Which is the better deal?

[AbsoluteDisney]

Crunching some numbers and wanted some opinions on which Disney deal gives you the best value for money for 2 adults and one 10/11 year old.

Last April when the dining plan deal launched we booked with Virgin to go to Wilderness Lodge on the 2nd September this year for 2 weeks with car hire with tickets for Disney and universal (incl a day at epic) which all in cost just shy of £12k
Unfortunately, we’ve had to cancel due to ill health.

All things being well we’re definitely going back when I’m better. Out of curiosity I’ve just been pricing up the holiday now using the 4 nights free offer that’s currently running and for a fortnight at the Boardwalk villas (minus the car hire) flying air lingus is nearly £2500 cheaper.

So am I better holding off and booking the year I’m going?

[sha9]

If you want to stay at one of the expensive deluxe resorts and there’s only two of you in the room you might find free nights a better deal. The issue is that they tend to offer one free night at some resorts and two at others and there’s not really any way to know which ones it’ll be. It’s also not great if you want to go for any length of stay that isn’t 7 or 14 nights. For example we’re 9 nights so free nights is not really a good deal for us. We’d get one or two free nights regardless of whether we stayed 7, 9 or 13 nights whereas free dining is per night.

[m2k00]

I am stopping at POFQ for 9 nights in Aug and original booked with the free quick serve plan and £200 off deal they did last year. I changed it to the free nights offer and 20% off park tickets deal (cancelled with Disney direct and rebooked with attraction tickets) accounting for the £50 lost deposit the new booking was £830 less. I am the only person in the room so completely made sense for me to change and I think will prefer not to have the dinning plan as more flexible, I have set a budget for food and drink and will treat like the dinning credit had last time. (quick serve dinning plan is I think £440 for the 9 nights). If two in the room or more which in most peoples cases will be a then generally in most cases free dinning likely to be the better deal

[AbsoluteDisney]

Thank you both!
I suppose it’s putting together a pros and cons list for both sides
Because although the price may be cheaper now is the over all holiday going to cost more when you factor in food and spending?

But then if we’re splitting our time between Disney and universal and want to eat some where other than Disney am I going to end up paying twice?

These free nights are very tempting though!
It was the same this time last year, if you want to book the same year as you travel there’s some much more variety of accommodation available.
All the DVC resorts and rooms are available and at pretty reasonable prices!
Aside from animal kingdom lodge, when I filtered the prices the boardwalk studio villas were the cheapest deluxe rooms, when normally the boardwalk is one of the most expensive! I’m assuming that’s more to do with room availability! Anyway I’m rambling!
Thanks for the advise 😊