CCV 2br Waitlist probably

[DarthDadMan]

We purchased a contract with expiring points, so we booked something last minute for October. 4 nights in a 2br at OKW. Love OKW but WL will always be home to me. We’re doing MNSSHP and 2 nights opened up at CCV, and me being a gambler, I booked the two middle nights of the 4 night trip at CCV and the first and last night at OKW thinking in over 3 months certainly at least for 1 and likely both OKW nights, my waitlist would come through. Right? Right??? . How comfortable would you be with one or both of these nights coming through? There are open nights around them and not Wine & Dine weekend.

 

[WDW Convert]

I don't have an answer for you, but I was just about to post a very similar question about a potential CCV dedicated 2-br waitlist in early November. I am torn between booking all four nights at SSR, which I'm fine with as my home resort, or booking the three available nights at CCV (missing one middle day), booking the other night at SSR, and stalking/waitlisting the missing night at CCV. We have not stayed at the Wilderness Lodge before. I would prefer CCV for something new and "research," but I know we do not want a split stay, much less a three-way split, with young children. How risky is the waitlist/stalking game in this scenario?

Of course, I am hoping some new points are loaded fast enough before availability changes to be able to use non-borrowed points to book the speculative CCV reservation while simultaneously booking all four days at SSR as a backup. That would make the above moot, but I do not want to over-borrow points.

 

[muppets3d]

A lot of people cancel rooms and move things around up until about 35 days to check-in, because they don't want points to go into holding. Once you get inside 30 days to check-in, waitlist chances dramatically drop.

 

[DarthDadMan]

I don't have an answer for you, but I was just about to post a very similar question about a potential CCV dedicated 2-br waitlist in early November. I am torn between booking all four nights at SSR, which I'm fine with as my home resort, or booking the three available nights at CCV (missing one middle day), booking the other night at SSR, and stalking/waitlisting the missing night at CCV. We have not stayed at the Wilderness Lodge before. I would prefer CCV for something new and "research," but I know we do not want a split stay, much less a three-way split, with young children. How risky is the waitlist/stalking game in this scenario?

Of course, I am hoping some new points are loaded fast enough before availability changes to be able to use non-borrowed points to book the speculative CCV reservation while simultaneously booking all four days at SSR as a backup. That would make the above moot, but I do not want to over-borrow points.

Well, I already got one of my single nights, albeit a lock off room, so I'm getting closer, making progress lol. I've decided to roll with it and see what happens. I expect you have a good chance to get your single night.

 

[WDW Convert]

Well, I already got one of my single nights, albeit a lock off room, so I'm getting closer, making progress lol. I've decided to roll with it and see what happens. I expect you have a good chance to get your single night.

Fingers crossed. Good luck to you, too!

 

[VGCgroupie]

A 2 bed at CCV I would think is very hard. If you are open to 1 bedroom much higher probability. I would give BRV a look too

 

[WDW Convert]

A 2 bed at CCV I would think is very hard. If you are open to 1 bedroom much higher probability. I would give BRV a look too

I am open to a BRV 2 bed as well, but that only has one of my four days. It seemed to me that would a BRV 2 bedroom a longer shot than CCV, which has three of my four days. What do you think? With a family of five, I think the only 1 bedrooms I would consider would be BLT, Poly, and AK with the second bathroom.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I am open to a BRV 2 bed as well, but that only has one of my four days. It seemed to me that would a BRV 2 bedroom a longer shot than CCV, which has three of my four days. What do you think? With a family of five, I think the only 1 bedrooms I would consider would be BLT, Poly, and AK with the second bathroom.

True. I would waitlist CCV and then check the website as often as you can to see if anything has opened up at BRV.

 

[kgou]

How comfortable would you be with one or both of these nights coming through? There are open nights around them and not Wine & Dine weekend.

I don't have an answer for you, but I was just about to post a very similar question about a potential CCV dedicated 2-br waitlist in early November. I am torn between booking all four nights at SSR, which I'm fine with as my home resort, or booking the three available nights at CCV (missing one middle day), booking the other night at SSR, and stalking/waitlisting the missing night at CCV. We have not stayed at the Wilderness Lodge before. I would prefer CCV for something new and "research," but I know we do not want a split stay, much less a three-way split, with young children. How risky is the waitlist/stalking game in this scenario?

Well, I already got one of my single nights, albeit a lock off room, so I'm getting closer, making progress lol. I've decided to roll with it and see what happens. I expect you have a good chance to get your single night.

