OKW Question

[jrlongmd]

I am trying to arrange a trip to OKW for my family of four and another family of four. I am planning on the eight of us staying in a 2BR unit. My friends are planning on arriving on Fri and we will not be arriving until Sat. Can I book my friends into a studio for Fri night, and then when we arrive on Sat, check into the 1BR half of the 2BR to which their studio connects? This would be advantageous so that my friends would not have to check out of the studio and recheck into the 2BR. Does anyone know if member services has allowed this to occur.

 

[WDWsnooper]

Yes, that is pretty simple to do.
First, when making your ressie, you reserve a studio for the Friday night. Be sure to put the ressie in your friend's name or they will not be able to check in.

Then, you reserve a 2 bedroom lock-off beginning Saturday. It is important to reserve the LOCK-OFF, not a standard 2 BR. Be sure to tell Member Services that you will want these two ressies "linked". Your friends will be able to remain in the room and you will check in and arrive at the 1 BR section.

Keep in mind that your friends will check out and check in again on Saturday--for paperwork purposes only. It is important to have their names on the Saturday ressie as well as your own name. On Saturday, when they "check out/check in" they will, in essence, remain in the same room. The room keys on Saturday will be re-coded for both doors--the studio and the 1 BR entry doors.

Remember to tell Member Services what you want to do--they set this sort of thing up often.
Snooper

 

[PamOKW]

While MS will do their best to accomodate this, it can't be guaranteed. WDWsnooper is correct that to even have a possibility of doing this, you must reserve a lock-off.

 

[LibertyBelle]

Yes and no...

You can book just a one bedroom for yourself and have the request to connect to the studio that checked in the day before (make sure the request is noted on both reservations).

You can book the studio for one night and a 2bedroom lockoff for the rest of the stay with comments, again, on both reservations stating that it is a continuing reservation and you would like to stay in the same room for the entire time.

However Member Services can not "link", in the correct term of the word the reservations. Linking a reservation means that you check in one time and even though you may have more than one reservation you do not have to come back to the desk as the computer will automatically check you out and back in. A true "link" can only be to the same room type.

So you can go with either option booking the studio for the entire stay and booking a seperate one bedroom for the entire stay and asking them to be connected for a 2 bedroom or booking the studio for one night and the 2 bedroom lockoff for the rest of the stay and requesting that the studio be abel to stay in the same room the entire time.

 

[Mike]

Yes and no...

You can book just a one bedroom for yourself and have the request to connect to the studio that checked in the day before (make sure the request is noted on both reservations).

You can book the studio for one night and a 2bedroom lockoff for the rest of the stay with comments, again, on both reservations stating that it is a continuing reservation and you would like to stay in the same room for the entire time.

However Member Services can not "link", in the correct term of the word the reservations. Linking a reservation means that you check in one time and even though you may have more than one reservation you do not have to come back to the desk as the computer will automatically check you out and back in. A true "link" can only be to the same room type.

So you can go with either option booking the studio for the entire stay and booking a seperate one bedroom for the entire stay and asking them to be connected for a 2 bedroom or booking the studio for one night and the 2 bedroom lockoff for the rest of the stay and requesting that the studio be abel to stay in the same room the entire time.

LibertyBelle,

Wouldn't the first option cost the OP more points since they would have to book a 1 BR and a Studio for the entire stay? The second option seems to make more sense since the OP is booking a 2 BR for their entire stay and will save a couple of points per night.

 

[WDWMom]

It will save points booking the 2 bdrm way. That would be my recommendation. Just remember that when you request the studio the first night, they may have to leave to another room. We had a similar situation last March and we had to move even though MS told me that we would not. I believe it is from the first come, first serve that we were bumped from the room with a lock-off. But that is another story.

 

[dianeschlicht]

We actually had OKW do this for us by accident one trip. Long story short, we had an airline delay which left our guests unable to check into their All Stars ressie for the night before the DVC ressie. All Stars sent them to OKW, and when they told the front desk that we would all be checking in there the next morning, they put them in the studio portion of the lock off and pre checked us into the 2 bedroom for the next day. It was great!