Connecting rooms

[disnutz]

I understand that if you have two adults, then connecting rooms are not guaranteed. i am trying to figure out whether anyone who has ever requested a connecting room has not gotten one. Tell me your stories!! I would not be happy to have to sleep without DH for the whole trip. We are thinking of POP, but I wondered if POP did not have any connectings, and we were willing to swtich, would the desk allow us to switch to another value?

 

[disneyfan55]

I understand that if you have two adults, then connecting rooms are not guaranteed. i am trying to figure out whether anyone who has ever requested a connecting room has not gotten one. Tell me your stories!! I would not be happy to have to sleep without DH for the whole trip. We are thinking of POP, but I wondered if POP did not have any connectings, and we were willing to swtich, would the desk allow us to switch to another value?

We have never had a problem getting connecting rooms when we requested them. My daughter has always faxed our requests (as well as requesting them when making our reservations) 2 days prior. I don't know if they would switch you if not available at your resort.

 

[disnut8]

I can tell you my story but it's a good one so probably not what you are looking for.

Husband and I arrive at Disney World on December 23rd at All Star Music. In-laws set to arrive on December 29th.
All adults.

I requested connecting rooms if possible (for the mother-in-law) but knew we'd be lucky to be on the same floor. It was Christmas and we were arriving on different days.

You can guess what happened. We got connecting rooms. Didn't have to move, didn't have to do anything.

We also got two side by side Fort Wilderness Cabins and my father's campsite was close enough we could walk back and forth.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Connecting rooms are NEVER guaranteed.
2) Although, certain circumstances make them more likely.
3) However, I have had lots of folks YELL at me because they didn't get connecting.

 

[disnutz]

Thanks - I keep hearing "not a guarantee", but i have never actually seen someone post that they didn't get the request.

 

[disnutz]

1) Connecting rooms are NEVER guaranteed.
2) Although, certain circumstances make them more likely.
3) However, I have had lots of folks YELL at me because they didn't get connecting.

Are you a CM? If so, if connecting are not available when we check in, do you think we could move to another resort?

 

[jkstewart1800]

I was told that if you have the same home address then they have to guarentee connecting rooms.

I guess that means that if you have a mom and a dad in separate rooms (with separate reservations) and you both live under one roof at home than they connect the rooms for you.

IF you go and say your parents or in laws want to share connecting rooms they aren't gauranteed connected because your not "family" or whatever.

THat is what I was told.

We'll see when we head to the Poly in August.

 

[BamaFan121s]

In all the trips we have made to WDW, we have ALWAYS gotten connecting rooms without a problem. (we make sure it is noted on the ressie, fax a few days prior, and ask again at check-in BEFORE the CM has gone through the whole process)
It is generally the only request we make.
I have found that the earlier in the day you check in, the more flexibility they have to move you to rooms that are 'unspoken' for.
They can move you to another resort provided there is availability there, but I wouldn't depend on that option. We asked to be moved to another resort at CBR once when we were told that Trinidad South was the only available location and magically, two rooms suddenly 'became available.'

 

[PeachesDoesHair]

We were at Pop in June and requested NOT to have connecting rooms with the in-laws and we still ended up with connecting rooms.

 

[minnie61650]

Disney tries hard but Disney does not book connecting rooms as a separate category. They do NOT block of certain connecting rooms ahead of time.
That means they fill the connecting rooms as the families check in. It is petty much first come first serve until they run out of connecting rooms.

A lot of connecting rooms have a handicapped accessible rooms as one the rooms. If a guest needs a HA room than that guest takes priority over a family who needs connecting rooms.

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As a mother of 4 (All grown now. My oldest is in her 30's and my youngest is 22) I often wished Disney had more options for larger families.
When the children were younger and we would go to Disney they did not have DVC or the family suites. In fact Disney did not have a Moderate until CBR opened in the late 1980's so if we wanted to stay onsite we either rented 2 rooms at a deluxe or stayed in the cabins.

I wrote to Disney many times over the years asking for more options for families so when I heard they were building the New Family Suites at All Star Music it just made me so happy!

In the late 80's I booked 2 connecting rooms at CBR for my family.
When we checked in there were no connecting rooms left but we were able to get rooms next to each other on the second floor.
Our two oldest were teens so I put them in one room and the 2 little ones who were 5 and 7 stayed with us. It worked for us because our older children were able to stay in a room without us but if they were younger DH and I would have had to split up.

Disney may say they guarantee connecting rooms but in reality Disney does not guarantee connecting rooms.

If there are 2 adults Disney can split the adults and children into two rooms that are not connecting. They try hard not to do this but it can and does happen sometimes. If however it is one adult with 5 children Disney should try harder to find connecting rooms since some of the children cannot be left in a room without an adult. But if you look at the threads posted below you will see that sometimes even Disney mixes up.


It does happen. Far too often IMHO.

From this thread;

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1145289

Just wanted to re-iterate what others have said:

We requesting connecting rooms at CBR in January--not really a busy time & we were early for check-in. They did not have us in connecting rooms. They said they could accommodate us, but it would be smoking rooms--which was our #1 request non-smoking.

We were side-by-side, so we just went outside to go next door, so it wasn't a huge deal for us. But if you definitely want to be together--I would go with a suite. You could also look into renting DVC points for a villa.

Here are a couple more threads about guests not getting connecting rooms:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1095679

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=785797&page=1&pp=15

From this thread:

http://disboards.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=13528958

One of the threads that Linda posted a link to was my experience last March. I had many conversations with the higher-ups at Guest Services and was told that even if it says "guaranteed" it is not truly "guaranteed." It just has higher priority over the "requests." Because on a given day, there might only be 25 connecting room sets opening up, but 27 "guaranteed connecting rooms for families" ressies checking in. 2 of those families are not going to get their "guarantee."

I know, I was shocked that we had to fight so hard to get put in rooms that had just been fumigated for lice (they were taken out of the inventory, but re-opened because we insisted we needed rooms.) I sort of assumed that if they didn't have the rooms for us, they'd find rooms elsewhere on Disney property. For that stay, we were sometimes 2 adults and sometimes only 1. Now we will book offsite if we need to do that again. If there are 2 of us adults, we book connecting and hope for the best. Otherwise, we'll split the kids.

My point is to make backup plans if you are depending on connecting rooms.

That is one of the main reasons if my family were young I would choose a Suite over 2 connecting rooms or I would be prepared that I may need to split the family up and sleep in a different room than DH.

 

[stitchlovestink]

We were at Pop in June and requested NOT to have connecting rooms with the in-laws and we still ended up with connecting rooms.