Unusual Split Stay Question

[Marionnette]

The short version:

Can you have two reservations that overlap by 1 night without issues? And if so, is there anything I would need to do to prevent any problems?
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And now the long version:

I have a GV reserved for a week in the fall under one membership. Due to poor planning and a canceled trip, I also have banked points under another membership which must be used by winter.

Various family members coming in from around the country. Thinking that some of them might arrive a day early, I used those banked points to book a 1-night stay in an AKV 1-bedroom for the day before our GV reservation starts. As it turns out, my brother is going to take me up on that offer. My sister, her husband, my husband and I have a very early-morning flight on the first day of the GV stay and the young folks won't be arriving until late that night.

So, I got to thinking (which my husband always says is dangerous) and I figured why not make that 1-night stay into 2 nights. That way when the 4 of us arrive, we will have a "home" to go to and relax, knowing that the GV will not be ready until much later in the day. I booked online and availability was not a problem. I now have 2 consecutive nights reserved and will message MS about combining them (same booking category, same membership, no problem there). We can then use the AKV villa as our home base for the whole day and just head over to BWV when our GV is ready.

Does anyone anticipate that there might be a problem with this? Don't hold back. I'd rather hear about the possible drawbacks than deal with issues later on.​

 

[DVC_Dad_Canada]

I've rented my points through a 3rd party, and one membership was in Aulani when the other membership was at Bay lake Tower. There shouldn't be any issues.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

The issue would likely be with the MB's and entry into the rooms. As long as you go down and actually check out of the room at AKV before heading to BWV that may resolve that problem otherwise for the room name itself I'd create a second "you" - ie a different spelling of your name, middle name, nickname or something and get a MB for that "person" and use for that room. You'll use the real you MB for park entry and once you get to BWV and the pseudo you just for room entry at AKV.

 

[Dean]

The issue would likely be with the MB's and entry into the rooms. As long as you go down and actually check out of the room at AKV before heading to BWV that may resolve that problem otherwise for the room name itself I'd create a second "you" - ie a different spelling of your name, middle name, nickname or something and get a MB for that "person" and use for that room. You'll use the real you MB for park entry and once you get to BWV and the pseudo you just for room entry at AKV.

If not the FD can give you a key card that will work in one or the other but the bands won't work in both at the same time.

 

[MouseOfCards]

The issue would likely be with the MB's and entry into the rooms. As long as you go down and actually check out of the room at AKV before heading to BWV that may resolve that problem otherwise for the room name itself I'd create a second "you" - ie a different spelling of your name, middle name, nickname or something and get a MB for that "person" and use for that room. You'll use the real you MB for park entry and once you get to BWV and the pseudo you just for room entry at AKV.

Agree. That's what I would do. And I would get different color MBs to prevent any confusion.

 

[MouseOfCards]

If not the FD can give you a key card that will work in one or the other but the bands won't work in both at the same time.

Good option. Thanks.

 

[Sandisw]

I have done it and have not had issues. Two summers ago we had a split stay reservation between BWV and VWL. I wanted to also give my DS and DIL a night alone at VGF. So, they were booked there while still on the other reservations. When they got the room ready text, they got to VGF and the front desk simply made an adjustment to their bands so it would work for the room at VGF without effecting the bands at BWV (which we were still at). When they came over to VWL the following day, the bands worked without issue.