0 availibility at 7 months (Studios)

[_auroraborealis_]

FWIW these dates also run into jersey week

 

[McCrae]

"Fall" season, late Sep to marathon weekend in Jan, is overall a very high DVC demand time at WDW. Demand during that time makes Easter and summer time look like slow off-seasons. Often during that time, the only things open for multiple day trips at 7-months out are SSR, OKW, and Kidani savanna view, but even those can disappear before 7-months out during the several extremely high demand times in the Fall season, one of which is the Wine & Dine race weekend, which will be October 22-26, 2025, i.e., the main issue you are seeing now is not Halloween time , which is usually not among those extremely high demand times, but that race weekend, which, until this year, was usually in Nov.

Note, you cannot modify any reservation to move just part of the days in a reservation to another resort/room while keeping the rest at the original resort/room , e.g., you cannot modify a 6-night reservation at AKV to 4 nights at SSR while keeping 2 nights at AKV. You would need to modify the entire 6-night reservation to just a 4-night one at SSR and thereafter make an attempt to do a new reservation to get back those first two nights at AKV, which could then be unavailable by going to someone's waitlist when you released those nights.

Otherwise, if you have two separate, but sequential, reservations at one resort in the same room category, MS can merge them into one as long as they are both made with the same membership (all the contracts in a single membership would have the same use year, which I assume is your situation).

I have been able to modify an existing reservation, reducing days and switching to other resorts several times. I called member services and they did it without any issue.

 

[Sandisw]

I have been able to modify an existing reservation, reducing days and switching to other resorts several times. I called member services and they did it without any issue.

I think the point was that you need to modify and drop the days and then rebook them in the new reservation.

You can not modify just some of the days while keeping the rest in one transaction.


There is always a risk that you could lose them in the process.

But, calling MS at least allows you to know the risk because if they think there is one, they will tell you that upfront.

I lost a room years ago trying this via MS.

 

[McCrae]

I think the point was that you need to modify and drop the days and then rebook them in the new reservation.

You can not modify just some of the days while keeping the rest in one transaction.


There is always a risk that you could lose them in the process.

But, calling MS at least allows you to know the risk because if they think there is one, they will tell you that upfront.

I lost a room years ago trying this via MS.

Interesting.

When I have asked MS to do this, (as recently as 7 months ago) they told me they we putting a hold on the available rooms whilst they complete the changes. No mention of any risk that you could lose your original booking.

 

[drusba]

Interesting.

When I have asked MS to do this, (as recently as 7 months ago) they told me they we putting a hold on the available rooms whilst they complete the changes. No mention of any risk that you could lose your original booking.

If you go through MS and want to change only part of a reservation to another resort or room, e.g., change a six night AKV reservation to one for four nights at SSR while keeping two nights at AKV, it can possibly do that by putting those two nights at AKV on hold while getting the four nights at SSR, but, as I have been told, MS can do that only if those two nights are still separately available to any member. If they are not separately available, MS has the same issue as the member does if trying to make a change online, e.g. , it can get those two nights at AKV back only if they are still available after changing the entire reservation to one for four nights at SSR.

 

[Sandisw]

Interesting.

When I have asked MS to do this, (as recently as 7 months ago) they told me they we putting a hold on the available rooms whilst they complete the changes. No mention of any risk that you could lose your original booking.

That’s good….but not always something they say they can do….but that was the part being commented on that it is still a two step process, even for MS!

 

[sndral]

Interesting.

When I have asked MS to do this, (as recently as 7 months ago) they told me they we putting a hold on the available rooms whilst they complete the changes. No mention of any risk that you could lose your original booking.

Interesting, the only time I tried to do this MS refused to ‘hold’ the days I wanted to keep & warned me that I could lose them, maybe things have changed or in my case inventory was already low?

 

[Sandisw]

Interesting, the only time I tried to do this MS refused to ‘hold’ the days I wanted to keep & warned me that I could lose them, maybe things have changed or in my case inventory was already low?

That’s what happened to me..they warned, I gambled, and lost. But ended up getting back a few weeks later!

 

[Tatebeck]

That's one of the benefits of having more points and more home resorts. I have booked an extra room just in case while waiting on the 7 month window to see what options were available.

I've also let it borrow a few points from the following year to book a room that I knew wouldn't last long. Then bank some other points from the same or a different contract to make up for it so I don't have fewer points for next year. That really only works if you go every year and aren't banking/borrowing to use 2 or 3 years of points up at once though

 

[Girlstar30]

I was so scared to have MS combine my reservations today even though they said I wouldn't be at risk of losing it, the fact that they said it could take 7-10 business days and I would be receiving a cancellation email freaked me out, but i went ahead with it. Happy to report it was combined same day with no issue!