Dissapointed with Disney's lack of flexibility.
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From: welshbelly on 25 Apr 2010 08:06 On Apr 24, 9:16 am, "theyankeesnap...(a)aol.com" <theyankeesnap...(a)aol.com> wrote: > We're planning a trip to WDW in May and I'm dissapointed with Disney's > lack of flexibility regarding late check out. The max they will > officially give you is till 1:00pm, but we're not flying out until > 9:00pm. > Some hotels will give you until 4:pm for a nominal fee, Disney wants > another day's rate. I just may move over to The Hilton or Westin. What > stories does anyone have regarding Late Check Out. > > Bob the worst trips are those i have expectations for, because my expectations are never met and i spend the whole time trying to acheive them... yes it's dissapointing, and yes they, may could be that flexabile, but every one points out that most other places wont even hold the luggage. think of the perks you have for staying on disney property, that you wont have the whole time at the westin. im sorry for the dissapointment. andy the missspeller
From: m-i-c-k-e-y on 25 Apr 2010 10:55 On Apr 24, 9:16 am, "theyankeesnap...(a)aol.com" <theyankeesnap...(a)aol.com> wrote: > We're planning a trip to WDW in May and I'm dissapointed with Disney's > lack of flexibility regarding late check out. The max they will > officially give you is till 1:00pm, but we're not flying out until > 9:00pm. > Some hotels will give you until 4:pm for a nominal fee, Disney wants > another day's rate. I just may move over to The Hilton or Westin. What > stories does anyone have regarding Late Check Out. > > Bob Other hotels have the option to give you a late check out because they don't run the occupancy rates that Disney runs. Disney rooms are typically booked at least 90% full, sometimes sold out during Easter/ Christmas time. They just don't have the number of rooms to be able to accommodate the numbers of late check outs and still get all the new check ins a room at a decent time. Could you imagine the number of people who would want to keep their room just because they are flying out later in the day? It just would not be feasible. During the slow times of the year, I'm sure they might have the rooms, but consistently, they would not. And if they consistently can not do it, then it would lead to a bad guest experience.
From: Rudeney on 26 Apr 2010 14:01 m-i-c-k-e-y wrote: > > Other hotels have the option to give you a late check out because they > don't run the occupancy rates that Disney runs. Disney rooms are > typically booked at least 90% full, sometimes sold out during Easter/ > Christmas time. They just don't have the number of rooms to be able > to accommodate the numbers of late check outs and still get all the > new check ins a room at a decent time. Could you imagine the number > of people who would want to keep their room just because they are > flying out later in the day? It just would not be feasible. During > the slow times of the year, I'm sure they might have the rooms, but > consistently, they would not. And if they consistently can not do it, > then it would lead to a bad guest experience. That's a good point, about Disney hotel occupancy rates. Still, the number of people needing to stay late is probably far less than 50%. For people flying out, and especially those using ME, they would need to leave about three hours before their flight's schedule departure. Since normal checkout is 11:00am, this means that only those on flights later than 2:00pm would request late checkout. In my experience, I've always been able to get checkout extended to at least noon, and most of the time 1:00pm. So that means only guests with flight times after 4:00pm would need a later checkout time. What percentage of departing flight leave after 4:00pm from MCO? My guess is that it's much less than 50%, and in fact probably more like 20%. So, it's a small number of people asking for really late checkout times. If the room was not being scheduled for another guest that evening, then it should be no problem for the hotel to allow it, but it may not be something they know until the night before. I say if it works out, let the guest stay, if not, then too bad. Now, I have actually rented a hotel room for an entire extra night and checked out in the evening. Once I was flying out of Las Vegas on a red eye and I didn't want to be "stranded" without a room that evening, so I booked an extra night, knowing I'd checkout around 9:00pm. I paid for the extra full night, even though I only "used" abut 10 hours of it. That was worth it to me (actually to my company). Another time I've seen this sort of thing was in ports of call for cruise ships. We actually considered this at The Atlantis resort in Nassau so we could use their recreation facilities. We ended up not doing it, and I'm glad we didn't; the weather was not so great that day so it would have been somewhat of a waste of money. -- - RODNEY Next WDW Vacation? Who knows! Need to know more about RADP (rec.arts.disney.parks)? http://www.radp.org http://allears.net/btp/radp_bk.htm http://allears.net/tp/abrev.htm
From: Paul Lalli on 26 Apr 2010 14:14 On Apr 26, 2:01 pm, Rudeney <rude...(a)mickeypics.com> wrote: > So that means only guests with flight times after 4:00pm > would need a later checkout time. What percentage of departing flight > leave after 4:00pm from MCO? My guess is that it's much less than 50%, > and in fact probably more like 20%. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never - not once - booked an outgoing flight from Orlando for earlier than 7pm. Why on earth would you want to cut short the time you have in WDW and go back to the real world any earlier than you have to? Paul Lalli
From: Patty Winter on 26 Apr 2010 14:25
In article <9704c80b-2e2f-44e3-95d3-172fc633d4f6(a)j15g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >I don't know about anyone else, but I've never - not once - booked an >outgoing flight from Orlando for earlier than 7pm. Why on earth would >you want to cut short the time you have in WDW and go back to the real >world any earlier than you have to? I don't know where you live, but if I left MCO at 7:00 p.m., I wouldn't be walking through my front door until around dawn. In fact, probably later, because SJC is closed until 6:00 in the morning, so I'd have to take a flight that lands after that. People who live only a couple hours' flight time from Orlando could certainly stay later in the day. When I visit Disneyland, I usually leave mid/late afternoon to head to the airport. Patty |