I'd be comfortable rolling the dice in both of these scenarios, though I've been exceptionally and abnormally lucky with my success stalking / waitlisting so far in my DVC journey.

With a combination of stalking (stalk multiple times over the course of the day as time allows) and single night waitlisting, I am optimistic that you each will end up with what you need. Do keep us posted.

 

[WDW Convert]

I thought I would pull this thread back up to provide an update on how my waitlist and stalking efforts turned out. Because we were not interested in a split stay and it took a while to get my most recent points loaded, I could not book the three available CCV 2 bedroom days while still holding my backup SSR reservation before one became unavailable. I did book two of the CCV days and waitlist the other two individually.

I continued stalking while waiting and jumped on a 2 bedroom pool/garden view room at BWV which popped up for three of my four nights. I weighed my options and decided to switch to holding the 3 nights at BWV and switched my waitlist to my last BWV night. Eventually, that BWV waitlisted night came through, which replaced my SSR backup reservation. A call to member services and 4-5 days later, I had a merged 4-night pool/garden view villa at BWV, which should work out well for a quick, park-centric trip. Of course, because waitlisting is fun, I have a waitlist for a boardwalk view, because why not, but I am otherwise done messing with this reservation for November.

After this first waitlisting and stalking experience, I can see why this has been described as DVC slots. I enjoy planning vacations and looking forward to them, so I enjoyed the active waitlisting and stalking experience to incrementally improve our accommodations. I think SAP were the right choice for me at this point, and I think this process will be easier when I am not booking 4 months or less out next time. I can see how it would be off-putting, though, for some people to have to put in so much effort.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I thought I would pull this thread back up to provide an update on how my waitlist and stalking efforts turned out. Because we were not interested in a split stay and it took a while to get my most recent points loaded, I could not book the three available CCV 2 bedroom days while still holding my backup SSR reservation before one became unavailable. I did book two of the CCV days and waitlist the other two individually.

I continued stalking while waiting and jumped on a 2 bedroom pool/garden view room at BWV which popped up for three of my four nights. I weighed my options and decided to switch to holding the 3 nights at BWV and switched my waitlist to my last BWV night. Eventually, that BWV waitlisted night came through, which replaced my SSR backup reservation. A call to member services and 4-5 days later, I had a merged 4-night pool/garden view villa at BWV, which should work out well for a quick, park-centric trip. Of course, because waitlisting is fun, I have a waitlist for a boardwalk view, because why not, but I am otherwise done messing with this reservation for November.

After this first waitlisting and stalking experience, I can see why this has been described as DVC slots. I enjoy planning vacations and looking forward to them, so I enjoyed the active waitlisting and stalking experience to incrementally improve our accommodations. I think SAP were the right choice for me at this point, and I think this process will be easier when I am not booking 4 months or less out next time. I can see how it would be off-putting, though, for some people to have to put in so much effort.

Glad it all worked out out. Sometimes the "slots" can be fun, but it can get real exhausting after awhile too.

 

[kgou]

I thought I would pull this thread back up to provide an update on how my waitlist and stalking efforts turned out. Because we were not interested in a split stay and it took a while to get my most recent points loaded, I could not book the three available CCV 2 bedroom days while still holding my backup SSR reservation before one became unavailable. I did book two of the CCV days and waitlist the other two individually.

I continued stalking while waiting and jumped on a 2 bedroom pool/garden view room at BWV which popped up for three of my four nights. I weighed my options and decided to switch to holding the 3 nights at BWV and switched my waitlist to my last BWV night. Eventually, that BWV waitlisted night came through, which replaced my SSR backup reservation. A call to member services and 4-5 days later, I had a merged 4-night pool/garden view villa at BWV, which should work out well for a quick, park-centric trip. Of course, because waitlisting is fun, I have a waitlist for a boardwalk view, because why not, but I am otherwise done messing with this reservation for November.

After this first waitlisting and stalking experience, I can see why this has been described as DVC slots. I enjoy planning vacations and looking forward to them, so I enjoyed the active waitlisting and stalking experience to incrementally improve our accommodations. I think SAP were the right choice for me at this point, and I think this process will be easier when I am not booking 4 months or less out next time. I can see how it would be off-putting, though, for some people to have to put in so much effort.

Stalking/waitlist for the win!! great score getting a 2BD at BWV.

Agree with you 100% on the gamification aspect of DVC. It's fun!! Enjoy BWV!