7-month availability at Vero Beach and Grand Californian?

Figment&Piglet

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We own at BWV but are interested in perhaps switching things up at Vero Beach next April school vacation (3rd week) and Grand Californian next August (3rd week). What is 7-month availability like for a StuDio at those times? Thanks.
 
Third week of April 2017 is Easter week. For March and April, it has only been the two Easter weeks when Vero has had an issue at 7 months out. For Easter week in 2015 and 2016, you would have found, if you had booked exactly 7 months out from Easter Sunday, that studios and inn rooms were open for the week, but all other room sizes were missing 4 to 5 nights. You could still have an issue but the past seems to indicate a possible favorable outcome.

Not sure which week you are referring to as third week of Aug (one that begins Aug 13 or Aug 20) but this applies to Aug in general. For both 2015 and 2016 at 7 months out, getting studios was a problem. In both years, VGC had a pattern going on during Aug where any particular start date and the dates after showed studios as available at 7 months out, but the particular start date disappeared within 20 seconds after 8 a.m. eastern (possibly faster than that but it took me that long to check once 8 a.m. hit on the several days I did check). What that indicates is that very few rooms were open if it were even more than one, the winner was the one with the computer that communicated nanoseconds faster with Disney's computer than the computers of other members, and the subsequent days were still shown as open until you tried the next day to book them likely because they were still showing at least one more member checking out that day than checking in. Also, in 2016 that pattern became worse for second half of Aug where at times two days disappeared at 7 months out and then two days later three days disappeared. Of course, you can always try wait-listing if you cannot get it at exactly 7 months out.
 
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I managed to get a studio at GCV for the second week of August in 2015 at 7 months. I had everything filled out on the website in the booking engine, had an atomic clock website on my iPhone running and the moment it went to 8am I hit the search button on the booking engine. I got my studio. After I had booked it, I went back to the availability tool and by then (8:10 am or so), it did show the first day of the time I was looking for as unavailable, just as the previous poster said. We were still not able to get our two last days of the stay (because that was when D23 was happening) and I was actually able to catch one of those days later on when I kept checking availability.

We had a plan B for our stay, but were happy with getting in. However, we had never counted on it. For our last night we decided to actually get the Paradise Pier Hotel on points. Had to do some strange reallocation in order to free up my points that are able to be used for the resort collection. The Paradise Pier room is more points than the studio at the GCV, but not by a lot. So, you could always consider this as an alternative for a shorter stay.
 
I waitlisted the 17th, 18th and 19th this coming August (2016) in a studio at GCV and got it within a couple of weeks. When I went to book at exactly 8am only the 19th was available. HTH
 
















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