How do room requests work?

[dbkelly]

Are room requests assigned or handed out at the time of reservation or when you check in? If we check in early, do we have a much better chance of getting our request? How difficult is it to get a dedicated studio at BWV?

Thank You

 

[TiggerFreak]

The "Room Assigner" will have assigned your room 2 days prior to your arrival, with requests being granted based on the reservation with the earliest date (and time?). So if you made you ressie 325 days out and someone else made the same exact requests at 324 days out, yours would be given priority. But this is a gross simplification, because the matrix of room types, length of stay, requests and date reservation was made, must be like creating a crossword puzzle. So unless there is something we have not been made aware of, arriving earlier than someone else would not affect which room you get, beacuse the room was assigned to your reservation days before you showed up at the front desk!

I wonder if the Room Assigner uses a list of rules on a reservation by reservation basis, or is there some custom software being used??? Anybody know????
It would be some wicked code to implement the rules

 

[DisneyHumbug]

Does the order of priority concerning requests change if you call back and add another request to your ressie? In other words, if when I made the ressie I requested non-smoking. Now, several months later I call and add something else - such as first floor - what happens to my ressie? anything?

 

[EROS]

My experience with room requests is more akin to Dexter's Lab . You never know what will come out .....

 

[sjpvac]

Having just returned from my 10th trip home, I can tell you that I have never had a request honored, whether I made the ressie 11 months before or 11 weeks before, except for the time that the room, which was still dirty at check-in, miraculously gave me enough ammunition to convince the senior cast member that it was time for some extra consideration and I got what I requested.

 

[Dean]

You make the requests and they sit around laughing at them? LOL. Seriously, make them as early as possible, make sure they are listed and in the order you want and only ask for what you really want. The more or more specific you ask for, the unlikely you'll get much of anything. If you ask for smoking or non or a general area of a resort, you will likely get what you want. Handicapped or medical requests (nonsmoking for example) are handled first then it's earliest submitted. They have been doing some assigning at check in which may not follow the above order very well but it remains to be seen how this will affect the process long term.