Walking and reservation question...

[JMelton]

I'm walking a reservation for the first time (after noticing others must be walking, since my home resort availability was going away 1 day at a time - at 11 months). I booked 7 days - only wanting the last 4. Now I want to increase it 3 more days. Do I need to add 1 day at a time, or will will the R.A.T. let me make a new reservation for the last 3 days?

If I can make a new 3 day reservation will Member Services link these 2 reservations? Or is walking the only way I can be sure that they are linked and I won't have to change villas?

 

[Marionnette]

I'm walking a reservation for the first time (after noticing others must be walking, since my home resort availability was going away 1 day at a time - at 11 months). I booked 7 days - only wanting the last 4. Now I want to increase it 3 more days. Do I need to add 1 day at a time, or will will the R.A.T. let me make a new reservation for the last 3 days?

If I can make a new 3 day reservation will Member Services link these 2 reservations? Or is walking the only way I can be sure that they are linked and I won't have to change villas?

The online booking tool will allow you to modify a reservation to add or remove dates. You can add a night at a time or multiple nights. The key would be to do it before the 11-month window opens for the last night of your current reservation. You cannot remove nights until after the 11-month window opens for the first night that you actually wish to keep.

You can also wait for the 11-month window to open for those last 3 nights and hope to be able to make a separate reservation. Then call MS to combine the two reservations. They can do it as long as both have been made under the same membership and are for the same villa type/view.

 

[SweetSerenity]

Pardon the intrusion on your thread, but I'm new to DVC. What does walking mean?

 

[JMelton]

Thanks, Marionette. That helps clarify things for me.

SweetSerenity, I'm a little new at this too, but if you'll search "walking a reservation", there are many threads that will tell you more about it than I can. Please note, this year, for a number of reasons, studios in December are especially hard to get and many people are "walking" to hopefully help them get what they want.