Melmarie622
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2005
So, we currently have a reservation in a 1 bedroom at AKL sept 19-27th. We are meeting my adult son and his family there. Were flying in from Ohio they are driving in from GA. I also made a 1 night reservation at the Poly for just my husband and I on Sept 23rd. We were just planning on heading over there in the afternoon using the pool and spending the night there, for a couple of reasons, I have always wanted to stay at the Polynesian but being DVC it just never was convenient for us and we wanted to get away for the night alone.... So the problem is that member services said I can not have 2 separate reservations in my name for the same evening or 1 might get cancelled. So this is what was offered.
Solution 1 from her was to take my husband off the Akl reservation and just have him on the one night at the poly. Problem with that is that we need ME and he wouldn't be able to get it with him not being on the reservation.
Solution 2 was to make 4 separate reservations with all of us at AKL for the first 4 nights, just the kids at Akl on the 23rd, us at poly the 23rd, then all of us the 23rd thru the 27th at Akl. Which is a definite no, because "we could have to switch rooms at akl 3 times", and with them having a 1 year old that naps in the afternoon we don't want to take a chance on not having a room in the afternoon, and that would just be horrible!
Solution 3 (which is what we did) was to put only my son on the poly reservation. But now that Im getting ready to make fastpass selections I realized that we can not make them for him because hes not currently on the reservation that starts on the 19th.
Has anyone else ever had a situation like this? It got me thinking why couldn't I just put a different name on the Poly reservation ( I would use another adult family member who is not coming) and do on line check in and go direct to the room, or if I put the reservation under a different name at the poly we could check in at AKL then the night before change the name on the reservation to me. What do you think? Thanks!
Solution 1 from her was to take my husband off the Akl reservation and just have him on the one night at the poly. Problem with that is that we need ME and he wouldn't be able to get it with him not being on the reservation.
Solution 2 was to make 4 separate reservations with all of us at AKL for the first 4 nights, just the kids at Akl on the 23rd, us at poly the 23rd, then all of us the 23rd thru the 27th at Akl. Which is a definite no, because "we could have to switch rooms at akl 3 times", and with them having a 1 year old that naps in the afternoon we don't want to take a chance on not having a room in the afternoon, and that would just be horrible!
Solution 3 (which is what we did) was to put only my son on the poly reservation. But now that Im getting ready to make fastpass selections I realized that we can not make them for him because hes not currently on the reservation that starts on the 19th.
Has anyone else ever had a situation like this? It got me thinking why couldn't I just put a different name on the Poly reservation ( I would use another adult family member who is not coming) and do on line check in and go direct to the room, or if I put the reservation under a different name at the poly we could check in at AKL then the night before change the name on the reservation to me. What do you think? Thanks!