eandesmom
I'm with Beast
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- Jan 5, 2009
Cynthia, one thing to remember about walking: as long as the first bookable day is still within your already booked time, nobody can book your room away from you for your future days.
If you look at it like this: there are rooms A, B and C. you have room A booked for days 1 to 5, rooms B and C are booked also. Someone trying to book something when the booking window for day 3 opens might see availability for days 6 to 8, but can't book them as they could only book them as a consecutive reservation starting at day 3, but for day three everything is booked. If room B is only booked days 1 through 3, someone could then get a reservation for days 3 through 8, but that would be for room B, not your room A.
So, once you have your starting booking for walking, you only need to make sure to call at some point during the last day of your starting reservation (, i.e. the day before your check-out date, in the example the day the booking window opens for day 4) to get your reservation moved ahead in time.
Hope this makes sense.
Mnnn, yes and no. Two things.
First and primary at the moment is my of not being able to get a bookable day to even get it started now that it is gone 2 days out. If folks are walking, and I'm sure they are, it is very possible this trend will continue and there will no longer be a day "one" available to book if the next day is gone before booking opens for that day as it is within someone else's window.
Second is that even if I am able to get it started, someone else doing the same thing could effectively take my room for future days depending on configurations of 1B/2B/Studio bookings as well as the ability to book further out online than I can on the starting date.
So for example the following could occur I would think. For simplification reasons lets say there are only 2 potential 2b's avail for the category I want but all can be booked as studio/1b/2b.
on 12/26
I book a 2B for 3 nights (26-29)
Someone else books a 1B for 7 nights (26-1)
Another party books a studio for 7 nights (26-1)
on 12/27
someone books online, a studio for 5 nights (27-31)
When I call at 9am on the 27th to walk, I cannot extend my 2B booking by a night as the 30th is now taken by the studio, leaving a 1B avail to book but not a 2.
If you have enough points to walk a full 7 nights and call each day then yes, you should be fully safe but I'm not sure that waiting until the last day of the reservation is enough time to protect you from the above scenario, just too many variables with check in/out and configurations. Unless I'm missing something.
I figure the reality is there are around 37 or so 2B's potentially available for booking in the BW view category (more or less). Total swag on that looking at the map which appears to be 25% BW, 50% P/G and 25% standard. It may be a little less, standard actually appears to be more. It also means only 37 studios or 1B's and since both are needed for the reservation (no dedicated 2B's), it definitely shows how it could be difficult.
Yes, I'm over thinking this to death. The studio bookings are definitely a huge factor, those are sold out to match the 2B sold out categories but 1B's are still available for all.