ClapYourHands
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2018
In normal times, I agree with you if all resorts were open. I just don’t agree that because someone is at a closed resort in July they should have been given priority to be moved into the open rooms because parks will be open over someone in June who was at the same closed resort.
Those who have resorts booked for July have their vacations already planned. They have their PTO arranged for those dates. They have their airfare booked. They have their pet sitters lined up. The parks will be open. They shouldn't have to miss out because Disney decides to keep their resorts closed while not allowing them access to the available rooms in other resorts.
June shouldn't take precedence over July just because June comes earlier in the calendar. Know what comes every earlier? March, April, and May. By this logic, the people who had reservations in the second half of March should have first dibs on the July inventory. Instead, all reservations for the last weeks of March, all of April, and all of May were simply cancelled. Why not cancel June the same way?
I personally was booked at 3 different resorts over a 10-night span. What did Disney offer me? Nothing. Sure, there was the "free" dining recovery that would have forced me to buy tickets I didn't need (since I already had tickets from my cancelled trip), but even that was pulled before the advertised deadline to book, and then converted into 35% off room rate, but only for those who already rebooked. Despite having a valid May reservation, I now cannot book anything. I'm at the back of the line along with the general public.
I accept that I had the bad luck to have planned a vacation during a pandemic shut down. I accept that my reservations were cancelled. For those booked vacations in July, I wish them all the best. They had the foresight (or dumb luck) to book for the earliest time Disney is open, and they shouldn't miss out on that because Disney decides to sell rooms they could occupy to other people.