question about two rooms

[sapereaude]

Connecting rooms have the interior door that opens up to each room. So, you basically have one big room with a door in between. You don't have to go outside to get to the second room.

Adjoining rooms are rooms next to each without that interior door. You have to go outside to get to the second room.

Ah! Good to know! Thanks

 

[breezy1077]

I the Poly!!!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Unless I'm reading it wrong, taximomfor4 started her vacation with 2 adults. So there was the possibility of getting 2 rooms that didn't connect. The OP is starting her vacation with only 1 adult. I would think that would make a difference.

We always get two rooms at a Value resort because we are a family of six. We have done this numerous times and have always been told that we are guaranteed connecting rooms and that is always what we have been given. Also, there has always been a notation on our reservation documents stating "guaranteed connecting rooms."

It's still not guaranteed.

Example (okay, extreme example, but still...) there are three rooms left at Pop Century.
Two connect to each other, and one connects to nothing.
One of the two connecting rooms is wheelchair accessible.
A Guest in a wheelchair who needs the features of that room - not just the convenience of being able to open the door between his and his DW's rooms, but a roll-in shower, etc. checks in.
A Guest who wants the convenience of allowing her kids to move from Mom's room to Dad's room without going into the hall.

WHO GETS THE CONNECTING ROOMS???????????????

 

[PrincessTiffany]

It's still not guaranteed.

Example (okay, extreme example, but still...) there are three rooms left at Pop Century.
Two connect to each other, and one connects to nothing.
One of the two connecting rooms is wheelchair accessible.
A Guest in a wheelchair who needs the features of that room - not just the convenience of being able to open the door between his and his DW's rooms, but a roll-in shower, etc. checks in.
A Guest who wants the convenience of allowing her kids to move from Mom's room to Dad's room without going into the hall.

WHO GETS THE CONNECTING ROOMS???????????????

WDW could just easily upgrade one of these hypothetical reservations to another resort, just as the customer service rep told me in the past when I called and asked about this same issue. How many instances have you actually heard of Disney not being able to accommodate a family with four small children or a guest with a handicap?

 

[kaytieeldr]

A family/party consisting of at least two adults can, if necessary, be placed in non-connecting rooms. Connecting rooms is a REQUEST, it is not guaranteed no matter what any paperwork states.

No, non-connecting rooms are not the ideal situation for the party of two adults and four children, but it is a feasible solution.


There are 720 connecting rooms at Pop Century, but that figure is misleading - there are actually "only" 360 pairs of connecting rooms.
And, since there are three rooms hypothetically available and three rooms needed by the two parties, there is no reason for Disney (or any property) to upgrade any Guest to any different location. You have three rooms, you have three Guests. Three equals three.

 

[maxiesmom]

It's still not guaranteed.

Example (okay, extreme example, but still...) there are three rooms left at Pop Century.
Two connect to each other, and one connects to nothing.
One of the two connecting rooms is wheelchair accessible.
A Guest in a wheelchair who needs the features of that room - not just the convenience of being able to open the door between his and his DW's rooms, but a roll-in shower, etc. checks in.
A Guest who wants the convenience of allowing her kids to move from Mom's room to Dad's room without going into the hall.

WHO GETS THE CONNECTING ROOMS???????????????

But that is not what the OP has going on. She has 2 rooms booked, but only 1 adult for the first part of the stay. Are you telling me that Disney would book her 2 non-connecting rooms knowing that? I don't believe that. I can see them maybe getting non-connecting with 2 adults, but not with only 1 adult with children.

 

[PrincessTiffany]

A family/party consisting of at least two adults can, if necessary, be placed in non-connecting rooms. Connecting rooms is a REQUEST, it is not guaranteed no matter what any paperwork states.

No, non-connecting rooms are not the ideal situation for the party of two adults and four children, but it is a feasible solution.


There are 720 connecting rooms at Pop Century, but that figure is misleading - there are actually "only" 360 pairs of connecting rooms.
And, since there are three rooms hypothetically available and three rooms needed by the two parties, there is no reason for Disney (or any property) to upgrade any Guest to any different location. You have three rooms, you have three Guests. Three equals three.

Well, I guess it's just been dumb luck that in all of the times we've booked two connecting room, we've actually received them. And I guess those 2 different CMs who both said an upgrade would be the solution/option if the connecting rooms were not available, must have been mistaken. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[kaytieeldr]

But that is not what the OP has going on. She has 2 rooms booked, but only 1 adult for the first part of the stay. Are you telling me that Disney would book her 2 non-connecting rooms knowing that? I don't believe that. I can see them maybe getting non-connecting with 2 adults, but not with only 1 adult with children.

Oh. There was an OP, and an original point, in this thread?

I'm not going to phatom* a guess what Disney would/will do - but the OP may be considering reserving one room for the first two nights, and adding a second room starting the night/day her DH checks in AND making "connecting" her first, or only, request.

