Wait List

[nelsonkg]

I was just wondering how long you have typically waited to hear about a wait list coming through. I hoping for something in November but do not want to wait until the last minute. Thanks!

 

[gortman65]

Take this as an anecdote rather than the norm:
We made reservations in early May for five nights in October at Kidani. At the time they had our room preference available for only the first three nights, so I booked back-up rooms of a different type for the remaining two nights and put us on the waitlist. Just yesterday I checked online and saw that our waitlist for those last two nights came through. I was pretty skeptical at the time I waitlisted because it was for a std view GV, and Kidani only has two of those.

Of the four times we've waitlisted since joining DVC, three times the waitlist came through.

Here's hoping you have success with your waitlist!

 

[DenLo]

I've noticed from people's comments and my own experience that when making a reservation at exactly the 7 month mark and I need to WL some of the days, the WL comes through within a week or not until 31 to 40 days out.

I think WL comes through at 7 month plus 3 to 7 days because the owners at the resort I'm wait listed change their reservations from their home resort to another. And then at 40 to 31 days out, there are members that are canceling their reservations to prevent the points from going into holding.

But members cancel reservations all of the time, and when working with larger groups of people, cancellations are a higher probability.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I was just wondering how long you have typically waited to hear about a wait list coming through. I hoping for something in November but do not want to wait until the last minute. Thanks!

Are you waiting even to book something? Can you book something that requires fewer points that what you're waitlisting for, so that you have something to go to?

I very rarely have a waitlist for more than 3-4 nights, and most often they have come through.

 

[Deb & Bill]

We were on the waitlist twice. Both time we waited until 30 days out with no word. So we switched to the 7 day waitlist. Still nothing. During the last seven days, I called daily, still nothing.

So being on the waitlist may mean you won't get what you are waiting for at all.