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We are currently booked at our home Bay Lake October 2-10. We are waitlisted for Boardwalk for Boardwalk view and also Garden/pool view. I am just wondering if I have better odds if I change one of those over to Beach Club. I know the chances of Boardwalk or Beach Club coming thru for 8 nights in October is slim for a 2 bedroom. I am just wondering if doing both waitlists at Boardwalk is crazy and I should waitlist BW and BC. I have heard that with the renovations, several rooms may actually be out of the inventory right now which makes it even harder.
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Honestly Beach Club seems to be more popular than Boardwalk, IMO from booking experience (albeit for Studios), I'm thinking because it's just that much closer than BW to Epcot.
If you can, you should try waitlisting your trip in smaller segments as you'll have a better chance at a few days here and there opening up than a full 8 consecutive days all at once.
Its a good idea to help your own cause. I had waitlisted time right after thanksgiving. I had noticed days I wanted before they assigned them to me. So I called and had them add the days one at a time. They will only give you what you have waitlisted. If your waiting for all 8 days , it might be hard to get all at once. But you might be able to get one day at a time.
My main suggestion is to only take days that are in a row. That way you can relinquish days from bay lake to BW as you get them. Make sure you call when doing this, they can do this without losing your entire stay.
One other note, Check on line as many times a day as you can. Owners are always changing there plans.
I had to take the chance that I might have to move. I held my OKW reservation till I was sure I had what I wanted..
Not crazy at all to Waitlist. I do a three night waitlist for BWV during FWF annually and have gotten my dates every year. Last year it was in July, this time I just got them yesterday. Three nights is different that eight, of course, but I did include a weekend and always assume those will be harder to get.
Well, I won't say I wasn't in complete disbelief but about a week and a half ago I got to work in the AM, just like any other day, I went on to check my reservation knowing that there was an extremely slim chance of getting a waitlist for Boardwalk in October! Nothing. So I went on again in the afternoon and decided to check the resort availability again, and to my surprise, I mean, falling out of my chair surprise, Beach Club was showing available for the entire week of our stay. I had to call because there was no way I was cancelling my BLT if this was a computer glitch. I had a wait time of 25 minutes that was driving me nuts. The Ms rep even thought I was nuts when I told her what I had seen but she checked anyway and to her surprise it was there. I was able to switch over to Beach Club in a 2 bedroom for our entire stay. It isn't boardwalk where our other family is, but its close enough and we love the resort. I am still in disbelief. I have no idea how I scored that. All I can think of is that they moved some renovated rooms back into inventory and it wasn't scooped up by waitlist yet. As soon as I booked it, it was no longer showing available. So this is proof that great things can happen and it never hurts to continuously check yourself as well as calling. We are extremely excited to be right around the lake from our family and only steps away from Epcot and F&WF!!!!!
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Sammy 5 years and Peyton 15 months - September 2013
We just got our waitlist as well. I got Disney Mail and was very surprised!
Where was your waitlist?
We did go ahead and cancel our Boardwalk waitlist because frankly we are content with Beach Club and being right around the lake from our family. Plus we get a dedicated 2 bedroom. We did waitlist the 2 bedroom with 2 queens and are hoping to get that, but if not, no biggie. Since there is no change in points, I waitlisted that until 7 days out. I was able to get 126 points back after switching from Bay Lake to bank forward. So excited!
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Sammy 5 years and Peyton 15 months - September 2013
It's such a great feeling when waitlists come through!! Congratulations!!
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