Waitlisted in error?

[pwoodham]

Several people are accompanying us on our next WDW trip, and 3 were "last minute" additions (mainly because my FIL passed away and we invited my MIL to join us). We already booked a 2 bdrm and a studio, and now it looks like our best chance to get all our nights at the same resort (BCV) will be to book a 1 bdrm also. I wanted to make sure we had the extra room SOMEWHERE, preferably in the Epcot area, so I booked at BWV and waitlisted for BCV. It became apparant to me when I called back (daily) that different days were becoming available at different times and the chances that the whole week would come up at once didn't seem too good. I took a chance and booked all the nights available at BCV and waitlisted on the other nights one at a time. The good news is that we now have all but 1 night at BCV. I call every day, and MS usually wants to review everything (which is great!) so we both understand what's what. My concern is that twice I have called and been active on a waitlist after we had already gotten the reservations we needed. I've corrected it each time, and I know all our reservations/waitlisting must have created a mess on their computer, but I'm wondering what would happen if the automatic booking went through. I'd have another reservation, with borrowed points, that I never intended to have. Has anyone had this occur?

 

[lawgs]

that is one reason i always ask for "phone confirmation" for any waitlist we go on...to avoid automatic

as they book your reservation waitlisted rooms they should also take them off the wait list....

sometimes when we call to check about waitlist ....we have not been called......but availability shows up in the MS computer so we book and then cancel that particular waitlist...

 

[pwoodham]

My understanding each time while I was on the phone with MS was that we were taken off the waitlist for the nights that came thru. Apparantly that didn't actually happen. I got the confirmation numbers for each reservation, of course, and was able to confirm that the reservation already existed even tho we were still waitlisted. I just asked them, once again, to cancel the waitlist.

 

[chris1gill]

That seems kind of crazy!! But... since you are on these waitlists, why don't you change your waitlist preference to getting a phone call first?

I know you shouldn't have to do that, but if you really can't seem to get off the waitlist, that's what I would do.... seems kind of backward I know