Maddysdaddy
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Hi all. I just needed to vent about my screw up and figured this was as good a place as any to do that.
I received my daughter's 2015-2016 school calendar in May and saw that as a result of a longer school day, she had a few extra days off school in November. Went ahead and booked flights and waitlisted at the VGC, as all the nights we wanted were booked.
Finally reached the two month mark, with the waitlist still not having come through, so decided to bite the bullet and use our points to stay at one of the hotels on property - knowing that if we had to cancel, our schedules wouldn't allow us to take another trip to use the points before they expired. That (along with the hope that the waitlist would come through) wasn't a risk that I wanted to take that far out (and I'm even nervous about it with the trip still two months away).
I called MS this morning and found out that they were only able to book five out of the six nights we needed, which was disappointing, but I figured that if I had to pay for 1 night out of pocket, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I then called Disney reservations to try to book the last night, and found out that they are completely sold out at all three hotels. I hadn't done my research, which would have shown that our trip coincided with the Avengers weekend - and that's on me.
I now feeling like an idiot for having waited so long to book.
Trying to find the silver lining in the situation, I think that this may be our opportunity to finally stay at and try out Universal Hollywood.
Anyway, vent over. Not looking for sympathy for my own mistakes. Just needed to get this off my chest so I can try to stop beating myself up for being so foolish.
I received my daughter's 2015-2016 school calendar in May and saw that as a result of a longer school day, she had a few extra days off school in November. Went ahead and booked flights and waitlisted at the VGC, as all the nights we wanted were booked.
Finally reached the two month mark, with the waitlist still not having come through, so decided to bite the bullet and use our points to stay at one of the hotels on property - knowing that if we had to cancel, our schedules wouldn't allow us to take another trip to use the points before they expired. That (along with the hope that the waitlist would come through) wasn't a risk that I wanted to take that far out (and I'm even nervous about it with the trip still two months away).
I called MS this morning and found out that they were only able to book five out of the six nights we needed, which was disappointing, but I figured that if I had to pay for 1 night out of pocket, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I then called Disney reservations to try to book the last night, and found out that they are completely sold out at all three hotels. I hadn't done my research, which would have shown that our trip coincided with the Avengers weekend - and that's on me.
I now feeling like an idiot for having waited so long to book.
Trying to find the silver lining in the situation, I think that this may be our opportunity to finally stay at and try out Universal Hollywood.
Anyway, vent over. Not looking for sympathy for my own mistakes. Just needed to get this off my chest so I can try to stop beating myself up for being so foolish.