Boardwalk Villas by booking catagory

[gray52]

Does anyone know how many rooms there are in each booking category at BWV? If i remember correctly, BLT and BCV have a floor by floor breakdown of what's where? Just can't find it for BWV.

How many Studios in Standard or Preferred view?

How many 1-bedroom villas in S/P?

I'm looking at upgrading to a 2-bedroom villa in early January once my points are loaded into the system... which will be another few weeks. Realizing there are no dedicated 2-bedroom, I was just wondering how many studio's/1-BR are in the standard view category vs BW view vs Garden View? I didn't find anything in the FAQ thread.

 

[DebbieB]

Does anyone know how many rooms there are in each booking category at BWV? If i remember correctly, BLT and BCV have a floor by floor breakdown of what's where? Just can't find it for BWV.

How many Studios in Standard or Preferred view?

How many 1-bedroom villas in S/P?

I'm looking at upgrading to a 2-bedroom villa in early January once my points are loaded into the system... which will be another few weeks. Realizing there are no dedicated 2-bedroom, I was just wondering how many studio's/1-BR are in the standard view category vs BW view vs Garden View? I didn't find anything in the FAQ thread.

In 12 years of being a BWV member, I've never seen a floor by floor map of rooms like I've seen for VWL or BCV.

 

[jekjones1558]

DISer Shamus is the go-to man about room locations at BWV. Maybe he will see this thread and post. Often it is posted on these boards that about 20% of BWV is standard view, about 20% BW view and the rest pool/garden view.
Regarding your January reservation, you will need to cancel the room you have and re-book a 2 bedroom. I don't think I have ever seen anyone who knows how Disney decides which lock-offs stay as 2 bedrooms and which get split into 1 bedrooms and studios. I do know that MS will not just let you add or subtract half of a unit to move up to or down from a 2 bedroom, so there must be some system for deciding the proportion of lock-offs that stay as 2 bedrooms for booking. Good luck!

 

[gray52]

Regarding your January reservation, you will need to cancel the room you have and re-book a 2 bedroom. I don't think I have ever seen anyone who knows how Disney decides which lock-offs stay as 2 bedrooms and which get split into 1 bedrooms and studios. I do know that MS will not just let you add or subtract half of a unit to move up to or down from a 2 bedroom, so there must be some system for deciding the proportion of lock-offs that stay as 2 bedrooms for booking. Good luck!

I think we've found a project for a BWV lover.

I was assuming that i'd have cancel/rebook. I can see now by my wording how I might have implied otherwise. We already have OKW booked... which we love... so if we don't get into a 2BR at BWV this year, we'll get it for sure next.
It would be nice to have that information handy, however.

 

[DebbieB]

DISer Shamus is the go-to man about room locations at BWV. Maybe he will see this thread and post. Often it is posted on these boards that about 20% of BWV is standard view, about 20% BW view and the rest pool/garden view.
Regarding your January reservation, you will need to cancel the room you have and re-book a 2 bedroom. I don't think I have ever seen anyone who knows how Disney decides which lock-offs stay as 2 bedrooms and which get split into 1 bedrooms and studios. I do know that MS will not just let you add or subtract half of a unit to move up to or down from a 2 bedroom, so there must be some system for deciding the proportion of lock-offs that stay as 2 bedrooms for booking. Good luck!

I talked to member services about this once. What they do is if you reserve a studio or 1 bedroom, they take from the dedicated inventory first, BWV has alot of those. If you reserve a 2 bedroom, they will of course pull it from the lockoffs. If they run out of dedicated studios & 1 bedrooms, they will start splitting the lockoffs if still available.

 

[jekjones1558]

I talked to member services about this once. What they do is if you reserve a studio or 1 bedroom, they take from the dedicated inventory first, BWV has alot of those. If you reserve a 2 bedroom, they will of course pull it from the lockoffs. If they run out of dedicated studios & 1 bedrooms, they will start splitting the lockoffs if still available.

Interesting. I wonder if they ever put the split up 2 bedrooms back together if a member needs one, i.e. if 2 bedrooms are all booked and a lock-off studio and a lock-off 1 bedroom are available.

 

[n2mm]

OP, hopefully you are avoiding marathon weekend. I just booked my Jan. reservation and already noticed that several rooms were sold out for that weekend. I booked Jan. 23 for 10 nights and got a standard studio. This past January I got shut out for the same reservation at the 7 month window and never got my waitlist, so this time I decided to use the 11 month window and my BWV points.

I'm not sure how it all works, but checking for friends recently, every time I checked a studio vs a 2 bedroom the same nights were always booked up, so it made me think that if a studio wasn't available, then the 2 bedroom wasn't available either...it was just a pattern I noticed. This is probably why it's easier to get a 1 bedroom here because the 2 bedrooms need that studio to make it a 2 bedroom. JMHO

 

[gray52]

OP, hopefully you are avoiding marathon weekend. I just booked my Jan. reservation and already noticed that several rooms were sold out for that weekend. I booked Jan. 23 for 10 nights and got a standard studio. This past January I got shut out for the same reservation at the 7 month window and never got my waitlist, so this time I decided to use the 11 month window and my BWV points.

Might have to change plans... our last couple days there will be Marathon weekend so i'm sure we won't get a 2BR... might have to stick at OKW or change our dates, or as a last resort, a split stay. Our annual pass expires on Jan 23, so the only other option is to go over MLK. That might be easier to get than Marathon?

 

[DebbieB]

Current availability:

Week of 1/6, 2 bedrooms available:
Standard - 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9
Pool/Garden - all
Boardwalk - 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/12

Week of 1/13:
Standard - 1/14 to 1/19 (no 1/13)
Pool/Garden - all
Boardwalk - all

Week of 1/20:
All views available for all dates.

 

[spiceycat]

here the listing of what BWV has
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2823609

(it is 3rd post on the list)

there are no 2-bedroom - there are only studios and 1-bedrooms.

think the standard rooms are 20% of the resort.

80% is preferred. don't know the breakdown of the Bw views rooms. Think they are less than 20% - but just not certain.