Booking ?

[Pinnochio]

Why, for example, when booking a ressie do i see my 5 nights at the poly, then at 8 am EST, when i hit enter to book, night one magically vanishes and i'm out of luck???....

 

[Sandisw]

Because others wanted the same thing and more people booking at 8 am than rooms. They can go in seconds.

One thing about the online system is you don’t know how many rooms there are. Just that at least one exists.

 

[Pinnochio]

appreciate the input but i find it hard to comprehend that that is the only reason...i've done this so many times over the last 30 years you'd think i'd be lucky enough just once and beat everyone else to the punch...oh well.....

 

[Sandisw]

appreciate the input but i find it hard to comprehend that that is the only reason...i've done this so many times over the last 30 years you'd think i'd be lucky enough just once and beat everyone else to the punch...oh well.....

It is. Plenty of people have gotten shut out. I sold BWV in part because I stopped having luck getting SV studios right at. 8 am on the11 month date.

I don’t know when you are trying for but people are more likely walking these rooms.

 

[drusba]

If Poly, I assume you are talking about reserving 7-months out since Poly studios have seldom if ever demonstrated a problem of booking full quickly at 11-months out. If you are trying for Poly now with the 7-month window, that would mean for time that included Presidents' Day, a fairly high demand time; moreover that week runs into the Princess half Marathon weekend which is the highest DVC demand time that exists between mid-Jan and late Sep.

What you are likely seeing as open days are days that have actually reached being close to being filled before 7-months out. Thus, it may take at most only a couple hits at 8 a.m. to reach being filled, and the winners are simply those whose computers connect fastest with Disney's computers. You can also get a progression. The first day you want may disappear but those after may remain a little while. That is a factor of the subsequent days still showing more check-outs than check-ins for those days, e.g., Feb 21 could have filled right at 8 a.m. today because there was only one more check-out than check-ins left. The person who got Feb 21 may have also gotten subsequent days but those are still open because checks-out still exceed check-ins for those days.

 

[Pinnochio]

thanx for the responses....