Availability Weirdness

I think what I changed was real because it was only a few nights and those were the only ones that popped up...I had been stalking the website all day...lol

But, now that I switched the two I did, I want to be able to move our first two nights to someplace else! I am hoping it will come back tonight!!!
Good luck. For us it is 5 nights in a 1 BR @ VGF. We would never spend that many points ordinarily since it is just 2 of us, but since we messed ourselves up point-wise and borrowed more than we needed we figured why not splurge on it this time around.
 
Good luck. For us it is 5 nights in a 1 BR @ VGF. We would never spend that many points ordinarily since it is just 2 of us, but since we messed ourselves up point-wise and borrowed more than we needed we figured why not splurge on it this time around.

I am all set…the online tool is down but chat got me what I needed!
 
I am all set…the online tool is down but chat got me what I needed!
Interesting that Chat was able to help. Seems like usually when the online tool goes down that CM can't help. Makes me wonder what they were actually doing, particularly since rather than some days coming back during the next 60 they seem to have removed through July 4......
 
June has no rooms at any resort in any category with even 1 date of availability right now. That’s highly indicative of an IT issue.
 
June has no rooms at any resort in any category with even 1 date of availability right now. That’s highly indicative of an IT issue.
Take this with a grain of salt considering the down time last night, but my wife just chatted w/a CM and was told it really was just a lot of bookings happening in a very short period of time.
 
Take this with a grain of salt considering the down time last night, but my wife just chatted w/a CM and was told it really was just a lot of bookings happening in a very short period of time.
I’m pretty skeptical that for the entirety of the months of May and June, not one room in any category, at any resort including non-Orlando locations are 100% booked and it all happened within a couple days. Just by virtue of waitlists in constant motion, there should be some movement.
 
Well, another point here..... I had a walk blocked to on an AKV value room this morning. I have 11 months from today booked, but I am unable to book 11 months + 3 days. I will check throughout the day, but it is just frustrating....
 
Well, another point here..... I had a walk blocked to on an AKV value room this morning. I have 11 months from today booked, but I am unable to book 11 months + 3 days. I will check throughout the day, but it is just frustrating....

yup something weird was for sure going on with AKL yesterday.
 
I’m pretty skeptical that for the entirety of the months of May and June, not one room in any category, at any resort including non-Orlando locations are 100% booked and it all happened within a couple days. Just by virtue of waitlists in constant motion, there should be some movement.

Except, within 60 days, nothing has to come back…so, it certainly seems like any potential room movement is not being made available.

I can tell you that June has been pretty bare as we planned. 2 night June trip just a few weeks ago and our choices for studios were just SSR for the nights we wanted. Once we took them, they were gone..so only one room
 
I've been stalking availability for the last week in June/beginning of July at Aulani for ~2 months (we have 5 nights planned but I've been moving nights around and looking for different room types). There has consistently been at least 1 night available within my 7 night window in multiple categories that entire time. For the last few days there has even been 4 nights available in a 3 bedroom. As of today there is nothing. There's no way those all were booked last night. Either they pulled them or something is wrong with the availability we're seeing online.
 
Except, within 60 days, nothing has to come back…so, it certainly seems like any potential room movement is not being made available.

I can tell you that June has been pretty bare as we planned. 2 night June trip just a few weeks ago and our choices for studios were just SSR for the nights we wanted. Once we took them, they were gone..so only one room
I watch availability multiple times a day on a daily basis. Yes, studios have been sparse for awhile but, there were still some scattered dates even as of last week. There have been some very peculiar occurrences within the last few days that you don’t typically see even with 60 days breakage. Especially, given the massive inventory that showed available all of a sudden, then just as fast, not one single room in any category at ALL resorts.
 
I watch availability multiple times a day on a daily basis. Yes, studios have been sparse for awhile but, there were still some scattered dates even as of last week. There have been some very peculiar occurrences within the last few days that you don’t typically see even with 60 days breakage. Especially, given the massive inventory that showed available all of a sudden, then just as fast, not one single room in any category at ALL resorts.

I get that it is odd,,and I too monitor..but we have no idea if it was one room or more or they decided to simply pull them all from the online tool.

I guess that is my point…especially since people have called or chatted with MS and they say it’s simply has been booked…

If they don’t show back up in a few days..the. We know..I will say that I did see a few nights this mornjng st BwV for my two June nights. Checked back just now and they are gone.
 
Could be a combination of things - including the desire to use holding points before they expire.

For Members with holding points - June dates are 60 days from April dates. Lots of advice floating around the internet to book whatever is available and then rent the confirmed reservation. Apparently, there are quite a few out there who are open to one or two night stays. FWIW, those last minute reservations (priced right, of course) disappear quite quickly when posted on the DIS Rent/Transfer Board.
 
Well, another point here..... I had a walk blocked to on an AKV value room this morning. I have 11 months from today booked, but I am unable to book 11 months + 3 days. I will check throughout the day, but it is just frustrating....
I had the same issue. Is there certain number of days one would have to book a walking reservation to be safe from being blocked out? I had three nights but it wasn’t enough.
 
Well, another point here..... I had a walk blocked to on an AKV value room this morning. I have 11 months from today booked, but I am unable to book 11 months + 3 days. I will check throughout the day, but it is just frustrating....

I had the same issue. Is there certain number of days one would have to book a walking reservation to be safe from being blocked out? I had three nights but it wasn’t enough.
I have the same issue. I had a walk going 11 months from today for an AKLvalue, but now I can't continue it because there are 3 unavailable days in the middle of the walk. I have had something like this happen before and it was a glitch and worked it self out sometime that same day, and I continued my walk successfully. However, I doubt that will happen this time because I don't think today is the glitch. I think the glitch was yesterday when there was >2 weeks of AKL value rooms available on the website. I think those weren't really available but people booked them anyway. Meaning that people booked the whole first week of April (yesterday booked March 28-April 4). So they have it booked, but it wasn't really available. But I think Disney has to honor their booking, they did nothing wrong, so they will probably just be upgraded from value to std or something. However, that messes up my walk (and your walk) because we were walking based on the premise that noone could get ahead of us, and they shouldn't have been able to (except there was a glitch showing false availabilty, so they did).
 
Did they pull rooms from inventory? There was availability for May and June up until a few days ago, now nothing.
 
Did they pull rooms from inventory? There was availability for May and June up until a few days ago, now nothing.
There are several threads on this topic. Theory is they pulled them for breakage (moving to cash side). This is allowed at the 60 day and under mark.
 
AKV should have a full refurb in 2024, don’t know whether that will happen, but if it does that’ll block walks.
AKV has had availability weirdness through the years.
If there was a glitch w/ showing too much inventory I’m glad they shut it down fast rather than having another VGC debacle.
 

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