Do you think when you check in effects your room location?

[RachaelA]

We usually check in before 10 every trip. they've changed our room assignment after I asked if they had a different one so I would assume it was pulled from someone else. This past trip, they told us one was ready (at 9am) or we could wait for the one they assigned us originally. We ended up just waiting for the original room because it fit all our requests.

 

[JWG]

I do not think when you check in matters. We tend to check in early more often than not and I don't think we've seen any advantages. We requested a high floor in BLT and were about halfway up. In AKV we've always requested a low floor in Kidani and have always been 4th floor or higher.

A couple of times we've accepted our room and a couple of times we've asked if they had anything closer to our request. When we've asked we've never been given anything better even if willing to wait.

As membership continues to grow and people continue to get more "picky" I believe they'll continue to be a bit less accommodating. We've learned to be happy we're there at all and if we get our request, great. If not, we're still at Disney!

 

[bumbershoot]

We checked in a few time really late and it seems we either got handicap rooms or rooms really far away from the lobby. I at least have it in my head, that if I check in early, I will get a "good" room.

It just depends on what they have and when they have it. If you check in really early and few people have checked out yet, they don't know when a given room will be available. Or rather, if it will be available earlier.

You could get there late just as a primo room is finally vacated and cleaned and you could be assigned that one.

Rooms are never assigned at the point of check-in.

Sure they can be. Just depends on what happened earlier that day.

Room assignment is like a big game of Jenga.

That can be undone by the wrong person being assigned the wrong room. Like giving a HA room to a family who *has to* have a tub. etc.


Few years back the CM at OKW literally took the room info out of another person's folder and input the info into my reservation. Said that we were there and that person wasn't, so it was ours. (this was NOT based on my request, we just wanted to get checkin done, put our bags at Bell, and get on with our day, but the CM wanted us in a room that was ready)

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Sure they can be. Just depends on what happened earlier that day.

In all likelihood, the room WAS assigned. The stuff that happened that day is RE-assignment.

And, re:

That can be undone by the wrong person being assigned the wrong room. Like giving a HA room to a family who *has to* have a tub. etc.

I suspect the assignors HATE when that stuff all starts coming down, because then they get to re-Jenga everything.

 

[PatMcDuck]

We checked into VGC at 4 pm 1 1/2-2 years ago. (came in from the east coast). I had requested upper floor room (WoC view, but that is always a crap shoot). They said they had trouble finding my reservation (which seems weird) because my room had been switched 3X that day. The CM told me this, that we had been switched around. SO, we got: FIRST floor, handicapped room, "view" of a wall near the side of the pool. It was the last room left, they said. I was able to get room switched the next day (to a 3rd floor, average view) room, because the 1st floor room was not suitable for my autistic son (he could literally just exit the slider door and walk away, there was not even a railing around the outside area). (They told me I need to tell them in advance it is a medical reason not to be on first floor, not just to request an upper floor? Will figure that out for our next trip).

Next trip I am checking in early, staying one night in a regular room at GC, before moving over to VGC.

 

[ell13]

If the 2-week assignment is true, then it "shouldn't" matter when people check in. However, it seems people changing rooms at check-in could affect the assignment for those checking in later. I've been in every category... Check in early; get what I want. Check in early; try to change rooms to at least a better location. Check in late; get what I want. Check in late; stuck in a "bad" spot.

My point is that while time may not always matter, the early check-ins may have some advantage in that they could have more options for a change when at the front desk.