Help----After 15 years , my 1st waitlist !!

[Debby7]

I have been a member since 1994 and just had to make my first waitlist request. I want BCV studio for July 18-20. Only the 1st night was available so I booked BWV and waitlisted the BCV. I know they told me to monitor the booking on the website, but has anyone had luck by just calling? If so , how often and what time of day is best to call? Any opinions as to if this will come through? Thanks ,everbody!

 

[surfer_ed]

I just check online. Lately almost everyday.

I have had to waitlist before and have always got it, but I am waitlisted for May since June and it still has not come in...

 

[Tiger926]

I have been a member since 1994 and just had to make my first waitlist request. I want BCV studio for July 18-20. Only the 1st night was available so I booked BWV and waitlisted the BCV. I know they told me to monitor the booking on the website, but has anyone had luck by just calling? If so , how often and what time of day is best to call? Any opinions as to if this will come through? Thanks ,everbody!

Best of luck! We had BCV 1 bedroom and a studio at one point for that same week, but we gave it up for Boardwalk. We are now back on a waitlist for BCV 1 bed for July 12-17 and I'm not sure if it's going to come through either. No big deal as we are excited to try Boardwalk, but DD decided she really would miss Stormalong Bay, so we went on waitlist should a villa become available. We are getting her pumped for BWV, but we are still going to stay on waitlist as we would switch if it became available as we are staying at BWV the following 4 days (we always do split stays).

I wish you luck - this is our 1st waitlist as well, and I can't make sense of how it works. I've received several different answers from MS about how the waitlist works, so it will be interesting to see if it pans out for us, and for you!

Tiger

 

[daisyduck123]

Here's hope....people cancel/change plans ALL the time.

Just last week, my waitlist for a studio at AKV Monday July 27th came thru, and I had a studio booked at BCV for that nite, so some lucky person was then able to get my BCV studio. (We're doing a split stay BCV/AKV & I wanted to get to AKV one nite earlier).

Some of us DVCers switch around a lot (if any of you are familiar with edk35 then you know what I'm talking about...sorry Denise ).

So there's still hope you'll get it.

 

[Tiger926]

Here's hope....people cancel/change plans ALL the time.

Just last week, my waitlist for a studio at AKV Monday July 27th came thru, and I had a studio booked at BCV for that nite, so some lucky person was then able to get my BCV studio. (We're doing a split stay BCV/AKV & I wanted to get to AKV one nite earlier).

Some of us DVCers switch around a lot (if any of you are familiar with edk35 then you know what I'm talking about...sorry Denise ).

So there's still hope you'll get it.

Yup, some of us do switch around a lot - edk35 and I are currently in the lead for this title, I think - LOL!!

Good luck to OP, Tiger

 

[CarolynK]

We just had our waitlist come through for June 28 in a 1-br standard view at Boardwalk. We figured no way were we going to get it - it's the Sunday before July 4th. But, we got the confirmation in the mail last week (I wasn't even bothering to check the website since it was such a longshot!). So, you never know!

 

[simmons_m]

What website are you checking for availbility?
Thanks,
Mike

 

[sgtdisney]

We've been on a waitlist a couple of times in the past, and they have always come through. The last time we were on one was in 2007 for a GV in OKW over a spring break week, and we got it. I am on a waitlist for this summer at HHI, so I am hoping it comes through this time as well. I have been checking the member website every few days to check if it came through or not. I talked to Member Services today, to check some other dates, and still no availability, but she said the best place to check is the website as the information shows up in less than a minute after the waitlist is confirmed. Good luck!

 

[msabol01]

I've waitlisted 4 times so far and have gotten them 3 times (the 4th was a second waitlist). I've found that the system works well and the waitlist will occur without any calling or reminding.

You can check the DVC Member website under your vacation points in detail, plus you will get your confirmation in the mail 7-10 days.

One thing I have noticed is that if your waitlist doesn't come through at the 31 day mark your chances of getting go down dramatically. This makes sense considering any cancellations at this point will place points into holding.

Best of luck and have faith, waitlists DO happen and happen often!

 

[DMKEDM]

It's all speculation, of course, but I'm inclined to think the new W/L rules are changing things...

Used to be we could W/L day-by-day (and all such wait lists I'd used came through). Then we couldn't do day-by-day, but could do as many W/Ls as we wanted...now, we can only do two and they cannot be day-by-day.

MS says this reduces the many changes members were making. Whether it increases, decreases or has no effect on chances for a W/L coming through I don't know.

