I was able to log on to the Online Booking today. Of course by the time I wake here, the mad rush is over. The search feature seems pretty easy to use. You select the dates of travel, select your resort, then select your room types. After it pauses for 15 seconds or so, it tells you which of your dates are available or which are not. It has an option to waitlist all of the dates you requested. I was looking at 2-bedrooms at Aulani for June, July, and August. Since my primary search was unavailable, it shows you multiple alternatives. For Aulani it gave me all the two bedroom view types as alternatives. Except for 1 or two nights here and there. There are no 2-bedrooms available up to and including Aug 19. There is OV Grand villas available for Memorial day weekend if anyone is interested, but those use up my years points in one night. The system treats 2-Bedroom lock-offs as a seperate category, so you'll need to run a seperate search.
It wouldn't let me search farther than the 7 month non-home window.
It wouldn't let me book a ressie that spanned two UYs. I would have to make two seperate ressies for that or call.
It wouldn't let me enter date for a whole month, it says it exceeds the maximum booking length. Didn't try to figure out what it was, But check out defaults to a week after the check in.
It gave me an error when I tried to book a grand villa that was way more points than I had available.
It did let me search for dates this year, even though I'm out of points. I didn't hit book, but I'm assuming it would let me borrow my points.
I didn't see anywhere what times the system is available for booking. I'm hopeing its the same as Member services. If its different it would be a disadvantage to those with out internet. Okay, I guess my selfish side wishes they would open at midnight est since that would be 6 pm here. Its a pain to have to wake up at 3 am to book something.
Steve
It wouldn't let me search farther than the 7 month non-home window.
It wouldn't let me book a ressie that spanned two UYs. I would have to make two seperate ressies for that or call.
It wouldn't let me enter date for a whole month, it says it exceeds the maximum booking length. Didn't try to figure out what it was, But check out defaults to a week after the check in.
It gave me an error when I tried to book a grand villa that was way more points than I had available.
It did let me search for dates this year, even though I'm out of points. I didn't hit book, but I'm assuming it would let me borrow my points.
I didn't see anywhere what times the system is available for booking. I'm hopeing its the same as Member services. If its different it would be a disadvantage to those with out internet. Okay, I guess my selfish side wishes they would open at midnight est since that would be 6 pm here. Its a pain to have to wake up at 3 am to book something.
Steve
