How do i change my booking to a 2 hotel stay?

[jasper1428]

I have booked a holiday for May 2022 at POP but I want to change a few nights to either Wolderness Lodge or Animal Kingdom Lodge. How do I alter my booking?
Also how do I go about moving hotels?

 

[starry_solo]

Did you book directly through Disney or via a travel agency?

If you booked directly through Disney and to do it online, I believe you will need to cancel the original booking and then book separately, each segment of the vacation. I know when I was trying to do something online with my hotel reservation, I only got the option to cancel and if I wanted to do something else, I was supposed to call them.

If you booked through a travel agency, contact them and let them know what you want done.

As far as moving hotels, you can either take a taxi, Uber, Lyft, or other rideshare option from one hotel to the next. If you want to just move luggage, go to luggage assistance at the value resort (Pop) if that's your first part of the stay and tell them you are moving resorts. Tell them where you are going and they will move the luggage to the other resort, You won't get it before 3-5 p.m.-ish.

 

[csimon]

Yes, it amounts to a cancelling and rebooking, it might make it a bit more seamless if you call Disney (assuming you booked directly in the first place) and get them to do it, they might just be able to reduce the days on your initial booking without cancelling and then make a second room-only booking, if you want to keep Pop as your first hotel. Did you book tickets too? You'll only need to buy one set of tickets to cover both hotel says but make sure they start with your first booking! If you want the deluxe hotel to be your first hotel then this is going to be more complicated and you'll definitely have to cancel and make two new bookings, with the tickets attached to the first booking.

I enquired about this recently - there is nothing special about a split stay, it's literally two hotel bookings with the second being a room-only booking without tickets.

Another option for moving hotels is to give your luggage to bell services and ask them to transfer for you as mention above, but then just go to your park as usual in the day and go back to the second hotel at night instead. Or take a break late afternoon to go back to the new hotel to check-in and retrieve luggage.