Dec 08 Waitlist thread

[SuzanneSLO]

I'm on the waitlist for any studio at BWV from December 7th - Dec. 12th.

Were any of those nights available or did you just chose to waitlist for the whole trip? -- Suzanne

 

[icouldlivethere]

Were any of those nights available or did you just chose to waitlist for the whole trip? -- Suzanne

I'm very new at this. I just received my points and this is my first attempt at a waitlist. I wasn't asked if I wanted to do day by day. Would I be better off doing day by day. I think if I remember correctly she had 1 preferred view studio on the 8th but that was the only studio for those dates. I waitlisted for all 3 categories.

Would I have been better off taking the one night that was available and waitlisting for the remainder of the days?

 

[Claire L]

Do you know when you added yourself to the waitlist? I'm trying to guesstimate how far down I ould be on the list. LOL. I got put on the wait list in early March, for an early December 7-14th trip.
Thanks.

I waitlisted on 1/31 for each day individually

Claire

 

[SuzanneSLO]

Would I have been better off taking the one night that was available and waitlisting for the remainder of the days?

As to which is better, it depends on your back-up plan and how many points you have, especially now that filling the waitlist is automatic. You are much more likely to have your waitlist fulfilled for at least some nights if you waitlist each day separately. For example, if you waitlist separately for a Wed night and someone cancels that one night, you will get that night rather than the person who went on the waitlist before you but wanted both Wed and Thur night together.

The problem with waitlisting for each night separately is that there may be one or more nights for which the waitlist never comes through. The toughest nights seem to be Sun and Thur.

So if you have enough points (without having to borrow), I would book the one available night, waitlist each remaining night separately AND also waitlist for all you nights as a single reservation. Depending on your success rate, you can cancel any extra nights as long as you do it more than 30 days in advance (and if needed, far enough out to allow you to bank the extra points into the next year). Because we fly, we usually have to make a final decision in time to book our air tickets, so we cancel any unfilled waitlists at least 4 months prior to arrival.

If you don't want to move mid-stay and don't have the points to hold more than 1 reservation, then I would not waitlist for each day seperately. Your most likely outcome for an early Dec waitlist not made close to 11 months in advance is that you will get some but not all nights. So if you can book the 8th today, you may be lucky enough to also get the 7th, 9th and 10th, but might still need to move to another resort for the 11th and 12th.

I would guess from this thread, however, that it is possible that a waitlist for the 7th may never come through. So if you need to arrive on the 7th, having the BWV on the 8th, 9th and 10th, but not on the 7th, 11th or 12th, would mean moving more than once.

As you can tell, there usually isn't a simple answer as to which is "better." It depends on many factors. Best of luck to you -- Suzanne

 

[Donald is #1]

Bumping us back up.

 

[bpmorley]

I start calling in 2 days. I'll let you know how it turns out in the months to come

 

[Donald is #1]

I start calling in 2 days. I'll let you know how it turns out in the months to come

Excellent thanks! My window opens up a week from today. My sister and the kids will be visiting for the weekend. I already told her that I "have" to make a call at 9 AM on Sunday. Luckily she understands.

 

[bpmorley]

Excellent thanks! My window opens up a week from today. My sister and the kids will be visiting for the weekend. I already told her that I "have" to make a call at 9 AM on Sunday. Luckily she understands.

Luckily for me DW will make the calls. She's always better on the phone than me.

 

[icouldlivethere]

As you can tell, there usually isn't a simple answer as to which is "better." It depends on many factors. Best of luck to you -- Suzanne

Hi Suzanne, Thanks so much for all of the great info and things to think about. After reading what you had to say and thinking about it I decided to cancel the backup reservation I had for Nov. 16th - Nov. 21 to free up the points for when I really want to go which is in December.

I've never been when the Christmas decorations are up and think this would make a wonderful first trip home. After talking to a wonderful CM at MS this morning I decided to keep all of my studio waitlists for Dec. 7th - Dec. 12th and in addition I booked a preferred view studio for Nov. 30th and Dec. 2nd and waitlisted the nights of Dec. 1st, 3rd and 4th. I have also wailtlisted the entire stay from Nov. 30th until Dec. 5th for both S and BW views. I let the CM know that I only wanted to go one of the weeks and would take whichever waitlist came through first.

