You can only waitlist a room at your home resort within 11 months and 9 months for the other resorts. Members must also have points available to cover the cost of the waitlisted room. Members can only have 2 active waitlists. Waitlisted requests are active until the request is met or until 31 days before check-in. Members wishing to extend their waitlist request can contact member services. Here you can view the status of waitlisted rooms, or you can call member services for updates.
The standard DVC cancellation policies apply to a waitlist booking. Here are 3 tips I have for you after you waitlist a room:. Remember, until DVC has satisfied your waitlist request you do not have a room for that night or nights. Members can find this tool by logging into the Disney Vacation Club site and searching for Waitlist Manager or by calling into member services. Third, the waitlisted night has a separate reservation number.
The first thing you should do on the page is scroll down slightly. Glance down the page a bit more. Stop at the section entitled Availability. Any date with a giant X over it is currently booked. You should see a message like:. The message looks the same on a computer or smart device. You want to click this link to set up a Waitlist request. Disney will offer a pleasant message that you should kick back and relax while they process your request.
The first page of the application process is the place where Disney confirms your desired room type. You will need to answer a few important questions on this page. The first question may seem strange. Disney asks when you want to set your Waitlist Request Expiration Date. If you choose 31 days, Disney will stop trying to honor your Waitlist request 31 days prior to your arrival. The thinking is that you need at least a month to plan a Disney vacation.
Alternately, you may just want to know well ahead of time. By choosing seven days, Disney will attempt to honor your Waitlist request all the way up until one week before you arrive. That way, you maintain a chance at getting your preferred room type all the way up until the last seven days. If your Waitlist request triggers, you need to make sure to let the people at the Magical Express counter know.
Otherwise, they could potentially try to direct you to the wrong bus and, thereby, the wrong resort. You then must select whether you want the Waitlist booking to replace a current one. Your options here are:. The next section of page one is basically a verification request. Disney again asks you for the booking dates, DVC resort, and room type that you would prefer. They do this to reduce the chances of someone entering the wrong date for a Waitlist.
The final section of page one is an important one. Disney asks if you are willing to borrow vacation points as needed to book a reservation. If so, you must select a Home Resort. Pick the one that has the points you need to borrow for the reservation. In other instances, stalking has proven fruitful for me. After checking the resort availability tool multiple times for our June trip, I was able to change our Bay Lake Tower trip to a split stay, which now also includes the BoardWalk Villas and Villas at the Grand Floridian.
It really does pay to keep checking; neither of those resorts had Standard View studios available right at the 7-month mark, yet I was able to book them a matter of days later. For those of you in the midst of stalking a reservation, you may want to join the DVC Fan Facebook group for cancelled reservations , so you can get a heads up on when someone is canceling a trip.
However, in doing so, the resorts will not furnish any additional bedding or towels for the additional guest. Guests must either bring their own resources sleeping bag, air bed, towels from home, etc. Disney will move your luggage from one Disney-owned resort to another at no charge gratuities expected. Contact bell services on the morning of the move and when they arrive, let them know your final destination.
Expect luggage to arrive at your new resort after 5pm. You will have to call bell services to request delivery to your room as they will not do so automatically. Expect to be without a room between 11am and 4pm on the day of the move. Staying at multiple resorts may have a negative impact on the Disney Dining Plan credits cannot be carried over from one resort to another , so consider that before booking a split stay. For this reason members should be cautious when committing points to non-DVC resorts, particularly if they do so due to a lack of availability at the DVC resorts.
Functionally a member cannot book a stay at for example the Polynesian Resort and then go on the waitlist for the BoardWalk Villas or Old Key West using the same points. As soon as the reservation is secured at the Polynesian , the points used are converted to Reservation Points and even if the Polynesian stay is cancelled, the points remain Reservation Points and are no longer valid for bookings at the DVC properties.
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What is the best approach for waitlisting a desired accommodation? How long do DVC waitlist requests stay in effect? What are the odds of DVC meeting my waitlist request? The primary factors in determining success are: Number of consecutive nights.
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