I had always been negative regarding the waitlist as we had NEVER gotten the resort waitlisted in the past.
For our recent June trip, we were booked at SSR but waitlisted for OKW for a full week. I had no hope of getting this resort. I even would check on occasion just to see with no luck.
However, when I was making our reservations for our September trip to Wilderness Lodge, when booking I was surprised to find out that I had more points available than what I had thought and started thinking that perhaps I did in fact get OKW for June but was never notified. Once we were done booking for September, MS checked on my June trip and sure enough we had been moved over to OKW - one day before the 30 day period. Since OKW used less points, we got them back from our original SSR booking.
It never hurts to try! I believe this now....