Some Information about Disney and Our Upcoming Disneyland Group Trips

I’ve had a few comments and emails this past week from those of you who have booked one of the Disney Hotels for our Group trip.  And I wanted to reach out to all of you and let you know what has been going on behind the scenes.

With Disney’s 60th Celebration, this entire year has been different than the past two years we have done the discounted group trip.  First, Disney knew this year would be huge for them and weren’t as flexible with group rates as they have been and regularly are.  They expect to sell out every room during this 60th Diamond Celebration.  However, Get Away Today worked their magic and STILL was able to get us a much lower rate than any of the Disney Properties were advertising when we first announced our dates and prices for our group trip back in February. 

Fast forward to last week, July 17th, the actual day of Disneyland’s 60th Celebration. As a nice little surprise, Disneyland dropped rates on their Disney Hotels as a promotion and didn’t really give us or Get Away Today any notice on that.  All we know is that they did drop rates for a select number of rooms at each of their 3 resorts. 

The good news is that our prices from Get Away Today for our group trip are STILL lower than Disney’s prices—even with that price drop!  However, the bad news is that it isn’t as big of a difference as we originally negotiated with Disney back in February.  

So I wanted to let you all know a few things:

• Disney only has a handful of hotel rooms marked down at each of their resorts. We have been able to confirm that with them. (Those are the prices that some of you were concerned about.)  However, once those few discounted rooms are booked, their prices will jump back up. All the while, Get Away Today has promised that our group trip for this year will ALWAYS be lower than what Disneyland promotes for our same 4 Night Vacation and 3-Day Park Hopper–no matter what Disneyland decides to do. They stand behind their Price Match Guarantee with our group trip and whatever happens rate wise with this year’s 60th Anniversary Celebration. 
• I know some of you were concerned with the fact that you didn’t feel like you saved as much as you thought you did. It is always my #1 concern to make sure we all get the best deal when it comes to doing these Discounted Group Trips.  Or there really isn’t a point in doing them, right??  So although we temporarily have a closer price gap than we originally negotiated with Disney, our trip will always be cheaper. And I wouldn’t be surprised at all if within the next few weeks we see that our gap between our trip and Disney’s prices are even larger than we originally started with. 
• If you booked before our first deadline back on February 28th, Get Away Today also is sending you a $50 Disney Gift Card.  And for those of you who used it, Get Away Today also let us use their Layaway Plan for free!  (Typically a $50 cost for other customers). That’s another thing that Disney doesn’t let you do and makes you pay the entire trip up front. So on top of the discount between our group prices and Disney’s prices, a lot of you might have an extra $90 in savings.  

I hope that helps explain what has been going on over here and with Disney.  When Disney dropped prices, I was literally freaking out because it did affect how big our “discount” was for the Disney Hotels and it was totally unforeseen. That is why I felt like it was so important for you to all know what was going on behind the scenes and hopefully set your mind at ease! Thank you so much for being patient with me as I did a ton of research and figured out what was going on!

If you have any additional questions, please comment and let me know.  I will also make sure Get Away Today is following up and answering questions on this post as well. I want all of you to feel confident and get excited about your upcoming trip!