ArwenMarie
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2013
Since everyone else is speculating on this, my thought is they may extend to Good Neighbor Hotels but only if you book through Disney Travel. Although you can still presently book these hotels that way, most people are only booking Disney resorts through Disney with the advent of easy internet booking through third party sites and directly through the hotels. Back in the day, Disney Travel Company used to book quite a few rooms at DGN hotels, this would be a good way to drive that business back to them and collect commisions; also would offer an alternative for them to sell if a particular class of onsite resorts is sold out for certain dates and the traveler isn't flexible when it comes to dates.
I agree. I think this is a travel agency deal. I think it's easy to forget that Disney is also in the travel agency business. So they load whatever hotels into MDE, people book them, get the 60 day window, and they get cut a generous commission.