Double Reservation?

[BrittyRo]

I have a question and need input! I have Coronado booked Sept 8-19. I now heard the pool is going to be closed so I booked AS Movies for Sept 8-19. I’m waiting to cancel my Coronado until I hear official word from Disney that the pool is going to be closed. Will Disney cancel my reservations since I have two booked at the same time under the same names?
(Additional info: One is in MDE and one is not linked to MDE. Both are F&F discounts)
Thanks for the help!

 

[cwis]

Just so you know, I have several reservations in MDE at the moment. Some are overlapping, some are just at the same check-in and check-out dates, and none have been canceled by Disney so far.

I believe the only thing Disney cares about is that each room be assigned to a different MDE account, so that they know who is in each room. If reports on this board are to be trusted, you will be denied check-in if you have more than one room assigned to your account.

(If you're interested why this has been reported on this board, the discussion came in the CL thread: someone was asking if it would be possible that two of their friends book a non-CL room, and be assigned as additional guests on their CL-room, in accordance for the max capacity of the room, and several people reported they were denied when attempting this, as they were being told you could not have more than one room active, which would have been the case of their two friends.)

 

[disneyvoice]

You can have multiple rooms with the same names at the exact same time under the same MDE account. I have done this multiple times in the past and have never had any problem. Sometimes it's because we simply can't decide where we want to stay yet (we eventually cancel the other reservation when we decide), other times it's because we have other family traveling with us and we are paying for the room. In the situation where we are paying for another family member's room as the trip gets closer I have called WDW and they have been able to remove me as an occupant of the room so only the people actually staying in the room are listed, but the room itself still stays listed under my MDE account since we are paying for it.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

Just so you know, I have several reservations in MDE at the moment. Some are overlapping, some are just at the same check-in and check-out dates, and none have been canceled by Disney so far.

I believe the only thing Disney cares about is that each room be assigned to a different MDE account, so that they know who is in each room. If reports on this board are to be trusted, you will be denied check-in if you have more than one room assigned to your account.

(If you're interested why this has been reported on this board, the discussion came in the CL thread: someone was asking if it would be possible that two of their friends book a non-CL room, and be assigned as additional guests on their CL-room, in accordance for the max capacity of the room, and several people reported they were denied when attempting this, as they were being told you could not have more than one room active, which would have been the case of their two friends.)

I believe you are actually referencing my question on the CL thread as we have 2 guests in one non-CL room and 5 in a CL suite (with a capacity of 7). The question was if CL will allow the 2 non-CL guests to utilize CL since we aren't over capacity in the suite - people reported back that they answer may be no, but we have to check when we get to the resort. No one ever reported back that their room reservations were cancelled.

 

[cwis]

I believe you are actually referencing my question on the CL thread as we have 2 guests in one non-CL room and 5 in a CL suite (with a capacity of 7). The question was if CL will allow the 2 non-CL guests to utilize CL since we aren't over capacity in the suite - people reported back that they answer may be no, but we have to check when we get to the resort. No one ever reported back that their room reservations were cancelled.

I was referring to someone who replied to your thread that they couldn't have some guests in more than one room at the same time (although they wanted to do it mainly for the convenience not having to pay two CL rooms; I was not commenting on your case which is clearly different, given the reasons you explained; and I sincerely hope WDW will be able to accomodate you)

Also, you are correct in reminding that none of the reservations were cancelled by Disney, sorry if I misled anyone. I felt it would be interesting, given the topic, to remind that, while you can have multiple reservations at the same time (in MDE), Disney would sometimes not allow you to check-in (at the hotel) if you already have an ongoing reservation.

Unless this is something OP wanted to attempt (which I don't think it did), I believe everything will work as expected (as a reminder, I do personnally own multiple reservations for the same days in MDE).

 

[DisneyWishes14]

I was referring to someone who replied to your thread that they couldn't have some guests in more than one room at the same time (although they wanted to do it mainly for the convenience not having to pay two CL rooms; I was not commenting on your case which is clearly different, given the reasons you explained; and I sincerely hope WDW will be able to accomodate you)

Also, you are correct in reminding that none of the reservations were cancelled by Disney, sorry if I misled anyone. I felt it would be interesting, given the topic, to remind that, while you can have multiple reservations at the same time (in MDE), Disney would sometimes not allow you to check-in (at the hotel) if you already have an ongoing reservation.

