The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group - 2.0

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

Do Accessible rooms just go unused if not booked by someone who needs accommodations or do people without disabilities book those rooms at some point?

 

[Mathmagicland]

Do Accessible rooms just go unused if not booked by someone who needs accommodations or do people without disabilities book those rooms at some point?

They do not go unused. I’ve received an accessible room a few times at VGC; I didn’t request it or book it & I don’t need that room type.

 

[Mathmagicland]

Something looks wrong with the DVC booking site this morning - every single day from May 2 forward shows as available for studios, when those have been booked solid through September & most days of October through December for weeks, i checked my dashboard & all of my reservations still show up there. I have not checked any other resorts or room types.

ETA - I was on the phone with member services & mentioned this, they researched & said it is something with the accessibility room availability.

 

[montreid]

Still lots of opportunities for most of the months. I'm thinking more that they held back rooms and now more certain of reopening with OC in Orange tier.

 

[wbl2745]

This is totally messed up. All of the room categories are showing almost complete availability. I really hope this isn't a computer problem that is going to mess everything up.

 

[montreid]

Well they took down the site for a bit and now back up; and no way to make new ressies with VGC - other resorts not an issue -- weird.

 

[SeaDis]

Well they took down the site for a bit and now back up; and no way to make new ressies with VGC - other resorts not an issue -- weird.

VGC looks to be back up now and wide open dates again (4:00 PMish Pacific)

Very odd behavior today. I grabbed an add-on day that was previously not available. I hope it's not a phantom date, but could be. I won't ask to combine the ressie or book flights for a while.

Although if we have to move into a 3-Bed Craftsman Suite on our last night, we will suffer through it.

 

[montreid]

VGC looks to be back up now and wide open dates again (4:00 PMish Pacific)

Very odd behavior today. I grabbed an add-on day that was previously not available. I hope it's not a phantom date, but could be. I won't ask to combine the ressie or book flights for a while.

Although if we have to move into a 3-Bed Craftsman Suite on our last night, we will suffer through it.

Still not letting me book any VGC 'continue' if greyed out at date selection

 

[corgi_monster]

6:17 PST - looks like the wide-open availability that was showing this morning was a fluke. Most days are grey again

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

April Fools / Twilight Zone of VGC availability. Will be interesting to see what they do with people who snagged rooms during that time .

 

[Mathmagicland]

Availability sure looks a lot more “normal” now.

 

[MouseFiend]

As someone who snagged 5 nights in October, I will impatiently be waiting to see what happens. Hopefully they tell us sooner rather than later.

 

[montreid]

Grabbed may 2 and may 4 along with memorial and labor day weekends This morning. let's see if they stick

Missed on july 4th and halloween though Didn't know if 10/30 vs 10/31 to get.

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

As someone who snagged 5 nights in October, I will impatiently be waiting to see what happens. Hopefully they tell us sooner rather than later.

Let us know - so curious!

 

[SeaDis]

Wow! This breakout of accessible rooms as a category is a real twister. As we all know, they didn't have room categories at VGC like there are at WDW resorts (standard/deluxe/view/etc).

Right now the calendar is back to being sporadic available, but all the ones I have checked are accessible rooms. If you add a day in that category and try to merge the reservation... does that make it way more likely you will move rooms?

I guess we will know more in a month when the room reports come in. Hopefully they took advantage of the downtime for lots of maintenance and making a block of rooms more accessible. That would be awesome. Maintenance at VGC seems almost impossible without at least a partial shutdown. They are booked every day! We had a late check-in one time because they had to replace a dishwasher. They did it in one hour. It would take me three hours. OK...maybe longer

 

[DebbieB]

First night available in a studio is 11/7. Wonder what will happen with the reservations booked yesterday.

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

So there's this... think they are figuring out what to do with people who
booked during the glitch? ;-).

 

[AZMermaid]

I’m slightly nervous they’re gonna dump everyone’s reservations and make us rebook. Hopefully not, I’ve been booked since well before 7 months for May, Sept and Jan! May was right at 11 months!

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

I’m slightly nervous they’re gonna dump everyone’s reservations and make us rebook. Hopefully not, I’ve been booked since well before 7 months for May, Sept and Jan! May was right at 11 months!

I would hope they would only dump the ones that were booked during the weird one day glitch.

 

[AZMermaid]

I would hope they would only dump the ones that were booked during the weird one day glitch.

Agreed. But it’s Disney IT... so... I’m nervous, lol. But I think (hope) that if they have to cancel, it’ll just be those ones.