elaine amj
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2012
WOOT!!! Gotta share in the only place that would understand
About a week ago, I was trying to book a tent site for Christmas 2019 and kept running into difficulties. I eventually ended up with Dec 21 - 26 and then Dec 26 - 27. Could not get anything after that at all.
Tonight I gave it another shot and decided to split up Christmas Day so I can book DDP for just one night. I had zero issues getting a one night reservation on Christmas Day. I had several screens going and kept having to search for the reservation again because I kept messing up number of adults and kids (my kids will be just turning 17 and 18 then so I kept getting confused how many Disney kids I had haha)
So I got:
Dec 21 - 25
Dec 25-26
Then...I tried for the Dec 26 - Jan 7 part and got nowhere, even searching for single day reservations, upping our numbers to 8 people, etc etc etc.
Finally, the magic. I accidentally searched for a reservation for Jan 1-8 2019 (i.e. just a couple of weeks away!). A tent site popped up and fingers trembling, I BOOKED IT! After it all went through, it finally hit me that I booked the wrong year!! OOPS!! So I went on to change it and amazingly enough, Dec 26 2019 to Jan 7 2020 popped up with no problems whatsoever!
Don't know if this will work for anyone else trying for a hard to get reservation - but may be worth a shot?
I have 3 reservations now - just what I want and I won't even have to call to get my reservations combined. Will just fax the campground a couple of weeks ahead.
About a week ago, I was trying to book a tent site for Christmas 2019 and kept running into difficulties. I eventually ended up with Dec 21 - 26 and then Dec 26 - 27. Could not get anything after that at all.
Tonight I gave it another shot and decided to split up Christmas Day so I can book DDP for just one night. I had zero issues getting a one night reservation on Christmas Day. I had several screens going and kept having to search for the reservation again because I kept messing up number of adults and kids (my kids will be just turning 17 and 18 then so I kept getting confused how many Disney kids I had haha)
So I got:
Dec 21 - 25
Dec 25-26
Then...I tried for the Dec 26 - Jan 7 part and got nowhere, even searching for single day reservations, upping our numbers to 8 people, etc etc etc.
Finally, the magic. I accidentally searched for a reservation for Jan 1-8 2019 (i.e. just a couple of weeks away!). A tent site popped up and fingers trembling, I BOOKED IT! After it all went through, it finally hit me that I booked the wrong year!! OOPS!! So I went on to change it and amazingly enough, Dec 26 2019 to Jan 7 2020 popped up with no problems whatsoever!
Don't know if this will work for anyone else trying for a hard to get reservation - but may be worth a shot?
I have 3 reservations now - just what I want and I won't even have to call to get my reservations combined. Will just fax the campground a couple of weeks ahead.