Disney area villas

[caroline]

It depends what time of the year you are travelling and who you are flying with.

[florida4sun]

You can always find 'cheaper' but is that what you really want for your long earned vacation. For me I would sooner spend a little more and garantee first class accommodation. I used to work in the 'allocate on arrival' system. Generally these will be homes that have not been rented out already or new builds, as with any allocate on arrival it can be hit and miss. You are simply acting as a gap filler for the agents.
You could end up with very basic accommodation or a palace on a building site. There will be a reason why the home is empty for last minute allocation.
Does the car hire include all insurances or will be be hit for more when collecting, a lot of 'free' car hire deals often end up with insurance costing more that renting direct from the likes of uscarhire.co.uk.


<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Frankh19
Thanks for all the advice, it looks like I have booked an allocation on arrival, which is controlled through Welcome USA ( if that needs to be edited then apologies).

I will however, remember to book through an onwer next time, but £3,900 for 5 people in a 4-bedroomed villa with 7-seater minivan and 16 nights stay, I thought was too good to miss.

Can it be done cheaper than this?

Frank
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[thornton]

Frank, I know that our MC deals with the company you are flying with and the homes that they have will be of a good quality although most of them will be fairly basic but you may be lucky and get one of the better equipped ones.

When are you travelling,unless you travelling high season I would have thought you could certainly have done it cheaper with a DIY booking. Check that your car hire is an all inclusive deal because you may be stung for extra when you arrive. If this is the case it often works out cheaper to arrange your own car hire through this site, which is an all inclusive rate and forget about the one you have already paid for.

[Frankh19]

I will be travelling from 18th July 08 for 16 nights. The costs of flights alone with the same company was £3,600, the villa/ flights and car package was only another £300 so I went with this.

Interesting point is that two other high street travel agents were wanting approx £5,500 for a similar hoiday.

I do wish I had found this forum beforehand but now that I have I am certain I will use it in future for booking hols to Florida.

There was no option available to leave the car hire out of the holiday as it came with the package, the insurance cover is as below:

Car hire for the duration of your stay
Unlimited mileage
LDW (Loss Damage Waiver)
SLI (Supplemental Liability Insurance)
UMP (Uninsured / Underinsured Motorist Protection)
Taxes & fees
CFC (Customer Facility Charge) & HSF (Homeland Security Fee)

The rental is with Dollar.

[ali-uk]

Hi Frank

We did disney area villas allocation on arrival last year with a well know tour company and we dropped lucky it was lovely. Saying that my next trip in 2009 i will be booking from here, like you i only found this web site after i had booked my holiday[msnsmile].
You will enjoy it.
Ali