I know what you mean. People get all excited about free dining, but it wouldn't look like a good deal to me whatsoever. Less than half price tickets and 30-40% off your room stay kind of make free dining pale in comparison. I can't see paying $1000 for tickets for the three of us for tickets that I paid $495 for previously. With no military ticket offer, we'll move on from Disney.
Free dining has never made since for us at all and we hardly ever get the
DDP anymore anyway, we did in January, but it made since with the places we were eating.
The
ticket prices is what keeps us going back. We might get AP's for next year, we should have gotten them in January, but didn't think we were going as many times this year as we have, you know hind sight. I know we will probably be going at least 2 or 3 times next year, but the AP room rates aren't as good as the Military rates.
I am so addicted to Disney, I don't know how I will move on, but I might have to. We want to go to US and IOA once, but the prices haven't been right there.
I understand that General Public ticket prices have indeed raised since the promotion has started. I wouldn't mind them going up a bit on the promo price since it saved so much money. I would however prefer the room discount to stay because it's been higher than the AP discount (parents have AP's) and the General Public discounts.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind them going up a little bit, but hey still need to have some kind of promotion. I mean we have taken so many more trips with these $138 tickets than we would ever have taken otherwise, I would think Disney woiuld realize that, more trips means more money, even with the discount. Food and merchandise is discounted and we buy alot of that stuff.
As I said above, we may consider getting AP's for Christmas to use next year. The AP rate has been less than the Military rate, closer to the GP discount, it used to be the best discount out there, when we had AP's.
He doesn't exactly say that there won't be any more $138 tickets; he says this promotion, which was the 2 year, 12 ticket promo is going away. But that's a good thing for those of us who have already used our 12 tickets! With the increase in tickets, I'd expect a new deal would be slightly more expensive. Of course, they might cut the deal altogether. We have APs, so it doesn't affect us directly, but it DOES affect the people we often take with us.
We are about to use the last 2 of our 12 over Labor Day weekend, really need something for next year, I want to go back in February, June, and late Sept or Oct. We have stayed away from AP's because the AFS tickets were so reasonable.
I expect that if there wil be a deal, it will be last minute, who knows.