wait list question

Hilary

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If I am on the wait list and have asked for 'automatic confirmation', will MS still contact me if my request comes through?

Reading the guidebook, I'm unclear about whether they still hold the reservation until they've confirmed with you by telephone, or whether the 'automatic confirmation' overrides that process. If they wait until they've telephoned, what would happen if we were away for a few days and couldn't be contacted - would they pass our request to someone else?

If it is really automatic, how would I know if I'd been successful? Would I have to wait to get a confirmation slip through the mail? The guidebook says "....there's no need to contact us........ we'll let you know the moment something becomes available......", but <b>how</b> do they contact me?
 
You're welcome to call back periodically and check, but you will get a new confirmation via mail. We just did this a few months ago and got our waitlist within a few weeks. A new confirmation came in the mail! Had it been getting close to our reservation I probably would have been calling to check.

I do know that they will drop you from the waitlist 30 days out from your reservation unless you call and tell them to keep you on it. So, if you haven't heard anything close to then, call and let them know if you want to stay on it.
 
Good questions about the automatic confirmation... I experienced some confusion/frustration with this, however. When trying to make Thanksgiving Day ressies, I was wait-listed with automatic confirmation for a 2-Bedroom at BCV. When I called to book the last day of our stay, I was told by MS that there was still limited availability for a 2-Bed on Thanksgiving Day... Of course, I immediately snatched one, but was left with some questions... How could there be NO availability one day, and limited availability the very next day? And since there was limited availability, why wasn't one of those units "automatically confirmed" to me??? I feel like it was just dumb luck that I happened to get what we needed, and I have been questioning the "automatic confirmation" process ever since! But, even with these glitches, DH and I can't wait for this next trip home (along with my parents, my siblings and their children)! It'll be a circus for sure, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!
 















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