Booking two weeks at seven months

quandrea · Apr 25, 2015

Travelling two weeks in January. Currently booked at home resort. Can I transfer to a non home resort at the seven month mark for the whole two weeks or do I have to call and add a day for every night after the first seven days?

drusba · Apr 25, 2015

Assuming there is an opening where you want to stay at 7 months out, you will only be able to change the first seven nights at that time (MS would cancel your first 7 nights and reserve the other resort for those). You would then need to change daily for each night or on some schedule less recent than daily that does multiple new nights.

n2mm · Apr 25, 2015

quandrea said:
Travelling two weeks in January. Currently booked at home resort. Can I transfer to a non home resort at the seven month mark for the whole two weeks or do I have to call and add a day for every night after the first seven days?

Yes, that is how you do it. I do this for my spring trip each year. Every morning you need to be on the phone at exactly 9:00 am. It's stressful because you could hit a night not available. Good luck.

quandrea · Apr 25, 2015

Given that I may not be able to stomach it. If I hit a night not available that would mean a,split stay which I hate. Maybe I will just wait the two weeks and then try to switch. Probably won't work but worth a try.

quandrea · Apr 25, 2015

n2mm said:
Yes, that is how you do it. I do this for my spring trip each year. Every morning you need to be on the phone at exactly 9:00 am. It's stressful because you could hit a night not available. Good luck.

That's an impressive ticker. You have more trips than us and I thought we visited often. Nicely done!

n2mm · Apr 26, 2015

quandrea said:
That's an impressive ticker. You have more trips than us and I thought we visited often. Nicely done!

Thanks!

Dean · Apr 26, 2015

quandrea said:
Travelling two weeks in January. Currently booked at home resort. Can I transfer to a non home resort at the seven month mark for the whole two weeks or do I have to call and add a day for every night after the first seven days?

IMO it depends on the resorts. We're generally averse to splt stays but a full week isn't too bad. I'm assuming you're home resort isn't SSR or OKW and you don't have enough points to hold the current 2 weeks AND reserve the new resort for the first week. IF your 2 week stay is one reservaton, I'd go ahead and have MS split it into two full week reservations. Then change week one if available, then do the same for week 2 when the time comes. IF you have a few extra points to add to the first week 7 month reservation, I'd add as many days as you can at 7 months plus a week out for those days. Once you get any extra days, you could then cancel those days in the home resort reservation and use those points to reserve further days in the 7 month reservation. If you end up with days you couldn't get AND you have enough points to reserve any of those days, waitlist in single or very small groups. And depending on the resort you want, it may be limited risk to go all in with the new resort.

quandrea · Apr 26, 2015

Dean said:
IMO it depends on the resorts. We're generally averse to splt stays but a full week isn't too bad. I'm assuming you're home resort isn't SSR or OKW and you don't have enough points to hold the current 2 weeks AND reserve the new resort for the first week. IF your 2 week stay is one reservaton, I'd go ahead and have MS split it into two full week reservations. Then change week one if available, then do the same for week 2 when the time comes. IF you have a few extra points to add to the first week 7 month reservation, I'd add as many days as you can at 7 months plus a week out for those days. Once you get any extra days, you could then cancel those days in the home resort reservation and use those points to reserve further days in the 7 month reservation. If you end up with days you couldn't get AND you have enough points to reserve any of those days, waitlist in single or very small groups. And depending on the resort you want, it may be limited risk to go all in with the new resort.

I do have enough points to book the first week at the new resort at the seven month mark. So am I correct when I understand you to mean I book the first week at the new resort, then cancel my first week at AKL? Then I use points to add at the new resort day by day as much as I can? Once I've done that, cancel week 2 at AKL? Sorry is I seem thick but the whole thing makes my head want to explode.

Dean · Apr 26, 2015

quandrea said:
I do have enough points to book the first week at the new resort at the seven month mark. So am I correct when I understand you to mean I book the first week at the new resort, then cancel my first week at AKL? Then I use points to add at the new resort day by day as much as I can? Once I've done that, cancel week 2 at AKL? Sorry is I seem thick but the whole thing makes my head want to explode.

That's basically the suggestion realizing there are several variations. In taking this approach you still would be better off committing to one resort change just in case you don't get everything but worst case scenario is you try to get the second week at 7 months out and you cancel the first and wait list the second week. AKV is fairly easy to reserve assuming it's not value or concierge so canceling while attempting to reserve isn't as risky there as it is some other places. Since you have enough points to hold 3 weeks total, you're way ahead of most and can limit your risk and maximize your chances of getting what you want. Personally, I'd book at 8 AM 7 months out for 7 nights at your desired resort then have MS adjust your current 11 month reservation accordingly then use the points now available to add day by day to your 7 month reservation. If necessary, you could hold your entire second week until you get everything OR you could cancel all or a portion later. Then at the end ask MS to reallocate to use any banked or borrowed points first in the new reservation if necessary. if there are any days you can't get, just wait list those days one or 2 nights at a time depending on what you end up needing.

quandrea · Apr 26, 2015

Thanks Dean. I think up get it. Fingers crossed. We love Animal Kingdom, just feel like a little change.

DebbieB · Apr 26, 2015

Where do you want to switch to? One good thing is you can check the availability tool when the time comes.

quandrea · Apr 27, 2015

We are flexible--wilderness lodge, BLT, BCV.

bellablue2 · Apr 27, 2015

i did a few simple walks for oct and nov at seven months...to poly. once i had the seven nights in, i would call only a time or two more to extend. no one can take your first seven days.

quandrea · Apr 27, 2015

bellablue2 said:
i did a few simple walks for oct and nov at seven months...to poly. once i had the seven nights in, i would call only a time or two more to extend. no one can take your first seven days.

So Do I have this right?. Book January 18-25 at seven months. Then call a few days later to add nights of say, January 25, 26, 27 (would do this June 27). Call again July 1 for January 28, 29, 30 and 31.

Dean · Apr 27, 2015

quandrea said:
So Do I have this right?. Book January 18-25 at seven months. Then call a few days later to add nights of say, January 25, 26, 27 (would do this June 27). Call again July 1 for January 28, 29, 30 and 31.

Any of those should be workable as long as you're not trying for the cheaper views or specialty rooms. For a full 2 weeks, I llikely would do a split stay, esp for places you havesn't stayed before. That plan would work for the same resort but doing it day by day improves your chances.

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