my take on the multiple reservations restrictions is that it is like the way concert tickets are sold.
The lead person name matching the ID of the person who shows up is very similar to the restrictions Ticketmaster have put in place to stop unauthorised re selling. In Disneys case, they dont want the free reservations to be obtained by ticket touts who then resell for astronomical prices. Disney know there is huge worldwide demand for Galaxys Edge and that the reselling industry would take any chance they could to get tickets.
Also regarding the only 1 reservation restriction
Again this is similar to concert ticket limits put in place by Ticketmaster. For many concerts, Ticketmaster put a limit of 4 tickets per credit card purchase. This is tied to the billing address of the credit card, not the name of the person. For example, 10 years ago I was buying high demand tickets for a concert residency. I had 2 credit cards in my name, one with a billing address at my apartment, one with a billing address at my parents house. I bought 8 concert tickets from Ticketmaster, 4 on one credit card, 4 on the other credit card. Both transactions were in my name, on the same Ticketmaster account, just the card numbers and billing addresses were different. The transactions were accepted by Ticketmaster.
The way I see it, is that Disney mean 1 reservation per hotel booking, no matter how many days you have booked for. It is my opinion that the
- hotel reservation system and the general public reservation system are 2 unconnected databases.
- hotel reservation database is set up to automatically allocate a Star Wars Galaxys Edge to every new hotel booking.
Donald (lead person) and his wife Daisy have 4 nights booked at Paradise Pier and receive 1 reservation for Star Wars Galaxys Edge. Mickey (lead person) and his wife Minnie have 1 night booked at Grand Californian and and receive 1 reservation for Star Wars Galaxys Edge.
Then Minnie (lead person) books 2 nights at Paradise Pier. Disney see this as new booking, unconnected to her husband Mickeys booking at Grand California and Minnie (lead person) receives 1 reservation for Star Wars Galaxys Edge.
So now, Micky and Minnie have 2 completely separate hotel bookings, one booked under his name and one booked under her name.
This therefore means they have 2 reservations for Star Wars Galaxys Edge, one for each of the hotel bookings.
Then Daisy decided try for the general public reservations and gets one. She uses her name as the lead person. This reservation system has a different data base to the hotel reservations for Star Wars Galaxys Edge.
So now Donald and Daisy have 2 reservations for Star Wars Galaxys Edge,one on the hotel reservation database and one on the general public reservation data base.