Switching Room Types - Part of Trip?

[sethschroeder]

So question how to avoid losing a night of the reservation. Have a reservation for 10 nights but wanting to switch 9 of those nights to a different category. Problem is the 1 night (first night) is not available in any room type.

Does anyone know when making a reservation or modifying a reservation when rooms are released or reserved?

Or is it pretty much a leap of faith if you were to modify your room just down to 1 night and then separately book the other 9 nights?

Just thinking this through.

 

[Sandisw]

It all depends on the waitlist and if there is one. I have had rooms show Roght back up and was able to book them again...did recently as I wanted to change which membership I used.

Other times, I have canceled and the rooms never showed up online. One thing I have done..and it was a risk but worked out...is cancel just one night, and see if I could grab it. When I could, I did a cancel. modify and add...it was only 4 nights, but I got them.

9 nights is a lot.

ETA: I think I read this wrong. If you want to keep only 1 of 10 and the 9 are category, you can do that and keep the one night that is not available that you already have...

 

[sethschroeder]

So the first night randomly came up with extra rooms available. So I modified the 10 nights to grab the 9 nights then separately added the first night back.

So luckily didn't have to worry this time around.