So Frustrating!

[Hopefully]

We changed our dates around mid august to the end of october/early november (we're doing the same thing the OP is with the parties). We have a military member with us and lol, the very idea of trying to plan anything, much less a vacation, 11 months out is hilarious and absurd to me. I don't know about the OP, but there's lots of people out there far from a position to be able to plan things 3 months in advanced, much less 11 months. It's great you can, but "no sympathy here *smiley face*" comes off incredibly condescending and I can't imagine you meant it that way.

OP I feel for you. We ended up getting everything we wanted (we're staying at pop, got all our dining reservations, perfect fast passes, etc) and now we're just waiting for the day to go. Hope you manage to finish smoothing it over.

"Incredibly Condescending" is your choice of interpretation, and pretty negative I might add. No it was not intended that way. The smiley face indicates the tongue in cheek nature of the comment.
I get not everyone can plan 11 months in advance. My point was only that for DVC owners that is necessary at certain properties at certain times of the year. If that doesn't work for you, DVC won't work well for you. Try rereading the post.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

you snooze, you lose, so they say.

Booking last minute for this time of year has been difficult for quite a while. Fortunately they were able to find you something, even though it wasn't what you were anticipating.

As laughable as you think 11 months is, for this time of year it is absolutely real for DVC members. If we don't book, we don't get. Most of us buy knowing that we will have to book that way, though...we don't buy in the Epcot area for last minute trips between September and November. DVC is probably not ideal for military or anyone who has to make plans within a couple of months.

 

[patty57]

We changed our dates around mid august to the end of october/early november (we're doing the same thing the OP is with the parties). We have a military member with us and lol, the very idea of trying to plan anything, much less a vacation, 11 months out is hilarious and absurd to me. I don't know about the OP, but there's lots of people out there far from a position to be able to plan things 3 months in advanced, much less 11 months. It's great you can, but "no sympathy here *smiley face*" comes off incredibly condescending and I can't imagine you meant it that way.

The poster you are quoting was talking about DVC bookings, not the hotel side, and they are right about usually needing to book far in advance to get the resort you want. We are in a similar situation in that we could never plan that far ahead. It's why owning DVC would never work for us.

 

[Capwkidd]

We changed our dates around mid august to the end of october/early november (we're doing the same thing the OP is with the parties). We have a military member with us and lol, the very idea of trying to plan anything, much less a vacation, 11 months out is hilarious and absurd to me. I don't know about the OP, but there's lots of people out there far from a position to be able to plan things 3 months in advanced, much less 11 months. It's great you can, but "no sympathy here *smiley face*" comes off incredibly condescending and I can't imagine you meant it that way.

OP I feel for you. We ended up getting everything we wanted (we're staying at pop, got all our dining reservations, perfect fast passes, etc) and now we're just waiting for the day to go. Hope you manage to finish smoothing it over.

Appreciated! Yeah, I am kind of a spur of the moment guy really.... last trip, I was at work, and n the middle of the day I decided to go, I did not even get my room until I was on the way to Disney property in the car.... and it was a red-eye flight out!

Now I am not getting the fast passes I want, sigh.... with an AP you get 30 days out, once the hotel booking took effect, I could get the entire trip in, but, sadly, no frozen FP's for me.... no worries, I try to plan ahead of time which days I want to go to which parks, but often, I wake up and feel like riding or doing a certain thing, so I get in line for the bus, and start trying to get FPs..... that's why it's good to "let it go", the FPs that is, if you really are not going to use them, so others can pick them up last minute!

 

[MakiraMarlena]

I looked at the Frozen FPs and you do really have to get those at 60 days. But keep checking.

I do have a friend whose daughter works at WDW, he and his daughter just picked up Frozen FPs on Wednesday for yesterday.