MS Auto Merging Reservations?

[thanxfornoticin]

I have a 3-night stay booked for October and I had a waitlist for the first night. It filled yesterday so now I have a 1-night reservation followed by a 2-night reservation. Obviously, I would like these to be merged so that we have a single, 3-night reservation. Any recent reports of this being done automatically? Or should I e-mail/chat with MS to be safe?

Absolutely call/email/chat with MS to have it done. Many of us have never seen an automatic merge of our reservations. If you want the reservations merged into one, have MS do it at your request.

 

[Jasmine9828]

Oddly enough I came to this thread bc I just had a reservation auto merge which has never happened to me before and freaked me out. At this point, it’s okay, but the stay isn’t until February so seems very presumptuous. I originally had the one night on its own for the purposes of a smooth waitlist swap. Thankfully my waitlist came through before they did the merge. If they did this last week, it would have thrown it all off!

 

[thanxfornoticin]

Oddly enough I came to this thread bc I just had a reservation auto merge which has never happened to me before and freaked me out. At this point, it’s okay, but the stay isn’t until February so seems very presumptuous. I originally had the one night on its own for the purposes of a smooth waitlist swap. Thankfully my waitlist came through before they did the merge. If they did this last week, it would have thrown it all off!

So you had a single night waitlisted to extend at the original resort? When that single night waitlist came through, you then had several nights at a resort and also an extra single night? If so, I wonder if that had anything to do with the auto-merge. They still shouldn't do it without being requested, but perhaps the waitlist was an indication you wanted a single reservation at that resort. I'm gonna keep a closer watch in the future if they're starting to pick and choose auto merging reservations....

 

[Jasmine9828]

So you had a single night waitlisted to extend at the original resort? When that single night waitlist came through, you then had several nights at a resort and also an extra single night? If so, I wonder if that had anything to do with the auto-merge. They still shouldn't do it without being requested, but perhaps the waitlist was an indication you wanted a single reservation at that resort. I'm gonna keep a closer watch in the future if they're starting to pick and choose auto merging reservations....

That’s correct with one additional point; I’m doing a split stay. I had 5 nights at Poly and 2 nights at beach club. I was hoping to make it 4 nights and 3 nights for a more even split. So, I broke apart my Poly to be 4 nights and 1 night. The one night at Poly I used to make a waitlist for the extra night at beach club so if it came through it would be an even swap - if it didn’t come through no problem I would eventually just merge my Poly back together. Thankfully the wait list came through for BC! Then the next day they auto merged BC… had they auto merged my Poly instead days earlier I would have been very frustrated.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

That's interesting. Thanks for sharing the experience.

 

[that1jeff]

Has anyone else noticed MS auto merging consecutive reservations? We just had it happen twice today. We had a AKV and a Poly stay that were both booked as two separate stay, and we got the cancellation/rebook email today.

DVC rookie here. I knew MS could merge consecutive reservations. I didn't realize they could do that for split stays/different resorts. (So in this example, AKV & Poly into one reservation). I understand that can be useful for ADRs, but just curious if there is any other practical reason why someone would want to merge two reservations for a split stay? Finding out that is a thing now, I'm curious what the pros are to doing this?

 

[crvetter]

DVC rookie here. I knew MS could merge consecutive reservations. I didn't realize they could do that for split stays/different resorts. (So in this example, AKV & Poly into one reservation). I understand that can be useful for ADRs, but just curious if there is any other practical reason why someone would want to merge two reservations for a split stay? Finding out that is a thing now, I'm curious what the pros are to doing this?

I think this wasn't worded perfectly clear. I believe they had a AKV stay, split into 2 reservations, and a PVB stay, split into 2 reservations. Then each of those stays were combined so a total of 4 reservations went down to 2 reservations (for the AKV and PVB stays). Though that was how I interpreted.

 

[DL1WDW2]

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[that1jeff]

I think this wasn't worded perfectly clear. I believe they had a AKV stay, split into 2 reservations, and a PVB stay, split into 2 reservations. Then each of those stays were combined so a total of 4 reservations went down to 2 reservations (for the AKV and PVB stays). Though that was how I interpreted.

Oh!!! Ok that makes way more sense now. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[Tatebeck]

Speaking of split stays, even if they can't merge them I do wish they would have a way to link them together to allow split stays to book reservations for their entire stay. Seems silly to have to book dining reservations for half of a stay then wait a few days and book some more.

I even have a 6 night stay booked at a resort that I most likely won't use, just so I can book dining reservations for my 3/3 split stay since we have some family with us and want to get some decent reservations. I will probably cancel the 6 nighter at SSR once the reservations are done unless more family wants to come with us. One of the benefits of having a lot of points, but it still seems like that will only work well earlier in the use year before the banking window closes

 

[SugarSweetLee]

Speaking of split stays, even if they can't merge them I do wish they would have a way to link them together to allow split stays to book reservations for their entire stay. Seems silly to have to book dining reservations for half of a stay then wait a few days and book some more.

I even have a 6 night stay booked at a resort that I most likely won't use, just so I can book dining reservations for my 3/3 split stay since we have some family with us and want to get some decent reservations. I will probably cancel the 6 nighter at SSR once the reservations are done unless more family wants to come with us. One of the benefits of having a lot of points, but it still seems like that will only work well earlier in the use year before the banking window closes

Could you not technically hold a regular hotel reservation and do the same thing? Then no worry about points, just cancel after you make your dining rezzies and get the first night deposit refunded.

 

[Tatebeck]

Could you not technically hold a regular hotel reservation and do the same thing? Then no worry about points, just cancel after you make your dining rezzies and get the first night deposit refunded.

Ooh, possibly! I like being able to cancel online though. Can you do that with hotel reservations? I've never cancelled one. I would be afraid they would catch on eventually lol

 

[SugarSweetLee]

Ooh, possibly! I like being able to cancel online though. Can you do that with hotel reservations? I've never cancelled one. I would be afraid they would catch on eventually lol

Yes, it's very easy to cancel through MDE.

 

[Anthony1971]

I have never had my Reservations merged when I booked them that way - for DP purposes. Although I was offered the merge, explained why, and asked what would happen and they did not know either but said it might cancel the DP or charge me for all nights?
I have an upcoming trip exactly this way and it has not been merged for about 6 months same resort same view.
Waitlisted when adding to an existing reservation has always been auto merged for us.