Unless this is something OP wanted to attempt (which I don't think it did), I believe everything will work as expected (as a reminder, I do personnally own multiple reservations for the same days in MDE).

I'm curious how long you've had the multiple reservations with same days and overlapping days in your account? Our dates may shift for a stay in August and I'd like to make a second "just in case" reservation. I'm nervous to do it, because a phone CM told me they "purge" the system looking for reservations like this and I don't want anything to be cancelled.

 

[cwis]

I'm curious how long you've had the multiple reservations with same days and overlapping days in your account? Our dates may shift for a stay in August and I'd like to make a second "just in case" reservation. I'm nervous to do it, because a phone CM told me they "purge" the system looking for reservations like this and I don't want anything to be cancelled.

I have them for a few weeks. I'm curious if anyone has ever encountered a “purge”? I would assume not, because I expect this is the way most people would book their trip, if they require several rooms for their party.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

I have them for a few weeks. I'm curious if anyone has ever encountered a “purge”? I would assume not, because I expect this is the way most people would book their trip, if they require several rooms for their party.

That's what I'm interested in as well. There were a few reports last year of rooms being cancelled when more than one was listed with overlapping dates in MDE, but I haven't heard about that happening in a long time. Ugh. I don't think I'm willing to risk it!

 

[Spridell]

I currently have 2 rooms booked at the Poly under my name for the end of May. Staying at CL and have spoken to the concierge and they told me it was not a problem both rooms under my name, the only issue I might run into is the magic band will only open one of the rooms NOT both.

 

[FSU Girl]

I don't think it will be cancelled my fiance has two hotels currently booked on MDE for the exact same dates. He is staying one night before our wedding in a different room and then the rest of the trip with me. I'm not having him taken off the room for that first night so that night he has two hotel rooms. I've had no issue.

 

[dreamit]

Last December I had two rooms in my name for identical dates. (Originally booked one room with free dining for my daughter, sister, niece, and myself. Later a room only offer came out and I decided it would be worth the extra cost to have a second room. The problem was that I needed to keep all four of us on the first reservation so we'd all get free dining.) At one point I called reservations and spoke with a very knowledgeable CM who explained that a few days prior to a guest's check-in date, Disney's system scans for duplicate reservations and automatically cancels one reservation. She suggested that I place my sister as the main guest on the second room, which I did. She said it may not help, but it was better than having me as the lead on both reservations. Sure enough, without any contact from Disney, on our check-in day during a layover on our flight I saw that the second room was canceled. When we arrived at the resort, a CM sorted it out for me, but it was stressful and complicated and took a LONG time. One of the issues with the duplicate reservations is that Disney's system will not allow your magic brand access to two rooms on separate reservations. We were able to keep all four of us on the free dining reservation. My sister and niece were also assigned to the second room and were given key cards to access their room.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

Last December I had two rooms in my name for identical dates. (Originally booked one room with free dining for my daughter, sister, niece, and myself. Later a room only offer came out and I decided it would be worth the extra cost to have a second room. The problem was that I needed to keep all four of us on the first reservation so we'd all get free dining.) At one point I called reservations and spoke with a very knowledgeable CM who explained that a few days prior to a guest's check-in date, Disney's system scans for duplicate reservations and automatically cancels one reservation. She suggested that I place my sister as the main guest on the second room, which I did. She said it may not help, but it was better than having me as the lead on both reservations. Sure enough, without any contact from Disney, on our check-in day during a layover on our flight I saw that the second room was canceled. When we arrived at the resort, a CM sorted it out for me, but it was stressful and complicated and took a LONG time. One of the issues with the duplicate reservations is that Disney's system will not allow your magic brand access to two rooms on separate reservations. We were able to keep all four of us on the free dining reservation. My sister and niece were also assigned to the second room and were given key cards to access their room.

Wow. How stressful! Ok, not going to do it!! Thank you for reporting your experience.