CSR-no rooms left in early Sept...

[Mrs. Pan]

My friend was thinking about coming with us to CSR in September (5-15) and there were no rooms left. I checked and sure enough on three sites they were booked. Do you think it will be that crowded? I am getting worried.... I know it is free dining and all but has anyone ever stayed at CSR when it was booked out and how was it?

 

[cheshirekitty]

There is a big convention from Sept 12-16th...and I think their room block releases on Aug 16th. If rooms aren't to capacity for what they put aside for them then they should be available after 8/16 but I'm not exactly positive.

 

[Mrs. Pan]

Do you know what convention it is?

 

[cheshirekitty]

It is an IRS convention. I just check on their website and the convention starts on 9/16 but their room block starts on 9/13 and it does release after 8/16.

 

[Buzz2001]

Here is my updated convention list.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=20261846&postcount=76

 

[catmorgn]

We just came back last week. CSR was booked up.. according to front desk. We had no problems with crowds, etc.. There was a military convention there and lots of army planning guys- plus 2 smaller conventions. Didnt see many of them except first thing in morning- lunch and dinner. in the restaurants- they were on schedules so if you went for later lunch, dinner - there was no line. No crowd at pool.. buses were not crowded either.

 

[shoegirl1020]

I just checked your dates on the disney website and had no problems getting a quote for a variety of dates in Sept., including the 5th through the 12th. By the way, I'm staying one night on the 13th and hoping it's not crowded.

 

[GinnyFavers]

There's a set pool of rooms for travel resellers like Expedia, Travelocity, etc. Often you can get rooms by calling Disney travel that are shown as unavailable at third party sites.

 

[timmac]

Not sure if it's another indirect cause, but isn't Night of Joy on Sept 7-8th? For fun, I looked about a month ago (too little time to do it realistically, though it would've been awesome for just my wife and I!), and there was some availability at a few places (nothing at a value at all, I'm sure free dining has something to do with that too), but seemed like the pickings were pretty slim overall.

Honestly, less than a month out, I think it might generally be pretty optimistic to expect to find something.