Holy moly, do I ever need a drink! I’ve had an excessively stressful day, thankfully with a good ending.
So, DH and I had a great bounceback rate booked for a YC std rm, September 2 to 6. It was going to be my first ever “go at a slower time” trip, since we’ve always only been able to go on holidays and peak travel times. I was very excited.
Then came today’s Galaxy’s Edge announcement. Ack! As soon as I read the initial tweets, I called DH to see if he wanted to upgrade to club level to take advance of the paid FPs and early booking for the new land. He agreed, so I snuck a call in over my lunch hour. I told the Reservations CM my plan, and she agreed that was a great idea and started to check rates.
Nothing available in club level at any deluxe on any discount. And rack rate at YC was going to run 2.5 times our original cost. Ouch. The cheapest rack rate club room at a deluxe still came in at double the cost.
Then the CM suggested the new tower at Coronado Springs. Nothing on a discount, but the rack rate for a club room came in at about $120 a night more. Ok, that’s doable, so I switched.
Then I came home, and read the full announcements and articles from later in the day. No FPs!! What?! So I left my beloved YC/BC for nothing? And I’m paying more for the privilege?
So I called back. DH was not optimistic, but I was determined. If the lunchtime CM had said even once that there were no FPs for the new land, I wouldn’t have switched. We were only doing it to gain slightly fewer headaches accessing the Star Wars stuff.
Nothing available. The original room was gone. I asked if she could talk to a manager, since it had only been a few hours and I had been given bad info from the first CM. (Yeah, my own fault, trusting a phone CM’s info.) Cue the extended hold time. About 15 minutes passed, and she returned to tell me the supervisor had restored my original reservation. Victory!
So, no change is needed to the Be Our Guest list...but it came darn close. And wow, do I ever need Captain Jack to bring me some Sunken Treasures at a SAB cabana...stat! Ninjamom, can you spare him for a bit?