Newbie question...

[Ducky4Disney]

Hello to all my DVC neighbors!

I am a relatively new DVC owner (bought SSR 10/27) and I am preparing to make my first ressie's to GO HOME! I have a few questions - I could probably find the answers if I looked, but it's more fun to post here

You can make ressie's 11 months in advance at your home resort. That's 11 months prior to your check out date? So if I want to go Dec 5 - 15, 2004 I can make my reservations on Jan 15? Is that right?

Changing room ressie's. It's funny how owning DVC makes you want to bring your family and friends to WDW! I would like to take my father to WDW on that trip so I am planning a 2 bedroom for 5 days and then a 1 bedroom for five days. I don't think that will be a problem, but what if my dad decides sometime during the year that he can't make it. Will it be easy to switch the 2 bedroom to a 1 bedroom? It should be, because a 2 bedroom is a studio and a 1 bedroom together, so basically they open up the studio.

That's all my questions for now! I can't wait to call and make these reservations! My DH can't wait to hear "Welcome Home" when we arrive!

D4D

 

[dianeschlicht]

You have the ressie time frame thing right.

As to the 2bedroom to 1 bedroom...Book the 2 bedroom as a lock off and then if you have to go down to a 1 bedroom, you wont have to change the whole ressie. I am not to up on SSR, but if they do have dedicated 2 bedroom units, you would not want one of those. That is why you want to request a lock-off. We did something similar a couple years ago. We booked a lock off 2 bedroom at OKW for the whole trip, and a couple months before, we changed it to a 1 bedroom for the second half. Because we had booked it as a lock off, we didn't have to completely rebook.

 

[Ducky4Disney]

Good point about the lock off! I would have assumed that all the 2 bedrooms were a studio and 1 bedroom together, but I guess not. I am splitting my stay between and 1 and 2 bedroom anyway, by requesting a lock off I hope I won't have to move when I downsize to the 1 bedroom.

Thanks!
D4D

 

[dianeschlicht]

Originally posted by Ducky4Disney
Good point about the lock off! I would have assumed that all the 2 bedrooms were a studio and 1 bedroom together, but I guess not. I am splitting my stay between and 1 and 2 bedroom anyway, by requesting a lock off I hope I won't have to move when I downsize to the 1 bedroom.

Thanks!
D4D

I am not sure if SSR has dedicated AND lock-off units, so don't use my example until you find out that piece of information for sure.

 

[Caskbill]

Just to clarify, you are staying for 10 nights, the nights of the 5th through 14th, inclusive, and checking-out on the 15th, then you can make your 11-month reservation on Jan 15th, 2004.

As to changing reservations later, remember that any change essentially involves a cancellation and a new reservation. So you can only get the 1-B/R if one is available.

The first two weeks in December are popular. If the resort becomes fully booked and people start getting on a wait-list for a 1-B/R unit, and your unit was a lock-off, I don't think you automatically get to keep the 1-B/R side when you cancel the reservation. It would go to the first person on the wait-list.

You might want to verify this with MS as to how this actually would work. If it's not treated as a cancellation/new reservation then you're OK. But if it is considered a cancellation and new reservation, then technically the wait-list would kick in ahead of you for that new reservation for a 1-B/R

Any change to a reservation is always subject to availability.

You should be aware of this.

 

[dianeschlicht]

Originally posted by Caskbill
Just to clarify, you are staying for 10 nights, the nights of the 5th through 14th, inclusive, and checking-out on the 15th, then you can make your 11-month reservation on Jan 15th, 2004.

As to changing reservations later, remember that any change essentially involves a cancellation and a new reservation. So you can only get the 1-B/R if one is available.

The first two weeks in December are popular. If the resort becomes fully booked and people start getting on a wait-list for a 1-B/R unit, and your unit was a lock-off, I don't think you automatically get to keep the 1-B/R side when you cancel the reservation. It would go to the first person on the wait-list.

You might want to verify this with MS as to how this actually would work. If it's not treated as a cancellation/new reservation then you're OK. But if it is considered a cancellation and new reservation, then technically the wait-list would kick in ahead of you for that new reservation for a 1-B/R

Any change to a reservation is always subject to availability.

You should be aware of this.

Interesting, Caskbill, because they let me do this last year only because I had a lock off. I wonder if this differs by resort.