I also asked him if he could check for availability at other resorts. He said the only studios available at this time were at OKW and SSR with a smattering of AKL dates during the week of Nov. 30th - Dec. 5th. Of course this could all change once the 7 month window opens.

I was really surprised to hear about the smattering of studios at AKL. He even had a concierge studio available the night of Dec. 5th if anybody out there who owns at AKL is interested. Of course that is a Friday night so it will take more points.

 

[Donald is #1]

I was really surprised to hear about the smattering of studios at AKL. He even had a concierge studio available the night of Dec. 5th if anybody out there who owns at AKL is interested. Of course that is a Friday night so it will take more points.

Why couldn't it be 12/3 or 12/7? Actually, I will be attempting to move to either BCV or BWV (1BR) for my trip at 7 months and I will book any resort available for those nights so that at least I have a room.

 

[icouldlivethere]

Now that it is May I'm just wondering if anybody has had any luck or seen any movement on their waitlist. In other words have any dominoes started to fall yet?

 

[GoofyDad13]

We are waitlisted at BWV for any studio, Dec 28-Jan 2. The rep at MS said there is no availablility for any type of room for that period. When I asked about other locations, she said no studios for the entire time period at any of the resorts.

 

[Donald is #1]

We are waitlisted at BWV for any studio, Dec 28-Jan 2. The rep at MS said there is no availablility for any type of room for that period. When I asked about other locations, she said no studios for the entire time period at any of the resorts.

No other studios available?

 

[LVSWL]

No other studios available?

That's gonna make it kind of tough to start those dominos

 

[PutnamDS]

I'm waitlisted for a 2-bedroom at SSR for the night of December 7. I'm hoping with the size of the resort something will open up!

Deb

 

[poggs]

Just made a reservation for 30th nov to 2nd dec at OKW. Thus please remove me from the waitlist for the 2nd december as I've jumped to OKW. There will also be the night of the 30th and 1st dec in a 1 bed AKV value up for grabs......

 

[Disney Kim]

add me to the list..

I just called and wanted a room for dec 6-13 at BWV in a studio, was able to book the night of the 6 and the 12, now I just need all the days in between

I asked to be waitlisted for any day that might come through

I'm hoping that maybe at the 7 month mark things might open up, does that usually happen???

 

[Donald is #1]

Well, I called MS at just a couple of minutes after 9 this morning and was able to get straight through. Well, the good news is that I was able to book a room for 12/3, the bad news is that I couldn't get BCV or BWV. I was able to BWV.

Also, in talking to the CM, the only resorts with 1 BRs available for 12/3 are SSR and OKW.

 

[icouldlivethere]

I called this morning at 9 am also asking for any studio for the night of Dec. 3rd and the only things available were OKW and SSR. I fail to see how any of the dominoes are going to fall if there isn't anywhere for anybody to move to. I booked the nights of Nov. 30th and Dec. 2rd in a BWV PV studio shortly before the 7 month window opened up in hopes I would pick up the night of Dec. 1st when the dominoes started to fall but now I'm wondering if that's ever going to happen.

I went ahead and booked SSR for the night of Dec. 3rd this morning and am remaining on the waitlist for BWV. Tomorrow I will try and grab the night of Dec. 4th at SSR while remaining on the waitlist for that night also. I don't mind moving once but don't want to have to move more than once so I will have to make a decision about whether or not I want to give up the night of Dec. 2nd at the BWV and try and see if I can book Dec. 1st and 2nd at SSR and change my BWV waitilist to Dec. 1st - Dec. 4th. That way I will at least have confirmed rooms for all 5 nights and will be able to stay at least one night at my home resort for my first trip home.

 

[BriarRose59]

We have a 2bdrm at AKV for Dec. 20-26. At 7 mos. we will waitlist for a GV at AKV for those same dates. I didn't have enough AKV points to get the GV so I am waiting to be able to use my SSR points.