How often are all Disney hotels completely sold out?

[Friendly Frog]

I have not been in about 5 years and have only gone in low season because I can not do crowds. I just saw that every single hotel on Disney property is sold out for my vacation time. Yikes! How often does this happen? Really worried about crowd levels.

 

[Meglen]

What are your times ? Also.. all year it's busy so I'm not sure how big crowds u can handle.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Kinda regularly. Disney work the rates so that their hotels run at 90%+ average occupancy year-round, and when that's the average, it means many nights at 100%.

How busy the parks are is related more to off-site visitors and locals than it is to people in the resorts, although a few of the times where the resorts are packed the parks are too (NYE is an example).

 

[VAfamily1998]

So when the website is showing that absolutely everything is sold out, what does Disney do when there's a problem with a room? Things like unexpected plumbing/HVAC issues that need to be fixed? Has anyone ever experienced or hear of a situation where Disney couldn't provide a room in one of their own hotels and had to "walk" a guest a different local hotel?

 

[Meglen]

So when the website is showing that absolutely everything is sold out, what does Disney do when there's a problem with a room? Things like unexpected plumbing/HVAC issues that need to be fixed? Has anyone ever experienced or hear of a situation where Disney couldn't provide a room in one of their own hotels and had to "walk" a guest a different local hotel?

I believe they try to get an upgrade at another hotel so say POR is full they would maybe book u at CRT.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

So when the website is showing that absolutely everything is sold out, what does Disney do when there's a problem with a room? Things like unexpected plumbing/HVAC issues that need to be fixed? Has anyone ever experienced or hear of a situation where Disney couldn't provide a room in one of their own hotels and had to "walk" a guest a different local hotel?

I've, personally, never heard of anyone ever been walked to a non-WDW hotel. Inventory changes constantly and just because a certain date range shows no availability, it doesn't mean rooms aren't available for a night here or a night there (hence people cobbling together split stays when availability is limited). Just recently, in the case at RIV when the wall unit fell and they had to take Murphy beds out of commission, word was those guests were being moved to other rooms at RIV even though that resort was also showing no availability. In that case, it appears they simply didn't sell all of their inventory for one reason or another.

 

[pooh2001]

I would love to show up at POFQ at our 10 PM arrival time and told politely we have been moved to a deluxe

 

[dansdad]

Really worried about crowd levels.

WDW resort occupancy has very little affect on park crowds.

 

[dansdad]

So when the website is showing that absolutely everything is sold out, what does Disney do when there's a problem with a room?

They take a small percentage of rooms and don't make them available for rent for this exact reason.

 

[DigitalOlli]

Last Year we stayed at POFQ and need 2 extra nights because we are flying later as planed. It was completly sold out, but i went to the front desk and a very nice CM called somebody in the back and we get a room for 2 nights and we can stay in the same room. We also get the sun and fun discount with the gift card

There are rooms for such a situation.

 

[AngiTN]

So when the website is showing that absolutely everything is sold out, what does Disney do when there's a problem with a room? Things like unexpected plumbing/HVAC issues that need to be fixed? Has anyone ever experienced or hear of a situation where Disney couldn't provide a room in one of their own hotels and had to "walk" a guest a different local hotel?

There's always a percentage of rooms held back for this reason. They will not book 100% of every single room on property.

 

[Disneytam]

We were staying at the BWI CL when an early March snowstorm canceled a lot of flights. We fly Southwest and they are notorious for canceling flights with bad weather so I changed our flight adding a day to our trip. The CL staff couldn't get me a room at the BWI but I did find a room at the YC. Later in the day I stopped to ask to see if I could find a room at the BWI and was told that they were helping guests to book hotels that were off Disney property as the entire resort (all the resorts at Disney) was booked full.

We also had a stay at the GF RPC that we had been upgraded to a three bedroom suite for three nights. On the first night the drain on the tub cracked and soaked the floor in the hallway outside of the bathroom and the smell was really over powering (think a wet sheep) but they couldn't move us due to the hotel being full. We spent the night on the pull out couch and on the floor in the living room with fans drying out the rug. So sometimes they really don't have any room to move you to.

 

[FSU Girl]

It could also have to do with your length of stay. Sometimes if you are looking at a shorter stay it will show as sold out, but if you put in a longer stay the same room will now show available. They have an algorithm to prevent orphan rooms.

 

[Hitchhiking Ghost]

I'm going for a conference last week of April. Its several thousand people and I'm pretty sure they are getting holds at Swan/Dolphin, YC&BC, BW, POR and CSR. I tried to look online thru Disney website, couldn't find anything unless it was club level suite. Through the conference I got BC for $259 a night. My guess is, closer to the event date, they release their holds on the rooms and inventory "magically" appears.

 

[married2mm]

I'm going for a conference last week of April. Its several thousand people and I'm pretty sure they are getting holds at Swan/Dolphin, YC&BC, BW, POR and CSR. I tried to look online thru Disney website, couldn't find anything unless it was club level suite. Through the conference I got BC for $259 a night. My guess is, closer to the event date, they release their holds on the rooms and inventory "magically" appears.

May I join your conference and thus a reduced deluxe room?
It will be my birthday

 

[Friendly Frog]

Thanks everyone. changing lenght of stay from 7 days to 3 did not make a difference and my travel date is very close. Fingers crossed it is not too busy. PS what an amazing rate for BC!!