Hello, I have question about something I'm worried about. When I waitlist day-by-day, usually the nights I want match one single night at a time. In the past, I have booked reservations like this often, and each time Member Services would "Link together" the single nights to create one continuous reservation. Then they would mail me a confirmation letter that only has the Reservation# of the first/arrival night, yet the letter would show the correct check-out date accounting for any nights that should've been "linked together".
I was always under the impression that as long as Member Services did the "linking" correctly, then you would be guaranteed to be able to check-in at the DVC resort, and they would let you keep the same room all the nights of your reservation. At least, I thought that if all the nights are booked with DVC points, the system would be able to "link" them all together... no problems or confusion. (I do know that cash reservations made through CRO can be a problem sometimes, but that is not what I am talking about.)
So I recently booked another trip using the day-by-day waitlist. A short 4-night stay... it took a long time for the waitlist to all come through, but they finally did. So Member Services linked all 4 nights together, and I got the confirmation letter in the mail. The check-in and check-out dates are correct, so it looks like it was linked together successfully. However, under the room requests section, there are two requests listed. I'll type them below exactly as they are worded:
"REQUEST NON-SMOKING VACATION HOME
PART 1 OF A CONTINUING RES PLS BLOCK 2ND RES W/ SAME RM"
Now, I am well aware that room requests are NOT guaranteed. So this has me worried that maybe there is a new policy or something, and "linking" does not guarantee you can stay in the same room the whole time. Not to mention the fact that it says Part 1 and to block 2nd res, but in actuality, there are 4 seperate reservations!
Anyway, I will be contacting Member Services to ask them, but thought I would post this here to ask if anyone has had any experiences similar, where separate reservations are linked together, and then you got a confirmation letter listing a similar "Part 1 of continuing res" room request, and did you end up getting to keep the same room?
Thank you for your help.
I was always under the impression that as long as Member Services did the "linking" correctly, then you would be guaranteed to be able to check-in at the DVC resort, and they would let you keep the same room all the nights of your reservation. At least, I thought that if all the nights are booked with DVC points, the system would be able to "link" them all together... no problems or confusion. (I do know that cash reservations made through CRO can be a problem sometimes, but that is not what I am talking about.)
So I recently booked another trip using the day-by-day waitlist. A short 4-night stay... it took a long time for the waitlist to all come through, but they finally did. So Member Services linked all 4 nights together, and I got the confirmation letter in the mail. The check-in and check-out dates are correct, so it looks like it was linked together successfully. However, under the room requests section, there are two requests listed. I'll type them below exactly as they are worded:
"REQUEST NON-SMOKING VACATION HOME
PART 1 OF A CONTINUING RES PLS BLOCK 2ND RES W/ SAME RM"
Now, I am well aware that room requests are NOT guaranteed. So this has me worried that maybe there is a new policy or something, and "linking" does not guarantee you can stay in the same room the whole time. Not to mention the fact that it says Part 1 and to block 2nd res, but in actuality, there are 4 seperate reservations!
Anyway, I will be contacting Member Services to ask them, but thought I would post this here to ask if anyone has had any experiences similar, where separate reservations are linked together, and then you got a confirmation letter listing a similar "Part 1 of continuing res" room request, and did you end up getting to keep the same room?
Thank you for your help.
