Originally posted by sap1227
My grandparents are DVC members and want to stay in the same room they stayed in last time they were at Vero Beach.
Expecting to check into a specific room number almost guarantees disappointment.
First, someone has to be checking out of that room on the same morning that you (or, in this case, your grandparents) are checking in. If it was assigned three days earlier to a family that's staying for a week, the specific room will be unavailable.
If, by coincidence, the room will become available on your check-in day, it may already be assigned to someone else whose requests were handled before yours. Again the specific room will be unavailable.
Then, all the room assigner can do is guess at why you asked for that room number. Was it the floor? The view? The proximity to parking? The distance from the pool?
Regardless of which DVC resort you're staying at, you're better off requesting the general location, view, or floor that's important to you, not the room number.