This is peculiar

[rigsby25]

I have never, since becoming a member, requested a certain type of room. My husband and I prefer to be adventureous. How do we know we won't like a particular room until we've tried it, after all. I just received my December confirmation for AKV, and it says "REQUEST VACATION HOME BY POOL". Isn't that amazing?

[Muushka]

I have never, since becoming a member, requested a certain type of room. My husband and I prefer to be adventureous. How do we know we won't like a particular room until we've tried it, after all. I just received my December confirmation for AKV, and it says "REQUEST VACATION HOME BY POOL". Isn't that amazing?

Ahhhh. Finally. The voice of reason! I hope you get a wonderful villa.:goodvibes

[disneynutz]

I have never, since becoming a member, requested a certain type of room. My husband and I prefer to be adventureous. How do we know we won't like a particular room until we've tried it, after all. I just received my December confirmation for AKV, and it says "REQUEST VACATION HOME BY POOL". Isn't that amazing?

Do you want a pool view? If not just have the request removed. We get weird request entries sometimes.

[mikron]

We get better rooms when we don't request.

[Olaf]

We get better rooms when we don't request.

I'm wondering about that. We've always gotten great rooms (without asking), but this time I'm putting in a request. We'll have to wait and see what happens.

[jarestel]

The fact that AKV has been divided into several booking categories would seem to indicate that, protestations from the DIS board not withstanding, DVC feels requests are a bigger deal to most members than we care to admit. Otherwise, why go to the bother of creating and tracking the different categories? Seems like a pain when they could simply continue on with the "requests are only requests and not guarantees" mantra with a lot less trouble and effort.

Maybe the SSR experience has influenced their thinking in this matter as far as guaranteed requests go.

[castleri]

We get better rooms when we don't request.

We have had about the same results although I do usually request upper floor and sometimes throw in near a pool. The couple of rooms that I liked the least were in fact ones that I picked when the CM gave me a choice of rooms ready when we checked in. That said there is no room at any DVC resort that I would turn down since I would be at WDW. jWho knows the room someone else hates might turn out to be my favorite.

[rigsby25]

Do you want a pool view? If not just have the request removed. We get weird request entries sometimes.

I don't know if I want a pool view or not. Again, I won't know until I've tried it. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? The 1 BR savannah views were all gone by the time I reserved but she said she did have a standard view. I asked what a standard view was, and she said pool or parking lot view. Then I asked her if she had a 1 BR at OKW, and she didn't, so I said okay I'll take the standard view.

[Disneynut71]

I always seem to get first floor rooms. Since I have a 4 year old I worry she will walk out and in the pool. I always ask for higher floor and always get first floor. I got the big sorry about that but I was still on the first floor.