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hiserman79

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Currently searching for a needle in a hay stack (Smokey mountains Christmas week) and wondering is it live inventory? Meaning should I check periodically thru out the day or does it just update over night so I should just check at 7 am each morning.
 

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The website shows dynamic inventory, a room could pop anytime of day. That said, you likely won't have much luck until you start hitting the upgrade and cancellation windows around 60/45/30/15 days out.


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I'm double booked there myself so I know at least one room will come available. Most likely you will see some small one bedroom units come up as VIPs upgrade. You might catch a larger unit as someone is trying to rebook. Of course anything could show up at any time if someone's travel plans change and they cancel.

In my experience cancelations reappear within a minute or two after they are cancelled, though it could take longer. I've been trying to grab a few days over Thanksgiving for family and didn't start looking until both resorts were completely booked. Checking multiple times a day I have seen a few one bedrooms, a couple of two bedrooms and one three bedroom become available for 3 or 4 days over that period.

Keep checking, but your best bets are at the 60/45/30/15 day windows as uscav8r pointed out.
 

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as others have said, you may find inventory becoming available closer to the date, but it can come open at other times too.

Don't just check the full time you want, if you're looking for a week. You may be able to piece together a couple of shorter reservations to get the interval you want.

Sometimes shorter intervals start to appear inside of 90 days because the booking restrictions are lifted. (They may appear earlier but can't be booked; but inside 90 days they can be booked, and some people may "chop" their reservations to the length of stay they wanted if it didn't fit into the booking requirement).
 

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Thanks everyone I'll keep trying, we are a small family so 1 bedroom will work and that at least improves my odds. I got 3 resale contracts this year (ty tuggers) and have 2016 points to burn hopefully going forward I can plan ahead better asoon I learn to play the use year points credit pool game. Worse case I'll deposit in rci but I'd rather not take on a new system to learn just yet.
 
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