We love to travel but we are not major planners. We rarely plan our Disney World trips more than 3 months in advance and rarely plan other trips any farther out than that. We might know when and where we want to go but don't usually make all of the plans far in advance.
The only exception is when we're attending a specific event like a convention or something like that.
Disney World's 50th anniversary is October 1, 2021. Disney opens room-only bookings 499 days in advance, which was just a couple of days ago. I hadn't made note of the booking date but fortunately a friend posted on Facebook this morning that he made his reservation. I immediately e-mailed our travel agent to book us a room. I'm waiting to hear back. It will be stupidly expensive but we've said for years that we want to be there for the anniversary and stay at the Contemporary hotel so that we can walk in to the park and not have to deal with any transportation. Hopefully it hasn't already sold out.
Booking a trip for October 2021
May 21st, 2020 at 07:50 pm
May 21st, 2020 at 11:55 pm 1590101721
May 22nd, 2020 at 04:15 pm 1590160548
My travel agent got back to me this morning. The 4 night stay will be just over $2,800. Like I said, stupidly expensive, but a once in a lifetime opportunity. I already know a number of friends who will be there as well and I'm quite sure that list will grow as the time gets closer.