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We've made a reservation at our home resort but next Saturday is 7 months out and I want to try for another resort. In the past I've either find it over the phone our just a waitlist online. Do I have to cancel my existing or do I try to modify it?
You can't modify online if you wish to re book it yourself you will have to cancel and rebook. It is a bit heart stopping after you cancel and have a couple of minutes while you rebook but I have done it many times and it has always worked out.
I tend to have a look at our home resort a while before 8am and if it has readily available rooms (often does as we have AKV) I cancel about 5 minutes to the hour and am all ready to push the button the minute we hit 8am.
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Thank you! Do you look for the resort you want to switch too as well? Or just make sure you can get home again if need be?
Personally I just make sure home is readily available so I can browse for an alternative. If it is readily available I cancel then choose what i want to change to and have it all set up to hit the button just as 8am opening comes along. If home resort is low (which as my home is AKV is rare) then I'd probably either just choose to stay put or wait until 9am and call MS and get them to change it for me.
At some times of year you don't need to be this tight about it but i'm a type A personality and can't cope with not having everything under my control.
Personally I just make sure home is readily available so I can browse for an alternative. If it is readily available I cancel then choose what i want to change to and have it all set up to hit the button just as 8am opening comes along. If home resort is low (which as my home is AKV is rare) then I'd probably either just choose to stay put or wait until 9am and call MS and get them to change it for me.
At some times of year you don't need to be this tight about it but i'm a type A personality and can't cope with not having everything under my control.
How do you see how many units are available? With the availability tool, I only see fully available, partially available, not not available. It doesn't indicated how many units are open. It could conceivably be only a few open units. Curious as to how you know.
How do you see how many units are available? With the availability tool, I only see fully available, partially available, not not available. It doesn't indicated how many units are open. It could conceivably be only a few open units. Curious as to how you know.
I don't, I just make sure there is another one after the one I have booked and decide whether or not I feel able to take the risk from there. Added to that you know when you are travelling and whether it is a mega busy time or a quieter time. It is a judgement call and so far it has worked out for me but it isn't risk free thats for sure. There is no way to find out how many units are available so I limit myself to making sure some are. If the particular unit I have booked is the only one available I probably won't take the chance.
I don't use the availability tool I just use the booking tool.
I don't, I just make sure there is another one after the one I have booked and decide whether or not I feel able to take the risk from there. Added to that you know when you are travelling and whether it is a mega busy time or a quieter time. It is a judgement call and so far it has worked out for me but it isn't risk free thats for sure. There is no way to find out how many units are available so I limit myself to making sure some are. If the particular unit I have booked is the only one available I probably won't take the chance.
I don't use the availability tool I just use the booking tool.
I was kind of hoping you knew about something I didn't (sigh). It would be helpful if the tool told you the percentage of rooms available in your search category.
Thank you! Do you look for the resort you want to switch too as well? Or just make sure you can get home again if need be?
With the resort availability tool, I think I would do a search to see if your desired resort(s) and room size is showing availability too before I bothered to cancel. It won't be a sure thing, but at least you will have an idea of whether you have a chance to get what you want or not.
I saw that after I posted this.
Week I was online at 8est and no availability on our check-in day for Poly so we decided to stay put at AKL and try next year.
I know I've read about people that waitlist day by day and get it that way so I'm assuming that's what people have done here. Didn't help me that I'm looking at October which is so busy for DVC.
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