Does MS have any different info on sold out parks?

[irazabul]

Hi - I am looking for tickets for my daughter and 3 others the third week of June. Dummy me waited too long to book tickets and now the only availability is Epcot when I go to the ticket availability screen. Does anyone have any experience if MS would do any better in terms of seeing availability, or is what I see on the ticket screen accurate?

I did a search and the strategy seems to be keep checking the site, so wondering if there is a better strategy out there.

Thanks.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

MS has no better data. DVC is completely separate from Parks.

 

[Heather07438]

I did a search and the strategy seems to be keep checking the site, so wondering if there is a better strategy out there.

Yep. This is the way. That’s really the only strategy. Goodluck mtfbwy!

 

[acpalmer]

Hi - I am looking for tickets for my daughter and 3 others the third week of June. Dummy me waited too long to book tickets and now the only availability is Epcot when I go to the ticket availability screen. Does anyone have any experience if MS would do any better in terms of seeing availability, or is what I see on the ticket screen accurate?

I did a search and the strategy seems to be keep checking the site, so wondering if there is a better strategy out there.

Thanks.

I have read that you should try to go ahead and book even if the Availability Calendar says that a park isn't available--that calendar doesn't update in real time and won't necessarily show availability for a park if they only have one or two openings. So keep going in and actually trying to book it regardless of what the calendar says. You might only get one or two at a time, but eventually you should be able to get all four of them into the same place.

 

[irazabul]

I have read that you should try to go ahead and book even if the Availability Calendar says that a park isn't available--that calendar doesn't update in real time and won't necessarily show availability for a park if they only have one or two openings. So keep going in and actually trying to book it regardless of what the calendar says. You might only get one or two at a time, but eventually you should be able to get all four of them into the same place.

Can you explain this a bit more, please? Do you mean go ahead and go through the process of purchasing tickets? Should I try purchasing one at a time? If it is truly not available, should I go ahead and book Epcot with hopes of changing it in the future? thanks

 

[Sandisw]

Can you explain this a bit more, please? Do you mean go ahead and go through the process of purchasing tickets? Should I try purchasing one at a time? If it is truly not available, should I go ahead and book Epcot with hopes of changing it in the future? thanks

The availability calendar will not catch cancellations immediately. So, it’s possible there are still a few that can be booked when you try.

But this does require you to have tickets purchased to try and grab them.

The one part of the system I don’t like is that it won’t allow you to replace without a cancel first. That could lose you the ones you have.

I did this for June and was lucky that we were able to get the days the way we wanted.

 

[irazabul]

The availability calendar will not catch cancellations immediately. So, it’s possible there are still a few that can be booked when you try.

But this does require you to have tickets purchased to try and grab them.

The one part of the system I don’t like is that it won’t allow you to replace without a cancel first. That could lose you the ones you have.

I did this for June and was lucky that we were able to get the days the way we wanted.

Thanks for that clarification. Just another Disney system quirk that will take forever to change, I suppose. So if our ticket is currently used to book the only park available, we have to cancel and then check if we can book another park. Wouldn't we risk losing the first park? That is so crazy

 

[pixieprincess925]

Thanks for that clarification. Just another Disney system quirk that will take forever to change, I suppose. So if our ticket is currently used to book the only park available, we have to cancel and then check if we can book another park. Wouldn't we risk losing the first park? That is so crazy

Exactly. I'm really hoping they change this system soon - especially if park passes will be around for a while longer...

 

[kniquy]

Hi - I am looking for tickets for my daughter and 3 others the third week of June. Dummy me waited too long to book tickets and now the only availability is Epcot when I go to the ticket availability screen. Does anyone have any experience if MS would do any better in terms of seeing availability, or is what I see on the ticket screen accurate?

I did a search and the strategy seems to be keep checking the site, so wondering if there is a better strategy out there.

Thanks.

Book what you can and if not park hopper tickets you might want to bite the bullet and change them to PH. Book what you can and then you or they can hop to another park after 2:00. People do change their plans so you could just keep checking and see if you can snag a different park. The only bad things about that scenario is that you have to cancel the first park in order to book a different park. That does run the risk of someone else snagging the reservation as you are cancelling the first.

 

[Narcoossee11]

Exactly. I'm really hoping they change this system soon - especially if park passes will be around for a while longer...

Park reservation system is here to stay

 

[pixieprincess925]

Park reservation system is here to stay

I meant that I hope they give the option to change your park reservation so you can do it without first cancelling your original selection and potentially lose it.

Once capacity restrictions are lifted and the parks are staffed back to "normal" levels, I'm not sure it'll really benefit WDW to keep the park reservation system. Uni has been operation this whole time without a reservation system and it's been working ok. Disney still needs to compete.

 

[Sandisw]

I meant that I hope they give the option to change your park reservation so you can do it without first cancelling your original selection and potentially lose it.

Once capacity restrictions are lifted and the parks are staffed back to "normal" levels, I'm not sure it'll really benefit WDW to keep the park reservation system. Uni has been operation this whole time without a reservation system and it's been working ok. Disney still needs to compete.

I would like them to keep it and then bring back FPs and onsite guests get first shot at those for the park they have reserved.

 

[Evita_W]

I would like them to keep it and then bring back FPs and onsite guests get first shot at those for the park they have reserved.

I really hope they don't bring back FP, at least not in its former version. Bring something like Maxpass at Disneyland, sure.

 

[CastAStone]

I have read that you should try to go ahead and book even if the Availability Calendar says that a park isn't available--that calendar doesn't update in real time and won't necessarily show availability for a park if they only have one or two openings. So keep going in and actually trying to book it regardless of what the calendar says. You might only get one or two at a time, but eventually you should be able to get all four of them into the same place.

I had lots of luck with this. The calendar isn’t reality.

 

[pixieprincess925]

I had lots of luck with this. The calendar isn’t reality.

I agree. Though I've only ever tried for 1-2 passes each day...

 

[pixieprincess925]

I would like them to keep it and then bring back FPs and onsite guests get first shot at those for the park they have reserved.

I don't know... I'm really liking how the stand by line doesn't stand still for a rrreeeaaalllyyy long time now without FP. You know that will change and all stand by wait times will go up once FPs come back...

With that said, I also liked having FP for the rides I really wanted to get to. So I'm really on the fence here.