New booking policy!

[FLYNZ4]

That logic doesn't make sense to me. You mentioned it before and you seem to believe because you have a 7 day reservation you'll have some priority to add the 8th day and drop the 1st day, any time during the day. I'm not sure I'm following. I would think you would have to get up early just like everyone else to secure your 8th day and drop the 1st day. Trust me everyone will be doing the same thing so, it really isn't any different than day by day calling. When I did day by day calling I called every morning to secure my reservation at the 7 month window for VWL at Christmas time.

Let's use a hypothetical example:

1) The resort has exactly 100 1BR units
2) You want a 1BR reservation for 11/7/09
3) On 12/1/08 you call... and you get a reservation for 11/1/09 - 11/8/09 (securing your first night at the earliers possible moment).
4) 99 other people do exactly the same thing.
5) on 12/2/08... someone new wants a reservation (they want to start on 11/8/09
6) They are unable to reserve the date because of two reasons a) it is beyond 11 months - and b) There is no availability for 11/7/09.
7) You can wait as long as you want to call... nobody can possibly book your next night... because of the reasons of #6 above.

The place this breaks down is if the level of inventory loaded into the system varies from day to day... for things such as maintencance, exchanges, CRO cash reservations, etc. Hence... it is still to your advantage to call early and be one of the first people on the phone.

/Jim

 

[ciscogizmo1]

Let's use a hypothetical example:

1) The resort has exactly 100 1BR units
2) You want a 1BR reservation for 11/7/09
3) On 12/1/08 you call... and you get a reservation for 11/1/09 - 11/8/09 (securing your first night at the earliers possible moment).
4) 99 other people do exactly the same thing.
5) on 12/2/08... someone new wants a reservation (they want to start on 11/8/09
6) They are unable to reserve the date because of two reasons a) it is beyond 11 months - and b) There is no availability for 11/7/09.
7) You can wait as long as you want to call... nobody can possibly book your next night... because of the reasons of #6 above.

The place this breaks down is if the level of inventory loaded into the system varies from day to day... for things such as maintencance, exchanges, CRO cash reservations, etc. Hence... it is still to your advantage to call early and be one of the first people on the phone.

/Jim

Okay... I give up!!! Eventually, everyone will get what they want by waitlisting... In theory I don't think #4 will happen.. if it does probably rarely... I agree it is to your advantage to be the first person to call not to wait until the afternoon to call.

I see the cycle going around and a bunch of people clogging up the reservation system is what I see. Hopefully, Disney will see the same thing and realize DBD booking wasn't so bad!

 

[SuzanneSLO]

Okay... I give up!!! Eventually, everyone will get what they want by waitlisting...

Actually waitlisting will only help if all 100 don't actually want 8 night reservations and end up cancelling one or more days. And with the change in the WL policy to also eliminate DBD WLing, getting your WL may still be difficult. The change in booking may give advantage to longer stays, while the change in WL gives the advantage to shorter stays.

The new policy is certainly confusing, but I have a feeling that while MS is "monitoring" the implementiation of the policy, we won't see any significant changes in it until about a year from now and then only IF booking for December vacations ends up being the mess many predict it will be.

-- Suzanne

 

[ciscogizmo1]

Just a quick note.... I called yesterday for the a 7 night stay at BCV for next June/July and I got it on my 1st call. Then, I called again this morning for the remaining night. I had no problems... I think, I can say that I really like the new system. Nice to get it all done in 2 calls.

 

[ciscogizmo1]

Just a quick note.... I called yesterday for the a 7 night stay at BCV for next June/July and I got it on my 1st call. Then, I called again this morning for the remaining night. I had no problems... I think, I can say that I really like the new system. Nice to get it all done in 2 calls.

 

[FLYNZ4]

Just a quick note.... I called yesterday for the a 7 night stay at BCV for next June/July and I got it on my 1st call. Then, I called again this morning for the remaining night. I had no problems... I think, I can say that I really like the new system. Nice to get it all done in 2 calls.

Under the old system... you could have called 11 months from your check-out date and got the entire reservation with just one single call.

This new policy does not help anyone... and the time will probably come (especially if you like to switch resorts at 7 months)... that you will find that there is no room at the Inn.

/Jim