Dvc waitlist question

[Mhahnster]

I Have tried looking around for an answer to this but have not been successful. Hoping someone here may be able to help.

When booking a reservation I am given the option to "waitlist the entire stay" if one or more days are unavailable.

If I do that, are available days "mine" even if they waitlist doesn't come through on the other days? Or does it require the entire window of days to open up before available days are "mine"?

During peak times it would seem like the latter scenario would never work out.

 

[disneynutz]

No, you get nothing if the waitlist doesn't come through in it's entirety.

Waitlists often do not work out. Buy where you love to stay and book at 11 months.

Bill

 

[Mhahnster]

Thank you for that clarification. In the past I have used a method where I booked the available days under separate reservations from the waitlisted days. Sometimes using individual reservations for each waitlisted day. It seemed more complicated at the time and wanted to make sure I understood before doing it again.

 

[Sandisw]

Thank you for that clarification. In the past I have used a method where I booked the available days under separate reservations from the waitlisted days. Sometimes using individual reservations for each waitlisted day. It seemed more complicated at the time and wanted to make sure I understood before doing it again.

You definitely have a better chance doing it this way as it's easier for a waitlist to fill for less days. Of course, the drawback is that you have gaps and if it doesn't fill, you will be doing a lot of moving around.

But, I have had really good luck this way in ending up with what I want!

 

[rfc0001]

Thank you for that clarification. In the past I have used a method where I booked the available days under separate reservations from the waitlisted days. Sometimes using individual reservations for each waitlisted day. It seemed more complicated at the time and wanted to make sure I understood before doing it again.

Also, MS can waitlist additional days to add to an existing ressie. Either way, MS can merge two ressies if you do it the way you describe. One benefit to having MS do it is you can waitlist days onto the end of an existing ressie up to 7 months + 7 days which you wouldn't be able to waitlist manually (e.g if you reserve 7 months out and book 6 days, you can waitlist 7th day through MS whereas you can't create waitlist for 7months 7days out for 1 day manually). This is how people walk ressies.

 

[bdrobet]

Can one waitlist for a general timeframe, say any two days over the course of two weeks, or do you have to give specific days?

 

[HookdonWDW]

You have to book for specific dates, specific resorts and specific room categories. You can only have 2 active waitlists at a time.

 

[HookdonWDW]

What I will usually do is one of two things:

1. I will reserve the larger chunk of days, and waitlist the smaller number of days, and book a safety reservation for the smaller chunk of days so that I know I have somewhere to stay.

2. On our last trip, I decided to add-on after the fact, and couldn't book the first 3 days. I made a cash reservation for those days (Villa was available at a Member cash discount), and then waitlisted the days. When I lucked out and got my waitlisted days (I actually found them myself in the middle of the day), I booked the missing days and cancelled the cash reservations.