December 16-24, 2017

[disneychik21]

Hello! We are starting the early planning process for our next big family trip. There are 6 adults, 1 adult child (10), and 3 children 7, 4, 2. We are are DVC members with our home resort being at Animal Kingdom Lodge. I know there will be no problem booking that at the 11 month window. However, our favorite resort in Boardwalk. We stay in a Grand Villa.

We just returned from our last all family trip. It was during Spring Break week in the middle of Flower and Garden. We were able to switch our resort from AKL to BWV at the 7 month window with no problem (this was with 4 of the grand villas being closed for refurbishment.

What do you think is the likelihood of us getting to switch to Boardwalk at the 7 month window. I tried to use the resort availability tool to look what the availability is for this Christmas is now and nothing is available, but that is at basically 5 months not 7. I feel like a lot can change within 2 months.

 

[pjweaver]

BWV was easy for us to gey, though we had to upgrade to a garden/pool view. We got the room at 5 months out with no problem.

The period between Thanksgiving weekend and the week before Christmas is often less busy than July (when we are going), so the only issue is getting the grand villa ground floor request.