Check-in Time....

[Luvmyfam3]

We are staying at Century Pop our first night and then moving over to VWL for the rest of our trip (to save 80 points). We plan to go early that next morning to check into VWL and then head to the parks. Have you found that your room is usually ready before 4:00? We're going to have a 3 1/2 year old with us who will surely need a nap around 2:00. I'm just hoping this will all work out....

Thanks!!

 

[mrdiscranky]

With DVC, 4:00 Check-in often means 4:00. While you may get lucky, have an alternate nap plan just in case. Note that the public rooms in VWL are usually extremely quiet if he can nap without a bed.

 

[Deb & Bill]

With DVC, 4:00 Check-in often means 4:00. While you may get lucky, have an alternate nap plan just in case. Note that the public rooms in VWL are usually extremely quiet if he can nap without a bed.

And it can mean 5:30 or later sometimes. If you are checking in on Sunday, that is usually the busiest day to check in. So that would mean lots of checkouts. If you are looking for a quiet place for your child to take a nap, you might try the quiet pool at VWL or even the Iron Spike Room (or did they change the name to the Carrollwood Railroad room?).

 

[Cricket2]

If there are say, 100 rooms coming available on any particular day, 10-15 could be ready early, 10-15 might have problems and need a little time after 4:00 but magically (it is Disney after all) 70-80 rooms all become available exactly at 4:00 because the orchestration of Mousekeeping is so fine tuned and the high-tech gear they have all been issued allows for precise coordination of each and every Mousekeeper's efforts and skill sets to allow for an exact 4:00 release into the system validating the invaluable Disney Vacation Club guarantee of, “Ready after 4:00”. I wish you and yours the very best luck of an early room, but not wanting to see you pass out due to the lack of O2, I wouldn't hold your breath for too long.

 

[OKW Lover]

Sorry, but I've got to agree with the other posters that you aren't very likely to get into your DVC unit before 4:00. For the best chance, be sure to go over and check-in as early in the morning as you can manage. Then keep calling the number they give you to check on your room. I

Here's some pixie dust to help.

 

[Slakk]

Sorry, but I've got to agree with the other posters that you aren't very likely to get into your DVC unit before 4:00. For the best chance, be sure to go over and check-in as early in the morning as you can manage. Then keep calling the number they give you to check on your room. I

Here's some pixie dust to help.

Last Sunday we got our room at BWV at 8 am...so it does happen.

And it was the best room by far the best room we have ever had since joining DVC

 

[photobob]

My 3 WDW DVC stays: Ready at 1:30, Ready at 4 pm and ready when we checked in at 3 pm.

 

[mgilmer]

When we checked in at 8 am on Sunday, June 8, at the BCV, our 1 br was ready.

 

[Luvmyfam3]

Thanks for the...uh...well-wishes... Haha!! No, I really do appreciate the honesty. We are planning to get there very early to check-in and move on to the HS at opening. Sometimes our room has been available at check-in and sometimes it hasn't been available until 4:00. I was just curious how lucky people have been lately. I know it's a busy time!

Hey, we're at Disney, so how bad could it be???

 

[Muushka]

If you don't have any room requests and are willing to take first available, then you have a better chance of getting in before 4. Good luck!

 

[Luvmyfam3]

Nope! No special requests!! I've always been happy with their room selections!

Thanks!!

 

[Muushka]

Nope! No special requests!! I've always been happy with their room selections!

Thanks!!

You are a very rare person! I hope you get in nice and early, you deserve it!

 

[wildernessDad]

If you are looking for a quiet place for your child to take a nap, you might try the quiet pool at VWL or even the Iron Spike Room (or did they change the name to the Carrollwood Railroad room?).

It's the Carolwood Pacific Room now.

 

[maraki527]

Only once has our dvc room been ready before 4. Every other time we checked in and they gave us a number to call and see if our room was ready.

 

[Disneyhappy]

It has been hit or miss for us as to whether our room is ready by 4 PM. We always stay close by the first night and check-in first thing in the morning and still we have to wait until 4 or after most of the time. Last August, we checked-in at BCV at 8:30 AM and went to HS. Around noon and we started calling the phone # to see if our room was ready. My 10 year old niece was overcome by the heat. We were close to taking her to the ER. DH and I left the older kids and took DN back to BCV in a taxi. We explained to the desk that our niece was ill and anything they could do to get us in a room would be appreciated - any room. We were told it would still be a couple of hours but they did give us bottled water for her and ice which I thought was very nice. As there really was not anywhere else to go that was cool, we sat in the lobby at the only available seat - the round sofa thingy right in the middle of the lobby and it was facing the front desk. She was curled up with stomach cramps. As sick as she appeared, she was actually feeling and looking a little better than she did but to guests, she probably looked really bad. Whenever we tried to move her, she refused to move and wanted her mother. She was so scared, poor thing. Point of my story, a manager came by and asked what was wrong. I explained and the manger took off and came back 5 mintues later telling us he had a room available for us. I think this was around 3 PM. I have no idea if it was the original room we were waiting for or if the manager took care of us because DN was so sick. (I think he was afraid DN was going to vomit in the lobby as everyone around us thought, but she would scream whenever we tried to get her to move!) We were in our room no 30 minutes with her resting and all of a sudden she was bouncing off the walls again! Kids are so resilient. The most important moral of this story is that even if you think you are drinking enough fluids in the heat of the summer, drink even more. We thought we were flooding her with fluids but it was obviously not enough!