Adjoining Rooms? How hard are they to get?

[Rutt]

You took the first step by going off peak. While Disney will never guarantee anything, going in October you should have fairly good odds of getting one. That being said, if youre that worried, the family suites are great and ASMu is very affordable.

 

[mm121]

WDW has categorized the vast majority of their rooms to such specific requests: including charging extra to be close to the hospitality house at Old Key West Resort. It becomes a valuable commodity that they can charge extra for. So why can't they do this with connecting rooms? If a family was traveling with a nanny for instance How ridiculous would that be to not have connecting or adjoining rooms? Especially if you have made your reservation over 6 months in advance? If you wait until the day of arrival it becomes " a difficult" request to fulfill because this requires finding and moving around other arriving parties that have your exact check in and check out dates. It doesn't sound difficult to me but the reaction is never pleasant at a Disney check-in. It usually gives me a stomach ache just thinking about it. I am usually the one making the reservations and they are usually during the holidays and at the more expensive resorts ( Paradise Pier, Grand Cal, BLT Poly ). So paying for 2 rooms per night is costly... but that does not seem to give priority to a request that should be fulfillable. I understand if I have made a reservation and all those categories are gone by previously made reservations... but do not understand this response by Disney. It becomes words that have no meaning...We can make note of the request but can not guarantee...

In all honesty I think the problem has been reliance upon computers to perform reservations. Have you ever watched the cast members walking around the restaurant with the little hand held computer filling in that a table is empty and cleaned and next guest can be seated. It seems so much more inefficient than having a maitre-de that has a feel for working the room and keeping the flow of tables and guests more equitable. It is a lost science.

if they guaranteed them then it would anger guests if something happened and they weren't able to provide them.

also depending on the computer system used, sometimes connecting rooms are figured out manually, I know at the hotel I worked at we had 573 rooms, but the system didnt automatically know which ones connected it was determined manually when pre blocking rooms

We asked for connecting rooms once (at Coronado Springs) and they were able to accommodate us easily, even though it was during Easter break. We emphasized to the CM at check-in that we'd be happy to wait a little longer if they didn't have connecting rooms available just yet (it was about 10am), but as it turned out, they did have some to offer us right away.

FYI - the earlier in the morning you check in, the bigger the "inventory" that the CMs will have available to them and the better chance you'll have of getting your request met. If you're not flying in until the evening, there are fewer rooms to which the CMs can reassign you.

definitely agree about the bigger inventory, we always tried to review requests to preblock those into the most appropriate rooms the night before or the morning of to ensure the requests took priority and then simple guest check ins were randomly assigned troughtout the rest of the clean inventory as people arrived.

I'm a little surprised they don't make all rooms connecting. It seems like quite a minor thing at build stage which would allow much more flexibility later.

many people actually insist on NOT having a connecting room, so while you think all rooms should have them thats a bad idea. as connecting doors allow more sound transmission and some people view them as a securty risk.

personally if i dont need one I prefer to not have one, though dont really complain most times if I end up in one.

Also, check back in to reservations a week or so before the trip to verify request is still in the reservation. It doesn't even get looked at until a day before your arrival when they are allocating inventory.

definitely true, not sure how the request would get deleted but if its going to totally destory your trip then yes definitely take the time to call and verify

and your correct about most room allocations not taking plae till the day before, though sometimes we did try to do them sooner, but the sooner we would do them the greater the chance they would need to be changed

hotel rooms are like a never ending constantly changing game of tetris

and as someone mentioned above its something that takes the human touch

 

[Mouse_Trap]

many people actually insist on NOT having a connecting room, so while you think all rooms should have them thats a bad idea. as connecting doors allow more sound transmission and some people view them as a securty risk.

That's interesting, have never heard or thought about someone specifically requesting not to have one.

I have seen some poor examples with bad security, but surely done properly neither sound nor security should be an issue?

 

[Tuvalu]

That's interesting, have never heard or thought about someone specifically requesting not to have one.

I have seen some poor examples with bad security, but surely done properly neither sound nor security should be an issue?

I hate connecting rooms because of the extra noise (especially in the values and moderates). I request NOT to be placed in one.

 

[cat5dog1]

When we went last year apparently our travel agent didn't properly make our request for 2 connecting rooms and 1 adjoining room. When we found our rooms were actually 3 adjoining rooms I called the desk and they immediately changed our rooms up 1 floor.