Reservation Walking Poll

How Many Days Have You Walked a Reservation?

  • 5 Days or Less

    Votes: 19 16.4%

  • Between 5 and 10 Days

    Votes: 7 6.0%

  • Over 10 Days

    Votes: 10 8.6%

  • 0 Days, I Have Never Walked a Reservation

    Votes: 80 69.0%
  • Total voters
    116
wildernessDad

wildernessDad

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I was just curious. I won't place any judgement on your answers, if you answer, because walking a reservation is a valid thing to do.
 
I don't like doing it, but need to do it for a studio at BWV for one night during Food & Wine. I never would have known about "walking" if not for these boards. Imagine if EVERY DVC owner knew about "walking".
 
I put down 7 because I walked a reservation during the old days when one had to call day-by-day. I've never had the opportunity of walking a reservation under the new rules.
 
First of all, it's "poll" not "pole" ;). You can edit the subject if you want.

Yes, I have walked reservations before. Usually for AKV-Concierge over Christmas or BWV Boardwalk View over New Year's Eve. I didn't walk the BWV one this year and mom Mom died right when the 11-month window opened. I checked a few days into the window and it was sold out and *remains* sold out 4 months later. I am currently walking a Poly Lake View studio for NYE. I am aware that a Poly owner can come and take the future room from me, but I am at least in front of all the other 7-monthers.

Your poll is a bit flawed. You can only walk the reservation in no more than 7-day chunks, but you can walk those chunks as many times as you want.
 


You should probably have an option for never walking. I have never done so, and I think lots of others haven't either. Almost considered doing it this year. I have SSR and AKV. I made a reservation for Christmas break, Dec 19-24 for a 2 BR at SSR at 11mos. I was holding my breath about changing at 7 mos, but, fortunately, I was able to change at 7 mos to a 2 BR at AKV. The 2BR at Jambo was booked, but the one at Kidani was available, and we wanted Kidani. Had I waited, it would not have been available. I think I am selling the SSR points because up until this year, it was no problem to book what I wanted at AKV using SSR points at 7 mos. We haven't stayed at SSR since about 2006.
 
robinb said:
First of all, it's "poll" not "pole" ;). You can edit the subject if you want.

Yes, I have walked reservations before. Usually for AKV-Concierge over Christmas or BWV Boardwalk View over New Year's Eve. I didn't walk the BWV one this year and mom Mom died right when the 11-month window opened. I checked a few days into the window and it was sold out and *remains* sold out 4 months later. I am currently walking a Poly Lake View studio for NYE. I am aware that a Poly owner can come and take the future room from me, but I am at least in front of all the other 7-monthers.

Your poll is a bit flawed. You can only walk the reservation in no more than 7-day chunks, but you can walk those chunks as many times as you want.
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I knew it was poll. First day with my new brain.
 
delilah said:
You should probably have an option for never walking. I have never done so, and I think lots of others haven't either. Almost considered doing it this year. I have SSR and AKV. I made a reservation for Christmas break, Dec 19-24 for a 2 BR at SSR at 11mos. I was holding my breath about changing at 7 mos, but, fortunately, I was able to change at 7 mos to a 2 BR at AKV. The 2BR at Jambo was booked, but the one at Kidani was available, and we wanted Kidani. Had I waited, it would not have been available. I think I am selling the SSR points because up until this year, it was no problem to book what I wanted at AKV using SSR points at 7 mos. We haven't stayed at SSR since about 2006.
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I added the never walked choice.
 


delilah said:
You should probably have an option for never walking. I have never done so, and I think lots of others haven't either. Almost considered doing it this year. I have SSR and AKV. I made a reservation for Christmas break, Dec 19-24 for a 2 BR at SSR at 11mos. I was holding my breath about changing at 7 mos, but, fortunately, I was able to change at 7 mos to a 2 BR at AKV. The 2BR at Jambo was booked, but the one at Kidani was available, and we wanted Kidani. Had I waited, it would not have been available. I think I am selling the SSR points because up until this year, it was no problem to book what I wanted at AKV using SSR points at 7 mos. We haven't stayed at SSR since about 2006.
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If you walk a reservation for the 11-month window, you block others from booking a future room. If you walk for the 7-month window you risk an owner swooping in and grabbing your future room. So, you could have walked the reservation but an AKV owner could have come in all the way until you made your reservation and booked those rooms.

wildernessDad said:
I knew it was poll. First day with my new brain.
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Well then, you're doing great :laughing:.
 
I tried to walk once, but failed miserably. Since there are over 200,000 DVC owners, I imagine it's not a very common thing to do.
 
robinb said:
If you walk a reservation for the 11-month window, you block others from booking a future room. If you walk for the 7-month window you risk an owner swooping in and grabbing your future room. So, you could have walked the reservation but an AKV owner could have come in all the way until you made your reservation and booked those rooms.

