Well at BCV there are no great views and the best views are pool and facing fireworks so both of those are not quiet. I would just ask for an upper floor.
Online request options have been decreasing, not increasing. I believe they really want you to chat/email/call MS to place requests and won't be surprised if request options disappear entirely from online checkin.
Yup. I used the chat to request highest floor for our upcoming trip. It makes no sense to waste a cm’s time when they can easily add it to the drop down menu. We all know requests are not guaranteed but you would think that they would want to put people where they want to be.
Yes, we use chat a lot. I've also done it through email. We've been about 50-50 with our requests at BCV over the years. I expect they would love to put everyone in a room location they request - but I understand how that's not going to be possible much of the time, especially at BCV where there are fewer rooms than many DVC locations. I had an opportunity to speak with someone who had assigned rooms for Disney resorts, and he equated it to a big, complicated game of Tetris, trying to review the requests and match them with available rooms!
Sometimes I wonder whether they want to make it inconvenient to submit requests, to make it easier on the room assigners and the front desk CMs. Some folks don’t seem to understand what “not guaranteed” means.
