Which gap in reservations do I wait list

Idaholion

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I have a vacation in WDW next March. Started a little late in getting reservations. I need a room for 4 Nights, arriving Saturday the 7th, leaving
Wednesday the 11th. What I want is a 1 bedroom villa in the Grand Floridian. I am fortunate to have an excess of points at this moment, a batch banked from last year, a batch this year's that I will bank later. After getting one day at a time over the last month, I ended up having 2 reservations at the GF, both for the 7, 9 and 10, one a 1 room villa lake view, one a 1 bedroom villa standard view. I also got a reservation at BLT, for the 7, 8 and 10. Soooo, I need either the 8th in standard view at GF, the 8th in lake view at GF or the 9th at BLT. I have a wait list for the standard GF and the BLT days I need.
Here is the question (FINALLY) At this point, should I leave the wait lists as is and haunt the reservation site to see if anything comes up on the odd GF reservation, or swap the BLT for the other GF needed day and haunt the reservation for the BLT?

At least worst case scenario, I can use a mix of both locations and stay from the 7th to the 11th, with one move.
 
There are more lake view 2BR lock-offs (which includes all the 1BRs) at BLT than there are combined standard and lake view 2BR lock-offs (which include all the 1BRs) at VGF. Whenever you are choosing to wait list between two different categories of rooms, you should assume that your chances are better, and in this case significantly better, with the one having the most rooms in that category (BLT). In other words stick with BLT and do not switch to VGF lake view.

Also, be aware that haunting the reservation site requires more than what you are doing. It has been previously reported that openings during a day do sometimes become available on line and do not go directly to the wait list. When someone cancels, the reservation goes immediately back into the sytem but apparently wait list matching does not occur until toward the end of the day, meaning someone hawking the site during the day can get what you are wait listing for. In other words,you should be hawking the site for all three of your reservations not just the one for which there is no wait list.
 
Thanks. When I say haunting, I mean checking several times a day, and I have been checking for all 3 categories for which I have a possible reservation. I am still hoping one of the 2 gf lineups will come through, I figure I have a better than even chance that one of the 3 will come open. Just need 1 day. At least I have the option to move once and cover all 4 days
 





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