I do know that no W/L I've ever done came through in more than one or two-day increments. So I'm inclined to think that a W/L for more than one day or possibly two days has a lesser chance for success. And the more days one W/Ls for, the lesser the chances of a match.

But I don't know.

I only know that my recent attempt to get a studio at either BCV or BWV for any night or all nights from 3/15 through 3/20 did not work, and that my effort to change from an OKW one-bedroom reservation to a BCV one-bedroom--which started prior to the "only two W/Ls" rule--worked, but only a day at a time...never got more than one day at a time...I both called and used the W/L and a couple of times "snagged" the one-day availability at BCV when the W/L hadn't because the W/L had to be a multi-day W/L...

It's now both much simpler and much more complicated if you're trying to piece together a reservation.

I'm thinking it may prove to be nearly impossible to do the kind of short-notice reservation piecing-together I used to be able to do. This may be good for the "system," but certainly is not good for my family. While we can and do book our T-giving trip 11 months out, getting a commitment even 7 months out, much less 11, from any of the people who go w/me (my college/law school student DS and various friends and other family members) is next to impossible--so losing the ability to piece together short-notice reservations has been a big "hit" for me & my family.

Not sure yet what I'm going to to do about it. I'm sad, as DVC no longer works particularly well for me. But I'm giving it some time to see how it all works out.

 

[CarolMN]

What website are you checking for availbility?
Thanks,
Mike

They aren't checking for availability. They are checking the Members' Website to see if the new reservation shows up. That's how you tell if your waitlist came through.

Once you log on to the members' website (www.dvcmember.com), look for the "Vacation Details" link under the My Membership Section (right hand column). Once there you will see your actual reservation(s).

 

[auntsue]

I found that my waitlist came through by checking the website. We had holding points and were only able to get seven nights 60 days out, but I wanted an extra night at BWV. The last Sunday came through in less than two weeks. Now I waitlisted the BWV part of the trip for BW view. I hate wasting preferred points and not getting that view, but I have no false hopes that I will actually get it. I realize that my chances are slim, but I was not expecting that we would be able to get anywhere other than OKW or SS so we were thrilled to get VWL/BWV. I was actually doing a lot of research on SS and we've already stayed at OKW and loved it, so you just never know. VWL will be a new experience for us and of course BWV is our home and we love being close to EP and DHS.

 

[Anal Annie]

Just last week, my waitlist for a studio at AKV Monday July 27th came thru, and I had a studio booked at BCV for that nite, so some lucky person was then able to get my BCV studio. (We're doing a split stay BCV/AKV & I wanted to get to AKV one nite earlier).

Some of us DVCers switch around a lot (if any of you are familiar with edk35 then you know what I'm talking about...sorry Denise ).

So there's still hope you'll get it.

We tried to book a week in a studio at BCV at 7 months and 1 day in the middle was not available. So we just booked BWV instead and waitlisted BCV. It came thru on the website within a couple of days. We'd have been happy with trying either place, but I'd just figured SAB was the place to be for a summer vacation!

 

[DisneyisGr8]

If you do not come up on the waiting list, you can call the week before your trip and you might get in. We have been on the waiting list for Hilton Head for the past two years, but have had no luck. I called both years the week before we wanted to go, and have gotten in both years. There is no waiting list the week before, everyone falls off the waiting list 7 days before the date requested. Good Luck!

 

[BEASLYBOO]

We just had our waitlist come through for June 28 in a 1-br standard view at Boardwalk. We figured no way were we going to get it - it's the Sunday before July 4th. But, we got the confirmation in the mail last week (I wasn't even bothering to check the website since it was such a longshot!). So, you never know!

When did you waitlist? It might give me hope!

 

[CarolynK]

When did you waitlist? It might give me hope!

I just looked at my notes...I called MS on March 4 and we got the confirmation in the mail March 16. This was the quickest and most surprising waitlist we've ever had success with! There IS hope!!

 

[BEASLYBOO]

I just looked at my notes...I called MS on March 4 and we got the confirmation in the mail March 16. This was the quickest and most surprising waitlist we've ever had success with! There IS hope!!

Thank you, I did it about a week later so there is still hope!

 

[Luckymommyx2]

I'm with you on my first waitlist ever! Being a compulsive over-planner, it is especially hard. We only need one day but it's for a dedicated 2bed at BCV's so right now I have the Hyatt booked at MCO as my backup. I've been waiting for almost a month now and the longer it goes, the worse I feel my chances are. It won't be the end of the world if I don't get it but it would make it a lot more convenient! Good luck to everyone on the waitlist!