squirrlygirl
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A lightbulb just came on for me.....I've been reading all of these and none of it made sense and it finally fell into place. Let's see if I can say it outloud and have it make sense to anyone else.
You booked room 1A for the 1st - 7th. Nobody can get into room 1A until the 8th - so nobody arriving on the 5th will be in room 1A because your stuff is there.That room is totally locked up from booking until the 8th because you're there. It is out of inventory - does not exist as far as new bookings go. So the morning of the 8th is the first day that room is available for booking and that is the day you can call to book the rest of your days. That is also the first day any new arrivals have a shot at that room. Now people calling on the 2nd or 3rd might be getting a same size room as yours -and they may still be there on the 8th - but they are down the hall. It could be on the 8th that room 1A is the only room left of that size - but it IS open and available on the 8th because until your reservation was up on the 7th nobody else could get into it. So now you are competing with anybody who wants to arrive on the 8th - you could be competing for a smaller inventory of rooms because people may already be in the surrounding rooms, but there is at least 1 room available because you had it out of inventory until that morning.
Did that help anybody - or am I the only one??
I had the same lightbulb a few pages back, but with "Joe ". But apparently "Joe" is being told he can call back on day 2 to get the 8th, whereas the other family can't start booking yet unless they also want to roll their reservation like Joe is. Which means that there is no disadvantage to anyone...if you called day-by-day before, now you do it a week earlier and roll...so how is this much different? If you didn't call day-by-day before, then there really isn't much change to you. But I don't think much of this thread is based in concrete thinking but rather emotions

If MS really did this to cut down on calls then they'll enforce the requirement that you can't add day 8 until the 11+7 window opens up for it.
But I guess I'm still a bit shocked that it's apparently so highly important to so many people in DVC that you get to stay in a certain room in a certain resort on a certain day or the world falls apart... if that's the case, wouldn't it be easier to own a timeshare that guarantees you a certain room at a certain resort on certain days?
