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Will retrading from one Disney resort to another change my Disney Park/Dining reservations?

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I'm currently confirmed into a 1 bedroom at DSS. It will sleep all 5 of us, but I've been keeping my eye out (and fingers crossed) for a 2-bedroom. We aren't within 60 days of check-in, so I don't have dining reservations, yet, but I plan to make them ASAP. I plan on purchasing park tickets soon, so I will have park reservations. I'll be searching II for a larger room until last minute. Does anyone know what will happen to my existing reservations if I'm able to retrade into a larger Disney room (presumably a different resort)? Since the reservation number is linked to My Disney Experience, will it cancel my other reservations especially the ones that give preference to onsite guests? It took over 2 months after II confirmed my exchange before Disney could give me a reservation number. I had to call twice until I got a helpful cast member that spent an hour getting the other dept to process my paperwork. I'm wondering if a retrade might go into limbo for weeks/months.
 

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Good question and I don't have a solid answer.

What reservations would you be making in advance that require a room reservation?? I haven't been since Feb - but at that time I could only make Dining and Park reservations in advance. Neither of which require you to be onsite. What have they added or what did I miss?
 

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Does anyone know what will happen to my existing reservations if I'm able to retrade into a larger Disney room
Nothing will happen to the park passes---those are tied to your tickets, not to your resort reservation. The only reason the dining plans might change is if you booked them "early" as part of the on-site resort perks. Since you aren't doing that, those shouldn't change either.

As an aside: we found restaurant availability to be much tighter this past March than usual, even accounting for the fact that it was busy. I would not wait too long to make *some* reservations.
 

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Good question and I don't have a solid answer.

What reservations would you be making in advance that require a room reservation?? I haven't been since Feb - but at that time I could only make Dining and Park reservations in advance. Neither of which require you to be onsite. What have they added or what did I miss?
I'll preface this by saying, I haven't been to Disney since 2017 and I've never stayed onsite, so I could be mixing old/new Disney lingo. I could also just be wrong, but let's not tell my husband that! In either case, I hope someone here will set me straight!

I was referring to anything that onsite guests are entitled to reserve in advance of the general public. When I last went, there were things like dining reservations, FastPass, pre-arrival Magic Bands, etc that onsite guests could reserve/purchase early. For instance, it is my understanding if you stay onsite you are able to make dining reservations 60 days in advance, whereas the general public can only make them 30 days in advance. I'm not sure how Genie+ works and if there is early registration for that, but if so, I'm wondering if that will get canceled if do a retrade through II.
 

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Nothing will happen to the park passes---those are tied to your tickets, not to your resort reservation. The only reason the dining plans might change is if you booked them "early" as part of the on-site resort perks. Since you aren't doing that, those shouldn't change either.

As an aside: we found restaurant availability to be much tighter this past March than usual, even accounting for the fact that it was busy. I would not wait too long to make *some* reservations.
Yes, dining reservations are one of the things I was wondering about. I haven't reserved anything yet, but I do plan to do so at the 60-day mark. I'm just wondering if I find a last-minute retrade, what happens to those dining reservations?
 

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I'll preface this by saying, I haven't been to Disney since 2017 and I've never stayed onsite, so I could be mixing old/new Disney lingo. I could also just be wrong, but let's not tell my husband that! In either case, I hope someone here will set me straight!

I was referring to anything that onsite guests are entitled to reserve in advance of the general public. When I last went, there were things like dining reservations, FastPass, pre-arrival Magic Bands, etc that onsite guests could reserve/purchase early. For instance, it is my understanding if you stay onsite you are able to make dining reservations 60 days in advance, whereas the general public can only make them 30 days in advance. I'm not sure how Genie+ works and if there is early registration for that, but if so, I'm wondering if that will get canceled if do a retrade through II.
Gone are the days of FP+ at 60 days for onsite guests. I loved that system, we got FP+ for a park every day, and we always got to ride the newest rides without waiting. Now it's a pay-in-advance benefit, and I cannot see reason to pay for it. I know that staying onsite we were able to get into the parks an hour before opening and rode what we wanted to without paying. That is a great onsite benefit. They say the parks open 30 minutes ahead for onsite guests, but they opened earlier than that. Take advantage whenever you can. Our kids were on our reservation but stayed at Marriott's Grande Vista instead.
 
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Yes, dining reservations are one of the things I was wondering about. I haven't reserved anything yet, but I do plan to do so at the 60-day mark. I'm just wondering if I find a last-minute retrade, what happens to those dining reservations?
No worries. At 60 days before checkin you’ll be allowed to book ADRs for that day and for the length of your stay, up to 10 additional days. Offsite guests can make ADRs only one day at a time, 60 days before each day. The onsite reservation simply opens that 60+ window; the ADRs aren’t linked to your resort reservation otherwise. If you get your upgrade and a new reservation number, as long as the last ADR is less than 60 days away, you won’t lose anything.

And as others have said, your park reservations are linked to your tickets, so changing resorts won’t affect them either. I would buy tickets and reserve parks ASAP, though, because you never know when a given park will fill up and no longer be available to book. You can book now and then change things around as you get closer, if available, but if you wait and parks book up before you reserve anything, you’ll be stuck trying over and over just to get something.
 

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I was concerned about this- actually park passes for annual passholders differentiate whether your park reservations is connected to a reservation or just to your pass.

When you make a park reservation with a pass, it gives you the option to modify or cancel.
When you make a reservation connected with a resort reservation, it can only be cancelled.

Due to a lack of AP park reservations during the Guardians preview (and not understanding they were going to give an automatic park reservation for those who got the preview), I booked a room in order to make Epcot reservations for the day of our preview, which was at 12:30pm (before park hopping starts). When I saw that they gave automatic Epcot reservations, I cancelled the room and duplicate Epcot reservations but left the Hollywood studios park reservation for check-in day. It was a test to see if that would be cancelled (as I thought it would be), but it never disappeared. We were able to use it.
 

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Can you see the different buttons for annual pass vs resort park reservations?
 

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park passes for annual passholders differentiate whether your park reservations is connected to a reservation or just to your pass.
Yes, and if you change your resort reservation to a different resort your park pass reservations will remain, as long as the dates are the same. If changing resorts results in a different confirmation number, simply make sure the new confirmation number is linked in MDE before you drop the first one.
 
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