More than one ressie and link them?

[mom2alix]

We are planning a trip with extended family next year and I think we will be arriving a couple of days before they do. Sine we want to get the DDP to make meals easy, would it be best to make one reservation with the names of my immediate family plus MIL who will travel with us for the first 2 days and then a separate, linked reservation adding the names of the 3 relatives on the day they arrive? Does that make sense? Will they make us switch rooms?

 

[Caskbill]

If you LINK reservations, you must have the DDP for all parties for all days.

To do what you want to do you'd have to have two separate reservations that are not linked. You'd have to check out of the room for the first reservation, and check into the room for the 2nd one. You undoubtedly would have to move, and you'd be without a room between 11:00 checkout and the 4:00 PM checkin for the next room.

 

[Dean]

We are planning a trip with extended family next year and I think we will be arriving a couple of days before they do. Sine we want to get the DDP to make meals easy, would it be best to make one reservation with the names of my immediate family plus MIL who will travel with us for the first 2 days and then a separate, linked reservation adding the names of the 3 relatives on the day they arrive? Does that make sense? Will they make us switch rooms?

As Bill noted you linked reservations are treated as one and have dire DDP consequences. To link them you'd have to have the exact room type and I'm guess you don't have the same room type for this situation. You could have them as separate and request to stay in the same unit if applicable.

 

[mom2alix]

As Bill noted you linked reservations are treated as one and have dire DDP consequences. To link them you'd have to have the exact room type and I'm guess you don't have the same room type for this situation. You could have them as separate and request to stay in the same unit if applicable.

Actually I need the 2 bedroom for the entire trip. Our family of 4 plus MIL for the first 2 nights, then add SIL BIL and DNephew for the rest of the trip. I guess I don't understand the point of LINKING different reservations? I'm totally confused.

If I have to have everyone who will ever be in the room during the entire trip on the reservation the entire time anyway, then it might as well be one reservation. KWIM? What exactly is the point of a linked reservation then? Is the linking thing really just for instances like where you pay cash for one night and points for the rest and stuff like that? Or is this only an issue with DDP?

I'm sure others on here have posted about having larger units and having the parties change during the trip(i.e. We'll be in a GV for 2 weeks and the first week DS and family will join us, then they leave and DD will arrive with her family,etc.) What am I missing?

Just when you think you understand all this DVC stuff, you find out you're still clueless! Don't you hate it when you've always thought you knew what something meant and now you find out you didn't have the right definition?

 

[bobbiwoz]

Here is one example of a linked reservation.

I initially had 1 night at BCV and then decided to waitlist for a second night, and the second night came through and it has a different reservation number. I worried that I would have to move, but MS told me that the reservations were linked so, even though there are 2 numbers, there is only 1 room for the 2 nights.

You want to change the people who are in the room, not the room. You do not want to pay for the dining plan for all of the people for all of the nights. You will need a reservation covering the first period of time and a different reservation for the second period of time, UNLESS you are willing to forego the dining plan. It's the dining plan that is causing the problem since it has to be for all people who are ever on the room ressie for all of the nights of the reservation.

Bobbi

 

[Chuck S]

Actually I need the 2 bedroom for the entire trip. Our family of 4 plus MIL for the first 2 nights, then add SIL BIL and DNephew for the rest of the trip. I guess I don't understand the point of LINKING different reservations? I'm totally confused.

If I have to have everyone who will ever be in the room during the entire trip on the reservation the entire time anyway, then it might as well be one reservation. KWIM? What exactly is the point of a linked reservation then? Is the linking thing really just for instances like where you pay cash for one night and points for the rest and stuff like that? Or is this only an issue with DDP?

I'm sure others on here have posted about having larger units and having the parties change during the trip(i.e. We'll be in a GV for 2 weeks and the first week DS and family will join us, then they leave and DD will arrive with her family,etc.) What am I missing?

Just when you think you understand all this DVC stuff, you find out you're still clueless! Don't you hate it when you've always thought you knew what something meant and now you find out you didn't have the right definition?

Usually reservations are linked if

• your stay includes a combination of points and cash nights so you won't have to move
• your stay overlaps your use year (this happens to us a lot) each use year is a separate reservation, which is then linked so we don't have to move.
  

Dean & Bill are correct, linking a reservation essentially makes them one reservation in the hotels computer, the same number of guests and the dining plan will be part of both reservations since the hotel considers them one reservation. In your case, it is the dining plan that is the fly in the ointment.

 

[mom2alix]

Usually reservations are linked if

• your stay includes a combination of points and cash nights so you won't have to move
• your stay overlaps your use year (this happens to us a lot) each use year is a separate reservation, which is then linked so we don't have to move.
  

Dean & Bill are correct, linking a reservation essentially makes them one reservation in the hotels computer, the same number of guests and the dining plan will be part of both reservations since the hotel considers them one reservation. In your case, it is the dining plan that is the fly in the ointment.

Eh, no biggie on the DDP. They can pay for the extra 2 days and we'll do a signature restaurant or something. Their room is free, so they can't really complain, right?

 

[Chuck S]

Remember that the entire dining plan has to be paid in full when you check-in, so you might want to have them give you their portion of the $$ before you arrive.

 

[Boston5602]

Eh, no biggie on the DDP. They can pay for the extra 2 days and we'll do a signature restaurant or something. Their room is free, so they can't really complain, right?

NO THEY CAN"T , but they may anyways <G> !

 

[Dean]

Actually I need the 2 bedroom for the entire trip. Our family of 4 plus MIL for the first 2 nights, then add SIL BIL and DNephew for the rest of the trip. I guess I don't understand the point of LINKING different reservations? I'm totally confused.

If I have to have everyone who will ever be in the room during the entire trip on the reservation the entire time anyway, then it might as well be one reservation. KWIM? What exactly is the point of a linked reservation then? Is the linking thing really just for instances like where you pay cash for one night and points for the rest and stuff like that? Or is this only an issue with DDP?

I'm sure others on here have posted about having larger units and having the parties change during the trip(i.e. We'll be in a GV for 2 weeks and the first week DS and family will join us, then they leave and DD will arrive with her family,etc.) What am I missing?

Just when you think you understand all this DVC stuff, you find out you're still clueless! Don't you hate it when you've always thought you knew what something meant and now you find out you didn't have the right definition?

No reason to link the reservations unless they are separate from different members or different accounts. Otherwise they should be all one reservation unless it's a separate room type like dedicated vs lockoff or similar in which they could not be linked. If you have separate reservations you may indeed have to check out then in again or even change units.