wdwmom0f3
Disney Bound!
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2008
There was free dining offered 9/27/09-12/17/09 according to Mousesavers historical discounts page. It was first able to be booked 7/24 for Disney visa cardholders and 7/27 for the general public. That is kind of what I was wondering about too. Free dining may sway me back to property. The end of July is way too late for me to be booking something comfortably for Thanksgiving week. I like to have things set way ahead of time
What to do..What to do!!!
Thank you so much for posting those dates. We went in Sept with free dining and I remember having it booked for a while and then they added Oct - Dec. We just kept our trip for Sept. I do have a Disney Visa, for this reason only and I am hoping that they offer it again for Dec. I have been talking to DH about all of this tonight and I think that I am going to go ahead and book it with Disney and wait & see what happens. If they do not offer free dining, DH wants to stay at BC. He thinks that it would be better all around, but he is cheap too and if I can save with free dining, we will have to go that way.
So, what are you doing? Are you booking BC first? I am nervous because the chance of them offering free dining for next Dec are slim. I think that they will offer it for Sept again though.
Who did you book through for your trip?
He just sent an email so I got the information. He seems really nice. He said that I should be ok to wait until June to book it but I think I may just go ahead and do it soon to make sure. If I need to cancel for some reason it's only 129.00 so that's not bad. I'm really getting excited about it. Thank you so much for starting this thread!!
My godfather got involved with BC 5 years ago and purchased from the developer. He paid close to $50,000. Cdn. for around 350,000 points. For the past few years we have been tracking the price on ebay and b/c of the economy it went down considerable last year. We purchased on ebay last spring for 346,000 for $2,300 plus closing costs. We were not going to purchase for another year or so, but in the past couple of months there has been more rallying at the end of ebay sales which is starting to drive up the prices again. (the economy is strengthening??) So... we canceled our upcoming trip and for $910 we bought 154,000 points which brings us up to an even 500,000 points. Cost per night works out to $109 for a 1 bedroom and if we go with somebody else for a 2 bedroom it works out to be about $179.00 per night- or $89 per couple. Now, people like Ken Price probably bought some points directly from the resort and gets extra perks (less points) but for us we are are happy to pay less on our overall fee. I have worked it through and I do not think that we can travel any cheaper during prime time/red season unless we do it this way. Or... we bid on rooms and don't know where we'll be- but when I take a vacation, I want someplace nice. Bonnet Creek works for us! With our points this summer we are planning to go to Williamsberg Virginia, and then possibly (if I can convince DH) to drive down to do the free dining afterwards. 
We would stay at Bonnet Creek, but will be back next Christmas to stay there. But we'll just have to wait and see. But whatever you do- DON'T BUY FROM THE DEVELOPER!!!!! 
