Will the system swap two members’ waitlists that match?

[Straulin]

Just curious if anyone knows how waitlists work as far as if I have a reservation booked for Room A and waitlist to book Room B and someone else has a Room B reservation and a waitlist for Room A, will the system swap us out (assuming all the correct dates)?

Not sure if that made since…that is does the system wait for an un-booked available reservation then the various waitlists fall like dominos or will it trade out two reservations that effectively ‘want’ to swap?

Curious as I booked a BCV 2 bedroom so we would have room for my niece and nephew. They will not be able to make it. So I am hoping to switch to a 1 bedroom for a week in October. We had to borrow some points to book the reservation so I didn’t want to try to slowly build a single day at a time backup reservation as that would all end up borrowing more points and I don’t want to do a split stay.

 

[erionm]

Just curious if anyone knows how waitlists work as far as if I have a reservation booked for Room A and waitlist to book Room B and someone else has a Room B reservation and a waitlist for Room A, will the system swap us out (assuming all the correct dates)?

Nope.

 

[bobbiwoz]

It’s just not that smart. Sometimes you grab what you need before the waitlist actually picks it up.

 

[Sandisw]

No and I think it’s a good thing because at least now it only works with an actual cancellation and everyone has a fair chance to get what they want

Plus, it would then require both rooms get canceled, held and changed. And, those home resort owners who are on a waitlist for their own resort would then get passed over for a non home resort owner to get the reservation.

 

[tjkraz]

something...something...don't trust disney IT...

 

[iluvthsgam]

No and I think it’s a good thing because at least now it only works with an actual cancellation and everyone has a fair chance to get what they want

Plus, it would then require both rooms get canceled, held and changed. And, those home resort owners who are on a waitlist for their own resort would then get passed over for a non home resort owner to get the reservation.

I thought when a reservation is cancelled it first checks to see if there are any waitlists before going back to available for everyone. Is this not how they work it?

 

[Sandisw]

I thought when a reservation is cancelled it first checks to see if there are any waitlists before going back to available for everyone. Is this not how they work it?

Foe the most part, yes..but the OP wanted to know if the system would look at swapping two different reservations if each person had what the other wanted.

So, if I have five nights at RIV and you have the same 5 nights at VGF but each of us wants the other and waitlist, the system would simply give us of us the other one.

Right now, the room has to be canceled, before it can be considered for a waitlist.

 

[iluvthsgam]

Foe the most part, yes..but the OP wanted to know if the system would look at swapping two different reservations if each person had what the other wanted.

So, if I have five nights at RIV and you have the same 5 nights at VGF but each of us wants the other and waitlist, the system would simply give us of us the other one.

Right now, the room has to be canceled, before it can be considered for a waitlist.

Okay. Makes sense. And if someone has a waitlist ahead of you - they would give first dibs on that room when cancelled (in theory...)

 

[Sandisw]

Okay. Makes sense. And if someone has a waitlist ahead of you - they would give first dibs on that room when cancelled (in theory...)

Yes, those ahead of you with the exact same dates. But, say you have three nights waitlisted and I have one, and someone cancels just the one night…even though you may be ahead od me on the list, I’ll get it because the one night matches me vs. you since they don’t hold any nights to fill the larger ones.

 

[sndral]

I thought when a reservation is cancelled it first checks to see if there are any waitlists before going back to available for everyone. Is this not how they work it?

People report picking up what they have waitlisted via stalking the website, so some inventory must slip through. I’m not sure whether the system automatically runs a check before every cancelled reservation goes back into inventory, or whether it scans X times a day, or how it actually works.

 

[Straulin]

Foe the most part, yes..but the OP wanted to know if the system would look at swapping two different reservations if each person had what the other wanted.

So, if I have five nights at RIV and you have the same 5 nights at VGF but each of us wants the other and waitlist, the system would simply give us of us the other one.

Right now, the room has to be canceled, before it can be considered for a waitlist.

I forgot to mention it was a same resort waitlist just going from 2br to 1br at our home resort. Not that that matters for the answer but just FYI.

One of these days we will get to where we don’t need to borrow from next year. We bought in last year and only had 56 points available from the prior owner, so had to borrow from this year for our first trip. That left us needing to borrow again for this year‘s trip.

Addonitis would fix the problem real quick if they would bring back some sort of annual pass. We just can’t justify it if we have to buy tickets for more than one trip a year. That is all that stopped us from a GFV direct contract a few weeks ago.

 

[Straulin]

Thanks for all the responses, still trying to learn how all this works!

 

[iluvthsgam]

People report picking up what they have waitlisted via stalking the website, so some inventory must slip through. I’m not sure whether the system automatically runs a check before every cancelled reservation goes back into inventory, or whether it scans X times a day, or how it actually works.

I have noticed this many times. Good luck getting any answer as to how it really works (or is supposed to work)!

 

[Sandisw]

I have noticed this many times. Good luck getting any answer as to how it really works (or is supposed to work)!

It can be timing but I have snagged my second choice resort, canceled a waitlist, and as soon as I did, the first choice showed up and I snagged it...so, it was obvious that I had a match, but not yet processed...it has happened too often to be a coincidence.

But, for my March trip, I was stalking for BCV constantly...like every hour... and all of a sudden, the nights before and after the night I had a waitlist for showed up...were not there 15 minutes early, but my night was not...contacted chat and sure enough, I had the match...so in that case, the system did pick it up immediately....it was only a one night match so I wonder now if those are automatic?

It is a mystery but the great thing about having the online site is that we can stalk! Before we had that, you had to call constantly to ask if anything else had shown up!!