All Rooms Booked Between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

[PapillonMom]

We are thinking about taking a trip sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not when schools are out) and the Disney website is showing almost no availability. One room for around $600 a night shows up every so often but otherwise nothing, nada, zip. I have done chat online twice. One CM showed tons of open rooms and another got nothing available. I would think it is a website issue but we have been trying for 2 weeks now.

Anyone else running into this issue? Are there events I am not aware of that have the resorts at capacity? I know I can call to book but I love to play around and see all our options before booking. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

 

[dprincessmom]

I have been getting this off and on for a couple of weeks. I just looked this evening and got a few - I think you have to watch which radio button the program is trying to use. Dec 15-Dec 22nd just popped up several room options for the holiday room promotion. Moderates to Deluxe (several options in each category = example out building theme park view Grand Floridan; Coronado and Carribean, etc). how many people and for which week are you mainly looking?

 

[MNtwinsplus1mom]

We are thinking about taking a trip sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not when schools are out) and the Disney website is showing almost no availability. One room for around $600 a night shows up every so often but otherwise nothing, nada, zip. I have done chat online twice. One CM showed tons of open rooms and another got nothing available. I would think it is a website issue but we have been trying for 2 weeks now.

Anyone else running into this issue? Are there events I am not aware of that have the resorts at capacity? I know I can call to book but I love to play around and see all our options before booking. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

I'm having the same issue. I heard elsewhere that there's a problem at Disney with some reservations being double-booked so it results in little/no availability. Heard they're working on it but no estimate on when it'll be resolved. It really looks like a big problem. I've never seen availability this poor.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

We are thinking about taking a trip sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not when schools are out) and the Disney website is showing almost no availability. One room for around $600 a night shows up every so often but otherwise nothing, nada, zip. I have done chat online twice. One CM showed tons of open rooms and another got nothing available. I would think it is a website issue but we have been trying for 2 weeks now.

Anyone else running into this issue? Are there events I am not aware of that have the resorts at capacity? I know I can call to book but I love to play around and see all our options before booking. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

Free dining, Pop Warner, a time of year growing in popularity, website issues... they probably all have a role. How long a trip? That impacts things as well.

It's frustrating, I know.

 

[melanielll]

What worked for me was getting smaller reservations that spanned the entire time that we are going to be there - mid December till early January. I have three reservations that cover the entire trip. When I feel like dealing with phone people, I will call and try to combine them. If not, we will be swimming in Magicbands. And I will have to threaten the front desk with some sort of bodily harm to make certain that we don't have to change rooms.

 

[MNtwinsplus1mom]

I was just trying to find a 3 night stay over a weekend in November and there's almost nothing there. It really is bad... It just doesn't make sense to be virtually full a couple of months out. At least I haven't seen it this way before, personally.

 

[Deanie1]

We have a split stay for Nov 26 - Dec , Pop Century then POR. We chose this time instead of Oct as we thought it would be less crowded. We did this time in 2012 ( a long time ago, I know ) and we had very short waits. Barely used a FP. Now I am getting worried about crowds! We even had a tough time finding a room at the end of April.

I hope everyone can find a room.

 

[Monorail_Man_NJ]

Search the 25th - 28th of November (good amount of rooms)

 

[PapillonMom]

Glad to hear it's not just us! Felt like I was going crazy. We'll just keep an eye on it and keep trying. We can basically go any week so I have been searching all of them. Seemed so weird to not be getting anything.

 

[SA mom]

Lots of people cancel before their final payment is due. Keep checking.

 

[BuzzLiteyear]

Try clicking on the resort you want and then change from the "Holiday" offer to room only. I get tons of results when I do that.

 

[KimBean]

We are thinking about taking a trip sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not when schools are out) and the Disney website is showing almost no availability. One room for around $600 a night shows up every so often but otherwise nothing, nada, zip. I have done chat online twice. One CM showed tons of open rooms and another got nothing available. I would think it is a website issue but we have been trying for 2 weeks now.

Anyone else running into this issue? Are there events I am not aware of that have the resorts at capacity? I know I can call to book but I love to play around and see all our options before booking. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

I booked for these dates in February. Wasn't a lot of availability even then. Couldn't get a mod.

 

[Figmentmommy]

We are thinking about taking a trip sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not when schools are out) and the Disney website is showing almost no availability. One room for around $600 a night shows up every so often but otherwise nothing, nada, zip. I have done chat online twice. One CM showed tons of open rooms and another got nothing available. I would think it is a website issue but we have been trying for 2 weeks now.

Anyone else running into this issue? Are there events I am not aware of that have the resorts at capacity? I know I can call to book but I love to play around and see all our options before booking. Any insight is greatly appreciated!

I just found plenty of availability online for the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas- all resort levels