@RoseGold told them how much passes were going to cost upfront. The selected dates together upfront. RoseGold told them to buy airfare upfront. They agreed to all of that UPFRONT.
Then, they decided MONTHS LATER that it was going to cost them too much and left RoseGold holding the bag.
In fact, I think "flake" is really too kind of a description.
I asked for clarification on the costs part and it wasn't answered yet at least.
I couldn't find a comment that the OP told them to buy the airfare immediately (they may have IRL but I couldn't find a comment that said they did). I did ask if the OP purchased the tickets and airfare for them then told them the cost because the OP said they agreed to the costs but we know those costs change.
We all know how travel goes, you decide to purchase airfare and suddenly within an hour it's a lot more expensive. How can someone agree to a cost if the cost changes at a moment's notice?
We don't know if they just decided or if things came up. It's really hard to judge someone else's financials sometimes.
At the end of the day none of us disagreed it was a good situation for the OP to be in, but why does that mean everyone has to have the worst opinions of the other party involved either? It doesn't have to be that way either.
LOL. I can call them reliably disrespectful last-minute cancelers instead of flakes, if that sounds better?
Does to me lol. I agreed with them being inconsiderate and they did last minute cancel, but their reason was understandable. People can be disrespectful, inconsiderate and still have an understandable or valid reason even if it's sickness too, especially with covid with incubation periods and all that.
My mother-in-law got covid, initially her husband tested negative but as soon as we found out we avoided both of them. About 5 days later her husband test positive. Guidance at that time was isolate for 5 days and wear a mask for 10 days later. We had to reschedule one of my sister-in-law's bday party twice because of it, first time to account for mother-in-law's isolation period and wearing a mask for 10 days and then a second time for step-father-in-law's isolation period and wearing a mask for 10 days. It ended up being like a month later we had the party. It was a last minute adjustment, had they not told us that mother-in-law had covid right when they found out it would have been inconsiderate to say the least. I'm not comparing a bday party with the investment of DVC or the downright planning regiment of a WDW trip but it was brought up by someone about covid, well even that might be an acceptable reason but it still can be last minute with inconsideration attached especially if you consider not everyone shares information on just when someone started symptoms and/or tested themselves.
I guess having had a few people be flakes including one of them my sister-in-law the DVC thing didn't strike me as a flake but none the less put you in a bad spot.