Booking Question

[Tysdad747]

Is it possible to book your home resort at 11 months out to guarantee a place to stay for the week you want and then at the 7 month window call to book the place you really wanted (not home resort) and give up the 11 month reservation?

Our home resort is AKV, but we'd like to stay at BWV next year for a couple days and I was just wondering if this is allowable.

Thanks.

Tim

 

[disney0210]

Yes this is allowed. Good because you are assured you've got somewhere to stay in the event that there are no availabilities where you want to stay when you call at the 7-month mark...

 

[jco_direwolf]

Works fine, as long as you have the points for both stays.

If not there is a dangerous 5 minutes, when you cancel your 11 month window stay, and book the 7 month stay. Apparently they can't "shift" or put a "pending" cancel or anything on your reservation, till the other one goes though. And they can't book you into a deficit.

I suppose you could "borrow" the points from next year to book 7 months out and when you get to 4 months left in your UY bank the points into next year to cover what you took. (I've never done this, but it seems like it should work.)

johno

 

[Sandisw]

Can you wait list at the 11 month mark for something other than your home resort? If I book 3 days at BLT and then the other 2 at VWL, with the intention of getting them all at BLT, can I just put in a "waitlist" for the nights I have VWL booked?

Or, do I have to call back at the 7 month mark and then will only get to "waitlist" if there is no availablity?

It seems that they would allow the change without the canceling/rebooking issue...if that is the case, I will never be able to change resorts as I will never have enough points to cover both rooms. Of course, I travel in August so maybe switching over to BLT at the 7 month mark during that time frame won't be such a big issue.

Also, is there the ability for MS to check how much availabilty for a resort before you make the switch?

 

[fers31]

Can you wait list at the 11 month mark for something other than your home resort? If I book 3 days at BLT and then the other 2 at VWL, with the intention of getting them all at BLT, can I just put in a "waitlist" for the nights I have VWL booked?

Or, do I have to call back at the 7 month mark and then will only get to "waitlist" if there is no availablity?

It seems that they would allow the change without the canceling/rebooking issue...if that is the case, I will never be able to change resorts as I will never have enough points to cover both rooms. Of course, I travel in August so maybe switching over to BLT at the 7 month mark during that time frame won't be such a big issue.

Also, is there the ability for MS to check how much availabilty for a resort before you make the switch?

You cannot wait list at the 11 month window. Found that out when I booked my room for this upcoming December. Wanted to be put on the waitlist for a different resort but was told I can only waitlist at 7 months.

 

[jco_direwolf]

It seems that they would allow the change without the canceling/rebooking issue...if that is the case, I will never be able to change resorts as I will never have enough points to cover both rooms. Of course, I travel in August so maybe switching over to BLT at the 7 month mark during that time frame won't be such a big issue.

Also, is there the ability for MS to check how much availabilty for a resort before you make the switch?

At 11 months you can only deal with booking your resort, at 7 months you can use any resort this includes getting added to the wait list.

Like I said the window is only about 5 minutes, they have to go in and cancel your first one free up the points, and then go find the room you want and book it. It seems to me the booking agents SHOULD be able to flag/lock the row in the database as pending reservation or something for ~10 minutes. To hold it while they they clear something else.

But if that function exists no one at MS that I've booked though has ever known how to do it. They always had me cancel and book the new room.

Yes MS has always been able to tell me how booked a resort is. They have never told me how many, but they will tell me something like "there is plenty of room", or "there are very few".

johno

 

[Tysdad747]

Thanks guys.

Tim