Whoever Wished for Pixie Dust for Me - THANK. YOU!

[MegMoves]

Y'all, it's been a journey.

From my resale BWV contract taking FOR EV ER to close and needing to book inside the 7 month window and everything was booked for this pre-planned homeschool trip. (I was booked at another on-property resort before pulling the trigger on a resale.). Some of you know we managed to book a split stay at AKL/SSR (when everything but bungalows were waitlist only) and I was ok with that but really wanted to have our first stay at Boardwalk.

I was also asking how to personally check out the wheelchair accessibility in-person while not staying there as recon for taking my cousin and her wheelchair-bound daughter with a laundry list of impairments on next year's stay to make up for their MakeAWish getting hosed. You all had some great tips and advice.

I must have also gotten the advice either from the boards or the videos to keep checking back as the waitlist isn't very smart. And it's been nada, nada, nada the whole time. Until this morning when I sleepily checked the availability, and BAM - there she was! 6 of our 7 nights. So, I had to figure out how to do this with no caffeine as I was not about to wait for the phones to open.

After not being able to modify the dates on our waitlist, I canceled one to try and do... something. Then I tried verifying if cancelling part of the split stay was going to put points into holding or be available now or after 24 hours or some crazy hospitality database stuff. I hoped for the best and gave up our arrival nights at AKL. I saw they were already back in my pool.

So I went to modify our other SSR stay and get our first welcome home stay at our home resort.... And it was gone.



Uh-oh.

So I carefully backed out of modification and kept refreshing another tab seeing a bunch of availability pop up at various resorts, but not Boardwalk. Within the hour, ALL 7 DAYS of our trip showed availability! You betcha I went over to the other tab to modify our booking. AND I GOT IT!!!!!! (I'm sure you figured that out, but I wanted to write the whole saga out for posterity.).



Man, there is such a wealth of travel knowledge in this community. Thank you all SO much.


Meg

 

[Suzabella]

Great news! I checked on availability at the 11 month window at BWV this am and there was nothing but 2 bedrooms. Checked 10 minutes later and all room categories were available. It was definitely strange but very glad it worked out for you! We've got a few months yet before we'll be booking our first stay with out points at BWV.....hopefully!! Care to send some of that pixie dust our way?

 

[Mike9865]

Don't celebrate yet. There are rumblings that it might have been a glitch. Check out this thread:

https://www.disboards.com/threads/lots-of-availability.3848361/page-3#post-63256915

 

[Suzabella]

Also make sure you check that you were charged the correct number of points. There was a discrepancy at some resorts compared to point charts.

 

[MegMoves]

Don't celebrate yet. There are rumblings that it might have been a glitch. Check out this thread:

https://www.disboards.com/threads/lots-of-availability.3848361/page-3#post-63256915

Uh oh. I just checked the booking tool and it's "down for maintenance." My reservation and Disney app shows the BWV, so I'll run with that unless they inform me otherwise.

 

[MegMoves]

Great news! I checked on availability at the 11 month window at BWV this am and there was nothing but 2 bedrooms. Checked 10 minutes later and all room categories were available. It was definitely strange but very glad it worked out for you! We've got a few months yet before we'll be booking our first stay with out points at BWV.....hopefully!! Care to send some of that pixie dust our way?

I sincerely hope so! Sharing is caring!

 

[MegMoves]

Despite the skeptics' warnings, my "long-shot" on crescent lake during the last week of food & wine is still showing up in my reservations. I've cancelled my waitlists and now it's time to pick restaurants and where to watch Harmonious from in World Showcase! (And to make loose plans for next year... and the year after that...)

 

[Suzabella]

Despite the skeptics' warnings, my "long-shot" on crescent lake during the last week of food & wine is still showing up in my reservations. I've cancelled my waitlists and now it's time to pick restaurants and where to watch Harmonious from in World Showcase! (And to make loose plans for next year... and the year after that...)

That's awesome! Never say never....

 

[wdwnut]

Great for you!