NJlauren
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2014
We found the distance between POR and POFQ to be adequate when traveling with family...anything closer would have been too close.
Haha! Maybe I’ll swirch to yatch club haha
We found the distance between POR and POFQ to be adequate when traveling with family...anything closer would have been too close.
I'm with you. We traveled many times with my parents. And always requested connecting rooms.I’m potentially missing something, but if you get connecting rooms, couldn’t you just not use the connecting feature? On our last trip, we were in a room that had a connecting door, but we obviously didn’t use it because we didn’t know the family in the other room. If you get connecting rooms, just don’t use the connecting door. I’m not sure it’s even worth worrying about.
Well, your room is going to be next to someone else’s. There’s no way around that. Were the rooms booked together or as part of a wedding block or something?
Well his dad is very religious and does not drink/ go out etc. I didn’t like the fact he would know when we would come home usually drunk as we we 24 and went on bar crawls. Or knock on our door in the morning (it wouldn’t have happened if we were across the resort). For some reason everyone’s rooms but our 3 we spread out across the resort.
Now I remember why I didn’t want to call! There system stinks!
Went through the whole automated process then they say after this call please take the survey. On hold for 5 minutes, then get disconnected. Then on hold again for another 5 minutes. Then she tells me since it’s through a travel agent she needs to transfer me again to the help desk, and I get disconnected again. Going to email my travel agent before I call again.
If you booked with a travel agent, they need to call. They own the reservation so they have to handle it. Don't bother trying to call again.
It’s a big problem if the people on the other side of the door don’t know the meaning of the word, “boundaries”. I’ve already told our travel agent not to request a connecting room with my daughter and her bff. They deserve personal space from us.I’m potentially missing something, but if you get connecting rooms, couldn’t you just not use the connecting feature? On our last trip, we were in a room that had a connecting door, but we obviously didn’t use it because we didn’t know the family in the other room. If you get connecting rooms, just don’t use the connecting door. I’m not sure it’s even worth worrying about.
I like connecting rooms when there are little ones that need to sleep early. the adults can hang out together and still be able to hear if there is a child that needs something.I don't understand why parties traveling together like to have connecting rooms either. When we went on our DCL cruise we traveled with one of my best friends and his wife. He was genuinely hurt when he asked if I thought we should get connecting rooms, and I said no. It is hard to explain to someone that after spending all day together you may need some space without hurting their feelings. I don't need my family or friends to hear if me and DW are venting about something that happened with our friends, or are fighting or are having a really good time in our room. If it is strangers, I couldn't care less.
I like connecting rooms when there are little ones that need to sleep early. the adults can hang out together and still be able to hear if there is a child that needs something.
But all you have to do is close your door.It’s a big problem if the people on the other side of the door don’t know the meaning of the word, “boundaries”. I’ve already told our travel agent not to request a connecting room with my daughter and her bff. They deserve personal space from us.
Easier said then done, at a least in my experience. One insult can create a world of trouble.But all you have to do is close your door.
And if they are obnoxious and they knock time after time, say something.
In my experience at WDW, they DO assume things (though requests are not guaranteed).No. They don't assume anything, plus requests are never guaranteed.
Respectfully, that should have been your first move.Going to email my travel agent before I call again.
You could try something like, "We're thinking about you. After spending all day together, you're going to want time away from us!"It is hard to explain to someone that after spending all day together you may need some space without hurting their feelings.
Maybe don't link reservations? Room assignments aren't easy. Pop Century, for example, logically averages 400 room turnovers per day. I was there one trip when they processed over a thousand. Room Assignors are going to be looking at/for key words, not reading each reservation in depth.We each make our own resort reservations but link to each other in our MDE accounts.
Respectfully, that should have been your first move.
You could try something like, "We're thinking about you. After spending all day together, you're going to want time away from us!"
Maybe don't link reservations? Room assignments aren't easy. Pop Century, for example, logically averages 400 room turnovers per day. I was there one trip when they processed over a thousand. Room Assignors are going to be looking at/for key words, not reading each reservation in depth.
Can you unlink the reservations after you book FPs? If not, I guess each multiple-room party has to decide which is more important.
If only it were that simple.But all you have to do is close your door.
And if they are obnoxious and they knock time after time, say something.
That’s not the same situation as the OP described, though. Not liking your room location isn’t the same as having a request on the reservation you don’t want.
If you book a room at the same hotel as someone else, the chance always exists that you’ll end up next door to one another. In your case, I’m wondering if there was a large group there before you that had actually wanted rooms together. They checked out, and the room assignor needed those 3 rooms as part of the wedding block you were in. You just had the misfortune of being assigned to one of them.
Even without the request, the chance exists that the OP will end up next door to the other family members, and there may even be a connecting door. I’m not sure how good the chance is, but the chance does exist.