Got My Two January Reservations Successfully Merged

I am happy to report success on getting my two reservations for this coming January merged.

Background
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I made a Preferred reservation for the time around the Disney Marathon weekend 2017 to come in on Tuesday Jan 3 and leave Tuesday Jan 10. I made the arrival date that Tuesday because I didn't know what the rate structure would be for that prior Monday night (still expensive holiday?). My Plan B is to stay over at Lake Louisa State Park 30 minutes from Disney for $27 a night then toddle over to the Fort the next day.

After the 2017 rates were released, I saw that Monday Jan 2 was a Value night and I managed to snag another Preferred site for 1 night which left me with two back-to-back reservations for the same type of site. Disney (well documented) wouldn't let me just add a day to a reservation - I would have had to cancel the long ressie I had and take a chance on the new dates (which online showed the extra day available) but I wasn't going to trust it to work. So I made a separate one night reservation with a deposit (which means it was paid for). But that means two ressies, two sets of Magic Bands to deny, possibly having to check in a second time, blah blah blah. Wouldn't life be simpler with just one room-only reservation?

Solution
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Since my FP+ 60 day dates will be coming up in a month, it was time to try to get these two reservations merged into one. Our poster KristinU had reported success doing this so I called and asked for it too. After a little grappling with the CM on the phone to understand what I had and what I was trying to do, she put me on hold for about 10 minutes while she took my request to "Guest Services". She came back to ask if I wanted to carry the second deposit over or get it refunded (carry it over). In five minutes she was back. I kept one of the reservation numbers and the check-in and check-out dates now span the timeframe across both old reservations. All the ADR's are still there. To carry over the deposit made the process take 24 hours since Accounting has to be involved moving the deposits. If it was refunded it could have happened a little quicker.

So I'm good. Next step is to clean up the people actually on the reservation, buy tickets, and make FP+ reservations in about a month.

Bottom Line
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If you have to piece together a reservation, they CAN be merged into one reservation number if they are the same type of campsites which makes your vacation a little simpler. You don't have to live with multi-ressies if you can merge them far enough in advance.

Looking forward to January (sorta).

Bama Ed

Under things to do I did not see train for the marathon ???

PaHunter said:

Under things to do I did not see train for the marathon ???

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Different thread, Chris. We have a separate Marathon Weekend thread on the Camping Board.

But....

That's why I said "Looking forward to January (sorta)". Training to really hurt yourself merits a "sorta".

Maybe I'll make an update on the Marathon thread this weekend. We got morning temps into the 60s this week (finally).

Bama Ed

PS - I got a couple new things to do this trip (always looking for those) and a few favorites that are like an old slipper - fits me just right

Congrats on Merging the 2 ressies Why Disney has to make what should be a simple procedure a major undertaking We'll keep an eye out for you and maybe bring the Savages over for a visit

I been thinking of upgrading to premium site and adding a day since our daughter and two granddaughters will be joining us Jan 5 thru 10. Thanks for the info, good to know when I do attempt making a change.

FtW Mike said:

Why Disney has to make what should be a simple procedure a major undertaking

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I was thinking the same thing. It seems to me that as many times as I have seen this issue here on the boards, you'd think they would have a procedure to simplify this. I can certainly understand why DROPPING days would be a bigger issue for them to not want to do, but merging multiple reservations of the same type should be a simple matter (or at least you'd think it should.)

Hey Ed,
We will be there at the same time. I've got two reservations Dec. 27-Jan. 3, and Jan. 3-7 although I will probably have to cancel this one. Remember how a bit ago we had a long thread about changing reservations and we had reached the conclusion that what their system did was cancel and rebook if you wanted to change it? Well, I just extended the Dec. 27 one from Jan. 2 to Jan. 3 and it did NOT go through the cancel and rebook thing - it just added a day. So, I'm figuring that to GIVE Disney more money I can do what I want but to REDUCE the money I give them, they give me a hard time . The price to extend a tent site was so good ($57ish) I couldn't pass it up especially since the kids are out of school till Jan. 9 and what will they do cooped up at home except make me and themselves nuts????

Sorry you couldn't get the day added to your current reservation, it would have saved you time and trouble. I called and added a day to our December trip, and had no issues. I guess it's just the luck of the draw as to who you get on the other end of the line.

amcc said:

Hey Ed,
We will be there at the same time. I've got two reservations Dec. 27-Jan. 3, and Jan. 3-7 although I will probably have to cancel this one. Remember how a bit ago we had a long thread about changing reservations and we had reached the conclusion that what their system did was cancel and rebook if you wanted to change it? Well, I just extended the Dec. 27 one from Jan. 2 to Jan. 3 and it did NOT go through the cancel and rebook thing - it just added a day. So, I'm figuring that to GIVE Disney more money I can do what I want but to REDUCE the money I give them, they give me a hard time . The price to extend a tent site was so good ($57ish) I couldn't pass it up especially since the kids are out of school till Jan. 9 and what will they do cooped up at home except make me and themselves nuts????

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Well we'll have to say hello before you leave, amcc.

I tried to extend the arrival date and got into a healthy "discussion" with the CM about how adding days should be easy but they could make taking days off hard. But it was no go.

Whatever works. At least we're there. I'm in a Preferred again so hopefully 100/200.

Bama Ed

PS - any FL Keys stories to tell on the Community Board?