WDW Resorts should take a tip from DCL

[sethschroeder]

As a new DCL guest for the first time I noticed you can lock in adjoining rooms. It seems like an easy win if Disney added the option to lock in adjoining rooms. Yes the resorts are much larger and have more turnover but there it could be accounted for.

• Only allow adjoining rooms in the lowest category rooms (that way if someone booking a single room needs to get moved they are upgraded to a higher category)
• Only book a small portion of the resort to adjoining rooms to make sure you always have the inventory
• Possibly links specific rooms together and only split them a few weeks out to rent them separately if needed to get 100% occupancy

I just remember looking more recently at possibly not staying DVC and saw this as the biggest hole if trying to book the Value/Moderate hotels.

 

[MomOTwins]

The difference is that on a cruise, everyone has the exact same check in and departure date, and are non-refundable between 90 and 120 days before the cruise. Hotels are more dynamic: some people stay for 1 night and some people stay for 15. People will book a room anywhere from a year before to a day before, and may switch rooms because there is something they don't like about their room location, or may extend a stay because of a flight cancellation. The realities of how hotel booking mean a hotel is not able to assign specific rooms well in advance of booking.

Connecting rooms can always be requested (you need to specify connecting, as "adjoining" means side-by-side but with no connecting door).

 

[SharonZ]

This would never work in WDW, too many variables.

 

[sponica]

This would never work in WDW, too many variables.

Their IT also wouldn't be able to handle it...that would be a mess.