have no free dining. We will be cancelling!!
Got our email last night, just after 9pm eastern, for our Sept 27th trip. We had the recovery (COVID) free dining package at Pop. Instead of the free dining, 35% room discount will automatically be applied, which works out to be just over $500 for our stay. I'm good with that bc we never do the dining plan anyways since we don't eat enough to get the full value. The room discount will pay for most, if not all, of our food. Now we just need the border to open up!
I was just hoping they allowed me to push my reservation to say october 2021 and keep free dining. Too many unknowns I guess. I suspect we will be cancelling our December trip
Yes, Im in the same boat, would rather not pay exchange again and hope to just transfer/modify to next year, but when I click change/modify it just reloads as of now.I have not received an email. Just went onto MDE. Our free dining bounceback has been changed to Recovery20. I was almost paid in full, so there is now no remaining balance stated on MDE. I was hoping to reschedule for next year and transfer the $ to the new reservation. I guess I'll have to see what options are available. I don't want to have the money returned to my credit card because of the exchange rate fees. I was expecting to pay the fees when I purchased. What I wasn't expecting was possibly having to pay exchange rates on the cancellation refund and then pay again on a new reservation. As for ADRs, all have been cancelled except for HS and EP restaurants so far.
Where are you staying? If you’re at a deluxe, the 35% off over Christmas is awesome! It can even be a decent deal at the values and moderates this time of year, considering rack rate run between about $300- $500.Got my email. We are booked for Christmas and now have no free dining. We will be cancelling!!
I think that's going to depend on the makeup of the party. Even if the room was $500, 35% off of 500 is a savings of $175 a night. Free dining, even if it's only the QS, is $55 per person, per night. For my family of 4, that's $220 per night. Now, our original reservation had a rack rate of something like 269 a night. To make up for the same discount as the free dining, we'd have needed to get 81.78% off the room.Where are you staying? If you’re at a deluxe, the 35% off over Christmas is awesome! It can even be a decent deal at the values and moderates this time of year, considering rack rate run between about $300- $500.