Can you request room when renting points

[princessap]

We are renting points for the first time for our trip next year and I am so excited to be staying at BLT...I have read on here that rooms that end in 20 have a view of the castle...my girls would LOVE that. Is that possible to request???

What is the best way to get a great view?!

 

[jekjones1558]

We are renting points for the first time for our trip next year and I am so excited to be staying at BLT...I have read on here that rooms that end in 20 have a view of the castle...my girls would LOVE that. Is that possible to request???

What is the best way to get a great view?!

The person from whom you rent the points will need to make the request. If you find out at checkin that the request has not been fulfilled you can always politely ask again. If that doesn't work and you really want to switch you can ask to move rooms when a room that you want is vacated. There is a fee to do this. Sorry, don't know the fee, maybe the cost of cleaning the room which would be $30 - $60 depending on size of the room. Ask at checkin.

 

[Chuck S]

It also depends upon what category of room has been reserved for you. There are 3 bookable views at BLT, each requiring a different number of points. Theme Park view, Lake View and Standard View. If you are not booked into a park view room, a request would be pointless.

 

[princessap]

It also depends upon what category of room has been reserved for you. There are 3 bookable views at BLT, each requiring a different number of points. Theme Park view, Lake View and Standard View. If you are not booked into a park view room, a request would be pointless.

I read on a thread here that there are some standard view rooms and it lists numbers that have a castle view, I am just wondering if I can list that?

 

[disneynutz]

Changing rooms might cause problems for the owner. Recent posts indicate that reservations were canceled with re-booked using other points.

We had a similar issue when the Front Desk let the guest add the dining plan at check in. The CM put the points in holding and borrowed points for the new reservation. It took MS about a week to fix the problem.

Allowing guest changes at check in should not be allowed IMO.

Bill

 

[princessap]

Changing rooms might cause problems for the owner. Recent posts indicate that reservations were canceled with re-booked using other points.

We had a similar issue when the Front Desk let the guest add the dining plan at check in. The CM put the points in holding and borrowed points for the new reservation. It took MS about a week to fix the problem.

Allowing guest changes at check in should not be allowed IMO.

Bill

I am confused how this applies to my question?? am I missing something??

 

[disneynutz]

I am confused how this applies to my question?? am I missing something??

Related to jekjones1558 post. If you check in then decide that you want a different room, there is a good chance that the original reservation will get canceled and a new reservation made by the Front Desk CM.

That is different than the owner making the request for you and you accepting the room before check in.

Bill

 

[Sammie]

Basically when staying at a resort on points, or renting from a member that has booked your reservation with points, you can certainly request a location.

However there is no guarantee and DVC is not as flexible about moving you if you don't like the room assigned.

 

[rlovew]

We are renting points for the first time for our trip next year and I am so excited to be staying at BLT...I have read on here that rooms that end in 20 have a view of the castle...my girls would LOVE that. Is that possible to request???

What is the best way to get a great view?!

The best way to get a great view is to pay for a theme park view room. Even though there are some standard view rooms that you can see the castle from it does not mean you have a great view (most of you view is of the parking lot and they do not turn off the lights for the fireworks). The member can make a request for certain rooms or room blocks but there is no guarantee you will get them. For example you are asking about rooms ending in 20- there are at most 4 of those rooms in standard view- but in order for you to get one of them there has to be a guest leaving from that room the day you check in. From what I have seen standard view rooms have very little choice in room numbers or area. I have done standard view 5 times and on any given time there have been no more than 3 rooms (and that was only 1 time) changing over the day we checked in that means we had to get 1 of those 3 rooms(although the other 4 times it was only 1 or 2 rooms changing).

 

[auralia]

I had a lake view room with a nice castle/space mountian view. You have to make very specific requests .... It was something like north tower, high floor, even number room perhaps? And then it's the luck of the draw... I got lucky!

 

[jtowntoflorida]

I had a lake view room with a nice castle/space mountian view. You have to make very specific requests .... It was something like north tower, high floor, even number room perhaps? And then it's the luck of the draw... I got lucky!

Yep. The owner I rent from made this exact request for me last year and I got south tower, 4th floor.

OP, even though money is exchanging hands, as a renter, I take the view that the owner I'm renting from is doing me a favor by allowing me to use his points. I get the benefit of DVC at a great price without having to make the commitment to buy in. Based on posts I've seen on here recently, I would not take the risk of screwing up his DVC account in any way by making a request at the front desk. I see it as the courtesy I extend to the owner in exchange for him trusting me to use some of his points. I have rented from the same person three years in a row now, and I wouldn't want to do anything to screw up that relationship, but that's just me. I do encourage you to think hard about making any changes or requests at the front desk because there could definitely be unintended consequences.