Waitlist: best bets for resort / room type?

[Borgar]

Hi!
We usually plan trips at the 7 or 11 month mark, but my wife and I just decided to do a fall long weekend at WDW -- the 2nd weekend in November (historically, the beginning of MVMCP, so hoping for that).

There is very little available for that weekend! Just 1-BR at Saratoga. I waitlisted a theme park view studio at the Poly and the Grand Floridian. I had planned on waitlisting more, but found out that 2 is the max of waitlists allowed.

Any sense historically of which resorts or types of rooms are most likely to become available? (other than Saratoga or OKW). In other words, are the high-value rooms or the low-value rooms more likely to open up? I want to use our 2 waitlist slots to the maximum benefit. So if those theme park view rooms are scarce and super coveted, would it be better to go with a different room type, so we can at least get to the resort we want? We're not dead set on the Poly or Grand - we could do BLT, Riviera, AKL, BWV, Copper Creek.

BTW, we haven't made a reservation at Saratoga, because then we wouldn't have enough points if a waitlist came through. But at some point, I'm thinking we should just go with that, before those disappear too LOL.

 

[NicoleLarson]

NOT poly theme park view, very few of these, same with GF (more but still not a ton). AKL kidani standard view, BWV garden view probably have the most rooms if you are playing the stats game. Ultimately, someone has to cancel. Your best bet is to stalk the website as often as you can. I often am able to grab rooms doing this and can grab rooms before my WL does.

 

[MICKIMINI]

Is that part of Jersey Week? That is a really popular week. My best suggestion is to book your SSR, waitlist at AKV Jambo or Kidani and Poly (STD Studio Villa).

How much of a gambler are you? You can start to stalk and hope to get night by night. You may very well get a great villa as yes, people do cancel, but how many people are ahead of you? The less nights on your waitlist, the more likely you are to get it. If you get a night or two where you want, you may want to adjust your waitlists to get the other night/nights.

Stalk, stalk, stalk at all hours!! Good luck!

 

[Mouseforward]

Poly RV longhouse , AK standard view would be what I used my 2 WL on

You can book the SSR and indicate that you want that swapped when you make the waitlist.

 

[lexxus379]

Definitely stalk! I was randomly checking yesterday and an AKL value popped up for that weekend. I would waitlist Kidani as one.