Booking long stays

[Bouncin-Tigger]

I am about to book a 12 night stay at the 11 month mark and would like to do it online and know that there is a 7 or 8 day max when booking online. Do I have to book the max days online then call in every day after to secure the room or should I just call and will they let me book it all at once.

 

[wdrl]

You can book the first 7 nights online, then you'll need to call Member Services to add the additional nights.

You don't need to call every day to add on the additional nights. You can call as late as Day 6 and book all of the remaining nights, giving you a total of 12 nights.

Once to have secured the first 7 nights of your stay, no one else can book that villa until the 8th day. Thus, on the 6th day only you can add more nights in that villa. You'll be able to add nights 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 with one phone call.

By the way, you will have to call Member Services to add on the extra nights; you cannot modify an existing reservation via the Online Reservation System.

 

[disneynutz]

You can't modify online but you can book separate reservations online. When you are done, send MS a message via the member website contact form to have them combine the reservations into one.

Bill

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Just went thru this. Wanted to book April 2014 using the 11 month booking window. I booked the one week in the first phone call and then called each individual day to book the others. I was worried someone would book and interrupt my reservation.

 

[luv2sleep]

You can only nook up ti 7 nights at a time when you book online? I wanted to do 5 nights at one and 5 nights at another. Can I do those online? Or do I do one and call for the other?

 

[LisaS]

You can only nook up ti 7 nights at a time when you book online? I wanted to do 5 nights at one and 5 nights at another. Can I do those online? Or do I do one and call for the other?

You are limited to 7 nights when booking right at the 11-month or 7-month window. Otherwise I think the limit is 14 nights.

If you are booking a split stay you will be making two separate reservations. Each is subject to the 11-month window so you can book the first 5 nights 11 (or 7) months from check-in for reservation #1 but then must wait until 11 (or 7) months from check-in for the second reservation to book those 5 nights.

If you wanted 10 nights in the same room at the same resort it would be one reservation so you could book the first 7 nights 11/7 months out, then call MS 3 days later to modify your reservation and add the last 3 nights.

 

[luv2sleep]

You are limited to 7 nights when booking right at the 11-month or 7-month window. Otherwise I think the limit is 14 nights.

If you are booking a split stay you will be making two separate reservations. Each is subject to the 11-month window so you can book the first 5 nights 11 (or 7) months from check-in for reservation #1 but then must wait until 11 (or 7) months from check-in for the second reservation to book those 5 nights.

If you wanted 10 nights in the same room at the same resort it would be one reservation so you could book the first 7 nights 11/7 months out, then call MS 3 days later to modify your reservation and add the last 3 nights.

Thank you!

 

[n2mm]

I always book at the 11 month window for 7 days, then call each day and add a day to the reservation. I'm not sure if there's a limit for the amount of days because we have stayed 18 nights in the same room on several trips. Generally our trips are 14-16 nights. While adding on the extra days, sometimes I think I can wait and call every other day and add 2, but almost lost out booking my October trip. I called one morning and was told it was the last studio for that night. However, that's generally when I'm booking my standard view room at BWV or BLT and both have lower availability in that catagory. Good luck.

 

[drusba]

The on-line system allows you to book a maximum of 7 nights if booking exactly 11 or 7 months out from date of arrival and a maximum of 14 nights if you wait to book a week or more after the applicable reservation window opens. However, that 14 nights is a computer limit not an actual one and the maximum number of nights you can book is limited only by the number of points you have to use.

 

[LisaS]

The on-line system allows you to book a maximum of 7 nights if booking exactly 11 or 7 months out from date of arrival and a maximum of 14 nights if you wait to book a week or more after the applicable reservation window opens. However, that 14 nights is a computer limit not an actual one and the maximum number of nights you can book is limited only by the number of points you have to use.

There was some discussion on this a few years back that there is a limit to the number of nights you can stay in the same room at the same resort. I'm thinking the limit is 30 nights but I'm not sure if that has ever been verified. I recall some speculation that DVC needed this limit so that long-term guests couldn't argue they were Florida residents. I'm fuzzy on the details of that discussion and as I said, I don't recall ever seeing a report of anyone actually testing this hypothesis.

 

[iluvthsgam]

I always book at the 11 month window for 7 days, then call each day and add a day to the reservation. I'm not sure if there's a limit for the amount of days because we have stayed 18 nights in the same room on several trips. Generally our trips are 14-16 nights. While adding on the extra days, sometimes I think I can wait and call every other day and add 2, but almost lost out booking my October trip. I called one morning and was told it was the last studio for that night. However, that's generally when I'm booking my standard view room at BWV or BLT and both have lower availability in that catagory. Good luck.

That last studio available was the one you had reserved! As wdrl said above - you don't have to call every day because nobody can book the studio that you have booked until day 8. As long as you call before then, you are fine.

 

[dmunsil]

That last studio available was the one you had reserved! As wdrl said above - you don't have to call every day because nobody can book the studio that you have booked until day 8. As long as you call before then, you are fine.

I'm not sure that's true. Obviously we all know that rooms are taken out of the DVC availability in order to sell cash rooms. They clearly can't take whole room-years; they can't be, really. If someone trades 500 points for a cruise, that's not enough to take a single room out of inventory for a year. So really, Disney CRO now "owns" 500 points. They then have to spend those 500 points on room nights that are likely to sell via cash. They have, I'm sure, a good model for what nights are most likely to get booked with cash, and my guess is that they're clustered around holidays and peak booking periods.

So you could be walking a reservation toward, say, July 4th, and suddenly have a room booked on the 3rd or 4th blocking you, because CRO has taken it.

This is all assuming that CRO has more than 11 months booking priority, but I think that's quite possible. I can't see anything that would make it impossible for Disney to give them ultimate priority, though they might be required to spread their rooms out and not just book all the rooms on New Years Eve or something. And drusba said they saw a hard-to-get room category booked at 11mo+4 when there was an opening at 11mo+1, 2, and 3. That shouldn't be possible if everyone is using the DVC booking system. The logical assumption is that CRO has already booked it. I suppose you could imagine that it was scheduled maintenance or something, but why would they schedule maintenance on a holiday?

Here's the post: http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=48827690&postcount=6

 

[LisaS]

So you could be walking a reservation toward, say, July 4th, and suddenly have a room booked on the 3rd or 4th blocking you, because CRO has taken it.

There has been at least one reported case of this. Someone was either walking a reservation or wanted to extend beyond 7 nights and could not get the additional nights. Perhaps DVC had taken a room out of inventory to rent for cash or maybe the room was scheduled to go out of service for renovation but whatever the reason, it was not available to the member who wanted to add additional nights to his/her reservation. It's probably rare but it can happen.

 

[TSMMANIAC]

I was walking a GV at the BW over New Years 2011. When I tried to reserve the date of 12/20/11 I was told it was unavailable. I was given no adequate explanation other than I must not really understand the reservation system. So it can happen.

 

[luvformickey]

I booked our reservation for January for 7 days and then called each day after that to add the next day until I got all 12 nights. It was worth it to me so I didn't chance losing a day while waiting for day 5 on the original reservation. Once I had all 12 nights reserved, I waitlisted the whole stay all at once. Still waiting for the waitlist to come through...

 

[dmunsil]

Once I had all 12 nights reserved, I waitlisted the whole stay all at once. Still waiting for the waitlist to come through...

Why would you waitlist a reservation you already have? You mean you waitlisted a different resort?

If you mean you're waitlisting so you can get the whole thing on one reservation, you should just call Member Services. They can combine all of your single-day reservations into one.