Or she may be considering booking the two rooms, and if Disney can't/won't/doesn't assign them to connecting rooms, she has forty-eight hours between her check-in and her DH's arrival for Disney to work with her to find them connecting rooms - since she wants, but doesn't need, that configuration for the first two nights.

These aren't guesses, from what I remember - they're suggestion from this thread that she's considering.

*intentional misspelling

 

[mirmartinez]

O my,
goodness

They are never consistent is what I am gathering, from all of this advice.
I guess if I want to try out pop, i should hope for the best and be prepared for the worst
The best being connecting rooms and the worst being moving to a hotel that does.
If no one has connecting rooms, I go to a hotel that fits five. When DH arrives, I can duck tape his nose
or take the high road and take a sleeping pill or two, use ear plugs, and place a pillow over my head

and I am considering reserving two rooms same time, I am fearful of the chance they sell out

 

[kaytieeldr]

Didn't you see the thread from the DISer whose trip is "ruined" because when she made her reservation using a PIN code the CM told her it didn't apply to concierge, but when one of her friends used a PIN code she was able to get concierge? No?

Well, there's a post from someone who tried camping at Fort Wilderness with a tent she got at Goodwill. Neither she, nor nearby Guests, nor the very able FW staffers, were able to get the tent to "pop-open" as it was designed. Ultimately, she and her son (the entire party) 'camped' in their compact rental car!!!

Now, your DH will have a car, right? Just throwing the idea out there...

 

[minnie61650]

O my,
goodness

They are never consistent is what I am gathering, from all of this advice.
I guess if I want to try out pop, i should hope for the best and be prepared for the worst
The best being connecting rooms and the worst being moving to a hotel that does.
If no one has connecting rooms, I go to a hotel that fits five. When DH arrives, I can duck tape his nose
or take the high road and take a sleeping pill or two, use ear plugs, and place a pillow over my head

and I am considering reserving two rooms same time, I am fearful of the chance they sell out

It is a good idea to try reserving two rooms at same time because you are fearful the resort might sell out.

But remember that you are booking two rooms and requesting connecting rooms. When a guest asks for connecting rooms WDW takes 2 rooms out of the inventory but NOT two connecting rooms.
They wait until the guest checks in and the CM at the front desk needs to try to find connecting rooms for that guest. Once in great while connecting rooms are not available because other guests were already given the connecting rooms or some the rooms which connect were "blocked out" for handicapped guests.

When a guest books a Handicapped room special services is called and a room is actually assigned and blocked out during that phone call for the guest needing the Handicapped room.

If WDW would block out connecting rooms the same way they block rooms for the handicapped then the problem of overbooking the connecting rooms would be almost nil. (Only if set of connecting rooms needed to be taken out inventory because a room flooded or some sort of emergency took place).

Until WDW starts booking connecting as a special category I would make back up plans. I just do not want another family to plan on connecting rooms and have their plans destroyed like what happened to my family.

We managed but that vacation was not the one we were looking forward to.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[mirmartinez]

Didn't you see the thread from the DISer whose trip is "ruined" because when she made her reservation using a PIN code the CM told her it didn't apply to concierge, but when one of her friends used a PIN code she was able to get concierge? No?

Well, there's a post from someone who tried camping at Fort Wilderness with a tent she got at Goodwill. Neither she, nor nearby Guests, nor the very able FW staffers, were able to get the tent to "pop-open" as it was designed. Ultimately, she and her son (the entire party) 'camped' in their compact rental car!!!

Now, your DH will have a car, right? Just throwing the idea out there...

I did read that thread, and the post by the woman with the broken tent.
She is a trooper, I would of cried much longer and swear, there would of been lots of swearing

Thats the great thing about my worst and best case scenerio, either way I am at Disney w/ my family.

 

[mirmartinez]

It is a good idea to try reserving two rooms at same time because you are fearful the resort might sell out.

But remember that you are booking two rooms and requesting connecting rooms. When a guest asks for connecting rooms WDW takes 2 rooms out of the inventory but NOT two connecting rooms.
They wait until the guest checks in and the CM at the front desk needs to try to find connecting rooms for that guest. Once in great while connecting rooms are not available because other guests were already given the connecting rooms or some the rooms which connect were "blocked out" for handicapped guests.

When a guest books a Handicapped room special services is called and a room is actually assigned and blocked out during that phone call for the guest needing the Handicapped room.

If WDW would block out connecting rooms the same way they block rooms for the handicapped then the problem of overbooking the connecting rooms would be almost nil. (Only if set of connecting rooms needed to be taken out inventory because a room flooded or some sort of emergency took place).

Until WDW starts booking connecting as a special category I would make back up plans. I just do not want another family to plan on connecting rooms and have their plans destroyed like what happened to my family.

We managed but that vacation was not the one we were looking forward to.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for letting me know of the risk,
knowing makes all the difference,
it allows me the have not only plan b, but c and d.

If I show up, and there are know connecting rooms, it wont sting as much