Something interesting about dropping a day from ressie..

[TammyC]

For my next visit, my plane tickets were $50 cheaper per person by shifting one day back. I had made my resort ressie (room only - AAA rate) for an extra day at the beginning and end, in case this happened. So, I called to drop the last day of my stay. And, the CM said "let me see if it is available", to which I responded "how could it not be available to drop a day?" She said they block out a number of rooms for 4 day stays, 5 day stays, etc. What I wanted was available, but I've never heard of this before.

Tammy

 

[hightown]

That's interesting. It goes along with what someone else posted about the passholder's best rate plan. They couldn't get say a 3 night stay at their room of choice but if added a day at the end and made 4 night, they could. Or coudln't get 4 nights but could get longer with the level of room they wanted.

I haven't seen that discussed before. If disney is doing that, I don't like it at all.

 

[*Fantasia*]

Wow.. that's weird, never heard of. "Let me see if there's room available." To drop a day? I'm not taking... I'm giving! "Yes, please do check to see if we can stick this room back to your inventory."

 

[DianeL]

Do you get a new confirmation # when you dropped the extra days?

 

[*Fantasia*]

Do you get a new confirmation # when you dropped the extra days?

No, it's the same confirmation #.

 

[Alicnwondrln]

thanks for sharing
thats interesting

 

[Acklander]

I guess this makes sense that they sell in certain blocks, Could you imagine if a hotels had every guest checking in or out the same day? I'm sure it would be insane with lines at the desk and housekeeping would never get the rooms done; though you'd think they'd have enough flexibility for adding or dropping a day off.

 

[helenk]

A similar thing happen to me with a hotel, but not Disney. I'm taking my daughter to VA for school. I booked a hotel room with 2 queen beds for 3 nights and then realized I only needed two. I called to drop the one night and I was told that a room with 2 queen beds would not be available they only had a room with a king bed available. This made no sense to me, I just wanted one day dropped off my exisiting reservation, and I needed the 2 queen beds. The would not budge, I got annoyed and cancelled the whole booking and booked another hotel.
So I guess this is a common procedure

 

[betterlatethannever]

...Could you imagine if a hotels had every guest checking in or out the same day? I'm sure it would be insane with lines at the desk and housekeeping would never get the rooms done;...

It happens all the time. Its called a cruise.

Ed

 

[mking624]

Wow that's really strange. Ok, let's say they really did only have blocks of 4-, 5-, 6-night stays, etc. What would happen if a large number of people decided to stay 5 nights and that block was filled up? Does that mean then that the next person who calls and wants to stay 5 nights is either told to stay a night less or a night extra? Seems rather odd to me.

 

[Memph1s]

I know they sell blocks at the campground and they change the rules all the time. If you try to book only a weekend they say they have nothing but add a couple of days and hay we found you a site. But as the time gets closer they will sell just the weekend.

They have done the same to me. I had 4 days booked and wanted to drop one day and the only thing they would do is cancel the whole thing. So we either had to pay for a day and not use it or cancel and hope to be able to get a new resie for the dates we wanted closer to the arrival date. Good for them but bad for us.

 

[j's m]

For my next visit, my plane tickets were $50 cheaper per person by shifting one day back. I had made my resort ressie (room only - AAA rate) for an extra day at the beginning and end, in case this happened. So, I called to drop the last day of my stay. And, the CM said "let me see if it is available", to which I responded "how could it not be available to drop a day?" She said they block out a number of rooms for 4 day stays, 5 day stays, etc. What I wanted was available, but I've never heard of this before.

Tammy

I did the exact same thing, booked an extra day until I finalized the airafare and then I cancelled the first day. I kept the same reservation number and have twice requested a new paper ressie, but have never received it. I'm just afraid that somewhere they kept the old arrival date and will cancel if we don't show up.

 

[airjoe]

This is due to Min/Max stay. A room might be available for 4 nights but not 3 due to min stay.

If you are modifying a reservation down and you are told that there is no availability ask to be transfered to guest services.

 

[DisneyCrazyX5]

We had an 8 night package and wanted to add 1 night. We were told it would be $316 for another night room only - no dinning plan.
I knew a 9 nights deal with food should only cost me about $300 more, and that was with 2 adults and 3 children on the dinning plan. My AAA agent was told it was because we had originally booked an 8 day package. So after many calls to WDW by our AAA agent , she was able to get us the 9 nights, Contemporary Garden view, with dinning for $133 more than the 8 day package- which she canceled for us.

 

[TammyC]

J's M - You might be able to check your ressie online to be sure it shows the correct arrival date.


Airjoe - Are you saying there are always minimum stays (or depends on what is booked up?) I've heard of people staying just one night in a Disney resort before moving to DVC, etc. And, do you think Guest Services could override a situation when you are needing to drop a day?

 

[christinou]

I had the same thing happening at BC, I wanted to book 3 nights and there was no availability, but there was some for 4 nights.

 

[hightown]

I'm by no means a Disney reservation system expert but I didn't think prior to this there was ever a minimum stay requirement on AP discount-room only reservations. I could see if it was a package deal.

I know I and tons of disers have gotten AP rates for a night or two here and there due to resort hoping or DVCers staying before or after their DVC stays. You'd think someone would have mentioned a minimum stay with an AP-room only reservation before this.

This seems like something new to me associated with this Best Rate system...but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[swilphil]

I had the same thing happening at BC, I wanted to book 3 nights and there was no availability, but there was some for 4 nights.

I had this happen with an AP rate in March. I was going to split my stay between two resorts, but I couldn't get the Contemporary for the last 3 nights of my stay. I could get the Contemporary for the entire 5 nights of my stay, which obviously included the last 3 nights that they told me weren't available. I also thought it had something to do with what day I was checking in. For the 5 night stay I checked in on Thursday, but for the split stay I was going to check in on Saturday or Sunday.

 

[LiteBrite]

I had this happen to me once several years ago. I tried to drop the last night of a multi-night reservation, and was told I would have to cancel the whole reservation and try to book it again. I politely declined, hung up, and called back - the agent I got the second time just dropped the last night with no problem. Maybe there's been a change in the system since then, or maybe like me, you just got an agent who didn't know how to do it.

LiteBrite

 

[airjoe]

There has always been a min/max stay. Depending on the day, the min might be 1 or something greater than 1.