2016 Free Dining Watch ~ Part 2

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Inventory is ridiculously low this year with the FD! In 2014 I got ASSp no problem, last year CBR standard no problem but this year I logged on at 4am on the dot and there was hardly anything I wanted for 8/27-9/1 (which I feel like are less popular dates) At 4am I put a waterview room at CBR in my cart and got all the way to the payment page. Then I quickly opened another window just to see if anything was cheaper at POR ! That proved to be a costly mistake! In the 10 seconds it took me to do that both the waterview rooms at both resorts were gone and it wouldn't let me pay only upgrade to a pirate room or royal room!!!! So how many of those rooms were really actually being offered if they were gone in 30 seconds at 4am?!?!? We ended up with our 3rd choice (standard WL) which I am actually really excited about because I never stayed there but seriously FD this year has caused me so much stress! Ugh!
I currently have wl standard reserved for 8/26-9/2 with fd. My sister reserved yc. I don't know which to stay at. Will decide soon.
 
I cancelled and rebooked early yesterday morning. I had booked at CBR and nothing was available except pirate rooms which I didn't want so I cancelled and rebooked at CSR. I did it online so I had to put a new deposit down on the CSR reservation, it wasn't transferred. I did not get an email confirming my cancellation but it did drop from MDE and I did get an email confirmation of my new reservation.

That is exactly what I had to do too. I got a confirmation of the new booking, but also had to put down the new deposit. I'm just worried about the 3500 bucks I had paid toward the POR ressie LOL..Hopefully it will transfer or refund to my account n a day or 2.
 
So I swore up and down we weren't going this year and I was only watching for fun. Then came the rationalization stage "what if we can't go next year? What if we stayed in a value to save money?" etc. Next came " We'll I just get up early and see if anything is even available". Now we're booked for our fall vacation!
See, this is me. I'm going to be the one booking on July 30th because I can't let this pass me by even though I already have a December res that we will still go on. My husband has never even been and here I am dragging him (possibly) multiple times a year! We have a problem!!
 
Let me chime in and give some of you a heads up....

TA's can place holds on reservations for 72 hours. This gives them time to discuss any changes with their client as well collect payment information for their deposit which is due 72 hours after the hold is in place.

If I were trying to hunt down a room, which is not available now, 12:01AM Eastern time on Friday, April 29th may be an excellent time to find one online! All deposits would have to be in by the close of business on April 28th for reservations made yesterday!!
 
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