Marriott Waiohai Room Assignment

[brianfox]

Although we get a pre-arrival email every year asking our preferences (which only has multiple choice options), we still call the pre-arrival desk (about 3 weeks out) and request a specific Hale and give a preferred room list in that Hale. We've almost always gotten the Hale we request and our first or second choice room. One reason I think we get this is that we have stayed the same 3 weeks for many years and they treat us as a permanent puzzle piece.

But MVC does not provide the actual room number until you check in. They may pencil in room assignments as the requests come in, but you better believe they have a bigger eraser. When that 5-week stay gets requested, pieces need to shuffle.

The room maps that Jim provided were soooo helpful. I did not realize that some of the room numbers I had requested were actually OV which I had no chance of getting. This will help make my room request more realistic. The IV rooms we have gotten over the years were ones that do have some ocean view. My wife and I would often say "I wish we had gotten the one next door, because the view must be a bit better" not knowing the room next door was actually OV.

So one thing those pictures suggest is that an IV unit adjacent to an OV unit along the same wall may have a partial ocean view. We know that to be true for specific units.

 

[Dean]

Although we get a pre-arrival email every year asking our preferences (which only has multiple choice options), we still call the pre-arrival desk (about 3 weeks out) and request a specific Hale and give a preferred room list in that Hale. We've almost always gotten the Hale we request and our first or second choice room. One reason I think we get this is that we have stayed the same 3 weeks for many years and they treat us as a permanent puzzle piece.

But MVC does not provide the actual room number until you check in. They may pencil in room assignments as the requests come in, but you better believe they have a bigger eraser. When that 5-week stay gets requested, pieces need to shuffle.

The room maps that Jim provided were soooo helpful. I did not realize that some of the room numbers I had requested were actually OV which I had no chance of getting. This will help make my room request more realistic. The IV rooms we have gotten over the years were ones that do have some ocean view. My wife and I would often say "I wish we had gotten the one next door, because the view must be a bit better" not knowing the room next door was actually OV.

So one thing those pictures suggest is that an IV unit adjacent to an OV unit along the same wall may have a partial ocean view. We know that to be true for specific units.

Part of my point was even though they don't provide them it's possible they book the HC rooms to specific units.