Wait List Question (I Think?)

[Greyhound22]

My wife and I are teachers. We normally do our WDW trip in the Summer. We only have about a 2 week window to go (due to my coaching obligation). So, I would like to book our vacation at our home resort (AKL), but maybe do a splitstay somewhere else. I can't take a chance and wait to book the "other" resort at the 7 month (due to the limited time frame we have). So, my question is how to do the wait list. I'm sure it is easy and I believe I read somewhere that you can only have 2 at a time. Thanks!

 

[Sandisw]

You will have to book the entire stay at your home resort prior to the 7 month mark.

Once you are 7 months out, you can call and put in the wait list for the other resort if it is not available.

But, prior to that, you won't be allowed to wait list a resort that is not your home.

 

[TisBit]

The best option is to make a reservation at AKV during the entire length of stay at the 11 month mark. At the 7 month mark, call and see what is available for a split stay. If nothing you want is available, just put in a wait list for your preferred days, they will cancel your AKV for the days your waitlist comes through.

 

[Ericandjenng]

Sorry to hijack, but I was going to ask almost the same thing. But I am also curious about the rest of it. If you waitlist something when you've got an existing reservation, do you have to have points to cover both? Do they simply switch you over if the waitlist comes through? Can (or does) this happen within the last 30 days and how does that affect your points?

THANKS

 

[Sandisw]

Sorry to hijack, but I was going to ask almost the same thing. But I am also curious about the rest of it. If you waitlist something when you've got an existing reservation, do you have to have points to cover both? Do they simply switch you over if the waitlist comes through? Can (or does) this happen within the last 30 days and how does that affect your points?

THANKS

No, they will replace your old reservation with the new one...basically, they cancel and re-book it for you.

If you have a wait list that uses less points than what you have booked, you would want to have the wait list expire 31 days out or those extra points would go in to holding.

If, what you want, takes more points than what you have booked, then you can leave the wait list in place until 7 days out.

So, if you are booked with 200 points, and what you want takes 180, those extra 20 points would become "holding" points if the wait list is filled within 30 days of your trip.

When you call MS, you can tell them whether you want to wait list to expire 31 days out or 7.