Well then, you're doing great :laughing:.
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Hon, I do own at AK; at the time I purchased SSR, there were no other options to buy, or so I was told. It was about 3 years before there were AKV, as I recall. I own at SSR. I knew I was going to take a vacation with my family the first week of Christmas break, and I didn't want to wait until the 7 mo time to book at AKV, and risk not having a place to stay. If you check availability now, today, you will find that the 2 BR villa at SSR is still available, so, I didn't keep anybody, SSR owner or otherwise from getting the reservation. Back 7 years ago, or so, I used to be able to wait until the beginning of the school year, when the calendar was published, to make a reservation either for fall break or Christmas break. Now I must guestimate when fall break or Christmas break will be. School isn't even finished this year, and our school doesn't tell us the official calendar until the end of July for next academic year. If I hadn't used the SSR points to make our winter vacation reservation, they would have gone, POOF! into DVC point heaven. I had points on my AKV contracts that could have covered the reservation, but, I needed to use the SSR points. So, my logical brain tells me that I should consider unloading the SSR points since they aren't working out the way they used to.
 
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delilah said:
Hon, I do own at AK; at the time I purchased SSR, there were no other options to buy, or so I was told. It was about 3 years before there were AKV, as I recall. I own at SSR. I knew I was going to take a vacation with my family the first week of Christmas break, and I didn't want to wait until the 7 mo time to book at AKV, and risk not having a place to stay. If you check availability now, today, you will find that the 2 BR villa at SSR is still available, so, I didn't keep anybody, SSR owner or otherwise from getting the reservation. Back 7 years ago, or so, I used to be able to wait until the beginning of the school year, when the calendar was published, to make a reservation either for fall break or Christmas break. Now I must guestimate when fall break or Christmas break will be. School isn't even finished this year, and our school doesn't tell us the official calendar until the end of July for next academic year. If I hadn't used the SSR points to make our winter vacation reservation, they would have gone, POOF! into DVC point heaven. I had points on my AKV contracts that could have covered the reservation, but, I needed to use the SSR points. So, my logical brain tells me that I should consider unloading the SSR points since they aren't working out the way they used to.
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I don't know why I got the "Hon" designation, but that's OK. May I call you Sweetie and we'll be even?

All I was trying to say is that if you did walk your AKV reservation with SSR points it may not have worked out for you since you are not guaranteed the room in the 7-month window like you are in the 11-month window. It turned out that the room was available :cheer2:. I do think that if staying at AKV over a busy time like Christmas is a deal breaker then maybe you should sell SSR and add-on at AKV just for your own piece of mind.

ETA, guessing like that must be a huge PITB. My DD's winter break is pretty much stuck in stone from year to year.
 
Sweetie is just fine with me.
yes, the variability in winter break is pretty much a PITB. In 2016, it doesn't start until after Christmas and extends the first week of 2017. Fortunately, my son is graduating HS in 2016. So, that school is no longer going to be a consideration. He hasn't chosen a university, so don't know about their break time. One year, winter break started on Dec 22, which was a Thursday, and then restarted on Wednesday after Jan 1. My husband always has off the week between Christmas and New Years, so, I usually don't take off that week. I am a physician, and my partners like to have time off around the holidays also. We have rules about how many doctors are allowed to be off. There are 7 doctors, and 3 offices, which all need to be open. So, I usually took the days before Christmas, only. This is a good year for me, because Christmas is on Friday, so, I have a whole 5 days off before Christmas. Our family lives in Tampa, so, we are going to visit family Christmas eve and Christmas, going back home on Dec 27. We only have 3 in our family, but we are sharing the 2 BR with my husband's two cousins and their families. Yes, we all fit.
 
I don't know if this is considered walking but I typically stay Saturday or Sunday to Friday. Sometimes I will book Friday to Friday and then change my arrival date. I figure it gives me a jump on the days I want. It has always worked when I had enough points to work with.
 
DebbieB said:
I don't know if this is considered walking but I typically stay Saturday or Sunday to Friday. Sometimes I will book Friday to Friday and then change my arrival date. I figure it gives me a jump on the days I want. It has always worked when I had enough points to work with.
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Yes, that's walking, one or two days early.
 
I have not walked, I have been hurt by walking, and once what was not available at 11 months became available 3 days later, so someone was walking. My thoughts are that it should not be allowed. I hope someday, maybe by penalizing changes somehow, it is stopped.

Bobbi
 
Years ago I started a thread about how people were either walking reservations or the online reservation system wasn't really showing true availability - much like today with the Poly studios; I have a hard time believing 360 studios are booked within 30 seconds. I mentioned how I might have to do it too, but didn't want to. I remember some people accusing me of doing a "walk", but I never did. I know it's perfectly legal, but I really do wish they would end it. Especially when it seems like some of the "walks" are for spec renting.
 
Nope, never walked, watched AKV concierge one year for about 6 weeks before early Dec. and never even saw a day open up to start a walk. Fortunately, concierge isn't my cup of tea.
 
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