Do Site Reservations Open Up?

[One Hit Wonder]

Looking to book a ressie at FW for Jan 23 - Feb 2 2014. At the moment nothing is available (I thought 5 months planning ahead during a low season would be good but I guess not haha).

Anyway what are the chances this opens up??
or should I start planning my vacation elsewhere.

Anyone else ever had a similar experience?

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) You are looking at a very popular time.
2) Retirees and vacations like this time of year.
3) All campsites are released.
4) You need to look for a cancellation.
5) Or, try to book for more days.

 

[KPSmithSr]

Hi One,

This is not too uncommon. Sometimes you can try different start and end dates and piece together your desired stay. Other times you can reserved a bigger stay and then call to cut it down. I did look at a couple of the above and they are full there too. (Assuming partial hookup is not what you want.) In this case I would just try a couple times a day, I have always had something open up but I have not camped at the Fort at that time of year. Good luck.

 

[jbrostek]

We have been traveling and arriving at Disney the weekend after new years. You would think this would not be a hard time to get a reservation, but in order to get the 3-4 sites and setup our grand gathering we have to reserver in February for the following January. It can be difficult to get the 3 core families and those still on the fence to lock in arrival and departure dates, but the one time we waiting we had a hard time getting enough sites and even then disney scattered us through 3 loops for 4 sites which we where eventually able to get closer together after some discussion after checkin.

 

[2goofycampers]

Keep trying, be very persistent. At 45 days out people with packages will cancel and at about a week out people with room only will cancel.

 

[mrzrich]

Sounds counter intuitive, but try searching for longer stays. Add a few days to the front and back end of your stays. Sometimes disney'd reservation system show spots for a 10 day stay, but not a 5 day stay. Then you can call and cancel the days you don't need. Disney's reservation system is weird this way.

I did this just today. I Needed Oct 15 to the 22. Had to book October 15 to 24 and then call and cancel the 2 extra days.

 

[One Hit Wonder]

Thanks guys. I've been able to find openings for the week after but I'm going to keep trying. Thanks for the advice.