alanandline
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2019
So we all know Disney has made a free dinning offer to the U.K. market now for many years. It is for bookings made the year before travel.
Disney do this to encourage us to book. They know we tend to stay for longer than their average guest and I understand the average spend per U.K. guest is higher too.
In recent years they have stopped giving us a room discount with the free dining offer.
Before today if we had wished to postpone our 2020 booking to next year they have been allowing the change to take place before final payment (about 2 months before start of stay) without charge. But this is not offering much as the deposit is just £50 per person. But the real kick in the teeth is you lose the free dining.
Many report that they are told if an offer is made later they can add it on ‘subject to availability’ and subject to an amendment fee, which I think might be £150. This is however not quoted in writing anywhere as being the case. In the past some have been able to make such changes and others made to cancel and rebook.
My holiday was something like £7,300 (about $10,000) so it is certainly not cheap. We are booked for 2nd half of August for a family of 4 and paid to upgrade our quick serve to regular dining plan at POFQ, staying for 17 nights. So the the increased cost of having to pay for dining is £4,150. THIS IS AN INCREASE OF SOME 57%. This of course now in effect applies to this years booking too.
of course we still do not even know if we will be allowed to travel to the US this August. Personally I’ve already decided this August is too soon to be sitting in a plane for 9 hours. Our airline Lufthansa will let us use our £3k for another flight next year.
So now is the time for Disney to do the right thing for all the existing clients. These sums of money are way above what I normally pay for an annual holiday. It takes years of saving to be able to afford a holiday to Disney.
What are your thoughts.
Disney do this to encourage us to book. They know we tend to stay for longer than their average guest and I understand the average spend per U.K. guest is higher too.
In recent years they have stopped giving us a room discount with the free dining offer.
Before today if we had wished to postpone our 2020 booking to next year they have been allowing the change to take place before final payment (about 2 months before start of stay) without charge. But this is not offering much as the deposit is just £50 per person. But the real kick in the teeth is you lose the free dining.
Many report that they are told if an offer is made later they can add it on ‘subject to availability’ and subject to an amendment fee, which I think might be £150. This is however not quoted in writing anywhere as being the case. In the past some have been able to make such changes and others made to cancel and rebook.
My holiday was something like £7,300 (about $10,000) so it is certainly not cheap. We are booked for 2nd half of August for a family of 4 and paid to upgrade our quick serve to regular dining plan at POFQ, staying for 17 nights. So the the increased cost of having to pay for dining is £4,150. THIS IS AN INCREASE OF SOME 57%. This of course now in effect applies to this years booking too.
of course we still do not even know if we will be allowed to travel to the US this August. Personally I’ve already decided this August is too soon to be sitting in a plane for 9 hours. Our airline Lufthansa will let us use our £3k for another flight next year.
So now is the time for Disney to do the right thing for all the existing clients. These sums of money are way above what I normally pay for an annual holiday. It takes years of saving to be able to afford a holiday to Disney.
What are your thoughts.